This...is sarcastic, right?
Fuck that. I don't go in for labels for myself or anyone else, but I am an Environmentalist to some degree...and if these were tree-hugging hippies breaking in to protest the use of so much wood in the Capitol I'd be saying the same exact thing. You don't breaking in--armed in some cases--to the place where Congress meets when Congress is meeting. As far as I'm concerned, anyone doing so--BLM, antifa, Santa Clause, these Coup Klux Klan members, anybody--should rightly have been repelled by force before getting inside. I'm pretty anti-cop but this is pretty damn far from harassing some dude on the street--a mob is a dangerous thing, and a large mob broke in with various degrees of bad intent. People in a mob do things that they wouldn't do otherwise.
What if these were a Chinese/Iranian/<insert bad guy> army platoon? Do we still let them waltz in to where Congress is meeting and say, ah well no harm no foul!
They should have the damn book thrown at them. And again, if this was some liberal mob protesting Trump's 2016 win--which I do think was Russian-aided--I'd be saying the same thing. Lock them the hell up, you can't go taking over the most important building in the country.
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