UPDATE JUNE 25, 2022: Roe, Roe, Roe your boat, gently against the violent stream of media hypocrisy – and then try to Wade out of the river of disinformation when your boat capsizes: Once again – demonstrators angry at the outcome of the democratic process are violently rampaging across America, holding lawmakers hostage, and attacking both people and property. These are clearly insurrectionists bent on overturning the democratic process and institutions and will be both prosecuted and investigated to the maximum extent of the law by the Democrat party.
OOOOOPPS! Sorry – nothing to see here – -these folks are on Team Blue. They are actually freedom fighters and social justice champions standing up for a woman’s right to abort children – even if they are in the final trimester and completely healthy and totally viable! As before – money is already being collected to bail them out by social justice champions nationwide. There is absolutely nothing to get upset about and certainly no double-standard in how the press and people on the left view this violence!
ORIGINAL POST FROM JANUARY 2021…
Just recently, a shocking mob attack on the very seat of American government shook the world to its core and led to outcries of “sedition” and “insurrection.”
Only it didn’t…
On May 31, 2020, what started as a largely peaceful demonstration at the White House was utilized by a subset of violent rioters to attack the White House grounds, breach barriers around the building, assault Secret Service officers with rocks, bricks, fireworks, ice-filled bottles and other projectiles, and attempt to gain entry into the building itself. The attacks, were so serious in fact, that numerous officers were injured and the Secret Service felt compelled to move the President and his family to an underground bunker. That same night, rioters assaulted members of the media and set fire to St. John’s Episcopal Church across the street.
In the aftermath, President Trump was mocked as a “bunker boy” and a coward who “hid” from demonstrators – even though the decision to move him lay solely with the Secret Service, which felt itself under assault to a degree that compelled it to take the decision.
Critics of the President insisted the protests were “peaceful.” Widespread collection efforts to bail out those arrested began in earnest. Violent rioters who attempted to breach White House grounds were held up as heroes of social justice. Few to none on the left or in the Democrat party condemned the violence. On the contrary, many celebrated it and shouted “Defund the Police” for good measure.
The fact is that, in both the White House and Capitol demonstrations, the majority of the demonstrators were peaceful and had no intention of trespassing, rioting or committing acts of violence. In both instances, a subset of hard-core, militant activists took advantage of the chaos to launch a direct assault on an iconic building hosting a major branch of American government. In both instances, people with poor judgement joined the militant factions and enflamed the situation further.
There are two primary differences between the White House and Capitol riots:
- The first is that the Capitol Police (unlike the Secret Service in late May) were unable to keep rioters from gaining entry into an iconic center of American government. Why they were this woefully unprepared is not entirely clear. Unfortunately this ended up costing at least five people, including a heroic police officer and an unarmed veteran, their lives. (What may have contributed to the more lax posture of the Capitol Police is the fact that, unlike left-wing demonstrations, demonstrations attended by Trump supporters seldom if ever descend into organized violence sparked by cadres of highly organized cells versed in the tactics of mayhem – speak ANTIFA.)
- The second difference is that – in an incredible feat of hypocrisy – the same people who once lauded the violent ANTIFA and BLM rioters as civil rights champions – and reassured Americas that ANTIFA is “just an idea” – are now shrilly condemning Pro-Trump demonstrators and rioters as traitors and seditionists and painting them all with the same, broad brush. In the process, they are willfully overlooking the fact that – by condoning and downplaying earlier, widespread political violence – they directly contributed to an environment in which political violence is now more normalized. They are also refusing to recognize that – just as with the White House demonstrators, the overwhelming majority of pro-Trump supporters were peaceful, and only a violent minority lit the fuse that led to the tragic events at the Capitol.
The bottom line is this: Anyone who assaults police and assaults American political institutions – in the name of any political cause, whether in Portland or Seattle or Minneapolis or Washington, DC – ought to be condemned and prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Period. No exceptions.
Democrats and leftists who now suddenly selectively apply this principal after months of violence, looting, arson and mayhem – simply because Team Red is the culprit – are engaging in a dangerous and nakedly partisan double-standard that is both divisive and enabling to violent thugs.
You can’t turn a blind eye to weeks of assaults on federal officers defending a federal courthouse in Portland, night-after-night, or call the occupation of an entire quarter of Seattle by violent anarchists “the summer of love” – and then credibly call-out people engaged in violence on the other side.
Double-standards of this magnitude don’t only kill your credibility, they end up killing real people.
