People are confusing the meaning of 'peaceful protest'

A protest isn't peaceful if protestors demand their message be heard.
A protest isn't peaceful if protestors demand their cause be fulfilled.
It goes w/o saying that a protest which turns into a violent protest for any reason isn't a peaceful protest.

I was planning to give my opinion of various protests around the world in recent memory but I realized that those perdonsal opinions may very well derail this thread.

 

Apparently you are mistaken. Many riots all summer long by the left are called "mostly peaceful protests" while rioting by the right on just one occasion is called an "insurrection".

 

we all know what it was, now there were peaceful protestors protesting outside the Capital that day as well

“It was a violent insurrection with the purpose of trying to prevent a peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election"

 

I agree with your statements. But where, I think, we differ is on the occasion when another group infiltrates or joins up with the peaceful protest with malicious intent. We've seen that in most of the protests in the last couple of years.

 

Over 2000 officers were injured during the summer riots and only 140 at the Capital. It's very obvious which ones were far worse.

 

the riots over the summer were bad too, no one says they were not

they were not trying to overturn an election, but they were bad just the same

 

Well, how about the Constitution for starters?

 

They were burned down police stations, injured and killed police officers, tried to overrun a federal court (you know, our democracy), and took over swaths of territory from the US and turned them into lawless zones.

 

yes, that was bad, I said so at the time, the cops responded to that badly, force should have been used, I was surprised more not shot

I call it like I see it

 

Where is it said the total number of police officers injured in all protests is the determining factor in the severity of the Capital carnage? Instead, how about naming another 'single' protest where 140 police officers were injured.

 

They were attacks on our democracy and invasions of the US by taking over our land, and and yet most of the left want to sweep those under the rug.

 

What would you say about rioters trying to storm a federal court (the backbone of democracy), actually killing police officers and burning down police stations, and taking over swaths of US territory? Aren't those insurrections?

 

For the record the "peaceful protests" of 2020 caused more damage than any other civil unrest in our entire history.

 

One shouldn't attempt to justify one's bad acts by pointing out the bad acts of others

I would say that that was bad, but not as bad as rioters storming our capital, making vocal threats to elected officials, and trying to overturn an election. We should be upset by all bad acts, all violence, and all property destruction.

and that justifies other non peaceful protests?

 

I'm pointing out the hypocrisy. Several summer riots were insurrections by attacking our democracy yet the left only refer to Jan 6th as an insurrection, while at the very same time not one person has even been charged with insurrection.

 

You're trying to hide and INSURRECTION that would have changed the way we live and how we are governed behind riots, though awful and devistating "LOCALLY", had no lasting affect on "The American Experiment".

 

All you guys are ever about is ifs, ands, buts, maybes, would haves, could haves, might haves. You never have anything else.

 

"You guys" includes Mitch McConnell ...

Patriotic AmeriCANs are calling tRump out for his bullshit; tRump toadies defend a conman at the expense of OUR Nation.

 

state issue vs federal issue

like steal mail from the post office vs robbing a gas station

 

The capitol rioters were the democratic group and the politically elite group were the congresscritters and certain states' governors which mitigated the capitol riot with their authoritarian decrees on the states they controlled.

 

What are some examples?

 

No, I was just pointing out that the "peaceful protests" of 2020, as most Democrats called them, were anything but.

 

Good dodge.

 

I remember last summer when the protests were raging outside a police station, night after night, following a police shooting. (Forgive me, I can't remember which one.) And down the street - away from the cameras - people who quietly protesting and mourning. But that isn't what grabs the attention.

Likely, on 1/6, there were people who marched to the capitol. They wanted to protest - but didn't participate in the violence. Their protest should have been heard, but the cameras focused solely on the violence (which is understandable). Not all people who feel the need to protest feel the need to destroy and riot.

 

Turtleneck needs censored with the other two.