Was It A Riot - Or a Protest?, 3452

Good morning, I’m still reporting on the coup.
We live in confusing times.
When people take to the streets burn buildings and cars, smash store windows and steal everything inside and throw explosive devices and Molotov cocktails at the police that is a peaceful protest.
When people overrun police at a barricade and march into a building that is a riot and now it is being called insurrection.
Was what happened at the US Capitol building a riot? Maybe, it was led by people already at the Capitol police barricades and fighting with the police 30 minutes before Trump finished speaking, so it must not have been his speech that inspired them to attack the building. They couldn’t have heard much of it if any. Trump’s speech was also over a mile away from the Capitol Building and that huge crowd had to walk to the Capitol. Huge crowds do not move fast. People that stayed for Trump’s entire speech couldn’t have possibly gotten to the Capitol Building before 2 p.m. by that time the building had been breached some of the barricades were down and what they found on arrival was utter chaos.
There is video of the police taking down some of the barricades. The Capitol Police were overwhelmed and allowed a huge crowd to gather on the steps of the Capitol and those who chose to marched into the building.
By the definition used for other protests this summer, which is that while some of the protestors created mayhem, most of the protest was peaceful, the march to the Capitol was peaceful, most of the people there did not fight with police and did not go in the Capitol Building.
If the mainstream media wants to call it a riot, then they have to go back and rewrite their stories about the protests that went on throughout the summer and call them riots also.
The current definition appears to be that any kind of violent behavior by the left is considered a peaceful protest up to and including killing people. But a protest by people on the right that includes fighting with the police and breaking into a building, is a riot.
Windows were broken, damage was done and items were stolen in the Capitol, people were killed. It was violent and it was wrong and if the media wants to define it as a riot, that’s fair as long as they redefine the peaceful protests that caused billions of dollars of damage to cities last summer.
The argument here is not about whether it was or wasn’t a riot, but about inconsistent use of the language to serve political purposes. It was not a peaceful protest, but neither were the protests last summer when cities were shut down, and downtowns were burned and looted.
One famous video has a reporter talking about the peaceful protest with a building blazing right behind him. So can you burn buildings and cars including police cars in a peaceful protest? The mainstream media says yes, as long as most of the people are peaceful and are on the left of the political spectrum.
In a similar vein, those on the right are being banned from social media purportedly because their words although not specifically inciting violence could possibly be interpreted as inciting violence. In the case of President Donald Trump calling people “American Patriots” was considered inciting violence and once again the people attacking the Capitol Police weren’t listening because they were already attacking.
But on the left calls to physically attack and kill people is not considered inciting violence.
Everyone knows what the score is. Trump and his supporters are not being banned for inciting violence but for being conservatives. It has nothing to do with violence and everything to do with political belief.
Also, it is a little ridiculous to say that the people who did break-in and vandalize the Capitol Building were attempting to overthrow the government. Even an idiot knows that you can’t overthrow the United States government with bear spray, clubs and homemade shields. When the real police finally showed up, it didn’t take them long to empty out the Capitol Building. No group of protestors barricaded themselves in some office with guns and demanded armed confrontation.
The videos of the people on the front lines of the attack on the police show a bunch of relatively young men and women with helmets, backpacks and gas masks. They look suspiciously like the Antifa people who caused problems all summer.
Look at the crowd listening to Trump speak and see if you can find anyone in a helmet, or wearing a gas mask. Maybe there were some, but they weren’t the ones breaking into the Capitol because you can’t be two places at once.
I’m still reporting from just outside the citadel of American freedom. Good day.