The quote from Lincoln is appropriate. I believe the people who committed crimes on January 6th should be punished for them, but that it should be only condign punishment, not something harsher because of their politics. I think most of them should be treated leniently. The poor suckers were acting under the orders of the President of th…
The quote from Lincoln is appropriate. I believe the people who committed crimes on January 6th should be punished for them, but that it should be only condign punishment, not something harsher because of their politics. I think most of them should be treated leniently. The poor suckers were acting under the orders of the President of the United States who told them that they had to take action to save their country from a horrible miscarriage of justice. (They shouldn’t have believed the scoundrel of course, and it is hard for those who have no use for Trump to understand why they did. It might help to imagine a president one thought better of, say for Dems Obama, calling on supporters to take to the streets to save the country. A lot of people probably would obey without a lot of careful thought on the matter, just because a president they trusted asked.) The real and dangerous criminal and enemy of the republic in this is Trump, not the Proud Boys or the guy in the buffalo horns, or any of the others at the Capitol. He planned a rally which could have had no other purpose in that place on that date than to challenge or interfere with the business of the day. He sent the rioters to the Capitol and approved of their actions. He schemed for days after December 14th to remain in power illegally and on January 6th ordered Pence to overturn the election and the government. He is the one with clear guilt and no excuse who should be facing harsh justice. I hope he gets a little of what he deserves. I realize that it would be impractical (and unfair to the secret service) to send a former president to the slammer, but he surely should live the rest of his life as a convicted criminal, barred from seeking any office or even voting.
The quote from Lincoln is appropriate. I believe the people who committed crimes on January 6th should be punished for them, but that it should be only condign punishment, not something harsher because of their politics. I think most of them should be treated leniently. The poor suckers were acting under the orders of the President of the United States who told them that they had to take action to save their country from a horrible miscarriage of justice. (They shouldn’t have believed the scoundrel of course, and it is hard for those who have no use for Trump to understand why they did. It might help to imagine a president one thought better of, say for Dems Obama, calling on supporters to take to the streets to save the country. A lot of people probably would obey without a lot of careful thought on the matter, just because a president they trusted asked.) The real and dangerous criminal and enemy of the republic in this is Trump, not the Proud Boys or the guy in the buffalo horns, or any of the others at the Capitol. He planned a rally which could have had no other purpose in that place on that date than to challenge or interfere with the business of the day. He sent the rioters to the Capitol and approved of their actions. He schemed for days after December 14th to remain in power illegally and on January 6th ordered Pence to overturn the election and the government. He is the one with clear guilt and no excuse who should be facing harsh justice. I hope he gets a little of what he deserves. I realize that it would be impractical (and unfair to the secret service) to send a former president to the slammer, but he surely should live the rest of his life as a convicted criminal, barred from seeking any office or even voting.