{"id":52417,"date":"2022-07-28T21:21:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-28T21:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52417"},"modified":"2022-07-28T21:22:45","modified_gmt":"2022-07-28T21:22:45","slug":"it-was-no-mere-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=52417","title":{"rendered":"It was no mere ‘riot’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The more I see and hear from — and about — the 1\/6 House committee examining the insurrection, the more secure I feel about some of the command decisions I made regarding how I would communicate on the matter through this blog.<\/p>\n

What do I mean?<\/p>\n

What occurred on 1\/6 now looks for all the world like a premeditated attack on our nation’s governmental process.<\/p>\n

Thus, I do not refer to it as a “riot,” which by definition is a spontaneous event that erupts during a protest, which brings me to Point No. 2.<\/p>\n

I do not refer to that event as protest, nor do I refer to the mob who attacked the Capitol as protesters. The U.S. Constitution’s First Amendment refers to “the right of the people peaceably to assemble … ” The mobsters were traitors to the nation.<\/p>\n

There was nothing “peaceable” about what we witnessed that day.<\/p>\n

I long ago adopted the word “insurrection” to define on High Plains Blogger what occurred that day. A couple of critics have told me that no formal charge of insurrection has been filed against anyone. Testimony and eyewitness accounts of what transpired that day have confirmed — to my eyes, at least — that we did witness an insurrection.<\/p>\n

I say all this with a heavy heart. Spare me the criticism that I am crying “crocodile tears” over what transpired on 1\/6. It truly does pain me, as a red-blooded American patriot, to see this chapter being re-told in this fashion.<\/p>\n

It is an abject lesson we all must watch and heed, no matter how much it hurts.<\/p>\n

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The more I see and hear from — and about — the 1\/6 House committee examining the insurrection, the more secure I feel about some of the command decisions I made regarding how I would communicate on the matter through this blog. What do I mean? What occurred on 1\/6 now looks for all the … Continue reading It was no mere ‘riot’<\/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":[13],"tags":[1738,2280],"class_list":["post-52417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-first-amendment","tag-insurrection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52417","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=52417"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52419,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52417\/revisions\/52419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}