{"id":50838,"date":"2022-03-09T22:21:39","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T22:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50838"},"modified":"2022-03-09T22:21:39","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T22:21:39","slug":"riot-fills-me-with-rage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50838","title":{"rendered":"Riot fills me with rage"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Without fail, whenever I watch video or hear audio from the 1\/6 insurrection, my blood boils, my pulse quickens, my face gets a bit flushed, I get angry as hell at the perpetrators of that event.<\/p>\n<p>Every time.\u00a0<em>Every \u2026 single \u2026 time.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>So, when Wylie, Texas, resident Guy Reffitt got convicted this week of five felony charges stemming from his role in the treasonous act against our government, I got angry all over again. The news media showed me what that crowd of terrorists was doing.<\/p>\n<p>My anger only worsens when I hear sh** fly out of the mouth of those who defend nimrods like Reffitt. His wife is one of them. She said the Justice Department is trying merely to make an example of her husband. What utter crap!<\/p>\n<p>Guy Reffitt made an example of himself. The moron didn\u2019t need DOJ\u2019s help in that regard. He recorded his own participation in the riot. We have audio and visual proof of the things he said and did on that horrendous day.<\/p>\n<p>And then for Republican members of Congress to suggest that they were engaged in \u201clegitimate political discourse\u201d offends me beyond any measure. They are causing the founding fathers to spin in their graves. The First Amendment, I hasten to note, mentions \u201cthe right of the people peaceably to assemble \u2026 \u201d<\/p>\n<p>Was there anything \u201cpeaceable\u201d about that riot? Nope. It was a violent act of treason.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"mailto:johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com\">johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without fail, whenever I watch video or hear audio from the 1\/6 insurrection, my blood boils, my pulse quickens, my face gets a bit flushed, I get angry as hell at the perpetrators of that event. Every time.\u00a0Every \u2026 single \u2026 time. So, when Wylie, Texas, resident Guy Reffitt got convicted this week of five &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=50838\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Riot fills me with rage<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[9,13],"tags":[9593,2280,4899],"class_list":["post-50838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","category-national-news","tag-dc-riot","tag-insurrection","tag-treason"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50838","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=50838"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50839,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50838\/revisions\/50839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}