Re: US 2021 Capitol insurrection
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2021 7:55 pm
But... but... Antifa!
This is f.cking insane and that orange c.nt is criminally culpable.
This is f.cking insane and that orange c.nt is criminally culpable.
They say they are outnumbered, and the Defense Department have blocked the National Guard - who were deployed in the summer for BLM protests - from assisting.Brightonian wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:04 pm Watching CNN who seem a bit over the top, surely? Don't the Capitol police (or capital police or DC police or whatever - it's so confusing) just have to pour in in numbers and shove the protestors out? They don't look armed.
Reportedly the National Guard has now started to deploy.dyqik wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:15 pmThey say they are outnumbered, and the Defense Department have blocked the National Guard - who were deployed in the summer for BLM protests - from assisting.Brightonian wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:04 pm Watching CNN who seem a bit over the top, surely? Don't the Capitol police (or capital police or DC police or whatever - it's so confusing) just have to pour in in numbers and shove the protestors out? They don't look armed.
I'm probably influenced by protests in the UK where the police would simply plonk huge numbers of bodies in the way.dyqik wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:15 pmThey say they are outnumbered, and the Defense Department have blocked the National Guard - who were deployed in the summer for BLM protests - from assisting.Brightonian wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:04 pm Watching CNN who seem a bit over the top, surely? Don't the Capitol police (or capital police or DC police or whatever - it's so confusing) just have to pour in in numbers and shove the protestors out? They don't look armed.
Yeahbut, guns.Brightonian wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:24 pmI'm probably influenced by protests in the UK where the police would simply plonk huge numbers of bodies in the way.dyqik wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:15 pmThey say they are outnumbered, and the Defense Department have blocked the National Guard - who were deployed in the summer for BLM protests - from assisting.Brightonian wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:04 pm Watching CNN who seem a bit over the top, surely? Don't the Capitol police (or capital police or DC police or whatever - it's so confusing) just have to pour in in numbers and shove the protestors out? They don't look armed.
FTFYTrinucleus wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:51 pm Pence calls for the protestors traitors to leave.
Trump doesn't
Britain did it first.
Isn’t this the point when the “International Community” calls for calm on all sides and for peacekeeping troops to be deployed to ensure the safety of aid workers.lpm wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:19 pm Government loyalist forces are beginning to regain control inside the Capitol. Rioters being arrested at gunpoint.
Hmm. I'm not sure if the US Constitution would consider the President an enemy of the USA, which seems to be crucial to the definition of treason (based on my extensive studies at the Wikipedia school of law https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason ... ted_States)bjn wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:58 pmFTFYTrinucleus wrote: Wed Jan 06, 2021 8:51 pm Pence calls for the protestors traitors to leave.
Trump doesn't