'An Insurgency From Inside the Oval Office': Curfew in Washington DC: Republicans Lose Two Senate Seats from Georgia
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Sukla Sen
Jan 7, 2021, 3:23:02 AM1/7/21
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Storming of the Winter Palace.
By Kornilov.
So to speak.
(Please look up: <https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55568131> and <https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9emz/the-most-surreal-photographs-of-the-invasion-of-the-capitol?>.
The Insurgents Were On the Rampage.
For pretty long.
Had a free run!???
Does someone recall that the American police, not too long ago, had shot a black woman dead, while asleep in her bed, breaking into her place!
(Ref.: <https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-woman-shot-killed-after-kentucky-police-entered-her-home-n1205651>.)
Good that it's restrained now.
But, the master instigator must be held accountable.
(In the meanwhile, the Democrats have, eventually, succeeded in wresting both the Senate seats from the Republicans in the battleground state of Georgia.)
<<The chaos in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday unfolded after President Donald Trump spent weeks whipping up his supporters with false allegations of fraud in the Nov. 3 election, culminating in a call to march to the building that represents U.S. democracy.
...
Speaking at what could be his last rally as the sitting president, Trump exhorted his supporters “to fight.”
...
About 50 minutes into the speech, some of his supporters, waving Trump flags, began heading toward Capitol Hill, where unprecedented mayhem ensued.
Protesters fought through police barricades, stormed the building and entered lawmakers’ chambers. The certification process was stopped and Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress were evacuated.One civilian was shot dead, Washington police said. As night fell, a Capitol official said the building had been cleared, but outside some way from the grounds, scores of protesters remained, including members of militia and far-right groups.>>
(Ref.: <https://in.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-election-protests/trump-summoned-supporters-to-wild-protest-and-told-them-to-fight-they-did-idINKBN29B2CZ>.)
The "system" came, undoubtedly, under heavy stress.
But, showing signs that it has requisite resilience to tackle.
The defining difference between a "free society" and "actually existing socialism" is, to my mind, that while the former, quite often, is highly oppressive externally and, to an appreciable degree, pretty much otherwise - in terms of political rights in particular, internally; the latter is/was fairly the opposite.
That's why the US is not expected to crumble overnight, the way the then Soviet Union did, preceded by its satellite states.
Of course, even the unexpected, at times, happens.
For that matter, no one - to my admittedly limited knowledge, had predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union - even when the satellites were falling like nine pins.
Neither from the Right, nor from the Centre, not even from the all-knowing Left.
Sukla
-- By Kornilov.
So to speak.
(Please look up: <https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-55568131> and <https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9emz/the-most-surreal-photographs-of-the-invasion-of-the-capitol?>.
The Insurgents Were On the Rampage.
For pretty long.
Had a free run!???
Does someone recall that the American police, not too long ago, had shot a black woman dead, while asleep in her bed, breaking into her place!
(Ref.: <https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/black-woman-shot-killed-after-kentucky-police-entered-her-home-n1205651>.)
Good that it's restrained now.
But, the master instigator must be held accountable.
(In the meanwhile, the Democrats have, eventually, succeeded in wresting both the Senate seats from the Republicans in the battleground state of Georgia.)
<<The chaos in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday unfolded after President Donald Trump spent weeks whipping up his supporters with false allegations of fraud in the Nov. 3 election, culminating in a call to march to the building that represents U.S. democracy.
...
Speaking at what could be his last rally as the sitting president, Trump exhorted his supporters “to fight.”
...
About 50 minutes into the speech, some of his supporters, waving Trump flags, began heading toward Capitol Hill, where unprecedented mayhem ensued.
Protesters fought through police barricades, stormed the building and entered lawmakers’ chambers. The certification process was stopped and Vice President Mike Pence and members of Congress were evacuated.One civilian was shot dead, Washington police said. As night fell, a Capitol official said the building had been cleared, but outside some way from the grounds, scores of protesters remained, including members of militia and far-right groups.>>
(Ref.: <https://in.reuters.com/article/uk-usa-election-protests/trump-summoned-supporters-to-wild-protest-and-told-them-to-fight-they-did-idINKBN29B2CZ>.)
The "system" came, undoubtedly, under heavy stress.
But, showing signs that it has requisite resilience to tackle.
The defining difference between a "free society" and "actually existing socialism" is, to my mind, that while the former, quite often, is highly oppressive externally and, to an appreciable degree, pretty much otherwise - in terms of political rights in particular, internally; the latter is/was fairly the opposite.
That's why the US is not expected to crumble overnight, the way the then Soviet Union did, preceded by its satellite states.
Of course, even the unexpected, at times, happens.
For that matter, no one - to my admittedly limited knowledge, had predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union - even when the satellites were falling like nine pins.
Neither from the Right, nor from the Centre, not even from the all-knowing Left.
Sukla
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