TillLindemann
Well-known member
Facts should matter when it comes to reporting, but with the Capitol protest, sorry 'terrorist insurrection', they do not.
I bet you heard the claim that some of the protestors at the Capitol had pipe bombs. As I posted on here, that turned out to be not true.
I bet everybody has also heard the story of a Capitol officer being beaten to death with a fire extinguisher?
This has also turned out to not be true either, as it turns out that "medical examiners didn't find any indication that the officer sustained any blunt force trauma. Investigators are reportedly considering a theory that Sicknick became ill after coming in contact with a chemical irritant, such as pepper spray, that was deployed in the crowd." He did not die at the Capitol, but later.
So as it stands, there is only one person that appears to have been deliberately killed, and that was an unarmed protestor being killed by an officer.
In one of the most heavily armed countries on earth (especially the case for far right types), the idea that the Capitol protestors turned up armed with flags, caps, and a few cans of capsicum spray to literally launching a coup should be laughable, but is now accepted fact.
Why do I care? Not because I agree with them, their claims about election theft were silly. But because for many years to come this mythologised narrative about the "attack on the Capitol" will be used to justify new laws and crackdowns on legitimate protest and expression, on the left and the right.
I bet you heard the claim that some of the protestors at the Capitol had pipe bombs. As I posted on here, that turned out to be not true.
I bet everybody has also heard the story of a Capitol officer being beaten to death with a fire extinguisher?
This has also turned out to not be true either, as it turns out that "medical examiners didn't find any indication that the officer sustained any blunt force trauma. Investigators are reportedly considering a theory that Sicknick became ill after coming in contact with a chemical irritant, such as pepper spray, that was deployed in the crowd." He did not die at the Capitol, but later.
So as it stands, there is only one person that appears to have been deliberately killed, and that was an unarmed protestor being killed by an officer.
In one of the most heavily armed countries on earth (especially the case for far right types), the idea that the Capitol protestors turned up armed with flags, caps, and a few cans of capsicum spray to literally launching a coup should be laughable, but is now accepted fact.
Why do I care? Not because I agree with them, their claims about election theft were silly. But because for many years to come this mythologised narrative about the "attack on the Capitol" will be used to justify new laws and crackdowns on legitimate protest and expression, on the left and the right.