My Ted Talk on Insurrection and False Equivalence

For those of you think what happened on Wednesday is fine or no laws were broken compared to the events of the summer welcome to my Ted Talk.

Claim — Ten of thousands didn’t break any laws. So my question back is who were the tens of thousands who didn’t break the law? Anyone who stood on the capitol steps holding or hanging flags ( trump, confederate or nazi) is at least guilty of trespassing as that is not a place where the public can congregate unlike the Lincoln memorial which is open to the public and happens to be my favorite place in DC. So if I cannot just hang out there then i can only assume it’s illegal for you to be there and deface the façade with flags of our historically defeated enemies.

If you are talking about people who hung back and did not breach the capitol ground at all then great we are in complete agreement and they are law abiding citizens who successfully and legally utilized their 1st amendment rights. I would certainly like to commend those people for having self restraint to not get caught up in the frenzy. Kudos to them for not not breaking the law. If there were ten thousand of them then great.

However Anyone who actually broached the capitol grounds and even worse who actually occupied the capitol are guilty as hell as there are no excuses for this under any circumstances regardless if you are supporter of the POTUS Or BLM or any other group. This is not how our form of government works. If you don’t like the result you work for change in the next election or you peacefully protest to make your voice heard.

Now let’s talk about your false equivalence here. Everyone I know condemned the violence, looting, and rioting that occurred with the BLM and other protests. Some of those events were actually started by white supremacists and that had been down played but that is story for another day.

So now let’s review looting and rioting are both bad and illegal with fines and possibly jail for destruction of property. Storming the capitol to overturn a free and fair election is sedition bordering on treason. Big difference and I am sorry if you cannot see the difference. And again it does not matter who you are or what group you represent. Storming the capitol cannot be tolerated under any circumstances by any group.

Thank you for attending my Ted talk. Herz out