I guess we have to have the 2001 conversation all over again, but: Stronger antiterrorism policies will not do anything about what happened on Wednesday. Everything those people did was already extremely illegal. Expanding the police state will do nothing but expand the police state. If you support “stronger antiterrorism policies” that means you support BLM activists copping a terrorism charge for marching, or some kid copping a terrorism charge for tagging a wall.
Fucking quit doing the feds’ jobs for them
The insurrectionists and the police have, most often, goals that are mostly or entirely aligned. The insurrectionists are fighting to keep a “Blue Lives Matter” administration in power. Some of them wore the Thin Blue Line.
They WANT the preservation and strengthening of a police state. That IS what they attempted a coup about, in no small part. Strengthening the power of the militarized police force will not work against them, it will secure them the white supremacist power that they were fighting to keep.
If stronger anti-terrorism/policing measures would stop something like this from happening, it would HAVE stopped it already. The cops let them in and the military that they once called out on some activists and me for blocking a single driveway without setting foot on federal property were not, in this situation, called.
What happened on January 6th was an attempted coup to halt and alter the results of an election, and was rooted in fascism. We need to take steps that are specifically antifascist.
Those antifascist steps need to address not only these events but also the problems already baked into this country.
^^^^ that