The Insurrection was Televised – So Must be the Investigation

You saw the insurrection on television.  We all did.  We read the articles.  We saw the pictures.  We retweeted the tweets.  Everyone saw it.  Everyone knows what happened.

Except…not entirely.  Not exactly.  We know all about this…

• Pipe bombs
• Zip-tie handcuffs
• Tasers
• Mace
• Guns
• Vandalism
• Wanton destruction
• Theft
• Compromised law enforcement
• Complicit police
• Known right-wing agitators
• Elected GOP state legislators
• Advance notice
• Death

What we don’t know is everyone who was involved.  Everyone who committed a crime has yet to be identified or arrested.  So far, no one who organized or planned the event has been cited.

But we know who is ultimate to blame.

It’s the guy who said, “We’re going to have to fight much harder…” and “You’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength. You have to be strong,” and who encouraged the crowd, just shortly before the stormed the Capitol following his speech “…to see whether or not we have great and courageous leaders or whether or not we have leaders that should be ashamed of themselves throughout history, throughout eternity.”

And after it was all over, said, “We love you, you’re very special.”

That’s why the insurrection cannot be forgotten, or ignored, or pushed aside to let us heal or some shit like that.  If we can hold eight hearings about Benghazi, where four soldiers died, we can certainly hold hearing after hearing about a violent, pre-meditated coup at out own Capitol.

Yes, pre-meditated:

We need to know why police presence was light, why reinforcements weren’t available, why the National Guard wasn’t there AT THE BEGINNING and who delayed their deployment.  Etc. Etc.

Even though we watched it all, we need accountability.  We can’t just let “bygones be bygones” because the coup failed.

It was a coup.  Sure, many in attendance considered it a rally for support.  To demand “something be done.”  But there were many there who had far more nefarious plans, and some of the former got caught up with the terrorists (call them what they really are) in that “Mob mentality” thing.  Tough shit, too bad.  You didn’t want to be a criminal; you didn’t leave home in Idaho expecting to be a criminal…but here you are.

And the biggest crim of all still has his hands on the nuke codes, got his twitter phone back after a half-hearted, half-assed video speech (which was one of those sort-of apologies worthy of Eddie Haskell), and is already planning his escape from both reality and prosecution.

Don’t let it happen.  Don’t fall for the “both sides” bullshit.  Don’t listen to a single word coming from the mouths of those who have supported this POS for the last four years (Cruz, Rubio, Graham, Johnson, et all).  No more “Meet the Press” for Kayleigh and KellyAnne.  Expulsion for any current legislator, federal, state, local; who participated in this travesty.  We turn a new leaf in two weeks, but the “healing” is not complete without JUSTICE.

As someone famous once said, “MAKE THEM PAY.”