(08-22-2024, 05:03 PM)mikesez Wrote:

(08-22-2024, 01:21 PM)Jag149 Wrote: On Jan 6 there was no insurrection. That is FAKE news. It was a riot a lot like what occurred when Trump was first elected or when Tim Waltz let his state burn. See excerpt below. A link to the article is below.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/stop-callin...1641417543

These are important criminal charges that shouldn’t go unaddressed. But of the hundreds of “Capitol Breach Cases” listed at the Justice Department’s prosecution page, not one defendant is charged with insurrection under 18 U.S.C. 2383. That’s because insurrection is a legal term with specific elements. No prosecutor would dare mislabel negligent homicide or manslaughter a murder, because they are totally distinct crimes. The media has no legal or moral basis to do otherwise.

You are being pedantic. 
The definition of insurrection is actually not as specific as you say, but even if I grant you that point, and say every prosecuting attorney in the country agrees that no one should be charged under that particular statute, that does not mean that pundits like you or I cannot use that word to describe what we saw that day.
We agree that what we saw was a riot.
Some riots are also insurrections.  To me, a riot is when the strength and bravery of the police and military are tested.  But an insurrection is when their loyalty is tested.  This is a very simple and intuitive definition.  Were the police and military going to be loyal to the constitution and all of the duly elected officers other than President Trump, or were they going to be loyal to Trump?

No one was testing anyone's loyalty. Who is being pedantic now ... LOL  Nice, is my word of the day thanks! You can call it what you want. I call what was done after Trump was elected the same thing and more wide spread. What was funny was the people on the news wondering why it was taking so long to overturn Trump's election. Unfortunately it was the same thing but ok for some and seems not for others. Your bias is showing now...

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