{"id":51961,"date":"2022-06-17T02:11:16","date_gmt":"2022-06-17T02:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51961"},"modified":"2022-06-17T02:11:16","modified_gmt":"2022-06-17T02:11:16","slug":"1-6-was-no-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=51961","title":{"rendered":"1\/6 was no ‘riot’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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I have just made a command decision on how I intend to use this blog. So … here goes.<\/p>\n

From this moment forward, I am not going to refer to the 1\/6 assault on Capitol Hill as a “riot.” I am now convinced beyond any sort of reasonable doubt that the events of that terrible day were orchestrated and planned in advance.<\/p>\n

Thus, the term “riot,” which suggests a spontaneous eruption of violence, is no longer the term of art I shall use to describe what occurred.<\/p>\n

I’ll use other nouns to describe the attack on our democracy. Assault and attack come immediately to mind.<\/p>\n

Long ago, I determined the Capitol Hill assault was an insurrection against the democratic process. I made that determination even though no one has been charged formally — not yet anyway — with committing an insurrection. But it was … an insurrection.<\/p>\n

To refer to that event as a “riot” demeans it. It reduces its significance to something less than what the assailants wanted to accomplish. They threatened to kill Vice President Pence and House Speaker Pelosi. Donald Trump said a day or two before the event that it will be “wild.” He knew what was coming!<\/p>\n

It was a planned event! Therefore, I am going to forgo terminology that — to my mind — lessens the importance of what happened that day on Capitol Hill.<\/p>\n

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