{"id":48281,"date":"2021-06-12T01:06:16","date_gmt":"2021-06-12T01:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48281"},"modified":"2021-06-12T01:06:16","modified_gmt":"2021-06-12T01:06:16","slug":"rioters-were-not-patriots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=48281","title":{"rendered":"Rioters were not ‘patriots’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By John Kanelis<\/strong> \/ johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n

This must be noted with extreme vigor.<\/p>\n

Whenever I see video of the Jan. 6 terrorist insurrection on the U.S. Capitol Building and hear mobsters declare themselves to be “patriots,” I want to scream at the top of my lungs.<\/p>\n

The rioters who sought to dismantle the governmental process of certifying a duly constituted, legal and fair election were not patriots in any incarnation of the word.<\/p>\n

I am a patriot. I pay my taxes. I follow the law. I have served my country in wartime. I am proud of my flag. I salute it appropriately. I am among many millions of Americans who consider themselves to be patriots. No one with whom I have any relationship ever would have done what the terrorists did on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n

They stormed into the Capitol Building. They beat police officers with flags. They crapped on the floor of the halls of government. They shouted “Hang Mike Pence!”<\/em> They posed physical threats to the leaders of our government.<\/p>\n

Those are the actions of patriots? Would a patriotic American ever behave in such a reprehensible manner?<\/p>\n

They were acting at the behest of a man who lost the 2020 presidential election. They were doing his bidding. Indeed, the ex-POTUS, the man who proclaimed his desire to put “America first,” instead put himself<\/em> first.<\/p>\n

They were patriots? They love the country? No. They do not. They detest the country and they deserve all the scorn that should come their way.<\/p>\n\n

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