(01-08-2021, 12:15 PM)Lucky2Last Wrote:

(01-08-2021, 12:02 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: We've seen plenty of examples of domestic terrorism in the past year from right and left oriented groups and individuals alike. 

Most sane folks condemn those who cross the line of protesting over to rioting and even terrorism regardless of those rioters political affiliation. 

The Capitol riots involved elements that one could easily encompass to identify the act as terrorism, but why all the semantics?  Call it whatever you want. 
Storming a session that serves to certify an election result and killing/hospitalizing police in the process is a despicable act that should never have been encouraged or protected against so casually. 

Comparing this act to others seems pretty pointless to me right now.

People love hyperbole, bro. It's human nature. I try to discount it as much as possible except when it starts to offend my sensibility. However, comparing this act to others is entirely relevant, if only to show that the left doesn't have any standards. Either protests can be rowdy and violent or they can't. Which is it? I say they can't. That's consistent. What do you say? What does the MSM say? What do other politicians say? Show me the people who are consistent with their record on these positions, and we will be able to differentiate those with values from those who put power and ideology over anything else.

Protests can always get rowdy, then violent.
That doesn't mean every protestor was bad.
Nor does it mean the cause was bad.  Maybe they want something bad like seizing rich people's homes and distributing them to the poor. Maybe they want something OK like police body cameras.
You have to look at it case by case, person by person, and, fortunately, the people closest to it, the actual local cops, are usually able to do that.  Us jabronies on an anonymous forum, not so much.

This was an insurrection.
Everyone who breached the Capitol had the intent and result of making members of Congress feel unsafe.
They all participated in the violence, 
And their cause was bad.

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