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Republicans Are Blurring the Faces of Capitol Rioters so They Won't Get Arrested (www.rollingstone.com)

submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave to c/news

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House Speaker Mike Johnson has promised to release more than 44,000 hours of surveillance footage from Jan. 6 to the public, with one major caveat: The faces of some individuals who participated in the storming of the Capitol, a violent attempt to prevent the certification of Joe Biden’s election, will be blurred out.

In a press conference on Tuesday, Johnson said that “the release of the January 6 tapes is a critical and important exercise, we want transparency … we trust — House Republicans trust — the American people to draw their own conclusions.”

Johnson added that the party is going “through a methodical process of releasing them as quickly as we can” and that they “have to blur some of the faces of the persons who participated in the events of that day because we don’t want them to be retaliated against, and to be charged by the DOJ and to have other, you know, concerns and problems.”

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[–] Eldritch 7 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Things were pretty fucked up before. But racist bigots like Nixon and Reagan calling to their kin post 1964. Absolutely contributed massively to the polarization, and the party of hate. That is the Republican party today. They definitely weren't the first though. I think it needs to be pointed out repeatedly. Since our history lessons in the United States tend to be whitewashed heavily. But the Republican party was planning an attempted fascist overthrow here in the 1930s. Just like Hitler. They were caught but never actually punished for it. And have only spent the intervening 100 years laying better plans and putting more groundwork in place for their fascist overthrow. They've gotten quite far on it as well. You yourself mentioning the son and grandson of the person they most likely intended to install as dictator being presidents.

[–] billiam0202 4 points 11 months ago

Don't forget Congressional shitstains like Dennis "Child Molester" Hastert, Newt "It is a mortal sin for a President to get a blowjob but just fine for me to cheat on my wife while she's dying of cancer" Gingrich, and Mitch "I got super rich after marrying a Chinese transportation company owner's daughter nothing suspicious there" McConnell. They all made working across the aisle anathema for Republicans.