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A critic of this blog recently suggested in response to a post I made that I was equating the events of 1\/6 to 9\/11. I feel the need to respond to him publicly with another post setting the record straight for those who might believe the same thing as my critic.<\/p>\n

For the record \u2026<\/p>\n

I never have suggested that that Jan. 6 insurrection\/riot rose to the level of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack on this nation. 9\/11 will stand alone as a heinous and horrific attack that killed thousands of innocent people from all walks of life, from many nations; they were young and old. We went to war against the terrorists who planned the attack and have killed many of the villains along the way \u2014 including the mastermind Osama bin Laden.<\/p>\n

The 1\/6 attack on our democracy was an attack of an entirely different type. It was an act of what I consider to be domestic terrorism. It was provoked by the then president of the United States, who encouraged the angry mob to \u201ctake back our government.\u201d From whom remains a mystery.<\/p>\n

The mob smashed into our Capitol Building; some of the mobsters were carrying \u201cHang Mike Pence!\u201d signs in a direct threat to the vice president of the United States. VP Pence was presiding at that moment over a congressional certification of the 2020 Electoral College vote count that produced a victory for Joe Biden over Donald Trump.<\/p>\n

Trump would have none of it. He continues to this very moment to foment The Big Lie about a phony rash of \u201cwidespread vote fraud\u201d that produced a victory for President Biden.<\/p>\n

My aforementioned critic doesn\u2019t like that I refer to the riot on that day as \u201c1\/6,\u201d suggesting that doing so elevates that event to the same degree of violence as 9\/11.<\/p>\n

It does nothing of the sort!<\/em><\/p>\n

My reference to 1\/6 only establishes that event as a singular and dastardly attack on our system of government.<\/p>\n

Furthermore, I will continue to refer to it in that fashion for as long as I damn well feel like it.<\/p>\n

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A critic of this blog recently suggested in response to a post I made that I was equating the events of 1\/6 to 9\/11. I feel the need to respond to him publicly with another post setting the record straight for those who might believe the same thing as my critic. For the record \u2026 … Continue reading 1\/6 is no 9\/11, but still …<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9596],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dc-riot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49982"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49985,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49982\/revisions\/49985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}