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<blockquote data-quote="tonyexpress" data-source="post: 5136608" data-attributes="member: 1940"><p><h3><span style="font-size: 18px"><a href="https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-histrionics-and-melodrama-around" target="_blank">The Histrionics and Melodrama Around 1/6 Are Laughable, but They Serve Several Key Purposes</a></span></h3><p></p><p><strong>The number of people killed</strong> by pro-Trump supporters at the January 6 Capitol riot is equal to the number of pro-Trump supporters who brandished guns or knives inside the Capitol. That is the same number as the total of Americans who — after a full year of a Democrat-led DOJ conducting what is <a href="https://abc7chicago.com/jan-6-insurrection-riot-us-capitol-investigation/11126614/" target="_blank">heralded</a> as “the most expansive federal law enforcement investigation in US history” — have been charged with inciting insurrection, sedition, treason or conspiracy to overthrow the government as a result of that riot one year ago. Coincidentally, it is the same number as Americans who ended up being criminally charged by the Mueller probe of conspiring with Russia over the 2016 election, and the number of wounds — grave or light — which AOC, who finally emerged at night <a href="https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1346968581741928451?lang=en" target="_blank">to assure</a> an on-edge nation that she was “okay" while waiting in an office building away from the riot at the rotunda, sustained on that solemn day.</p><p></p><p>That number is zero. But just as these rather crucial facts do not prevent the dominant wing of the U.S. corporate media and Democratic Party leaders from continuing to insist that Donald Trump's 2016 election victory was illegitimate due to his collusion with the Kremlin, it also does not prevent January 6 from being widely described in those same circles as an Insurrection, an attempted coup, an event as traumatizing as Pearl Harbor (2,403 dead) or the 9/11 attack (2,977 dead), and as the <a href="https://nypost.com/2021/04/29/biden-calls-capitol-riots-worst-attack-on-our-democracy-since-the-civil-war/" target="_blank">gravest attack on American democracy</a> since the mid-19th Century Civil War (750,000 dead). <em>The Huffington Post</em>'s White House reporter S.V. Date <a href="https://twitter.com/svdate/status/1397014895405764619" target="_blank">said</a> that it was wrong to compare 1/6 to 9/11, because <em>the former</em> — the three-hour riot at the Capitol — was “1,000 percent worse.”</p><p></p><p>What happened on January 6 was ugly and disturbing. But it was nowhere near an insurrection, a coup, or anything threatening American democracy (to the extent it can be said to exist) in a fundamental or sustained way. That core truth — that it was merely an angry protest that, like so many of its kind, organically turned into a three-hour riot killing nobody except four of the protesters — destroys its value. Only the false narrative that has been constructed over the last year and consecrated by today's inane festivities can convert this banal episode into some world-historic event that at once makes heroes out of those who were there to oppose it and justifies everything and anything done in the name of preventing its repetition.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tonyexpress, post: 5136608, member: 1940"] [HEADING=2][SIZE=5][URL='https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-histrionics-and-melodrama-around']The Histrionics and Melodrama Around 1/6 Are Laughable, but They Serve Several Key Purposes[/URL][/SIZE][/HEADING] [B]The number of people killed[/B] by pro-Trump supporters at the January 6 Capitol riot is equal to the number of pro-Trump supporters who brandished guns or knives inside the Capitol. That is the same number as the total of Americans who — after a full year of a Democrat-led DOJ conducting what is [URL='https://abc7chicago.com/jan-6-insurrection-riot-us-capitol-investigation/11126614/']heralded[/URL] as “the most expansive federal law enforcement investigation in US history” — have been charged with inciting insurrection, sedition, treason or conspiracy to overthrow the government as a result of that riot one year ago. Coincidentally, it is the same number as Americans who ended up being criminally charged by the Mueller probe of conspiring with Russia over the 2016 election, and the number of wounds — grave or light — which AOC, who finally emerged at night [URL='https://twitter.com/aoc/status/1346968581741928451?lang=en']to assure[/URL] an on-edge nation that she was “okay" while waiting in an office building away from the riot at the rotunda, sustained on that solemn day. That number is zero. But just as these rather crucial facts do not prevent the dominant wing of the U.S. corporate media and Democratic Party leaders from continuing to insist that Donald Trump's 2016 election victory was illegitimate due to his collusion with the Kremlin, it also does not prevent January 6 from being widely described in those same circles as an Insurrection, an attempted coup, an event as traumatizing as Pearl Harbor (2,403 dead) or the 9/11 attack (2,977 dead), and as the [URL='https://nypost.com/2021/04/29/biden-calls-capitol-riots-worst-attack-on-our-democracy-since-the-civil-war/']gravest attack on American democracy[/URL] since the mid-19th Century Civil War (750,000 dead). [I]The Huffington Post[/I]'s White House reporter S.V. Date [URL='https://twitter.com/svdate/status/1397014895405764619']said[/URL] that it was wrong to compare 1/6 to 9/11, because [I]the former[/I] — the three-hour riot at the Capitol — was “1,000 percent worse.” What happened on January 6 was ugly and disturbing. But it was nowhere near an insurrection, a coup, or anything threatening American democracy (to the extent it can be said to exist) in a fundamental or sustained way. That core truth — that it was merely an angry protest that, like so many of its kind, organically turned into a three-hour riot killing nobody except four of the protesters — destroys its value. Only the false narrative that has been constructed over the last year and consecrated by today's inane festivities can convert this banal episode into some world-historic event that at once makes heroes out of those who were there to oppose it and justifies everything and anything done in the name of preventing its repetition. [/QUOTE]
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