Was the January 6 Riot an Armed Insurrection?
October 19, 2021 | District of Columbia
Commentary. The prevailing narrative of the January 6 riot is that it was an “armed insurrection.” Since that day, congressional Democrats and their media mouthpieces have clung desperately to this description, lest the American people begin to yawn at all the fuss they’re making over it. The FBI, unhelpfully, calls it an act of “domestic terrorism.” Actually, the events of January 6 are more accurately described as a political protest that got out of hand.
About 670 people have been charged, many of them with misdemeanors such as “Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building.” Yet, the FBI calls it an act of domestic terrorism. Of the cases involving weapons, there are four main charges: “Assaulting, Resisting, or Impeding Certain Officers Using a Dangerous Weapon”; “Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon”; “Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon”; and “Engaging in Physical Violence in a Restricted Building with a Deadly or Dangerous Weapon.” The “weapon” was that age-old instrument of death and destruction, the flagpole…. (Excerpts from the Patriot Post)
