I ran across this excellent article from the Heritage Foundation's Daily Signal written by Mike Gonzalez which I thought was quite worthy of sharing. We have been told repeatedly by leftists that the attack on the capitol and our democracy by right wing terrorists was "unprecedented". Perhaps they mean unprecedented in the fact that this is the only time the right has done so. The left... well they have attacked our capitol several times. While I and nearly every conservative of note immediately and unequivocally condemned the disgusting violent attack on 1/6/2021, evidently the left has shown little or no concern about past attacks by their fellow political travelers. Indeed, the leftist terrorists responsible for the other attacks were pardoned by Democrat presidents. Hmmm... The more things change, the more they stay the same. Enjoy!
"The nauseating invasion of the Capitol on Jan. 6 wasn’t the only time the building has been attacked. There were three previous acts of aggression, all perpetrated by leftist activists.
Democratic presidents have commuted the sentences of most of the individuals arrested and charged in relation to those attacks.
The attacks were the 1954 shooting of members of the House of Representatives by terrorists supporting the cause of Puerto Rican separation from the United States; a 1971 bombing by the domestic terrorist group the Weather Underground; and another one 12 years later, by a group of Weathermen who identified themselves as the Armed Resistance Unit."
16 comments:
Seems you only posted this to distract from the current situation.
Do two wrongs make a right?
You want to compare murder for murder and then claim a higher ground?
Try living in today and leave yesterday behind.
We can't go back 50 years and redue the verdict then. We can prosecute for what happened a month and a half ago.
Jerry, I appreciate your comment. That said, I absolutely had no intention of trying "to distract from the current situation." Indeed, I condemned unequivocally the terrorist attack on 1/6 by these thugs on this very blog. I hope each and every last one of them that is guilty of storming the capitol building to intimidate, vandalize, assault,and kill are apprehended, tried, and punished to the fullest extent of the law.
I am by no means claiming a higher ground. I loathe what these people did, regardless if they may or may not agree with many of my political views. The point of this post was that I have become tired of too many folks on the left that have attempted to claim that same "higher ground". They have claimed that the attack on the capitol is unprecedented, when fellow political radicals on the left have made similar attacks in the past. (and then been pardoned by Democrat presidents.)
It is akin to far too many leftists mitigating, explaining, and excusing our summer of love riots across our nation and then taking such pearl-clutching umbrage at the riot on the capitol.
As for me, I thoroughly condemn all of them, sir.
For some reason you are compelled to propagate the false accusation that violence isn't condemned by the left. In fact you are condemning the left with a false sweeping generalization. How can we not see that as a distraction from Trump’s attempted coup?
That's like me saying you won't condemn school shootings because some nuts on the Right say they are "false flags". Come to think of it, I don’t recall seeing a post from you that is dedicated to condemning school shootings. Why do you hate our children? ;-)
See the flaw in that line of thinking?
Instead of inflaming more division, how about we agree that violent radical leftists AND violent radical Rightists are condemned? Because they are, by vast majorities of conservatives, moderates, and liberals. Are you so blinded by rage and lies that you believe those who disagree with you are terrorist supporters?
BTW those radical Puerto Ricans are not the "left", nor were they supported by it. Those pardoned Weather Underground radicals served time and did NOT kill anyone. In fact, the fanatics killed themselves more than others.
Trump's murderous radical cult did kill others. There is simply no equivalence to the thousands of terrorist traitors Trump ordered to the Capitol to, "Fight like hell, stop the steal, and take our country back".
That scale of terrorist violence and death at the Capitol on January 6th is absolutely unprecedented.
Sorry, "both sides" did not incite an insurrectionist mob to storm the Capitol to overturn an election.
But feel free to say we hate America and condone violence for understanding that fact. It seems to comfort you, and assuage your guilt by association by believing and supporting Trump's Big Lie that fueled the terrorist mob.
It’s interesting how you condemn the “thugs”, but never condemn their motive. You never associate the attack with Trump’s insurrectionist Big Lie rhetoric, as if that had nothing to do with it.
I'm supposing you don't consider Trump's Big Lie and agitation of mob violence to be radical in any way.
If so, then: Sarcasm alert.
It was just "coincidence" he had his rally and "peaceful" Coup Klux Klan march to the Capitol on that particular day, amirite? And he was so horrified by the insurrection he did NOTHING to stop them, while watching it on TV and calling Republicans to overturn the election for him. He was so appalled he needed to tell the mob he loved them, they are special, and their cause is just.
Nothing radical about that.
Yeah, the "left" has done that so often we've lost count of their violent insurrections to overturn elections. Trump’s Coup Klux Klan insurrection is totally precedented.
Or so you seem to want to believe.
The examples you (the article) cite do not compare to an attack on the US Capitol and are to old to be relevant. An attack on the Capitol is on a different level.
If you want to claim that the lefts sympathizing with rioters, or supporting de-funding the police is dangerous bullshit, I agree.
AOC raised $4,000,000 for Texas.
Does that mean she still hates America?
I know it's hard to reject the teachings of Prager U, FOX(R), Limbaugh, Breitbart, Daily Caller, Epoch Times, etc.
Will you ever figure out far Right media is dishonest AND biased propaganda?
Or am I the one who hates America for thinking that?
Funny how Trump's terrorists are NOT accused of hating America, but people who think like I do "hate America".
No bias there, huh?
Will you ever let go of the Radical Right's "They hate America" demonization?
I'm betting not.
Senator Leahy asked former chief of Capitol police Steven Sund about warnings ahead of January 6th. He read aloud from an intelligence report that “indicated that members of the Proud Boys, white supremacist groups, Antifa and other extremist groups are expected to participate in the January 6th event, and may be inclined to become violent.”
The DC police knew ANTIFA was coming.
"If you want to claim that the lefts sympathizing with rioters, or supporting de-funding the police is dangerous bullshit, I agree." ~ Jerry
Jerry, thanks for your thoughtful comment. The only point I had in posting this article was to show that the left set a precedent for capitol attacks. It does NOT excuse the recent attack and I hope that everyone of the bastards that broke into the capitol and acted violently and maliciously is brought to full justice before the law.
I have heard way too many folks on the left exclaim how such things are without precedent. This is not true.
Further I absolutely agree with you that sympathizing with rioters and providing support for their bail like our current VP has done, let alone calls for defunding the police is very dangerous and stupid.
Anonymous, yes, there have been quite a few documented examples of leftist agitators hiding amongst the right wing punks that attacked the capitol. I read an article the other day where a "journalist" wearing a Trump hat was one such leftist involved in the attack. Antifa is a domestic terrorist group that has largely been left untouched by law enforcement. They will only be emboldened under Biden.
Jerry,
I'm with you. But there are a very few fringe leftists who are "sympathizing with rioters, or supporting de-funding the police".
That last phrase is just stupid. I agree with Obama and Biden. Reforming the police, and funding professionals trained in de-escalation and conflict resolution would be the wiser.
And that is what Garland also has in mind. A welcome sense of sanity is returning to the DOJ.
Sorry, Darrell.
The left never mobbed the Capitol to overturn an election. Do you even know what "unprecedented" means??
I honestly don't think so. Nor have you shown an understanding of false equivalence. Anyone who knows the meanings of these terms would never assert what you are saying.
This is yet another example of how the Right assumes the authority to unilaterally define terms. Happens ALL the time. Talk about entitlement.
Your false accusation about the "evil dark lady" "sympathizing with rioters and providing support for their bail" is pure demonization. She did advocate bail for protesters, NOT rioters. I know you need to think they are all the same. You will repeat this meme nonetheless. For she is indeed an evil dark lady to your mentality. In fact she was a tough Attorney General. AG's do not, and never have, sympathized with rioters.
Now, there you go again: "...quite a few documented examples of leftist agitators hiding amongst the right wing punks that attacked the capitol
Where is your evidence? Yeah, I know, "People are saying...". No evidence forthcoming. I have no real expectations of the impossible. In fact there were more cops in the mob, and even abetting the mob with selfies and such, than there were "leftists".
It amazes and amuses me how the radical Right wants to blame anyone but Trump supporters. Even you have never mentioned that glaring fact.
They are Trump supporters. Try saying it. It is the truth.
It amazes and amuses me how the radical Right wants us to believe anyone who opposes Trump would participate in his coup. That is patently absurd and plainly illogical.
Anarchists might join in, but again, they are the opposite of liberals and progressives who want a government of, by and for the people.
There was ONE arrested agitator they want to frame as a leftist. He's a brother of a Proud Boy/FBI informant. He was never accepted by BLM nor is there evidence he is antifa. Personally I think he's just an anarchist or psych case.
Journalists were also there. Maybe you want to accuse them of wanting to overturn the election too?
Or would it make sense for them to not advertise themselves to an angry brainwashed mob who Trump told them were enemies of the people?
I think I covered the non-Trump supporters who were there. So whatcha got?
Please don't disappoint me again and refuse to offer evidence of your claim.
Sigh.... I know.
He read aloud from an intelligence report that “indicated that members of the Proud Boys, white supremacist groups, Antifa and other extremist groups are expected to participate in the January 6th event, and may be inclined to become violent.”
No evidence supports antifa involvement. I can say antifa are "expected" over for dinner tonight, but that doesn't mean I'll be cooking for them, does it?
The report was correct about "other extremist groups". They are all Trump supporters.
I find it amazing and amusing that nobody who supports Trump will readily admit that it was a mob of Trump supporters.
Prove me wrong.
I have to agree with Dave.
I have read no evidence that leftists were among the rioters that stormed the Capitol. I was watching the hearings the other day and there was no mention of leftists being involved.
I still say that attacking the national Capitol is on a different and more dangerous level than attacking a city police station. And by the way, authorities are arresting and prosecuting the rioters that did such things last Summer. You won't hear about that unless you read the local city newspapers. You certainly won't hear about it on FOX, or MSNBC.
Anthony Aguero claims Marjorie Taylor Greene as “one of my closest friends”.
“We were all there. It was not antifa, and it was not BLM,” Aguero said in a video shortly after the attack. “It was Trump supporters that did that yesterday. I’m the first to admit it, being one myself.”
Why can't you admit this fact, Darrell?
Or will it be couched in something like, "MOST, or MANY, of them MAY have been Trump supporters"?
Yet you dismiss police records that show Trump supporting far Right thugs agitating riots in Minneapolis.
WANTING to believe something does not make it so. Denial of facts doesn't make them false.
But then, where would the Right be without that exact mentality?
It is their bread and butter.
Jerry, there have been several reports of a handful of leftist people with the rioters at the capitol riot, including a BLM "journalist" from Utah. Yes, nearly all of them were right wingers and Trump supporters. Unlike Dave who seemingly can NEVER admit fault on the left, I acknowledge when people do wrong on the right. They may even hold nearly all of the same political beliefs I do, but when it comes to domestic terrorism, they crossed the line and are absolutely wrong. I do not support them and hope they are caught, arrested, and prosecuted. I have said as much a dozen times, but evidently Dave wants me to engrave that in stone somewhere for him as a monument. Hopefully Antifa and BLM won't tear that one down.
Being a leftist, Dave never has to apologize for the lawlessness and authoritarianism of his fellow political travelers though. He even makes asinine statements implying racism again because I disagree with his "dark lady". I am tired of the nonsense, Dave. If you are bored, get another hobby. If you would like to discuss issues without the crap, then please join us. Otherwise, just go spread your brand of nonsense, wrongness, and frankly... hate... somewhere else. We are tired of it here. Thanks!
Again, I have heard no reports like that and in the hearings that question was asked directly and the answer was no by the head of the Capitol police, the D.C. police, the FBI, and the sergeant at arms of both Houses. You mentioned this reporter was posing as a leftist, then he wasn't really a leftist. They have arrested over 200 people who were at the Capitol as being violent and none were listed as leftist.
https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2021/01/rush_to_judgment_on_trump_multiple_leftists_arrested_for_capitol_riot.html
There is a good summary of things. I don't agree with the author's assertion that most of the rioters were not Trump supporters. I think most were, but certainly not all of them.
Darrell,
Thank you for the link.
Showalter’s opinion piece from the conservative “American Thinker” is mostly about the guy from the above linked Salt Lake Tribune article. She cites FOX(R) and other far Right media to support her case, inevitably resulting in her promotion of falsehoods.
The woman making a documentary of Sullivan is NOT affiliated with CNN. The unsupported false accusation that she “co-conspired with the liberal activist in order to cause chaos and make Trump supporters look bad” is just another biased opinion, to be generous. It’s really just another far Right attack on CNN and journalism in general. The radical Right will undoubtedly accept this baseless accusation as their reality. They are lockstep in their confirmation bias.
“Verified twitter user Amuse” tweeted lies that were taken as fact, because it FEELS good to believe it. “BREAKING: CNN’s Jade Sacker penetrating the Capitol with a member of BLM/Antifa cheering, “We did it!” And then asking her conspirator if he was filming, he said he’d delete it, he lied. CNN was in on it.”
A psycho and his videographer do not make a “CCN/BLM/Antifa” mob. But is sure FEELS good to believe it. Why ask questions if it FEELS good?
This leaves the entire rest of the “leftist mob” a “registered Democrat” named Aaron Mostofsky. He said he participated in the disruption of the certification of the 2020 U.S. presidential election because he believed that “close to 85 million” voted for Trump and not 75 million people. He said the “election was stolen” and Congress members should “get the courage to do their duty to examine the fraud and maybe delay the election.”
https://conandaily.com/2021/01/12/aaron-mostofsky-biography-13-things-about-shlomo-mostofskys-son-from-brooklyn-new-york/
Yeah, he’s not so much a “leftist” Democrat now, is he?
Showalter concludes with: “The facts will continue to roll out, and the picture that emerges will likely start to show that these rioters were hardly "Trump's people" as a rule, or people who were egged on by Trump. They were, in general, leftists, political fringers, and people who like to go to riots. “
Wow. Her glaring projection goes all the way to “opposite world”.
I’m happy to see that you don’t buy it, and understand it was a mob of Trump supporters.
Too bad that lie is being pushed by the Republican Party. Who could imagine such a thing?
As usual anecdotal reports of an incident do not represent what happened. The hearings continue. Watch them live on CSPAN.
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