From: Ronald Wilkinson
Edinburgh
There’s fighting happening in many parts of the world; many would welcome volunteers. Here in this country, we have “G.I. Joes” in camouflage outfits with guns and other items, attacking and threatening law enforcement officers, governors and lawmakers.
On January 6, 2021, the US Capitol was attacked, not by a foreign invasion force, but by Americans. Some Capitol lawmakers and their staff used their cellphones that day to call for help and to notify their families of their dire situation, even as they scrambled to find a safe place to hide before the mob could catch up with them. Those who weren’t able to make it to safety with the rest, barricaded themselves inside their offices, using whatever pieces of furniture they were able to move behind the doors. Frightfully they waited, hoping that the cavalry would arrive in time to rescue them — a cavalry whose commander-in-chief, then-President Donald Trump, was the one who instigated the attack, but refused to call it off, even when asked to do so by a couple of his cabinet members and his daughter Ivanka.
Watching many of the insurrectionists/terrorists crawl up the outside walls of the Capitol like giant killer crabs, as if from a scene in a sci-fi movie, only this was real, I asked myself, how could this be happening here in America, in the 21st century?
Columbus, Indiana, is widely known for its fine architectural buildings; had the insurrectionists been successful in their conspired effort in hanging Mike Pence that day, Columbus would also come to be known as the home of the only US vice president to have been lynched.
Strange as it is, the person who almost caused Pence to be lynched by the mob, while others would’ve stood by, watched and cheered, and the world watched in horror, that same person is still being celebrated by some of his supporters right here in Pence’s hometown. Loyalty Trumps familiarity, I suppose.
