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1. The people who were purely engaged in peaceful protests weren’t arrested.
When people like kamala harris actively raised bail, it was for the people who were not peacefully protesting.
2. As best as I can tell, there was no plot of a coup on Jan 6th. There were people who felt that there were still constitutional mechanisms which could reverse the vote and wanted to pressure Pence to do so (in addition to the many protesters who sinply wanted Congress to delay confirming until after investigating discrepancies.
They might have been wrong about the constitutional abilities to change anything, and they may have been wrong about the method of protesting.
But I haven’t heard any indication that the protesters, even had they gotten in to Congress, would have done anything other than force Congress to follow their mistaken approach to the confirmation. And this would then have gone to the supreme court who would have rejected it (assuming it really is unconstitutional).
They were wrong and acted improperly, based on a (probably) false narrative they believed.
But they weren’t coming to overthrow the government but rather to support the constitution (according to their mistaken approach).
This hardly a coup.
3. The BLM/Antifa riots were actually rejecting the government’s authority.
CHAZ was literally an autonomous zone set up as a rejection of the government’s authority. Federal buildings were attacked, federal statues (representing American history) were torn down,and law and order were rejected.
No one claimed the constitution allowed looting and destruction; they claimed they weren’t bound by the government since it was a corrupt system founded upon systemic racism and bigotry.
And this approach was not only not condemned, it was tolerated and even supported.
The senator who openly called for bailing out the violent priestess not only wasn’t censored, she was chosen as VP.
CHAZ was tolerated for a long time (I think 6weeks?) Before the crime there became so bad the government had to close it down.
Portland mayor’s house was torched in and arson attack, and his response was to apologize and leave the city.
And most of all, the msm kept gaslighting us by claiming that it was “mostly peaceful”, even as 10s of millions of Americans were forced into their homes under curfew. The riots caused billions of dollars in damages as well as hundreds of casualties and dozens of deaths. By all accounts that I’ve seen, tho was the most destructive riot in USA history.
And when Biden was asked about Antifa in the the debates, he claimed it was just an idea and not an organization.
Seemingly he was unaware that already in 2015 the FBI had already arrested people, identified and infiltrated cells, and had evidence of a set methodology communication and coordination between cells.
So the riots were not just some “hoodlums”.
There were multiple actors inciting active rebellion against the USA authority, on a scale never seen before in American history, with the support of members of government and the msm.
This to me is a lot more worrisome than some protesters who had a mistaken approach to the elections and felt they needed to act to save the constitution.