Here's how tough it was to stop an "insurrection." Just ask them politely to leave.

NEW: Body-worn camera footage of police clearing the Senate chamber on Jan. 6.

Was introduced as evidence at Jacob Chansley's sentencing. A judge ordered it released after a request from the media coalition, and it was posted today: pic.twitter.com/Y9IwStEjWS

— Ryan J. Reilly (@ryanjreilly) March 13, 2023

This....is....EPIC!
🤣🤣🤣 https://t.co/PdRQdguXJa

— Jason Robertson (@JRobFromMN) March 8, 2023

Capitol Police: Ashli Babbitt Shooting Was Lawful - So Was Anne Frank's Killing

BLM burned down a Minneapolis police station and set cops cars on fire. This is what you call an insurrection but the FBI didn’t investigate this or arrest anyone. Ashli Babbitt was murdered for being at the Capitol and others went to jail for just being there. pic.twitter.com/IEhNt72Tan

— Terrence K. Williams (@w_terrence) August 21, 2021

How Conservatives Riot

 

Kicking it up a notch

 So, it looks like, in 2021, after the craziness of 2020, the craziness is being kicked up a notch. Where a president speaking to his supporters at a rally is now an impeachable offense, and a guy taking selfies in the Speaker's chair is the gravest threat to democracy since-- oh, I don't know, maybe since the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor, and the 25th amendment must be invoked RIGHT NOW and Trump must be impeached RIGHT NOW even though he's only got two weeks left in his term of office. We haven't just lost our minds, we've put them in a weighted canvas bag, taken them out into the Pacific and dropped them into the Marianas Trench.

I don't mean to minimize the violence, especially not against that poor woman who was shot at point-blank range by a Capitol police officer, but after a summer of burning cities, looting businesses, toppling monuments, widespread vandalism, and billions of dollars of property damage, this all sounds like an immense overreaction. I mean, seriously, the Democrats are running around with their hair on fire calling the protests a "coup" and an "insurrection", an "invasion" and "an attempt to overthrow the government" ???. Like the crowd was going to set up some guy wearing buffalo cosplay as the country's new CEO. Yes, windows were broken and offices were trespassed. But the media were all like "something like this has NEVER happened EVER BEFORE", conveniently forgetting the 1954 U.S. Capitol terrorist attack by a group of Puerto Rican separatists who shot up the House of Representatives. Or, even more recently, when dozens of anti-Kavanaugh protestors "invaded" (what a great word that is) one of the Senate office buildings with nary a peep of alarm by the Democrat-media complex.

And they've been very busy on social media today, frantically carving out exceptions for themselves to the "protests are bad" rule they are insisting they have always upheld. This is different, they say. This is an attempt to overthrow the government. Conveniently forgetting that overthrowing the government is antifa's explicit raison d'etre. Donald Trump incited these riots, say they. Conveniently forgetting to explain what he actually said that incited the protestors, turning them into rioters.

And this is a tired joke, but I'm going to say it anyway: given the immense size of the crowd (a million?) and the tiny number (50-100, I think) of protesters who actually broke into the building, why can't we classify Wednesday's rally as "mostly peaceful"? Especially since, at the end of the day, pretty much everybody simply went home. That was the supposed "coup"? That was the attempt to "take over" the government? Are you freaking kidding me? If that was the plan, then whoever plotted the coup was real bad at it.

Remember this?

VS. this:

Oh My, Look At This Fearsome "Insurrection":

Dems: The Antifa Party (This is not the first time Republican presidents have had to deal with terrorist-supporting Democrats. It probably won’t be the last.)

— “These soldiers are disregarding and overriding the elementary rights of American citizens by applying tactics which must have been copied from the manual issued the officers of Hitler’s storm troopers.”

— The president is substituting “military dictatorship for the Constitution of the United States.”

— “My fellow citizens, we are now an occupied territory.”

All this because, after 50 days of raging violence, President Trump has finally sent federal agents to restore order in Portland, Oregon.

No — wait. Different Democrats and different president.

Although all those quotes are indeed from Democrats about a Republican president, it wasn’t Trump. They were Democrats Richard Russell, George Wallace and Orval Faubus, denouncing President Dwight Eisenhower for sending troops to enforce desegregation at a schoolhouse in Little Rock, Arkansas.

From the Wall Street Journal" "Anarchy Breaks Out in Portland, With the Mayor’s Blessing"

Portland, Ore.

Along the trolley tracks behind the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office, a biohazard cleanup crew works under police protection. It finds used needles and buckets of human waste simmering in nearly 100-degree heat. The smell of urine and feces fills the block. For more than five weeks, as many as 200 people had occupied the site to demand ICE’s immediate abolition. They’re gone now, but a community is left reeling. Thirty-eight days of government-sanctioned anarchy will do that.

A mob surrounded ICE’s office in Southwest Portland June 19. They barricaded the exits and blocked the driveway. They sent “guards” to patrol the doors, trapping workers inside. At night they laid on the street, stopping traffic at a critical junction near a hospital. Police stayed away. “At this time I am denying your request for additional resources,” the Portland Police Bureau’s deputy chief, Robert Day, wrote to federal officers pleading for help. Hours later, the remaining ICE workers were finally evacuated by a small federal police team. The facility shut down for more than a week.

...

Where were the police? Ordered away by Democratic Mayor Ted Wheeler, who doubles as police commissioner. “I do not want the @PortlandPolice to be engaged or sucked into a conflict, particularly from a federal agency that I believe is on the wrong track,” he tweeted. “If [ICE is] looking for a bailout from this mayor, they are looking in the wrong place.”

The mob set up camp behind the building, where they harassed journalists and banned photography. The open-borders advocates also erected an 8-foot wall around their site. I walked through and saw young children, including infants, in squalid conditions and 90-degree heat. Every American flag was defaced. Anarchist and communist flags were unsoiled.

This is what the beginning of Civil War looks like.

'All about power and leverage' -- feds shut down major roadway, block access to graveyard

Folks who live in the Great Smoky Mountains have just about reached their breaking point with the federal government.

“It’s almost like they are pushing to see how far they can push before the American people say enough is enough,” said Ed Mitchell, the mayor of Blount County, Tenn. “We were founded on a declaration of independence. And they are about to push the people to the line again.”

Nearly a third of Blount County is inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. So when the federal government shut down the park, it also shut down one of the area’s chief sources of revenue.

The National Park Service also closed the Foothills Parkway, a major thoroughfare in the county. The closure came without warning and left the local school district scrambling to get children back to their homes.

At what point do you say to heck with the feds?

The children live in the eastern Tennessee community of Top of the World – serviced by School Bus 49. Normally, the bus travels along the Foothills Parkway. Other roads leading to the isolated mountain community are impassible by bus.

Democrats who want kids with cancer to die, like Harry Reid, don't care if your kids get killed on a school bus.  This may be the point where there are a lot of local insurrections.

It’s gotten to the point where Mayor Mitchell said Americans are ready to start fighting back.

“It’s almost like they are pushing to see how far they can push before the American people say enough is enough,” he said.

They almost crossed that line in Blount County.

The mayor sent a letter to the Department of Interior and copied the area’s congressional delegation. The letter detailed a plan that would allow the local government to take control of the park until the federal shutdown ended.

“We were willing to open that park up at no cost to the federal government,” he said. “We worked out a plan. That park could be running today just as efficiently as if the federal government had it up and running.”

He never heard back from the feds or his state’s congressional delegation.

This is a perfect time for the Tea Party to show up.

Ariz. to trim voting if citizenship proof lacking

Federal over-reach is resulting in lots of little insurrections.  What can a dictator do when the people are no longer afraid?  The Tea Party has shown the way.