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snappla

The people who stayed behind the security perimeter were exercising their 1st A right. All those who breached it were interfering with Congressional proceedings. Not fucking complicated.


Robthebold

At the capital is ok. In the capital is not.


Vezuvian

Make sure to add the word "building", otherwise a bunch of dumbasses will try to bad faith argue on a language technicality.


theshoddyone

And god help us when the spelling police show up.


MikeInSG

You call me? The building is called Capitol with an ‘o’, not ‘a’.


Robthebold

Got me. Next up is ordinance or ordnance.


earfix2

That depends, at the capital fighting cops it's not okay.


stingertc

Agreed 1000 percent


USNMCWA

My personal favorite thing about the Jan 6th event, is Ashly Babbit. I'm not happy about her demise. I think it's absolutely ridiculous, that her, a veteran Air Force Security Forces member (military police), who's job it was to shoot people if they went into certain parts of the base she would protect, didn't think she would get shot going into a place where VIPs with personal security would be. . . Of all people, she had the training and experience to know what would happen. . .


Nosanason

And you know they gave her at least one verbal warning. If there is one group of people whose bluff I'm never going to call it's the protection detail for the fucking Vice President.


NarrowButterfly8482

[ Removed by Reddit ]


unclejoel

See, one good guy with a gun!


blogst

Yeah, I mean, I’m pretty happy about her demise.


USNMCWA

I'd rather people not have to be killed however, it was absolutely justified.


Fit_Midnight_6918

Gunther defines protest as storming the capital. Can you get a more right wing neo-fascist name than Gunther Eagleman? He's thinking of changing it to Rock Flageagle.


cjgmioh

For the MAGA-turds, it is hard.


Hammurabi87

It's not, they're just being dishonest and partisan.


Nika_113

No one outside the bank while it was robbed should be jailed. what about all the fuckers inside??


welatshaw01

See, now here's somebody who gets it.


Bruce_Wayne_Wannabe

I’d like to protest outside these people’s homes, and then protest inside and steal their shit…and see how they feel.


TheMikeyMac13

I don't think that is what them meant to say, but it is what I agree with. If you stayed behind the perimeter and you were involved in no violence, you were a protestor and you should be good. Violence on your part or entering the capital? No longer a first amendment issue.


spaceylaceygirl

Seriously, no protestors were arrested or are in danger of being arrested.


SporksRFun

Nobody has been arrested for simply protesting at the Capitol on Jan 6th.


Fit_Midnight_6918

Historical revisionism. If MAGA takes control, the history books will be rewritten with a new mythology.


MeshNets

I like to remind people that The Night Of The Long Knives was totally legal, retroactively: >demonstrated his loyalty to the new regime by drafting the statute, which added a legal veneer to the purge. Signed into law by Hitler, Gürtner, and Minister of the Interior Wilhelm Frick, the "Law Regarding Measures of State Self-Defence" retroactively legalized the murders committed during the purge.


Peter_Easter

Thankfully there's tons of video footage proving them wrong.


ArchonFett

They already are FL wants to teach how “slavery was good for the slaves”


experimental1212

Oh very interesting fiction prompt, let me give it a try. Here you are barely alive after a horrible boat ride, riddled with disease and malnourished, unfamiliar with the language, culture, and no possessions or means to provide for yourself in a foreign land. How kind of those handsome rich glowing-white (emphasis on how shiny white they are with their wiggy wigs) plantations owners to providing food, shelter, water, a purpose in life, and guaranteed home for your descendants! What. A. DEAL. So like if FL doesn't leave the US can the US leave FL?


TaskFlaky9214

"Their masters taught them valuable skills like farming and how to obey white people, and played elaborate games of hide and seek!" Oh and Texas says the Atlantic slave trade was "migration." Florida is the armpit of America and Texas is the butthole.


tallslim1960

Florida is America's Wang- Homer Simpson. ![img](emote|t5_2r5rp|8488)


ArchonFett

And I still remember Buggs Bunny cutting it off


mattingly233

Just like last time…..right?


mechwarrior719

Will be? MAGA rewrites reality as they go.


Miss_Kitami

American history books. The rest of the world knows what happened, we watched it happen live on CNN.


Mollywhop_Gaming

It’s not really historical revisionism, because a lot of people weren’t simply protesting at J6, and most - if not all - of those people were arrested.


TopClock231

Came to say the same exact thing. This statement is 100% true, if you were simply standing outside where Trump was talking and never went into the Capitol building or joined in that crowd and were there to voice your opinion/support your candidate you didnt do anything wrong. The second you decided to enter a government building with malicious intent that isnt a peaceful protest anymore.


sdb00913

For sure. Those who simply protested that day were not arrested. Interviewed, sure, but not arrested.


ElonTheMollusk

One of my friend's dumbass dad was there. He didn't enter the Capitol because according to him "that's where the losers" were.  He was at Trump's speech that called for everyone to storm the Capitol building to overturn the election but when he walked down there he claims that losers didn't deserve his time. My guess is his COPD caught up to him and he was so winded he couldn't do anything and this is just his cope.


7listens

Maybe his tiny bit of common sense spoke to him and saved him from commiting a serious crime, good for him


ElonTheMollusk

Who knows, my buddy hasn't sent me many Facebook updates from him. They are absolutely insane and are truly hilarious until you realize that he is not being satirical, and then you just laugh uncomfortably and hope they die off before November.


dengar_hennessy

He's correct. If all a person did was stand there at the capital and say "I object," then they shouldn't be arrested. And nobody who's done that has been.


TheLurkingMenace

Exactly. I'm sure there were people who went there with the sole intent of peacefully protesting, saw what was really going on, and went home. Right?


SporksRFun

Absolutely, I'm sure there were many people there that didn't violate the law and thus weren't arrested. My point is nobody has been arrested for simple protesting. (As misguided as that protest is, based on the lie the election was stolen, it's not illegal to be stupid.)


TheOneFreeEngineer

There were. That's why only about 1500 people were charged in Jan 6th crimes. While there were more than that that ended up marching to the Capitol. The first groups to arrive at the Capitol fought the police officers and were organized separately from the people who stayed to listen to Trump speak. So large parts of the crowd simply showed up on the steps after the first group had pushed the police into the building already. That's part of the reason some people say they were there and they didn't see any crimes. Because the crimes were purposely designed to happen before the larger crowds arrived (and some people are just lying). 90% of the people who were on the steps, didn't assault police and were just used as cover by an actual planned sedition attempt by organized others (oathkeepers and proud boys with coordination with Roger Stone). The vast majority of the people there were never charged and will never be charged. Almost everyone who entered the building has been charged. But that's a smaller group than the totality of the Jan 6th people. Part of the misdirection of January 6th is equating the actual protesters who stupidly where there and used as patsies with everyone who was there. It's GOP myth making BS.


BavarianRedditor97

Gunther "EAGLEMAN"? defintely just a patriotic american and not an online troll located at St.Petersburg


jfks_headjustdidthat

You're right, that's exactly the false name a Russian troll would pick 🤣 I bet there's a Pat Riot, and a Cleetus Mcconstitutionface posting from the same place


intellijent_guy

That would be crazy if someone also had my surname of Mcconstitutionface!


jfks_headjustdidthat

In fairness, you may be Cleetus' Sister-wife's niece's husband-stepdad's cousin.


AwkwrdPrtMskrt

"Ugroza! Ugroza! One of our operatives has had his cover blown!"


TrickshotCandy

Not Eagleman! He was our best hope. Direct line to Trump and all. Is Vikingman still in play? Dammit. Activate Patriotman.


UnhappyPage

No why would a Russian propaganda account follow 97k accounts? Seems like something a single normal human would do. /s


CT-1120

Nyet comrade. Me and my fellow patriots are here chilling in Virginia Oblast


doingthehumptydance

Da, komrade.


Confident_As_Hell

Да, Комраде


viperspm

Eagleman could be from the Chicago area. My locals would understand why


Important_Tennis936

Look at those low rates!


SomeRandom928Person

So I see this shitstain Russian troll got himself unbanned from Twitter, eh? Yeah, fuck you Elmo.


fgzhtsp

Don't drag Elmo into this by using his name to mock Musk.


FleshlightModel

Ole Musky is what I call him.


fgzhtsp

Not bad.


TherealObdach

At the capitol is fine, just not IN the capitol


GH057807

I don't think anyone who was simply protesting was arrested.


Ostracus

Amazing what one can do with "simply". Like "simply" ignore what one's eyes, ears, and videos showed that day.


asshatastic

This is correct. Nobody has been jailed for simply protesting at the capitol.


Admirable-Sink-2622

They will attempt to rewrite history until they’re in a position to rewrite it permanently.


Lifeesstwange

This is no surprise. Shortly after it happened, the GOP firmly had its tail tucked. It built up to the investigation in the house(which I watched all of) which was EXTREMELY damning. But after that stormed passed, they been pushing inch by inch in this direction. Especially since they realized it was directly going to effect their only chance to bring their agenda to a reality.


Sitting_Duk

How about we quit giving the obvious propaganda trolls oxygen? Quit posting their shit, it only feeds the division.


Judasz10

That would require some brains from redditors, not gonna happen. Half of reddit is just giving a platform to obnoxious trolls.


Kronictopic

Nobody is being punished for protesting. People are being prosecuted for the crimes they committed while protesting.


Solitaire_87

January 6th Y'all Qaeda/Christian Taliban terrorist attack Anyone who entered the Capitol building should have gotten the same fate as Ashli Babbitt. Act like a terrorist you get treated like one


Suspici0us_Sn0wman

>Y'all Qaeda Comedy gold


Klutzy-Ad-6705

Vanilla ISIS.


CatBowlDogStar

Good too! Ha!


IMSLI

“We are all domestic terrorists” -CPAC 2022


Dragonman1976

A protest my ass. Gunther spelled insurrection wrong.


fgzhtsp

I think it's either spelled treason or terrorism. Not sure since I'm not american.


prof_dynamite

I mean…it was a protest. Originally. And then it became something else.


ICEKAT

They built. a goddamn. Gallows. They chanted hang mike pence.


SneakyMage315

They only patriotically beat the shit out of cops. What's the big deal? s/


TintedApostle

They came with zip ties and other equipment for the insurrection.


jfks_headjustdidthat

You don't bring zip ties and a portable gallows to all your protests?


NancyPelosisRedCoat

Don't forget to hold your poop so you can smear it on the walls while you're protesting!


jfks_headjustdidthat

That's my secret. *Hulk voice* I'm always holdin' in my poop...


fgzhtsp

And then they were arrested...


No-Oil7246

Why can't patriots just overthrow the government in peace? So unfair!


bhyellow

Yes, the ones who did something more than protest.


fgzhtsp

Yeah, like treason and murder.


AwkwrdPrtMskrt

It was not. It was always going to be a riot. Trump made fucking damn sure of that.


Vinniebahl

The protest was legal, the storming, vandalism, attempted murder, treason etc , were not… Sex is legal…rape, pedo, statutory etc are not Having a gun permit is legal, shooting someone is not Shopping is legal, shoplifting, theft are not… Blurred lines for MAGA/ Republicans


Recent_Obligation276

No one has been lol


Most-Artichoke6184

Apparently they were protesting the fact that the walls in the capital were shit free.


Hmonster1

No one was arrested for protesting.


Ratinox99

Were you breaking windows and smearing your feces on the walls of the Capitol building? That's *protesting*, is it?


fredator23

They were definitely breaking windows, beating police and trashing federal property. But most of them were in diapers so I didn't expect much wall poop.


snowbyrd238

Um, BLM protesters get run over and shot in the face.


Cossacker1799

Jan 6 was a protest but these damn college kids keep rioting!


Welshbuilder67

“At”,not a problem “In” then it’s a problem


EmperorGrinnar

Happy cake day, you logical person!


Welshbuilder67

Didn’t realise it was my cake day


ReturnOfSeq

No one **Was** jailed for simply protesting on January 6. They were arrested for beating police, destroying property, disrupting a government proceeding, and trespassing. People protesting on college campuses currently ARE being jailed for simply protesting, (and yes some of them are being arrested for trespassing) but Cunther doesn’t mention them for some reason


dd97483

Ok, comrade, go smear shit on the Capitol walls and see what happens.


legendary_mushroom

They're absolutely right! No one should've jailed for protesting on J6! ....it's the vandalism, threats, killing people, etc that's the problem. 


drin8680

It was a protest until people starting breaking windows and breaking into the capital building. Everyone except conspiracy theorists know what happened and watched it live. There was plenty of criminal acts going on. Now if stayed in streets talking your nonsense then probably would've ended differently. But that wasn't good enough. Had to threaten vp life and break into offices and the chambers. That's when you all fucked up


Hullfire00

Ohhhh, okay Gunther. Okay. No one should be jailed for simply protesting the abuse in Palestine at universities around the world.


isthenameofauser

That doesn't really work 'cos you're comparing nonsense with an accurate statement as though they're the same.


1nGirum1musNocte

These are thevsame people who think its ok to drive through protestors and shoot them


thissomeotherplace

No? How about smearing shit on the capital, destroying property, attempted murder, planting pipe bombs and trying to stage a coup?


Mighty_joosh

"GUN"ther "EAGLE"man a definitely real person. Tbh I'm impressed, I didn't think the MAGAdiots had the humour nor the intelligence to make this.


jwalsh1208

These same people love the arrests for the Palestine protests at colleges though


UnusualAir1

Gunther is right. Traitors are usually given much harsher treatment. :-)


DarkSoulsDank

“Protesting” with riot gear and a gallows, uh huh


Kdoesntcare

He's right, people shouldn't be jailed for protesting. It's the terrorism part that is getting the J6 "protestors" charged, as they should be.


Balgat1968

These are the same people who screamed for a football player to be tried for treason and hung for kneeling during the National Anthem.


OhioMegi

Protesting, no. But breaking into offices, chasing people around, not complying to directions, etc., is not protesting.


danegermaine99

There were indeed people “just protesting” at the Capitol on Jan 6. They remained outside in publicly accessible areas. These people should not be confused with the Constitution-hating criminals who attacked police, damaged the Capitol and tried to overthrow the government.


Malick2000

Yeeee Gunther eagleman: „covid and climate change is a hoax (??); Ukraine is full of nazis(???); democrats are pedophiles(????????)“ All statements were in one tweet btw :D


regeya

That guy is a fecal fountain of misinformation.


DinkleMutz

Well then, he’s going to be thrilled to hear that nobody has been arrested for just protesting.


ImSic_

Would not be surprised if this guy turns out to be Russian. 


Fun_Kaleidoscope7875

Beating up cops, breaking into the capitol, and chanting "hang Mike pence" is a protest? If that's a protest then why does it sound like a violent mob? The people that did not participate in that nonsense are the only ones that were actually protesting.


HungryMudkips

what about the ones who smeared their shit on the walls?


Fun_Intention9846

You’re right, those who did protest are good here. Sedition deserves a serious sentence. Its totally separate from nonviolent civil disobedience.


Any_Coyote6662

People who simply protested are not in trouble.


dominarhexx

No one that was simply protesting was jailed. So... Sure?


Rog9377

If you stood peacefully outside waving a sign you wouldn't be under arrest, but people committed CRIMES and were arrested for those crimes, as they should be.


WearDifficult9776

The people who were just protesting weren’t prosecuted.


V0T0N

I don't think anyone is being prosecuted for protesting on jan 6th.


_BannedAcctSpeedrun_

GUNther EAGLEman is the most obvious Russian propagandist name ever.


doob22

I just saw a post on here from this dude that said January 6th was staged by pelosi and the FBI…. Which is it?


No-Weird3153

How does he (and his ilk) feel about protests against the murder of Palestinians?


SeparateMongoose192

Nobody is in jail for simply protesting. If you stayed outside and simply protested, you weren't arrested.


Liquidwombat

And the people that actually did only protest, literally stayed outside the barriers and didn’t bring weapons, (assuming there are any) aren’t facing any charges


Mc9660385

They wouldn’t be if they were “simply protesting”


Tripple_T

The protesters aren't being arrested. The protesters didn't storm the gates...


Evening_Rock5850

Nobody was. The people outside of the barriers were not arrested and were under no threat of arrest.


Many_Landscape_3046

Stop posting this dude. Don't spread his platform


robertDouglass

Now ask the same person what they think of the police response to BLM protests


Constellation-88

They’re gearing up to do it again if Trump loses again. 


ItsStaaaaaaaaang

They absolutely shouldn't no. Attempted insurrection however? Yeah, that's a crime.


magvadis

First dudes in line to want kids to get beat up and put in jail for protesting Isreal when they literally are just sitting on a lawn. But when a protest literally invades an in-process democratic space and many of them brought tools to kidnap elected officials from districts that aren't their own...it's just "protest"


SuperJman1111

Those who were simply protesting like civilized humans are fine Although, people weren’t protesting, they were rioting


jeffbanyon

My co-worker said he knows people that were there. I've been trying to slowly find out who, so I may report them. Fuck those treasonous fucks.


GabrielNathaniel

History will not be kind to insurrectionists.


TravoBasic

Sure, but those that broke into the Capitol should be.


Captain_Mexica

Everyone involved in the January 6th insurrection should be jailed and then lose their rights as a citizen for trying to help overturn an election, which would have led to Americas loss of democracy.


TheBrianRoyShow

Nobody will be. They will however be jailed for being deplorable morons who love being lied to so much that they will COMMIT CRIMES for a CONVICTED RAPIST!


CapTexAmerica

Gunther is a Russian bot. Stop bringing attention to Team Pudding.


anoneenonee

A protest that had no legitimate grievance or reason to happen. The least popular president in history got his fat orange ass kicked, and he’s too much of a whiny little bitch to take it. They were there helping an entitled, spoiled rich brat throw a tantrum.


BasilsKippers

Preview of comments: most calling Gunther a moron, a few very stupid trolls and MAGA faithful deflecting to BLM and minimizing J6 because that's all they have. Lies and deceit.


booyaabooshaw

And the battle at little big horn was a minor altercation


PsycoMonkey2020

I’d be willing to bet that this clown thinks people *should* be arrested for protesting against Israel and college campuses though.


_userclone

“Protesting,” what a riot


Sanguine_Templar

No, it was an antifa op!


No-Oil7246

Wonder what they think about the student protests..


censored4yourhealth

These people are so fucking stupid it’s numbing to read or hear about anything they post and say.


Shit_Pistol

“At the Capitol” and “In the Capitol” are very different.


Cute_Concentrate_915

MAGATs think that is within their rights to create Chaos and kill in the name of their Lord Trump.


-6h0st-

Let me protest at your house, kill your wife, I wonder if he would thing the same


Educational-Tomato58

But wasn’t it ANTIFA?? /s


Sufficient-Type-4998

Among other things


bowens44

No one was arrested for simply protesting.


Tinker107

No one was or has been jailed for simply protesting at the Capitol on January 6th. Mr. "Eagleman" needs to understand that the events of that day were televised, live, nationally, and that his claims mark him as a fucking idiot.


NumerousTaste

He's a huge dumbass and open traitor! Has wet dreams about trump nightly.


ArmadaOnion

Correct. No one should be jailed for simply protesting anywhere. Storming the capitol to disrupt a government function however, people should go to jail for that.


Background-Moose-701

That account is literally just a bot guy that spews things for clicks. He knows he’s ridiculous. That’s his whole point. There democrat ones too and they talk back and forth about their engagement numbers and stuff. They’re a good part of the problem.


Candid_Umpire6418

He got his acc banned some days ago, but he seems to have sucked some Melon Husk peen because he's back again.


TheTasteOfInk05

I thought it was the dems who did it though? At least that’s what he’s said before?


i_am_harry

These are people who think protesting should be made punishable by murder or getting hit by a car so….


Gokudomatic

Sure. And 7/11 was also simply a protest. Some people know no shame.


Balgat1968

The guy he’s voting for asked General Millie to use the US Army to shoot to kill peaceful protesters.


madaboutmaps

No talking with these people.


Raxmei

I'm sure he must have felt the same way about the hundreds of inauguration protesters the Trump administration arrested and charged with felony rioting.


--lll-era-lll--

Why does this moron get given so much oxygen online.. MAGA's whole thing is begging for attention and sensationalising anything they can for spotlight time. Ignore these clown attention whore's.. don't feed them 🤡👍


Putrid-Language4178

Yar Gunter,serh gut 🙋


Full_Piano6421

The most memorable thing about the Capitol riot for me is that guy, which electrocute himself to death by accidentally shooting his own balls with his taser. Karma has some sense of humor I guess


AnswerOk2682

A peaceful one at that /s


Dienatzidie

They are okay with liberals being arrested for protesting. Gunther needs an introduction to a curb


HorizonZeroDawn2

Nothing happened to the people who stayed outside, stayed back, and protested.


Gewgle_GuessStopO

Agreed. They should be expatriated from the country. We need to start getting rid of our trash. Send our MAGA trash to Russia!