The Swamp

Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:15 pm My sister who works for Senator Hirono has been locked in a bathroom with a couple of other staffers since this started.

They're fine, but a whole lot more than a little upset.

Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:13 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:02 pm

Hopefully she tweeted this after the IEDs were confirmed.

Whatever, man.

At a BLM protest here at the end of May, four guys burned a SLC police car.

I am not okay with that being considered terrorism. If you are, good for you.

duff wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:17 pm Each and everyone of them should be drug out of the Capital with their head hitting each step. Hopefully knocking their cosplay helmets off if they had one on. They are all ready brain damaged fucks. A little more head trauma won't hurt them. Like I said before, fuck them all. The need to be tried for treason or terrorism or whatever it is that will cause them to be executed by the federal government. This shit is so uncalled for. Hang 'em in the Mall, quarter them in the Mall. I don't really fucking care at this point. Just they all need to be executed, along with the Senators that publicly stated they were objecting. Fuck 'em.

(5) the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that--
(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended--
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States;

Johnnie wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:28 pm Seems like they were enabled.

Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:27 pm I'm not standing up for these assholes. I'm standing up for the people who protest police killings of black men but do so in a way that often leads to things like vandalism or theft or destruction of property. I'm standing up for the people who organize or speak at those events knowing that such terroristic violence is possible or likely. I'm standing up for the people who broke some windows at the county prosecutor's office here last summer. Or put red paint on some streets, buildings, and public installations.

Anyway, here is the federal criminal code definition of domestic terrorism. It requires acts dangerous to human life that are intended to intimidate or coerce a population or influence policy by intimidation or coercion.

(5) the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that--
(A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State;
(B) appear to be intended--
(i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population;
(ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or
(iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and
(C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States;

I don't think throwing a rock through the window of a Walmart, or a prosecutor's office, or the US Capitol counts. Or illegally entering the building.
Or causing damage once you are there.

Johnnie wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:28 pm Seems like they were enabled.

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:16 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:15 pm My sister who works for Senator Hirono has been locked in a bathroom with a couple of other staffers since this started.

They're fine, but a whole lot more than a little upset.

At least they don't have to designate a pee corner.

Johnnie wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 6:06 pm Literally within the last hour everyone's been pushed back and the Capitol seems to have been cleared. And the curfew is in effect.

All it took was a plus up of security forces with organization and it regained control.

Like, WTF. That easy, huh.

duff wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 6:14 pm Hopefully the party of law and order goes to full bore to prosecute every single person involved. Every single person.

The Sybian wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 6:20 pm It's a hell of a news day when nobody mentions that the Dems took back the Mother Fucking Senate today! Ossoff declared the winner. Looks like he is short of the automatic recount number so far, hopefully he can avoid that. I really didn't think this was possible. Thanks, Trump!

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Oct 23, 2019 11:43 am Getting close to testing that pretty terrifying military / law enforcement loyalty line.

BSF21 wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:18 pm

Steve of phpBB wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:13 pm

mister d wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 5:02 pm

Hopefully she tweeted this after the IEDs were confirmed.

Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 6:24 pm Okay, just spoke to my "inside source" who may or may not have been locked in a washroom in the Hart building all day...

Apparently, the Senators are not at an army base, they are somewhere near the Capital.

And apparently, Senators Cruz and Hawley got pulled out of the room and were told to knock it off by a couple of senior senators that might have included some ugly guy from Kentucky.

Off the record of course.

tennbengal wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 6:44 pm

Pruitt wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 6:24 pm Okay, just spoke to my "inside source" who may or may not have been locked in a washroom in the Hart building all day...

Apparently, the Senators are not at an army base, they are somewhere near the Capital.

And apparently, Senators Cruz and Hawley got pulled out of the room and were told to knock it off by a couple of senior senators that might have included some ugly guy from Kentucky.

Off the record of course.

Goddamn that's a fun visual. I hope something like it did indeed happen.

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 6:48 pm Pretty much anyone who objects to the electors when they reconvene is a major dick now, right?

P.D.X. wrote: ↑Wed Jan 06, 2021 6:48 pm Pretty much anyone who objects to the electors when they reconvene is a major dick now, right?