Insurrection always has a leader

Washington DC

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Either one man incited over 10,000 people to attack the US Capitol Building while carrying zip tie handcuffs and erecting a gallows in the parking area with the obvious intention of hanging elected Senators and Congressmen or all 10,000 people got this idea independently. “If you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” “You have to show strength, and you have to be strong.” “When you catch somebody in a fraud, you are allowed to go by very different rules.” "You will have an illegitimate president. That is what you will have, and we can’t let that happen.” “We are going to the Capitol, try and give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our country. So let’s walk down Pennsylvania Avenue.” Given the chance later to clarify or amend his earlier statements and denounce the day's attack, he instead chose to say: “Go home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!” THE FACTS: It was a textbook insurrection. As “defined in the law,” an insurrection is “the act or an instance of revolting esp. violently against civil or political authority or against an established government,” according to Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Under the U.S. Code, the crime of insurrection is committed by “Whoever incites, sets on foot, assists, or engages in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States or the laws thereof, or gives aid or comfort thereto.”