(01-06-2022, 11:59 PM)Sneakers Wrote:

(01-06-2022, 10:12 PM)mikesez Wrote: There are only a few times every four years that the Constitution requires certain people to meet together.
If those meetings fail to take place, the Constitution is basically suspended. 
The riots in Ferguson and Minneapolis were bad.  But they did not threaten to overturn or suspend the US Constitution.

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The events of January 6 2021 were absolutely Trump's fault.
His people set up a stage for a rally, with a public address system, projection screens, standing room for the crowd, everything they needed.
He then told them to go to the Capitol, which was not set up to host any large crowd event that day. What did he think would happen?

Oh my!  He told them to go to the Capitol.  That's all you've got?

PS  Still waiting on the Fergusen and Minneapolis answers.

And he didn't tell them to leave until 3 hours after barricades were breached and windows were broken.  He sent them there, he knew they were there, and he wanted them there. He is responsible.

And I already answered.  Bolded above.

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(01-07-2022, 12:38 AM)NewJagsCity Wrote:

(01-06-2022, 10:12 PM)mikesez Wrote: There are only a few times every four years that the Constitution requires certain people to meet together.
If those meetings fail to take place, the Constitution is basically suspended. 
The riots in Ferguson and Minneapolis were bad.  But they did not threaten to overturn or suspend the US Constitution.

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The events of January 6 2021 were absolutely Trump's fault.
His people set up a stage for a rally, with a public address system, projection screens, standing room for the crowd, everything they needed.
He then told them to go to the Capitol, which was not set up to host any large crowd event that day. What did he think would happen?

You dont think the 'right of peaceful assembly' in the 1st amendment was threatened by the events in Ferguson and Minnesota?

I didnt like the Jan 6th events, but I'm not going to try and equate them with 9/11 and Pearl Harbor like some of the Democrats are doing.  Anymore than I would equate Ferguson or Minnesota with 9/11 or Pearl Harbor.  I was on a 16 week assignment in St Louis during the Ferguson events, and tho there were some issues downtown that had to be avoided, along with not riding on public transit, by-in-large it wasnt nearly as big a deal as the media was making it out to be.  I'll say this tho, I have yet to see an annual special on the Antifa rioting of 2020 on CNN yet.  I wont hold my breath either.

They shouldn't be equated with 9/11 and pearl harbor.  After 9/11, I still had the right to vote for the next President in a free election where my vote would count.  If the insurrectionists on 1/6/21 had won, they would have taken that right away from all of us.

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