Originally Posted by
mickeycrimm
January 6 was an FBI massive failure. The protestors involved weren't exactly brain surgeons. The FBI should have been all over preventing it. But then we have to ask....did they really want to prevent it.
Yeah, and the DC Mayor deserves a lot of the blame here, as she declined to assign additional officers to help the Capitol Police, claiming it wasn't necessary. This was requested BEFORE the riots, and denied.
I had heard for months that some idiots were going to try to interfere with the transition of power, so I don't understand why this shit wasn't fortified with a high law enforcement presence, with orders to shoot if necessary to stop any kind of invasion. I had assumed this was going to be done, so I didn't worry about any kind of event like January 6 ever occurring. This was a massive failure in preparation, and heads should roll for it. But have they? As far as I've seen, the answer is no.
In a free country of 330 million, you're going to have groups of violent kooks on both sides of the political spectrum. You need to prepare properly to deal with them, and some of that preparation invovles making it very clear that anyone trying shit like this will get a bullet in the head.
The problem is that the Democrats want to blame this on Trump, and as far as the blame game goes here, he's low down on the list of who was most at fault for this fiasco.