Protestors Arrested After Occupying Kevin McCarthy’s Office

Flying Squid@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world – 234 points – WATCH: Protestors Arrested After Occupying Kevin McCarthy’s Office
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Protestors occupied Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy’s (R-CA) office on Monday demanding that lower chamber of Congress reauthorize federal spending on the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).

“Pass PEPFAR now, McCarthy! Pass PEPFAR now, McCarthy!” chanted the protestors before eventually being arrested by members of the Capitol Police.

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Now watch as Republicans insist that these protesters are just as bad as the Jan 6 protestors, and should be brought up on insurrection and sedition charges....

No, they'll insist that that January 6th people were peaceful tourists who should all be freed while these people are terrorists who deserve the death penalty.

Of course, the occupation of a Congressional office is wrong (and particularly stupid after 1/6) and these people should face appropriate charges and (assuming convictions) prison time. That said, the 1/6 people were committing much worse crimes.

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Impressive how quickly they were arrested. I was under the impression that this sort of thing took years!

Republican House majority have argued that a portion of the $7 billion spent annually on the program ends up in the hands of organizations that also perform abortions.

Letting people die because you are pro-life.

Not that I necessarily agree with this groups methods, but I guarantee they'll get a harsher sentence than the traitors on J6 who tried to overthrow the government.

Well, if I've learned anything from the Freedom Caucus, then these people shouldn't be charged because they were obviously just patriotic tourists.

Of course, I'm sure the right will continue to insist that that January 6th Insurrectionists were peaceful tourists while decrying these people as violent woke antifa terrorists.

Was that a BLM flag next to a thin blue line flag? I feel like they should either cancel each other out or explode or something.

I think it's just a regular American flag.

Oh, upon closer examination I think you are right. The color balance on that photo is just off. It looks a touch lighter than the BLM flag.

I'll bet they didn't smear shit everywhere during their occupation.