Does anyone recall the storming of the Wisconsin Capitol back in 2011 or something? To prevent the passage of an austerity bill, thousands of left wing protesters stormed the Capitol and occupied the building for weeks. I'd say that was an attempt to "subvert the government", no?
Compare with the "storming of the Michigan Capitol" by arme…
Does anyone recall the storming of the Wisconsin Capitol back in 2011 or something? To prevent the passage of an austerity bill, thousands of left wing protesters stormed the Capitol and occupied the building for weeks. I'd say that was an attempt to "subvert the government", no?
Compare with the "storming of the Michigan Capitol" by armed, right wing, anti lockdown "terrorists". Who were legally open carrying, went through security, submitted to temperature checks, and then stood lawfully and silently in the public gallery. The only injury was to an unarmed woman Governor Whitmer ordered removed from the gallery, where she was standing alone. Whitmer simply declared from on high that now, only press were allowed in the public gallery, "to allow for social distancing".
That woman ended up in hospital, and the iconic photo of a protester "screaming in the faces of police" was actually (when you look at the photo closely) him standing between two cops and shouting at someone behind them. He said he was shouting at one of the officers who'd injured the woman.
Whitmer then went on the news and talked about how there were "swastikas" on display at the protest. The protesters were neo-nazis, the gullible audience was left to presume. Except the only swastika there's any record of at the anti-Whitmer protests was on a placard next to the words "Heil Whitmer". That puts a different spin on things, doesn't it?
The siege of the federal courthouse in Portland is the same. The media and left wing politicians described the actual, really and for true insurrectionists (attempting to subvert the government by destroying a federal courthouse) as mostly peaceful protesters, and the federal officers tasked with preventing them from burning it down as "storm troopers".
Where is the tally in the mainstream press of all the federal officers injured in those incidents? Officers permanently blinded by industrial lasers. Where were all the stories about the officer who took a commercial grade firework to the chest, where it embedded in his flak jacket and couldn't be removed before it had severely burned his torso? The officers taken to hospital with wounds from axes and hammers because they had the audacity to leave the (relative) safety of the building to put out fires?
I honestly care less about them lying about Sicknick's death than I do about how all of a sudden, after a year of anti-cop sentiment and apologism for lawless and violent anti-cop riots, this is the one occasion when they decide to do a complete 180 and act all outraged over the treatment of cops and government property by rioters with a political axe to grind.
My sister fell for the narrative of the anti-lockdown protests in MI. "They stormed the Capitol!" she told me. I was like, "by filing in an orderly fashion through security and submitting to temperature checks?" She says, "okay, by the were ARMED!" I was like, "it's perfectly legal to open carry, even in the Capitol building." "They had their guns pointing down at the politicians!" "Uh, no. They were holding their rifles the way you do when you don't intend to use them." "But there were white supremacists there! There were swastikas!" I sighed. "There was one swastika on a placard that compared the person they whose actions they were protesting to Hitler. Does that sound like someone who supports Hitler?" A long pause. "But it had to have been scary for the politicians! It was still meant to intimidate." I told her, "A government should have a healthy fear of its citizens, particularly when they've decided it's "necessary" to suspend the constitutional rights of the governed."
I'm almost positive she thinks I'm the crazy one.
I'm glad to see Greenwald sticking to principle. Glad I subscribed.
Well, I wasn't subscribed to Greenwald until today. I came here from a Real Clear Investigations link roundup and subscribed so I could comment. It sucks when you arrive late to an article, but that shouldn't be a problem now. :)
Does anyone recall the storming of the Wisconsin Capitol back in 2011 or something? To prevent the passage of an austerity bill, thousands of left wing protesters stormed the Capitol and occupied the building for weeks. I'd say that was an attempt to "subvert the government", no?
Compare with the "storming of the Michigan Capitol" by armed, right wing, anti lockdown "terrorists". Who were legally open carrying, went through security, submitted to temperature checks, and then stood lawfully and silently in the public gallery. The only injury was to an unarmed woman Governor Whitmer ordered removed from the gallery, where she was standing alone. Whitmer simply declared from on high that now, only press were allowed in the public gallery, "to allow for social distancing".
That woman ended up in hospital, and the iconic photo of a protester "screaming in the faces of police" was actually (when you look at the photo closely) him standing between two cops and shouting at someone behind them. He said he was shouting at one of the officers who'd injured the woman.
Whitmer then went on the news and talked about how there were "swastikas" on display at the protest. The protesters were neo-nazis, the gullible audience was left to presume. Except the only swastika there's any record of at the anti-Whitmer protests was on a placard next to the words "Heil Whitmer". That puts a different spin on things, doesn't it?
The siege of the federal courthouse in Portland is the same. The media and left wing politicians described the actual, really and for true insurrectionists (attempting to subvert the government by destroying a federal courthouse) as mostly peaceful protesters, and the federal officers tasked with preventing them from burning it down as "storm troopers".
Where is the tally in the mainstream press of all the federal officers injured in those incidents? Officers permanently blinded by industrial lasers. Where were all the stories about the officer who took a commercial grade firework to the chest, where it embedded in his flak jacket and couldn't be removed before it had severely burned his torso? The officers taken to hospital with wounds from axes and hammers because they had the audacity to leave the (relative) safety of the building to put out fires?
I honestly care less about them lying about Sicknick's death than I do about how all of a sudden, after a year of anti-cop sentiment and apologism for lawless and violent anti-cop riots, this is the one occasion when they decide to do a complete 180 and act all outraged over the treatment of cops and government property by rioters with a political axe to grind.
My sister fell for the narrative of the anti-lockdown protests in MI. "They stormed the Capitol!" she told me. I was like, "by filing in an orderly fashion through security and submitting to temperature checks?" She says, "okay, by the were ARMED!" I was like, "it's perfectly legal to open carry, even in the Capitol building." "They had their guns pointing down at the politicians!" "Uh, no. They were holding their rifles the way you do when you don't intend to use them." "But there were white supremacists there! There were swastikas!" I sighed. "There was one swastika on a placard that compared the person they whose actions they were protesting to Hitler. Does that sound like someone who supports Hitler?" A long pause. "But it had to have been scary for the politicians! It was still meant to intimidate." I told her, "A government should have a healthy fear of its citizens, particularly when they've decided it's "necessary" to suspend the constitutional rights of the governed."
I'm almost positive she thinks I'm the crazy one.
I'm glad to see Greenwald sticking to principle. Glad I subscribed.
Well said.
3 hearts in 5 hrs of a days old comment stream. Please post sooner next time, M. Karen Straughan. I want more people to hear what you have to say.
Well, I wasn't subscribed to Greenwald until today. I came here from a Real Clear Investigations link roundup and subscribed so I could comment. It sucks when you arrive late to an article, but that shouldn't be a problem now. :)