Do you think Jan 6 rioters should have been “lashed to the muzzle of a twelve-pounder and fired out the window of the Capitol.”?

[goaded]

The Southern Gen. Winfield Scott said he would have done that to prevent people disrupting the election of Abraham Lincoln.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/opinion/capitol-protest-1861-lincoln.html

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https://archive.is/8lJRR

[normalice]

Nah. Just prison or, better, school would be enough. The point is to stop the behavior not punish for it.

[goaded]

Serious consequences for the Confederates or at least Nixon would have avoided all this.

[normalice]

Yes of course, for the leaders. But the foot soldiers were manipulated in one direction and so would be just as easily manipulated in the other direction.

[goaded]

Yeah, 20+ years for the seditionists is fair, the people who put them up to it should get worse, not pardons.

[msc545]

That seems a bit extreme and who would clean up the mess?

[goaded]

The same people who had to clean the shit off the walls, I imagine.

[milyjohn]

I agree with Chuck Schumer. January 6 was the worst thing that happened since the Civil War.

[bolverk]

No, but the members of the "Jan 6th Committee" should have, I'm watching it from outside the US, and have never seen anything so blatantly partisan in my life

[goaded]

Republicans were offered the chance to have 50-50 representation in an investigation and turned it down. At least a couple of Republicans lived up to their oaths of office.

[Drewtate]

No Pelosi for preventing the national guard from being deployed

[goaded]

You must know that's bullshit.

[OddBeMe]

I think they should have been exiled to the southern border and made to beg for citizenship.

[antelope51]

Can't read the article.

[goaded]

Sorry, update...

[antelope51]

Well, he didn't actually do it, but apparently the threat worked.

[goaded]

The insurrectionists didn't try to hide their intentions. Not like last time.

[exitseven]

most will die in prison which is worse.

[goaded]

I doubt it. 20-odd years for people in their 30s or 40s who were convicted of sedition. Months or a couple of years for most of them, at most.

[exitseven]

if Trump is not elected and pardons them all none of these people will ever see the light of day.

[goaded]

What are you talking about?

[msc545]

That is very dramatic.

[milyjohn]

When I get home, I’m going to try really hard to find a video. I saw on YouTube. Tucker Carlson had to sue to get these videos that the feds hid from us about January 6. Kind of makes you wonder why they hit them in the first place. Some British guy took the video and dubbed over it his narration. It was just dripping with sarcasm. At one point, one of the police led that ring leader with the horns on his head over to some brochures and offered him them. I’ve never been to an insurrection, but I would’ve liked to of gone to this one. I think they offered apple cider cupcakes to the guests.

[msc545]

@milyjohn I have been to demonstrations where the cops suddenly backed down and the reason (s) were not obvious. In talking to them later, they told me that they did that because they were terribly outnumbered and they didn't want to become victims of violence or shoot anyone.

THIS is what happened at the Capitol Jan 6.

[exitseven]

democrats are making an example of them. This is what happens if you do not tow the company line. You get sent to the gulag.