Members of the Senate, including Vice-President Mike Pence, were rushed to the building's basement, while other politicians, congressional aides and civil servants hid under furniture with gas masks on as seditionists sprayed gas, fired some pistol shots, broke furniture , smashed windows, and hit some people, including police. One cop was killed by a brown shirt, who smashed him with a fire extinguisher.
Outside neo-fascists battered media cameras and other equipment, chasing most reporters away. "We're coming for bodies. We are at war," rioters said from amidst piles of smashed media apparati.
It took hours before sufficient cops, National Guardsmen and FBI agents came to help secure the area and clear the Capital and Senate and House office buildings of the invaders. The tally: four rioters dead, one a female rioter shot by a cop, plus one cop. Only 50-70 rioters were arrested.
Just imagine black/brown people storming Capitol Hill. Jacob Blake, George Floyd for example? Or even white anti-war or socialist revolutionaries? Would cops have let them in, or accommodated them, asking to pose with them for selfies as we can see from photos what they did for these right-wing thugs?
I think of 9/11 when terrorists had carte blanche to hijack passenger planes and ram them into buildings while the entire might of the United States Racist Military Empire (USRME) was conveniently distracted by its war games away from the Capitol, and Manhattan's World Trade Center and the Pentagon were left unprotected!?
Then the US government used these convenient terrorist attacks purportedly conducted only by two handfuls of Saudis to make wars against countries on its "rogue state" list, created a police-state apparatus called Homeland Security, launched a massive and unprecedented electronic monitoring program of all US communications, and frightened anti-war activists and left-wing protestors from demonstrating for years.
(Incidentally, pathetic coup leader Trump is the only president in my lifetime, and one of just two or three in US history, who did not start a war of his own. He merely continued those started by Bush and Obama-Clinton-Biden, who had enough power to prevent him from pulling out of some of those wars.)
This time billions of people can view the "greatest democracy in the world" as one of its own Banana Republics. Maybe even the ever-war-thirsty Democratic Party will have a harder time concocting arguments for a new war. Maybe it will discourage their efforts to continue demonizing Russia, China, Iran, Venezuela, Cuba".just maybe"..
For now, no new wars against peoples of color outside the USRME will be victims of US bombsnot until, that is, the Democrats Biden-Harris get their feet on the ground and whip up yet another war, probably against another people of color.
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