My Turn: Election beliefs and aftermath
In this Jan. 6, file photo, people storm the Capitol in Washington. AP PHOTO/JOHN MINCHILLO
Published: 5/5/2021 1:07:27 PM
Checking out the news, it appears the Boogaloo Boys, Proud Boys and all the other “militia” groups that were involved in the Jan. 6 insurrection are being rounded up by our FBI. Among other things, these groups hate immigrants and refugees. Unfortunately, they are very much living in their own world. They need to get out more and see that immigrants aren’t murderers and rapists. We have plenty of white men already in this country that murder and rape. And these militia groups also follow QAnon, a discredited far-right conspiracy theory alleging that a cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles, mostly Democrats and Hollywood elites, are running a global child sex-trafficking ring.
Stop the steal, again
Published: 1/12/2021 11:50:28 AM
Make no mistake about what happened on Wednesday, Jan. 6, during the certification of the Electoral College votes in the Capitol Building. That was an attempted coup.
The mob that went in? Some were after the states’ ballots. Thankfully, junior staff had the presence of mind to grab them as they ran out ahead of the mob that broke in, smashing windows at multiple entrances. Had the antique ballot boxes been taken or burned we would have had a very real constitutional crisis. How do you tally and certify votes if they’re destroyed?
The groups that broke in? Militias, all. Anti-government, white supremacist, Q-Anon anarchists who were stoked up by the president at a rally only an hour or so earlier. They wanted to show him that they were there for him in a real, committed way. Wrapped in his visage, they kicked over cabinets and vandalized the marbled walls, firing guns into chamber rooms, taunting capital police in their p