As we told you earlier, there was an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol as people who apparently were pro-Hamas protesters took over parts of the building.
The scene in the Cannon House Office Building rotunda on Capitol Hill as Hamas sympathizers chant under a banner calling for a “CEASEFIRE.” Of note, demonstrations are not allowed in congressional buildings, per Capitol Police. pic.twitter.com/9RcCIjUzud
— Spencer Brown (@itsSpencerBrown) October 18, 2023
Arrests are finally being made:
Major protest in the Cannon Rotunda protesting Israel. USCP make dozens of arrests https://t.co/phJXFiVCCE
— Chad Pergram (@ChadPergram) October 18, 2023
Naturally some of those who have been arrested will face many, many years in prison, especially after Attorney General Merrick Garland has assured us there's not a two-tiered justice system. There will be no 10/18 Commission.
Oddly enough much of the broadcast media wasn't eager to provide this particular insurrection with much coverage:
Only Al Jazeera is currently covering the insurrection underway in our nation's capital pic.twitter.com/qubcBb4M9L
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) October 18, 2023
The sympathetic media coverage of this particular Capitol protest reminded us of something that caused the Capitol Police to quickly spring into action. Not the January 6th protest, but in June of this year when a group of kids started singing the National Anthem in the Capitol. This got shut down way faster than today's Capitol insurrection:
Video shows the children concluding the first verse of the anthem as onlookers applauded. But as they started another verse, an officer can be seen talking with Rea and another man. About a minute later, a man identified as a staffer for Wilson approached Rasbach to stop the singing.
“When they stopped us and I walked over to the Capitol Police I said, ‘Why are you stopping us?’” Rasbach said. “They said, ‘Because this is considered a demonstration and we don’t allow demonstrations in the Capitol.’”
Rasbach claimed that a Capitol Police officer later told him that there were also concerns that people could be offended, but he was unable to provide the name of the officer or otherwise substantiate that assertion.
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Demonstrations aren't allowed in the Capitol and there were concerns people could be offended.
It took quite a bit longer for those to be concerns today.
Remember when that group of kids singing the National Anthem were rounded up and escorted out because the didn't have a permit?https://t.co/6BPskiolj0
— Sandy 〽️ (@RightGlockMom) October 18, 2023
. @CapitolPolice allowing a
— Joel Griffith (@joelgriffith) October 18, 2023
pro-Hamas riot inside the Capitol building. Just a reminder: Police cut off a youth group singing the national anthem in the rotunda just months ago. Hamas supporters welcomed; patriotic children, not so much. https://t.co/LysqxQk9fU
Remember the children's choir that couldn't sing the National Anthem at the Capitol? https://t.co/CtAUoYnoLL
— THINKER BELL (@Poetonpoetry) October 18, 2023
It's incomprehensible how backward things have been allowed to get.
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