CBS
News, October 4, 2018: “Protesters opposed to Supreme Court nominee
Brett Kavanaugh took over a Senate office building on Thursday, with
actresses Amy Schumer and Emily Ratajkowski among the demonstrators
detained. The Senate will hold a procedural vote on Kavanaugh's
nomination on Friday, setting in motion a possible final vote on
Saturday.”
“New
York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand addressed protesters, telling them, ‘This
is a moment about all of you — all of you are speaking truth to power
because you care about the future, you care about our children, you care
about who is leading this country and who sits on the highest court in
the land’.”
“Capitol
police said about 300 people were detained. In a video shared widely on
Twitter, Schumer said ‘I think we're going to get arrested’."
Women’s
March tweeted: “We were planning to shut down the Capitol Building but
the authorities were so scared of this #WomensWave that they shut it
down for us. 1000+ women, survivors, and allies have gathered in the
Hart Senate Building. Every hallway. Every floor.”
Very easy-going press coverage. No problem. No outrage. No accusations of Insurrection from the mainstream press.
It
was a protest from the Left, covered by the Left. And the Capitol
Police promptly shut down the original target: the Capitol
Building. They didn’t lead the protestors INTO the Capitol, as they
astonishingly did a few days ago, on January 6.
Here’s
another item from 2018 on the same protest---ABC News: “Capitol Hill
police said 128 people were arrested for ‘unlawfully demonstrating’
outside of senators' offices and in the main rotunda of the Russell
Senate Building. About half as many protesters were arrested for
protesting Kavanaugh on Thursday.”
Ho-hum. Another day at the office. Not a word about “the desecration of our democracy.”
Now
if you really want to revisit a chaotic moment in federal-building
takeovers, let’s go back to 1954. The US House of Representatives
Archives has an account:
“On
March 1, 1954, while Members gathered on the House Floor for an
upcoming vote, three men and one woman entered the visitor’s gallery
above the chamber and quietly took their seats. All four belonged to the
Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and only hours earlier had traveled from
New York City to Washington, DC.”
“The
United States had annexed Puerto Rico in 1898, and the island’s
relationship with the federal government had long been a point of
contention. Some Puerto Ricans sought to maintain their relationship
with the mainland, and others, like the four visitors in the House that
day, argued for an independent Puerto Rico.”
“The
Capitol had few security protocols at the time, and the four Puerto
Rican nationalists entered the gallery armed with handguns. Around 2:30
p.m. they indiscriminately opened fire onto the House Floor and unfurled
a Puerto Rican flag in a violent act of protest meant to draw attention
to their demand for Puerto Rico’s immediate independence.”
“Five Congressmen were wounded in the shooting.”
“Members,
House Pages, and police officers quickly helped detain three of the
assailants outside the gallery, while the fourth escaped the Capitol and
was apprehended later that afternoon.”
Joe
Bartlett, a House Page at the time, recalls: “I had just had a bundle
of bills and had just stepped out the center door, on my way to the
Senate, with these bills. I heard what sounded like, a stack of folding
chairs falling---these metal folding chairs…I turned around and ran
right back into the chamber, and they were sorting out the casualties.
They were scrambling in the gallery…it was a helter-skelter scene. I
went down the center aisle, and as I went down the aisle, [Clifford]
Davis of Tennessee was sitting there…Davis had been shot through the
calf, and he had his foot up on the seat in front of him and holding
both sides of a bullet wound…I walked right into the well, where poor Al
[Alvin Morell] Bentley was stretched out there…the wound contributed to
his early death years later. Bentley had been shot through the
abdomen…Representative [Kenneth Allison] Roberts of Alabama probably
suffered more, maybe longer than anyone. He was shot through the knee.
And that bullet had come through the chair that Sam Rayburn, as the
Minority Leader, had regularly sat in. Fortunately, Mr. Rayburn was not
sitting there at that moment. The bullet shattered Roberts’ knee…Ben
Jensen of Iowa was shot in the shoulder, and the bullet followed under
his hide to his waist…”
The House of Representatives survived.
After what happened on January 6, 2021, Congress will survive.
So will the endless pompous posturing of the legislators and the press about the Capitol Building being “The People’s House.”
The squalid deals contrived and voted upon in that House have nothing to do with The People.
For
the place to become The People’s House, a revolution would have to
occur. I’m not talking about the January 6, 2021, false flag.
I’m
talking about a vast decentralization of federal power, which would
return the central government to its original role, as laid out in the
Constitution.
In that revolution, individual liberty and freedom would be paramount. Again.
The main river of human history reveals a war for freedom has been fought from the beginning.
It is still being fought.
Pacified humanity is the disease.
We are the cure.
(The link to this article posted on my blog is here.) 
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