Fascinating juxtaposition of Trumpsters inserting themselves into the Capitol building with other stories/factoids such as Broebert from CO claiming her "right" to carry a firearm in the Capitol Building (1967 ruling allows for that?) but also implying she was going to swagger around DC with it in spite of their very restrictive rules:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_the_District_of_Columbia https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/boebert-capitol-guns/2021/01/04/a59f70f8-4e9d-11eb-83e3-322644d82356_story.html I'm surprised that the Capitol Police (tactically/emotionally?) were not prepared to prevent/repel this kind of intrusion. While most news outlets describe the events to the moment as "peaceful", I suspect that if they had been more strongly resisted/repelled, the illusion of peace (forcing yourselves past a security checkpoint is a sort of violence even if law enforcement don't choose to assert *their* franchise on violence to prevent that) would have evaporated in a fog of tear-gas punctuated with flash-bangs and riot-shields/clubs/boots striking flesh... Kinda like Trump's "walk of shame" to the church this summer. Mary just showed me a clip on her phone of men in Proud Boy Regalia and others in Maga-Drag fighting with (Capitol/DC/?) cops.... Also in "real time" we just heard that there was one person taken out of the Capitol on a Gurney (bleeding) and that one person was shot inside the Capitol Building by Law Enforcement (same person?)... Back to the 2nd Amendment, I keep expecting to hear that one (or more) of the members of Congress pull their 2nd Amendment Rights out of their (presumably locked cases?) and plug some of the crazies? I normally cultivate my Morbid Fascination, but even I am finding this a little bit "too much". - Steve - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
