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Consequences for Veterans and/or retirees in the 2021 DC Riots

Spekkio

He bowls overhand.
Now that the election is over. Before, Twitter suspended the NYP account for tweeting their story. Facebook did its part as well. It’s fairly well documented
So in my quick searching of this, it looks like they banned the story based on the fact that it contained personal information obtained by hacking into someone's computer.

Would you want Twitter / Facebook / whoever to suppress your PII and bank account information if it was stolen? That was the principle that they applied.

Am I missing something?
 

SlickAg

Registered User
pilot
So in my quick searching of this, it looks like they banned the story based on the fact that it contained personal information obtained by hacking into someone's computer.

Would you want Twitter / Facebook / whoever to suppress your PII and bank account information if it was stolen? That was the principle that they applied.

Am I missing something?
No hacking.

The computers became the property of a computer shop owner in Delaware after the original owner (Hunter Biden) failed to pick them up within the required timeframe. He looked at the content in them, was alarmed by what he saw, and turned them over to law enforcement. Totally legal. If Hunter Biden had picked up the laptops nothing would have happened. But, he didn’t, so the computer shop owner followed his protocols. Something about “terms and conditions” and “private businesses”...

If you were unable to find this after some google searching then I’d say it’s generally indicative of the lengths to which the media has gone to suppress this information.
 
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taxi1

Well-Known Member
pilot
Exactly. Just another indication of the hypocrisy.
This was worse, because of what was going on in the building and what they were trying to do.

If a joint session of the congress carrying out its constitutionality mandated role of certifying the election had been in those buildings, and the BLM folks were trying to disrupt it and capture senators, reps, and the VP as hostages, it’d be the same.
 

BigRed389

Registered User
None
There are many things in the world that happen without precedent. Last year, this election, etc. I think what you are really asking is whether there are legal grounds for that to happen, or if there is a legal precedent to support that interpretation of existing law? I will leave that to the courts to decide. I get that you don't feel this was an attack on the federal government.....which is another thing that ultimately the courts and evidence will hopefully clarify. But this:
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......is an awfully bad look for someone collecting a federally funded pension.

It's not even just a bad look. It just doesn't even make sense.
The pension nominally exists because you can be called back to active duty if needed considering the experience and skill sets you will leave with.

An O-5 who is stupid enough to go along with this jackassery doesnt seem real high on the list for people in that paygrade to call back if needed. If at all.
 

Ghost SWO

Well-Known Member
Contributor
Why else would they break in?
Opportunity, compounded by a twisted mob mentality.

From a measly retail perspective... a respectable percentage of illegal activity occurs simply from opportunity. I'd imagine if the security was more robust and did a better job preventing the mob from getting inside the capitol, we would have seen a very different and much more preferable outcome.
 

Sam I am

Average looking, not a farmer.
pilot
Contributor
it would help everyone in America to understand that right-left is not a straight line, but rather a circle, where the further you go around the circle in either direction, it meets up with groups that went the other way. I've heard this describes as being so far apart they're standing back-to-back...I'm assuming it comes from your visual aid.

I would argue the second biggest failure that day, next to Capitol security, was the lack of an actual message once inside. All of this time and energy, penetrating security, risking injury/arrest/death, and all that really came out of it was people making Tik-Tok selfies wearing a buffalo head. Kind of seems like it's the right's equivalent to stealing a new iMac from a retailer's storefront.
Right?! I mean, if you're going to conduct an armed insurrection, have clear goal for Christ's sake. If you're going to permanently f@#K your life up by invading the Capitol at the literal pinnacle of Democracy (declaring the next President) at least get something accomplished other than permanently f@#king your life up. Too funny...not really.

I wonder if the same was done to violent protesters who were burning down businesses and police stations during the BLM nonsense.
While the George Floyd riots were alarming, destructive, and violent they aren't even remotely in the same ballpark as what took place at the Capitol. I'll compare most (excluding the pacific NW which I agree are in the same ballpark) riots to the Rodney King riots in LA. Defunding the police, while a terrible idea, does not possess the same gravity as invading the Capitol to subvert the outcome of an election and change the outcome of the electoral vote.

Exactly. Just another indication of the hypocrisy.
Exactly?! HAL, they're all out to get you man. Head for the hills, only the strong will survive. [/QUOTE]


EDIT: I tried to go varsity and do bunch of reply quotes in one post...it's more harder than i thunk.
 
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UInavy

Registered User
pilot
Super Moderator
Contributor
You keep saying “armed insurrection” yet only one person was shot, and it was police/secret service that did the shooting. Stop being ridiculous.
Dude. That’s a policeman getting beat in the middle. That’s the Capitol he was defending in the background. Defined ‘armed’ and ‘insurrection’ whatever way you like. That won’t change what actually occurred.
 

Treetop Flyer

Well-Known Member
pilot
Dude. That’s a policeman getting beat in the middle. That’s the Capitol he was defending in the background. Defined ‘armed’ and ‘insurrection’ whatever way you like. That won’t change what actually occurred.
Armed and insurrection have definitions. That’s not what happened. No one here is trying to “change what actually occurred”
 
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