{"id":951,"date":"2021-01-08T19:13:50","date_gmt":"2021-01-08T19:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=951"},"modified":"2021-01-08T19:15:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-08T19:15:51","slug":"did-these-idiots-think-they-were-going-to-get-away-with-this","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/01\/08\/did-these-idiots-think-they-were-going-to-get-away-with-this\/","title":{"rendered":"Did these idiots think they were going to get away with this?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arkansas man who occupied Rep. Pelosi’s office arrested by the FBI<\/a> <\/p>\n

Good. Throw the book at him and all the rest of the miscreants. <\/p>\n

Now … they may have been lulled into a false sense of security by the fact that we’ve allowed people to riot for most of 2020 and almost nothing has been done about it, very few people have been arrested, and those who have been arrested have generally been patted on the hand and told to go home and I’ll see you tomorrow. Bring your marshmallows. <\/p>\n

But anyone with any sense should know that invading the Capitol<\/b> is a different thing and not something we can tolerate. <\/p>\n

I hope the invaders get what they deserve, and I hope we have turned a corner in our permissive attitude towards riots. <\/p>\n

To answer my own question, I don’t think there was a lot of thinking going on at all. <\/p>\n

First, nothing was going to be accomplished — or could be accomplished — by storming the Capitol. Neither VP Pence nor the Senate have the authority to disqualify the electors. That was a stupid, misguided thing from the start. <\/p>\n

Second, even if they were able to accomplish something — “we made our point” or whatever — they were sure to be arrested. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Arkansas man who occupied Rep. Pelosi’s office arrested by the FBI Good. Throw the book at him and all the rest of the miscreants. Now … they may have been lulled into a false sense of security by the fact that we’ve allowed people to riot for most of 2020 and almost nothing has been … Continue reading “Did these idiots think they were going to get away with this?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=951"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":954,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/951\/revisions\/954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}