Thursday, January 07, 2021

An abomination that should not stand

 

The perpetrators of the attempted violent takeover of the US Capitol and those who helped to commit this illegal act should be located, rounded up, indicted and prosecuted for sedition and many other crimes.

Moreover, the defense of the Capitol was anemic. Capitol defense MUST be dramatically enhanced. The present squatter in the Oval Office White House must be held to account for his being the prime motivator of the ugly rightwing extremist violence to the Capitol building everyone witnessed yesterday. He is a rogue president and should be removed via the 25th amendment post haste or by any other legal means necessary!

One can only imagine the assault that would have occurred on the Black Lives Matter movement if they had been the ones to storm the Capitol and invade the chambers of Congress. What happened yesterday and what was allowed to happen because of the ineffective protection of the US Capitol building and because Donald Trump, President of the United States, advocated seditious overthrow of a legal US presidential election by lying saying it was stolen when it was not and directing rightwing violent thugs to proceed to the Capitol building.  This is an abomination and should NOT stand!

Democratic Presidential Convention--On to November

  I watched the Democratic convention last evening until my body's demand for sleep overtook me around midnight.  Having followed thin...