Left-wing politicians and activists from then-vice presidential candidate Kamala Harris (“ They’re not going to let up, and they should not, and we should not.”) to Nikole Hannah Jones (“ Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence.”) either excused the often violent protests or urged that they continue.įar from sending in 20,000 federal troops, as occurred after January 6, the Left demanded that then President Trump not resort to such Draconian measures. Yet few were convicted of any serious crimes fewer were sentenced to long sentences-given prosecutors, state and federal, claimed the violence was merely a result of protesters exercising their “constitutional right” of dissent. Some 1,500 officers were assaulted and injured. Two billion dollars in property damage followed. In 2020, for 120 days, left-wing mobs led by Antifa and Black Lives Matter wrought far greater destruction in nonstop rioting, arson, looting, and assault. What mattered were the political opportunities offered by January 6, and the chance to leverage the occasion to consolidate power. But in reality, the Left cared little about its pretexts justifying harsh responses, much less proving their charges. In theory these were legitimate reasons to treat harshly any convicted of such insurrectionary crimes.
Three, the protesters were attempting to nullify an election by their massing at the Capitol and therefore questioned the very integrity of the 2020 election. Two, the protesters were ideologically motivated and seemed bent on insurrection to warp the political process. The Left has justified long sentences on three grounds: One, the protesters targeted iconic government buildings as the object of their attacks. Some may spend most of their remaining lives in prison. Many of them were sentenced to long prison sentences. Yet over a thousand protesters were arrested, tried, and mostly convicted of various charges from parading without a permit to insurrection. She was lethally shot by a Capitol officer Michael Byrd for the likely misdemeanor of trespassing and-illegally entering a broken window to the Capitol. Instead, the only likely death at the hand of another was the diminutive, 5’2’’, 14-year-military veteran and unarmed Ashli Babbitt. Despite official propaganda, there were not five police officers killed on January 6 as alleged by the Left. Most of those seriously injured that day were among the protesters themselves. Of that group, an even smaller number committed violent acts. Keep political utility in mind and the baffling hypocrisy of the Left makes all too perfect sense.įrom all the tens of thousands of January 6 Capitol protesters a small percentage entered the Capitol itself. But he also did them in service to a supposed noble cause, sort of like the current board president of the NAACP promoting a black travel ban on Florida, while he lives-in Florida!
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Spout racialist nonsense for 40 years? Harass women and young girls by blowing in their hair and squeezing them too tightly? Create a family grifting syndicate to leverage foreign cash in quid pro quo fashion? Praise racial segregationists? There is neither fear of inconstancy nor hypocrisy, given the central theme that governs a leftist party line is political utility-or the ends of power always more than justify the hypocritical means used to obtain it. The result is that the issue du jour of mandated equality often becomes secondary if not irrelevant. The answer is that calls for radical equity, “power for the people,” and mandated equality are usually mostly sloganeering for those who enjoy power and the lucre it brings, and their wish is to augment both for themselves. Why do so many liberal climate-activist grandees fly on private jets? Or why do those who profited from Black Lives Matter have a propensity for estate living? Or why do the community-activist Obamas prefer to live in not one, but three mansions?
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