01-24-2022, 06:07 PM
(01-24-2022, 02:56 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(01-24-2022, 09:31 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: People are still being hauled in for criminal trials. The Feds have been slow to go after the most culpable figures. Prosecutors and investigators are apparently doing everything possible to get the solidest possible cases. Good police and prosecutors don't grandstand; they let the case be decided in a court of law. Guilty people may even think that they are getting away while they do things to incriminate themselves, like trying to destroy evidence or have meetings with fellow participants to coordinate testimony. Liberal media keep pressing news on the prosecution of the plotters.
We are in an ugly, distressing time. Trump did much to make it so. He was not alone, but I can think of other Republicans who would have been more successful and far less troublesome. A Republican President who was halfway-decent and competent would have had a solid re-election. Being at the sixth year of a Romney Presidency would be far better than being at the start of the second year of the Biden Presidency that is possible only because of the bungling and personal vileness of Donald Trump. I hope that we are closer to the new day of democratic renewal of a political experiment than to its end. The shadows are longest both just after sunrise and just before sunset.
Donald Trump still has a personality cult. Personality cults can long outlast the object of adulation, as is so with Benito Mussolini, Josef Stalin, and Mao Zedong. We still have Mafia groupies who still admire the rapacious, corrupt, murderous capi di tutti capi. Osama bin Laden and abu-Musab al-Zarqawi will likely have admirers for the next few decades.
I'm going with the legal process that can take down someone like John Gotti. Nobody needs any tortures to extract abject confessions.
I've heard rumors that some of the leaders that you're talking about may be government informants. Somethings not right about the current Democratic investigation. It's to partisan or one sided to be viewed as legitimate. Plus, Nancy has given herself immunity even though she was technically the one in charge of security at the time. It's going to be interesting to see what all comes out when the Republicans are in charge, Like I've said, the government has a major credibility issue that's going to have to be addressed sooner than later.
The government did not have the time in which to have informants in place.
Offenders were obviously on one side here.
Nancy Pelosi is as responsible for this insurrection as a bank president is for a dope-sodden crook who robs a bank for the proceeds to be used in buying the next fix. (That is the usual pattern for a bank robber, as bank robbery is one of the easiest crimes to solve and the one in which arrests are made most rapidly).
A Democrat will be in charge until January 2025, and should Donald Trump be elected (Heaven forbid) he might issue a blanket amnesty upon people whom he sees as heroes.The people with the huge issue of credibility include the former President.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.