The ‘Insurrection’ Debate

Dear Editor,

     My previous letter regarding Jan 6 was factually correct.  Only one person was killed during the Jan 6 protest at Capitol Hill.  An innocent female protester was fatally shot, even though she was unarmed, and not assaulting anyone.  It was clearly an unjustified homicide by a police officer.  

     But for some strange reason, Democrats are exaggerating the death count, by including things like the death of a police officer who suffered a stroke several hours later, plus two police suicides several weeks later, and even by including two Trump supporters who suffered heart attacks that day.  And the DC Medical Examiner concluded that Officer Sicknick died from “natural causes.”

     In reality, the body count is irrelevant.  Even if a hundred people had died on Jan 6, that protest would still not have amounted to an “insurrection.”  An “insurrection” is literally an attempt to overthrow the government.  Does anyone honestly think a crowd of protesters can possibly overthrow the US government…without firing a shot?  Of course not.

     Joe Biden correctly said it would take nukes and F15’s to overthrow the US government.  For once, Biden was correct.  Yet Democrats are pretending that protestors with sticks and flagpoles were somehow an, “insurrection to overthrow the US government.”  CNN even called Jan 6, “The greatest threat yet to our democracy.” (I guess CNN never heard about the Civil War.)  

     So why all the dishonesty? It’s just another way to smear Donald Trump. 

     Back in 2011, left-wing protesters took over Wisconsin’s State Capitol building.  Yet no Democrat called that protest an, “insurrection.”  And back in 2018, left-wing protesters also took over the US Capitol. (Remember the Kavanaugh hearings?)  Yet no Democrat called it an, “insurrection.”  But when Trump supporters briefly occupy the Capitol, suddenly Democrats scream, “insurrection!”  Democrats are pure hypocrites.       

–Peter Hauer, Castro Valley