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Trump Impeached for Inciting US Capitol Riots

posted by martyb on Wednesday January 13 2021, @10:15PM   Printer-friendly

martyb writes:

Trump impeached for 'inciting' US Capitol riots:

The US House of Representatives has impeached President Donald Trump for "incitement of insurrection" at last week's Capitol riot.

Ten Republicans sided with Democrats to impeach the president by 232-197.

He is the first president in US history to be impeached twice, or charged with crimes by Congress.

Mr Trump, a Republican, will now face a trial in the Senate, where if convicted he could face being barred from ever holding office again.

But Mr Trump will not have to quit the White House before his term in office ends in one week because the Senate will not reconvene in time.

Mr Trump will leave office on 20 January, following his election defeat last November to Democrat Joe Biden.

The Democratic-controlled House voted after several hours of impassioned debate on Wednesday as armed National Guard troops stood guard inside and outside the Capitol.

[...] Impeachment charges are political, not criminal.

Also at Newsweek, c|net, Al Jazeera, Washington Post.

[Ed Note - The linked article has been revised since submission. The quoted text has been revised accordingly. - Fnord]

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  • (Score: 0, Troll) by hemocyanin on Thursday January 14 2021, @04:59AM (1 child)

    by hemocyanin (186) on Thursday January 14 2021, @04:59AM (#1099893) Journal

    It's not a false equivalence.

    You are applying Repressive Tolerance, which means you are willing to use violence to secure certain political aims while condemning violence to secure political objectives with which you disagree.

    This makes you a person not interested in equality under the law, fairness, or justice. It makes you a person who is solely concerned with power and who does not care who is hurt in your pursuit of power, and one who has total faith in the righteousness of your cause. You are nothing but the modern equivalent of medieval Crusader, a pogrom leader, an authoritarian. In your heart lies the seed of every mass atrocity the world has seen.

    https://www.marcuse.org/herbert/publications/1960s/1965-repressive-tolerance-fulltext.html [marcuse.org]

    In terms of historical function, there is a difference between revolutionary and reactionary violence, between violence practiced by the oppressed and by the oppressors. In terms of ethics, both forms of violence are inhuman and evil--but since when is history made in accordance with ethical standards?

    That's you. You accept evil. You embrace it.

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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 14 2021, @07:32AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday January 14 2021, @07:32AM (#1099958)

    Yes it is and you're projecting. I specifically condemned leftwing violence, but you ignore that and continue with your false equivalence.

    Either you're too upset about my rudeness and just lashing out, or you are deliberately engaging in intellectual dishonesty to push a narrative.

    Don't really care, you've been pushing the rightwing narrative hard for a while and claiming to be a "real humanist liberal" so I guess we're back to "Ok boomer" but If it makes you feel better the worst thing I want to do is imprison criminals, rioters and insurrectionists alike. Please try and store that in long term memory.