Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook

Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by gwright on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @12:21AM (#25842839)

I don't understand the need to rank violent events. Outrage against these violent events isn't a zero sum game that requires us to pick and choose between them.

Vandalism, trespassing, arson, assault, and so on can and should be prosecuted because they are crimes. Full stop. The ideological motivation of the perpetrators should be irrelevant with respect to prosecuting the crimes.

I do realize that the impact and repercussions of the events is certainly a point for debate, but that seems orthogonal to the immediate and critical goal of keeping the peace.

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Re:Capitol Attack Was Months in the Making on Facebook by jjoonathan on Wednesday January 20, 2021 @10:59AM (#25847951)

It's not about "ranking events" or some nonsense, it's about making sure everything that should be prosecuted gets prosecuted. The right desperately wants to focus on

> Vandalism, trespassing, arson, assault

, which BLM and the Capitol Riots had in common, to distract from the attempt to overturn the election of the President of the United States of America, which they did not have in common.

All of it should be prosecuted. Both the parts they had in common and the parts they did not.

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