As the anniversary of the January 6, 2021 Capitol protests, which democrats call a “deadly insurrection,” approaches liberals are still trying to convince people it was something other than some knuckleheads wandering harmlessly around the Capitol building. The Washington Post is doing their part by hyping up all of the arrests and prosecutions that have taken place but the thing is, nobody was charged with insurrection or treason or anything related to an attempted overthrow of the government.
Democrats have spent the past year claiming that armed right-wing white supremacists came very close to destroying democracy. Meanwhile, the rest of the country literally couldn’t have cared less because because there’s tons of video of the “Capitol rioters” walking calmly through the Capitol building, police letting these people in, and a complete lack of death and destruction.
The Washington Post is fully invested in pushing the lie that January 6 was a near-extinction event so they published a list of all the “armed insurrectionist killers” who have been arrested and prosecuted:
Federal prosecutors in the District have charged more than 725 individuals with various crimes in connection with the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection, when hundreds of rioters forced their way into the U.S. Capitol, the U.S. attorney’s office said Friday.
As the country nears the first anniversary of the storming of the Capitol, the U.S. attorney’s office in the District, the largest office of federal prosecutors in the nation, released a breakdown of the arrests and convictions associated with the attack.
Prepared to be underwhelmed:
Of those arrested, 225 people were charged with assault or resisting arrest. More than 75 of those were charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon against police officers.
The office said about 10 individuals were charged with assaulting members of the media or destroying their equipment.
Some 640 people were charged with entering a restricted federal building or its grounds. And another 75 were charged with entering a restricted area with a deadly weapon.
Notice how they lump minor and serious charges together? It’s “assault or resisting arrest” and “assaulting members of the media or destroying their equipment.” It could be, and probably is, that one person did the really bad thing and the rest did the not-so-bad thing.
Also, there’s a lot of talk about using and carrying deadly weapons, but no one was arrested for using a gun or knife. No one was arrested for carrying a gun or knife. No guns or knives were confiscated on January 6 nor were any found in the Capitol or surrounding area. What gives?
Actually, The WaPo explains this by highlighting one person who was arrested and convicted:
In early December, Robert Scott Palmer, 54, of Largo, Fla., received the longest prison sentence to date among those convicted in the attack. A U.S. District Court judge sentenced him to more than five years in prison.
In October, Palmer pleaded guilty to resisting arrest and assaulting officers with a dangerous weapon. Prosecutors said Palmer broke into the Capitol building and, while inside, threw a wooden plank at police officers; then, they said, while he was on the front line of the riot, he sprayed police officers with a fire extinguisher…
So a wooden plank and monoammonium phosphate are deadly weapons? I guess you could beat someone to death with a wooden plank, but Palmer wasn’t charged with beating police officers with it, he threw it at them. Spraying a fire extinguisher however is only deadly to fires.
Missing from this list of arrests and prosecutions is anyone who did anything close to destroying democracy. Def-Con News has highlighted some of the prosecutions: One grandma and one registered democrat were convicted of illegal parading, whatever the f*ck that is. Neither of them got actual jail time because, like everyone in the Capitol on January 6, they didn’t commit any kind of serious offense.
If January 6 was a an armed deadly insurrection, where’s the arms, the death, or the insurrection? This list of arrests and prosecutions is the only evidence needed to prove democrats are completely full of shit when it comes to what actually happened that day.
