What I don't understand is all of the stories of the domestic terrorist over runing school board meetings and harassing election officials causing them to leave for their safety and nothing being done about it. In San Diego the DT ran out the school board and then took over. There were Police there and they did nothing. Why are the police doing nothing while citizens are being bullied? In Portland there was a situation that the Proud Boys had taken over streets and there is no one to stop them. No Police, no FBI, no National Guard. The only "punishment" they incurred is the business parking lot that they left there vehicles in had all of their vehicles towed. In Vancouver, WA the Proud Boys protested at and tried to enter the elementary schools. Three schools had to go into lock down...as if the kids haven't been through enough in the last 18 months. There were pictures of Police...standing, doing nothing in another parking lot. America seems so willing to fight terrorists in other countries but, and it's so sad, the government (City, State or Federal) won't do anything on our own soil. The power is being given to the domestic terrorist. This is what scares me the most.
Seeing Trump posing with the members of the NYPD & NYFD sickened me. When those who are charged with the care of citizens follow Trump, it just sickens me. Our future is in grave peril.
Thank you. It is disheartening to see our fellow Americans willing to blow the whole thing up over what? Racism? Trumpism? Is this really worth it to them? I guess so and how do we fight them?
In all honesty, sometimes I am literally at a loss for words in writing comments after essays or op eds that ring truth. This past weekend ignited the same stress as in the aftermath of 9/11. Looking back at Jan 6th, it is not quite the same anguish but certainly the same sadness. I, too, am grateful that the Biden administration is setting domestic terrorism as a priority.
"It would be an exaggeration to suggest that the January 6 attack on the Capitol matches the world-altering scale of 9/11 and the overwhelming sense of immediate danger that the shocking collapse of the Twin Towers provoked."
Oh, man, do I disagree. Our response to 9/11 was grotesquely over the top. It was a horrific attack, but it was asymmetric warfare at its finest. They were comparatively powerless and presented a very limited risk, but the attack was shocking and very telegenic. So we lost our minds and created the Patriot Act and AUMA and attacked Afghanistan (crazy) and Iraq (criminal). We tortured and destroyed and tried to nationbuild and lost our souls. But the attack itself? It didn't suggest a profound threat to our democracy - we did that to ourselves.
The 1/6 attack? This was an attack on who we are, and it represents a far deeper threat to the country. The fact that we won't take up arms against this threat, because it's white, not brown, makes it far more dangerous and far more likely to spell the end of America.
In thinking about the quote from GW Bush, I think we do better when we know better. It seems like the Bush Family is thinking better these days. I hope so. I like to think their daughters have had something to do with this.
What I don't understand is all of the stories of the domestic terrorist over runing school board meetings and harassing election officials causing them to leave for their safety and nothing being done about it. In San Diego the DT ran out the school board and then took over. There were Police there and they did nothing. Why are the police doing nothing while citizens are being bullied? In Portland there was a situation that the Proud Boys had taken over streets and there is no one to stop them. No Police, no FBI, no National Guard. The only "punishment" they incurred is the business parking lot that they left there vehicles in had all of their vehicles towed. In Vancouver, WA the Proud Boys protested at and tried to enter the elementary schools. Three schools had to go into lock down...as if the kids haven't been through enough in the last 18 months. There were pictures of Police...standing, doing nothing in another parking lot. America seems so willing to fight terrorists in other countries but, and it's so sad, the government (City, State or Federal) won't do anything on our own soil. The power is being given to the domestic terrorist. This is what scares me the most.
9/11 was an assault on our economic system.
1/6 was an assault on our democratic constitutional republic.
Neither one can be allowed to go unpunished.
Seeing Trump posing with the members of the NYPD & NYFD sickened me. When those who are charged with the care of citizens follow Trump, it just sickens me. Our future is in grave peril.
Agree, thanks my daily dose of sanity
Dubya was misunderestimated... Thanks 4 giving emphasis to his Truth
If we don't save our Democracy, no one can or will. The time to Act is *now*
Thank you. It is disheartening to see our fellow Americans willing to blow the whole thing up over what? Racism? Trumpism? Is this really worth it to them? I guess so and how do we fight them?
In all honesty, sometimes I am literally at a loss for words in writing comments after essays or op eds that ring truth. This past weekend ignited the same stress as in the aftermath of 9/11. Looking back at Jan 6th, it is not quite the same anguish but certainly the same sadness. I, too, am grateful that the Biden administration is setting domestic terrorism as a priority.
"It would be an exaggeration to suggest that the January 6 attack on the Capitol matches the world-altering scale of 9/11 and the overwhelming sense of immediate danger that the shocking collapse of the Twin Towers provoked."
Oh, man, do I disagree. Our response to 9/11 was grotesquely over the top. It was a horrific attack, but it was asymmetric warfare at its finest. They were comparatively powerless and presented a very limited risk, but the attack was shocking and very telegenic. So we lost our minds and created the Patriot Act and AUMA and attacked Afghanistan (crazy) and Iraq (criminal). We tortured and destroyed and tried to nationbuild and lost our souls. But the attack itself? It didn't suggest a profound threat to our democracy - we did that to ourselves.
The 1/6 attack? This was an attack on who we are, and it represents a far deeper threat to the country. The fact that we won't take up arms against this threat, because it's white, not brown, makes it far more dangerous and far more likely to spell the end of America.
I am glad of Bush’s comments. I hope they are quoted everywhere and continuously. That will help all of us confront this foul stench of treason.
In thinking about the quote from GW Bush, I think we do better when we know better. It seems like the Bush Family is thinking better these days. I hope so. I like to think their daughters have had something to do with this.