(01-06-2023, 10:03 AM)Sneakers Wrote:

(01-05-2023, 10:03 PM)mikesez Wrote: If you compare trying to overturn the constitution of the entire United States to trying to overturn the police department in a Missouri suburb, you are obviously trying to minimize or excuse the former while maximizing and casting aspersions on the latter.  
You are defending it.  And if you defend it, you probably support it.  
If you support it, come out and say so.
If you do not, don't make specious arguments implying that you do.

For the nth time, why don't you research what an insurrection actually is, rather than mindlessly repeating the soundbite fed to you by leftist media?  A necessary component is the installation of a new form of government.  What new form of government were the "insurrectionists" seeking to install?  

 How would you describe the events in Fergusen and Minneapolis?  

P.S. The rioters weren't overturning the police department itself, just the cars.

First of all, I am a person, and you are a person, and I could just as much accuse you of being fed these soundbites as you accuse me. It's pointless.
But to your point, our current form of government says that electors meet in 50 different locations, send 538 votes to Congress, Congress counts the votes, Congress considers objections to the votes or possible duplication of votes, and then announce a new president and vice president based on those votes. 
The January 6 rioters are inssurectionists because they wished to alter this form at every step so that in the end the new President would be selected without regard to 50 meetings or 538 votes but instead by whomever is violent enough to scare the Congress into submission.  That's a different form.  That's an insurrection.
Now I agree that Ferguson and Minneapolis may have been, for some of the nights, for some of the rioters, local insurrections. But local is a much smaller deal than national, and you also have to look at the cause and the evidence supporting the cause, because frankly, violence is justifiable when the government is tyrannical.  Was the government actually tyrannical, on what evidence, and were the rioters pushing in a less tyrannical direction?

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