Woman attacked at BLM-Antifa protest in New York

Prosecute Them

20210111 Shep as Author 

As soon as the smoke cleared after the riot at the Capitol, national commenters on the Right expressed their horror at what had happened.  By the next day, the Right's talking heads on radio and TV were calling for the rioters who entered the capitol to be prosecuted.  Of course the talking heads at CNN, ABC, NBC, CBS and MSNBC were demanding prosecution as well.

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Those calling for prosecution of the rioters on both sides are correct to do so.

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...although this was a shocking change in position for leftist apologists at all levels.

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Certainly the Tiffany media had very little to stay with regards to prosecuting those involved with CHAZ/CHOP.  I have never heard a word from the leftist media calling for the prosecution of those who murdered and lynched people in association with Frente BLM/ ANTIFA rallies.  Nor have I heard a single call for prosecution of those people who looted and destroyed the livelihood of thousands of  their brother Americans.  Perhaps, somewhere, in some muted voice, one, or a very few, of the columnist and national commenters on the Left have made weak appeals for returning to a civil society.  There absolutely was not the uniform, monolithic, on-target message that rioters should be prosecuted that we are hearing now.

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So, as an effort to bring our country back together, let's prosecute rioters.  All of them.  If someone murdered or was an accessory to murder at an ANTIFA/Frente BLM event, prosecute them.  The person who murdered Brian Sicknick should be prosecuted.  The person responsible for shooting Ashli Babbit should be prosecuted.  The ANTIFA thugs who used professional breaching tools to allow looters into locked spaces need to be prosecuted.  The Frente BLM/ANTIFA thugs responsible either as actors or accessories to murder, beatings, arson and looting all should be prosecuted.  If we are to come together as a country this must happen.  

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With prosecutions will come a greater knowledge of what actually happened.  If it turns out that the organized agitators who jacked up emotions once the march reached the capitol were members of some right wing group, go after that group as a terrorist organization.  If they were members of an ANTIFA cell, prosecute everyone in the cell.  Let's stop pretending we cannot pursue ANTIFA as a terrorist organization. 

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It is past time for the Democrat owned media to ask prosecutors why rioters in Kenosha, Minneapolis, Seattle, Portland and a dozen other cities were not prosecuted.  Their one-way outrage is wearing really thin.

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