Selfie party, err “insurrection” 1 year anniversary!

Golfman et al.,
Like the ongoing COVID news and Stop The Steal news and news about the insurrection, I have almost completely stopped watching/reading about it. I find most of it very repetitive and boring so I just choose not to read or watch it. That's why I was not aware of who Ray Epps is until I read an article in today's newspaper. My bad.

As to the US code you quoted above, you are correct. Being a local LEO, not a federal LEO, we only enforced state and local laws. None of those state and local laws have any mention of insurrection. I guess I should have checked the federal statutes to see if there was anything in there.

Again, my bad.
 
Golfman et al.,
Like the ongoing COVID news and Stop The Steal news and news about the insurrection, I have almost completely stopped watching/reading about it. I find most of it very repetitive and boring so I just choose not to read or watch it. That's why I was not aware of who Ray Epps is until I read an article in today's newspaper. My bad.

As to the US code you quoted above, you are correct. Being a local LEO, not a federal LEO, we only enforced state and local laws. None of those state and local laws have any mention of insurrection. I guess I should have checked the federal statutes to see if there was anything in there.

Again, my bad.
No problem. But that's kind of the problem. The media is just talking to hear themselves talk. There is no investigative journalism, no critical thinking, no curiosity. It's just regurgitating the narrative. One day this will all be a book and a movie -- things will be revealed that will shock us all. :)
 
I'd like to clear up something I posted- I have no problem with people that beat up the Capitol Police and broke windows and smashed shit being charged with crimes, that wasn't right. I was trying to point out that many people walked in open doors that were being held that way by Police were charged with the same crimes. That I take issue with. Not everyone but the guys that didn't break shit and assault the police should not have been charged with anything.
 
I'd like to clear up something I posted- I have no problem with people that beat up the Capitol Police and broke windows and smashed shit being charged with crimes, that wasn't right. I was trying to point out that many people walked in open doors that were being held that way by Police were charged with the same crimes. That I take issue with. Not everyone but the guys that didn't break shit and assault the police should not have been charged with anything.
If you watch many of the videos (NOT the ones the media keeps replaying), then you can see hundreds and hundreds of folks being waved up to the Capitol by "organizing" folks (ones, like Ray Epps, who have never been charged). Those folks also removed many of the barriers that would/should have been in the way. Most of the folks probably had NO CLUE they were in violation of anything. BUT, just to be clear, I'll echo the comment that was just posted, as I FULLY AGREE with this: "I have no problem with people that beat up the Capitol Police and broke windows and smashed shit being charged with crimes, that wasn't right. "

We're just not being told the WHOLE story. Where's Paul Harvey when you really need him?? :)
 
.... As to the US code you quoted above, you are correct. Being a local LEO, not a federal LEO, we only enforced state and local laws. None of those state and local laws have any mention of insurrection. I guess I should have checked the federal statutes to see if there was anything in there.
So, now that you know there is Federal Law that covers something like an "insurrection" and it's the feds (FBI and Justice Department) that have been investigating and charging folks, aren't you the least bit curious/befuddled/inquisitive why not a single person has been charged with such a crime, especially since the prosecutors could just plea it down to just about anything else? (that would actually prevent them from needing to prove there was an "insurrection" too)
 
km, from a prosecutor's standpoint, he must make the decision to charge a crime he believes he can win in court. Trespass or Criminal Mischief would be a LOT easier to get a conviction on than, say, Insurrection.

So no, I'm not the least bit curious why nobody has been charged with Insurrection. The prison sentence could be about the same for both crimes and the easy way out would be to convict a person for a "lesser but included" crime.

Having sat through countless "Let's Make A Deal" negotiations between prosecutors and defense attorneys I know well how that system works.
 
Well the media has succeeded. Everyone is talking about the insurrectionists.

Nobody is talking about the set up.

I’m not all-that or up-in-arms about whatever happened. Anyone that thinks “…our Democracy was attacked…” is a moron.

The government was not at risk. That’s fake news to feed the sheeple.

I guess we know how the English felt now.
 
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km, from a prosecutor's standpoint, he must make the decision to charge a crime he believes he can win in court. Trespass or Criminal Mischief would be a LOT easier to get a conviction on than, say, Insurrection. ....
Then it's pretty simple. If no one could be charged or convicted for an insurrection, then there wasn't any insurrection.

Call it a bunch of other things... a riot, an attack, or whatever. But it just wasn't an insurrection.
 
km, you and I are going to have to agree to disagree on this one. But, hey, isn't that what life is all about? :cool:

Mike
 
MARCO RUBIO: “I don't care how many candlelight vigils and musical performances you have from the cast of Hamilton, you're not going to convince most normal and sane people that our gov’t last year was almost overthrown by a guy wearing a Viking hat and Speedos.”
 

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