One month ago, Today.
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One month ago today, white supremacists and conspiracy theorists stormed the Capitol in an unprecedented act of violence and insurrection.
I just spent the last 1-1/2 hours reading AOC's account. A few things stand out:
- she began to get tweets warning her about January 6th, the week before
- the mob started congregating around the Capitol as early as Monday
- She was unsure whether the Capitol Policeman who came to find her was a good guy or a bad guy
- she hid in Katie Porter's office for 5 hours.
- not only did 5 people die, but 140 officers were injured. One officer lost an eye, another officer had two ribs broken. The officer who died was hit over the head with a fire extinguisher. Others were trampled.
- Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz have basically said that they would "do it again" i.e. tell lies and incite violence and that they have no regrets. To AOC, this indicates that they would put political expedience over the lives of their fellow Congresscritters.
This was a very well organized insurrection. The National Guard was told to stand down. The only saving grace is that the majority of the insurrectionists were not heavily armed. That would have been such a game changer.
Holding people accountable means presenting evidence that indicates guilt and having them serve time. I'm not going to say "presumed guilt" because they were on video. We know they were there, we saw what they did.
But holding people accountable also means looking at "the lie" that the election was rigged, looking at the perpetrators of that lie (Trump and others) and looking at how this lie led to insurrection. It was immoral and irresponsible. It was the work of an egomaniac sociopath - and he needs to be held accountable. People died.
We cannot just "move on" when people are dead, injured, traumatized. If we move on, we are diminishing what happened, we are diminishing the injuries, the trauma, the deaths. And we are saying that it was okay... and when we say that it was okay, we are saying that it is okay to try again.
It is very, very important that we hold Trump accountable. It is very very important that we hold Cruz and Hawley accountable. It is important that we identify those who did recon on the Capitol, telling the insurrectionists where to go - and we must hold them accountable.
We have a very awkward situation that is about to play out. The men and women who stormed the Capitol, by and large, will be tried in courts where the judge was appointed by Trump. I think they should recuse themselves. We have already seen a Trump judge allow one woman, after her arrest, to go down to Mexico for a retreat - she isn't a flight risk.
.This trial may last a while, or it may be very short. What is probably true is that the senators will vote based on their constituencies, and not based on the evidence. Because the evidence is damning. So, hope that the Republican constituents speak up, and tell their senators to hold Trump accountable. He needs to be convicted. He needs to lose the ability to run again.
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Well said! 
...had a hand in the suicides. 
