Thoughts on The Capital Protests
As today progressed from morning, to evening, to now very late at night (or very early morning, depending on your perspective), I have to admit that I've gone from elation to now a sense of sadness and worry. Regardless of what the blue checkmarks on Twitter say, the events at the Capital building were unilaterally good for America. It wasn't a coup or insurrection, it was a riot - just a riot - and its form was no different from the countless other "mostly peaceful" riots which took place over the past year. The obvious difference is that this riot took place in the Capital halls.
Surrounded by many thousands of Trump supporters, I have to imagine that today was the first day our representatives and senators ever experienced the tyranny of the majority first hand. The government in Washington has utterly failed its responsibility to protect Americans' liberty and property. If anything, the looming Great Reset and Green New Deal suggest that Congress is more interested in destroying freedoms than protecting them.
Today, finally, they witnessed the chaos, disorder, and fear created by a government which fails its people.
For most of the day there were no fires, no massive destruction of property, and very few injuries. In a better world, there would have been no need or desire among the protestors to storm the Capital, but our world is far from perfect. Seeing Americans occupy our own house was a magnificent sight, and it was made sweeter when we could believe everyone would go home to see their families at the end of the day.
We know now that won't be the case. Sadly, a protestor was killed in the process of taking the Capital and her children are deprived of their mother.
As the growing reality of today's events began to take hold in my mind, I have a depressing thought that this is only the first of many deaths.
We know that the protection of liberty and property are just reasons for war. We also know that war requires sacrifices, and we are blessed with heroes willing to make those sacrifices. Should we find ourselves in outright war, it will be our duty to make sure our heroes' names are not lost to the sands of time.
But until such a time that war is inevitable, peace must be the goal. Secession is the means to ensure that peace.