Twenty-three days after a mob ransacked Congress in an attempt to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential win, federal prosecutors have charged more than 150 individuals for their involvement in the breach and have opened over 400 case files.
Much clearer. And hopefully, much harsher…
And yet, the GOP members of Congress, for the most part, don’t see a problem here.
Even though they witnessed it firsthand, they’re willing to disregard the events of the day and those that led up to them. Willing. To. Disregard. How is this happening? Banana republics don’t have this kind of chicanery.
Aren’t there more guns in the country than people? It seems somehow relevant.
Senate Republicans clearly don’t want to hear any of the evidence which is why Lindsey Graham was threatening hellfire if Democrats were to call any witnesses at the impeachment trial.
Yes. There are people who own hundreds of them.
First to roll get the top bunk. Rest pick up the soap for twenty years.
Everyone should be limited to no more than 75 guns.
Were there witnesses at the insurrection rally?
In a household, that’s per person, right?
counting or not counting rocket launchers?
Thank you, @mattshuham. This is a really informative piece.
Also notable:
Maybe a few (thousand).
Good point. No more than seven rocket launchers apiece.
The first thing we are likely to see is a flood of plea agreements, mostly from the selfie folk.
By summer, the first of the court cases should be beginning. Chances are that the DC judges are going to be sentencing these folk like they are Al Qaeda.
Meanwhile, Congress will be examining the roles of Traitor Cruz and Hitler Hawley…
Need some 20 to life charges and guilty pleas like they got for that MI militia case, to induce serious cooperation in rolling up the seditionist conspirators. And their funders and enablers…
Who paid for the busses? Who paid for their food and lodging?
The Gallows to me was a pretty good indication that there was a lot of pre-planning going on. While I think it was for show, it took a number of people planning in advance to get it erected. It looked pretty heavy for one thing, and no vehicles were allowed anywhere nearby. So they had to have a group of people carrying it. They had to design it so it could be broken down so they could easily carry it as well. It’s not as if they got there, noticed a pile of wood, and constructed it on the spot.
This sounds like they have the priorities right…get the visible ones for the PR, get the ones that committed violence, and get the planners. The first group will give most people pause, while the second and third are the really dangerous ones that we want taken out of circulation.
I know people want every person who went in to be prosecuted, but I’m fine if they ignore random people who walked in, milled around, and walked out without doing anything. Yes, they were wrong, but they likely won’t do anything again because of the PR arrests…and letting them go gives resources to the real dangerous people.
The only worry is that the dangerous ones will now know that they are targets, with a possibly limited shelf life where they can get away with something. It may make them more likely to act out soon, and to be more circumspect in how they plan, but there’s nothing to be done about that. Let’s just hope the feds are able to shut them down before they cause too much mayhem.