9 January 2021
I expect we cannot really know such a thing until long after the fact. With our faces pressed up still too closely to the recent awful siege of the Congress, many are having difficulty finding dispassionate perspective or meaningful context.
I am grateful for this thoughtful guest analysis by correspondent NT:
I don’t think this pathetic excuse for an “insurrection” was anywhere near well armed, organized, or popularly supported enough to represent any kind of threat to the power of the ruling government the way the Revolutionary War threatened the power of the British Crown in North America. As such, my answer is: no, I don’t think that’s a very apt comparison.
Ashli Babbitt feels more like another Jorge Gomez to me. Another rioter in the season of coronavirus killed by law enforcement for behaving very aggressively towards them. Two of, not very many actually, as far as I can tell. I was both annoyed and surprisingly relieved to discover that my research did not easily discover many people matching that description in order to make that comparison. I had not heard the name Jorge Gomez before doing that research, and I doubt Ashli Babbitt’s death will be remembered as especially any more or less important than his.
(Jorge Gomez was shot by Las Vegas Police on June 1st during a “mostly peaceful” demonstration protesting the death of George Floyd.)
curious addendum:
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I CAN cut back on the caffeine, and Mr Floyd COULD have foregone the fentanyl.
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