The Story Is Only Getting Bigger: The Meaning of Last Week’s Invasion of the U.S. Capitol
https://albertmohler.com/2021/01/11/briefing-1-11-21
PART I – The Story Is Only Getting Bigger: The Meaning of Last Week’s Invasion of the U.S. Capitol ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………
Both chambers the House and the Senate were invaded by those who had been gathered for a mob and sent towards the Capitol by language, that can only be traced back to the president of the United States.
As a matter of fact, over the course of the last several days, the president’s own personal responsibility has only become more, and more apparent as his tweets, messaging, his words have reverberated over the course of the last several days in a way that can only lead to the conclusion that if he did not sent that crowd, that mob to enter into the Capitol, he sent it to the Capitol and intended for it to make history. History, it made.
We also know that at least some of those who invaded the Capitol were armed, many of them clearly intended mayhem. As a matter of fact, the entire process was not only illegal, it represented a mob forcing its way into the United States Capitol, something we should note that is absolutely unprecedented in American political history. We also now know, not only that there was the desecration of the United States Capitol by means of attempting to tear up certain portions of the Capitol, to turn over furniture, even to go away with some of the furnishings of the Capitol, but also to destroy or at least to harm some of the artworks, and other items that are associated with America’s public life.
And, we need to understand this was a calculated insult to America’s ordered liberty, and our commitment to self-government. You had a mob that entered into the Capitol, they invaded the Capitol. And as they did so, they not only desecrated the space of the Capitol, we now know from major media press reports, they defecated as well. One of the things we have to hold in a certain sense of suspension for at least a brief amount of time, when something like this happens is the calculation of just how big a story this is.
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