I share the opinion that they have no excuses or arguable reasons for their murderous action because they walk freely among us as citizens. I don't approve of foreign sourced terror either.
I agree that the situation of the Capitol attack was on home soil and made by citizens who enjoy the benefits of that location and their own citizenship. How exactly is that different from the man who murders an abortion provider, or bombs a clinic, or a public event because they have reached the conclusion it is the only way to counter their "enemy" and the organizations and political forces represented by that "enemy"? Or when a group of men hang someone because they don't like his skin color, or religion, or culture, or who he or she loves. How is that different from the drone attack which kills family gathered for a wedding, or a funeral? Or the missile attack that falls on the only working hospital in town? Domestic terror or foreign terror is the same damn murder to intimidate. The tools used are a question of scale and financing. The intent is the same. The difference is you are committing Treason when you do it at home.
Murder of non-combatants is always a terrorist act. Including that which our government has done. It was during WWII as it was during Vietnam, Grenada, Panama, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, along with all the other "little" CIA wars. I will not list other examples from other regimes and conflicts, or events like the 1972 Munich massacre, or Northern Ireland's troubles as the politics and history of those events is simply too complicated to address here.
The difference as I see it is that the people who attacked the Capitol, committing murder as they did so, and who threaten to murder our elected leaders and representatives have a choice about that because they live here. They already have the benefits of citizenship which they presume to deny to the rest of us. They traveled unmolested to DC to make a public protest of their views, which in many other countries would have had them arrested and jailed as they were getting off the buses. Some among them made the choice, apparently at a point long before got on those buses to take the building and end our government and to brook no resistance in the process. As I have read it in the NYT and the WAPO they plan to do more of the same and are actively arranging to continue, as is their as yet to be arrested figure-head, self-proclaimed savior, and Traitor in Chief.
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