The Mostly Peaceful Capitol Protest

Update - 2/25/2021

Here is yet more discussion:

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/mother-cop-who-died-after-capitol-riot-believes-it-was-stroke-not-trump-supporter-killed

Update - 2/24/2021

Here is additional discussion:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2021/02/23/capitol-riots-were-a-dark-day-for-american-journalism/

Here is a very revealing discussion of the so-called Capitol riot/insurrection which occured on January 6. Glenn Greenwald sticks to the facts in ways the MSM usually doesn't:

https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-false-and-exaggerated-claims

In addition to the fact such apparently false and exaggerated claims were used in an attempt to convict former President Trump, they also appear to be the pretext for keeping troops in DC for an indefinite period. To paraphrase William Shakespeare, something is rotten in the District of Columbia.

There are at least two other great concerns about this:

(1) These apparently false and exaggerated claims also are being used as the rationale for labeling Trump supporters as extremists or "terrorists"; and

(2) Even worse, similar false and exaggerated claims continue to be used as a pretext for the destruction of entire nations (e.g., Iraq and Libya).

There is something seriously wrong when the leaders of a country resort to lying to their own citizens to solidify their grip on power. Many of us believed it couldn't happen here, but boy were we wrong.