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Anti-government sentiment has long been with us (no surprise for a country founded in revolution), but political violence is its most dangerous expression.
Anti-government sentiment has long been with us (no surprise for a country founded in revolution), but political violence is its most dangerous expression.
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Bundyland Two devout Mormon brothers have created a fantasy camp for commandos in Eastern Oregon. On the sixth day of the Harney County siege, a mother and two children visited Ammon Bundy. To pray. The three walked past a silver pickup truck blocking the snowy road, past the three armed guards huddled around a campfire they had built alongside a barricade, and past the TV satellite trucks and a handful of reporters who were waiting for breaking news or the next staging of a press conference.
What would happen had the Capitol rioters been Black?
09 Jan 2021
The Independent
I said this would happen. I knew that Trump’s dog-whistling rally speeches would incite actual, en masse violence if they continued unchecked. During the count of the Electoral College votes for the 2020 presidential election, “protesters” broke through barricades and went into the Capitol building after a “Save America” march presided over by our president.
To make this more clear: Armed, white domestic terrorists stormed into a federal building where elected officials were conducting business. Guns were drawn. One person was shot. Congressmen and women were evacuated from the building and taken into secure locations. Then these insurgents sat down in the chamber and waved flags. Others continued to stand outside on the steps and take photos, some even getting selfies with police officers. They proclaimed their intent to stay in the Capitol building overnight and prevent Pre