I don't support, condone or encourage these acts of property destruction... But I would ask that people keep their eyes on the big picture, here... What precedents we set today, will be used by Administrations yet to be imagined...
In these crimes, aside from the clear environmental damages caused potentially, whenever a computerized/ Lithium battery car goes up in flame - let's recall that no people are directly harmed. It's property destruction. At the end of the day, insurance companies and corporations are going to take a relatively small financial loss... Tesla may get more business, as people replace one with another...
20 years seems a bit disproportionate, considering that Bank Robbers typically get much less.
The criminalization and deterrence of protest, seems to be the current wave in American politics - regardless of which party is in power, and who the victims and perpetrators are... Whether we're talking about anti-abortion protestors or 'ploughshares' activists...the tendency has been towards increasingly draconian attacks upon protest... Let's keep that in mind as we move forward... The shoe may one day be upon the other foot...
Also - regardless of their political party affiliation - there were tonnes of plainclothes cops and Feds and informants at J6 - actively inciting a low-grade riot, out of a permitted and lawful protest.
This was just an early report, and hardly the last word on the heavily orchestrated PSYOPs of that day, and since... But, since you asked - here you go: https://thegrayzone.com/2021/01/12/chaos-agent-right-wing-us-Capitol-riot-black-lives-matter/
The Banderites in the Ukrainian "Congress" - are no kind of leftists. And all of the actual leftists, in the Ukrainian political scene, have had their parties outlawed, and suffered from extreme persecution - right up to assassination, arrests and torture, etc..
I see below (probably above, after this posts) another commenter calling the Nazis and Brown Shirts of Germany "left"... Au contraire. The communist parties and actual leftists were the targets of the Nazis, both at home, and across the continent. In France, the wealthy capitalists were heard saying things like 'better Hitler, than (French socialist) Blum'. I know people like to point to the NAME of the "National Socialist" and "German Workers' Party", as evidence of leftism... But that's a very shallow understanding of political science, that ignores actual policies and actions, while focusing on semantics, and self-professed nomenclatures. The Chinese and Soviets and DPRK aren't transformed into "Republic"ans, by linguistics, either.
And as always, as Peace & Freedom party elector, I'd like to point out that Joe Biden and the DNCIA aren't truly on the left, either. While many in our party may suffer from extreme TDS, and some may have cheered-on the Lawfare...I can assure you that we on the left lacked the power to prosecute Trump...or Obama, Clinton or Biden, for that matter.
He's currently on 'a timer' - so he CAN'T answer you, at present... However - I can see no reason, why he would want to bother to do so, when his ability to comment comes back. I don't think he owes you any explanation... Why would you assume that he does?
