What I saw on Jan 6th

Posted on: December 26, 2024 at 16:51:50 CT

What I saw on Jan 6th TV coverage, and further video is the following. Am open to changing my mind on this given further information, so please feel free to enlighten me if anyone thinks there's something else I ought to consider. Mind you it's been some time since I've read much about the whole thing so maybe my memory fades.

I saw a lot of people who were upset with the election results, and given the news coverage of the same, I can understand why they might be. They were gathered with signs, and basically getting all riled up.

Some of them went inside the capitol building, walking through unlocked doors. The behavior of those inside varied broadly. Some were calm(ish), I remember seeing many walk through velvet ropes set up in an orderly fashion. One guy wore a viking hat and became famous for that and for propping his feet up on someone important's office desk.

It seemed like from what I saw there was not much of an attempt, if any, from security/police to keep these people out of the capitol building to begin with - after all, they went in through unlocked doors.

The behavior varied from calm to poor if not violent behavior (by some), but the capitol police was able to secure the building. One person, a member of the public, got shot somehow by a police officer. Others were probably hurt.

As far as insurrections go, I doubt anyone realistically felt that the sovereignity of the United States was in jeopardy or up in the air. Obviously a country with a military the size of the US could in short order secure its capitol building from a few hundred mostly harmless idiots with misplaced or misinformed intentions.

Later it turned out there was at least some participation in, if not involvement in orchestrating the whole affair by the FBI. I've read blurbs that seemed to indicate Nancy Pelosi seemed satisfied by the incident as it could be used to her political gain.

It also turned out that Twitter had oddly cut off outgoing president Trump at a time when calming messages from him, if they were to be had, would be useful.

In summary what I saw were a bunch of riled up Trump supporters behaving badly in a situation that later appeared to be tacitly approved of if not encouraged by their political opponents. The activity was never risky or dangerous to the continued sovereignity of the Unted States on a permanent basis and in any event I've not heard of a single instance where a so-called "insurrectionist" wielded a firearm. If such happened it happened to zero effect it seems.

I was told by the media that this was an insurrection and while I find the ordeal and the behavior of many involved abhorrent I do not find that it rises to that level.

What am I missing?