(01-08-2021, 02:19 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(01-08-2021, 01:46 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: I am one of those people, but there is a big difference here.  The rioting a looting that happened this last year had most of the people involved attacking law enforcement, burning businesses, destroying property, etc.  Their actions were clearly destructive and a threat to life.

The protest at the Capitol was the opposite as most of the people there were simply exercising their 1st Amendment right.  It was an extremely small percentage of the people there that were violent and/or destructive.

I'm not saying that breaking into the Capitol building was the right thing to do and I am not saying that the small handful of people there that were violent were innocent.  Far from it.  They broke the law, caused destruction, etc. and should pay the price for it.  All that I am saying is that this was a protest that got out of hand.  What we saw in many cases last year was outright rioting, looting, vandalism, etc.

JIB. 

They killed a cop, injured 13 other cops, destroyed federal property, and planted pipe bombs for chrissake.  

You are severely attempting to gloss over the actions of these violent trespassing criminals. 

What percentage of them were "peaceful" felons?   80%  85%   94.3%?  

Who gives a [BLEEP]?  
They became violent rioters when they crossed a guarded threshold and entered a federal building by force.

I think you are kind of missing my point.

It appears to me that you are referring to "they" and "them" as everyone that was at the Capitol building.  If I am mistaken about that I apologize.  I watched the events unfolding on live television and flipped between a few different news outlets to see the coverage.  By far the vast majority of the people there were peaceful and mostly standing around with patriotic flags/displays and such.  It was a VERY small minority that breached the Capitol building, caused damage and got into altercations with authorities.  I am certainly not "glossing over" the actions of those very few.  As I said before "They broke the law, caused destruction, etc. and should pay the price for it".

Contrast that to what happened last year when you had crowds of people physically attacking police officers, smashing windows, starting fires, etc. and the MSM called that a "mostly peaceful protest".

Here's a little experiment to try to explain my point a bit better to you.  Watch video of news feeds from say the riot in Kenosha from last year with the sound off.  Do the same thing with the protest at the Capitol.  Which one looks "mostly peaceful" to you and with one looks like a violent riot?

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