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Peaceful protest

To the editor:

Most Trump supporters in Washington D.C. on Jan. 6 were peaceful, but that wasn’t emphasized in biased news reports about the “deadly riot” that day.

Last year’s numerous riots by Marxists and anarchists were described by the news media as “mostly peaceful protests.” They caused $2 billion in damages plus many injuries and deaths.

On Jan. 4, an Antifa mob terrorized the wife and newborn daughter of Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri at their D.C.-area home because that Republican objected to vote vote fraud that helped Biden win the election.

Shut Down DC is the Antifa group involved in that incident which the Washington Post falsely called a “peaceful vigil.” The leftist reporter at that newspaper probably consider the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia to have been a Sunday School picnic.

Before the election, an AP article claimed that Biden is a “devout” Catholic, but he is for abortion at any time for any reason. That violates the tenets of the Roman Catholic Church.

In the last 16 years, pro-life Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives have declined from 60 to zero. The last two pro-life Democrats were Peterson of Minnesota and Lipinski of Illinois. Both of them lost in the primary elections against other Democrats in 2020.

Dan Lipinski, a pro-life moderate Democrat and a truly devout Catholic, lost in the primary to a pro-abortion leftist Democrat endorsed by Joe Biden.

Lipinski was told by fellow Democrats that he can’t be both pro-life and a member of the Democratic Party. In recent years, he has expressed alarm about the party becoming more radically left. Other Democrats have said the same thing.

Editor’s note: Numerous media outlets have worked to make the distinction between the “peaceful” protestors who marched during the day and the rioters who destroyed businesses and parked cars at night during the summer 2020 Black Lives Matter marches.

A similar distinction can be made about the Jan. 6 riot in Washington D.C. Not everyone who went to Washington marched into the Capitol.

According to NPR, FBI Director Christopher Wray recently described the riot on Jan. 6 as “domestic terrorism,” during a hearing on March 2.

He went on to say “Unfortunately, January 6 was not an isolated event. The problem of domestic terrorism has been metastasizing across the country for a long time now, and it’s not going away anytime soon.”

During the March 2 hearing, Democrat Richard Durbin tried to point out the difference between protestors and riots during the summer months in his opening statement.

“Let’s stop pretending that the threat of antifa is equivalent to the white supremacist threat,” he said. “Vandalizing a federal courthouse in Portland is a crime. It should be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

“But it is not equivalent to a violent attempt to overthrow the results of elections, nor is it equivalent to mass shootings targeting minority communities.”

Republican Chuck Grassley did argue in his statement that white supremacists are not the only violent group.

“We’re not serious about attacking extremism if we care about some government buildings being attacked but not others,” he said. “We’re not serious about attacking domestic extremism if we only focus on white supremacy movements, which isn’t the only ideology that’s responsible for murders and violence.”

Wray reemphasized the growing threat of domestic extremism in his remarks, noting that white supremacy was the largest chunk of “racially motivated” violent extremism, which makes up the largest subset of domestic extremism overall.

Later in the hearing, Wray acknowledged that social media has a part to play in terrorism.

“I sometimes say terrorism today, and we saw it on Jan. 6, moves at the speed of social media,” he said.

“If we don’t collectively come up with some kind of solution, it’s not going to matter how bulletproof the legal process is, or how horrific the crime is, or how heartbreaking the victims are,” Wray said. “We will not be able to get access to the content that we need to protect the American people. And then I think we will all rue the day.”

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