Like the way Clarence Thomas's wife made lists of people not loyal to Trump to be fired?
"Axios first reported that a "well-connected network of conservative activists" is drawing up lists of officials they perceive to be anti-Trump, who are then flagged to be fired and replaced with Trump loyalists."
https://www.axios.com/trump-memos-deep-state-white-house-ce5...
https://www.businessinsider.com/ginni-thomas-wife-supreme-co...
Seems to me a certain leader followed this same playbook circa 1939.
"Barr Told Prosecutors to Consider Sedition Charges for Protest Violence"
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/us/politics/william-barr-...
This is about the protests over the summer, not the recent insurrection. Yes, I'm calling it that. I think functionally it matters a bit more if the USAG is using words like "sedition" compared to media outlets or internet posters.
The white supremacist terrorists's goal yesterday was to prevent a formal certification process that's central to the transition of executive power. Many people were armed and prepared for violence: multiple IEDs were found, multiple people had body armor, multiple people had loaded firearms & extra ammunition, people brought a guillitine, people were shouting chants about killing senators & reps, multiple people had zip-ties or handcuffs. That is sedition.
Unlike BLM protestors, the terrorist's intent was a coup: they wanted to undermine a democracy's most important legal process. BLM wants to use legal means to revolutionize the country's public safety, primarily via re-allocating city and state police budgets to programs that have effective track records of increasing public safety and not ending in the murder of Black people.
Words start out with power - until they're overused to the point of banality and lose it.
The seditious mob injured 50 officers and killed one of them.
You should quit defending them. Stop with the "both-sidesisms". We can clearly point out which group is evil here.
There were many instances where protests got out of hand this summer and courthouses and police stations were destroyed; entire city blocks were taken over and those responsible enacted and enforced their own laws. The actions weren’t referred to as sedition and most media outlets avoided words like mob, treason, etc.
Of course, don’t take my statement to mean I condone ANY case of violence, rioting, property damage, etc. (And in all cases those responsible and those inciting violence should be held accountable) but being consistent and avoiding charged language when depicting civil unrest would go a long way to heal the country rather than to divide it.