(03-21-2022, 08:08 AM)Sneakers Wrote:

(03-20-2022, 08:45 PM)mikesez Wrote: I've heard plenty about these efforts.  I've tried to discuss them on other message boards.
Half of the country, including the author of this article, won't admit that Jan 6th was an insurrection.  It was a disorganized and incoherent insurrection, but it was an insurrection. Because it was an insurrection, anyone who participated in it or encouraged it should be ineligible for office per the 14th amendment.  This includes President Trump.  Half the country doesn't want to hear that.
However, these three members from Wisconsin and the member from North Carolina didn't participate in the insurrection.  They simply voted against certification.  The constitution gives them the privilege of voting yes or no to any question.  Voting no simply doesn't rise to the level of participating in or encouraging an insurrection. The other half of the country doesn't want to hear that.

You really are a broken record.  Police were assaulted and property was destroyed by BLM rioters in Minneapolis and Ferguson.  Should everyone who was present protesting be charged with those crimes?

Depends where they were and when.
Anyone who was violating a curfew should be charged with that.  If anyone broke through a police barricade, they should be charged with that.

Nobody was supposed to be in the Capitol building that day except for the people who work there.  Everyone else in the building was breaking the law in an attempt to change the government, i.e., an insurrection.  We could debate about people who were on the grounds (which were also closed to the public) but didn't enter the building.  But anyone who unlawfully entered the building at that time was an insurrectionist.

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