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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1337255)	1/7/2022 1:05:26 PM
From: locogringo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575139

Brian Sicknick did NOT die as a result of the insurrection. Tenchusatsu, none of the 4 that Pelosi mentioned were killed by the rioters. NOT ONE. The only person killed was an unarmed woman and Air Force veteran by a Capitol policeman. My blood boils Does THC saturated blood boil at a lower temperature? Did any blood boil at these 8 events? Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices Message Board - Msg: 33650633 (siliconinvestor.com) What double standards?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1337255)	1/7/2022 1:07:46 PM
From: Wharf Rat	2 Recommendations Recommended By pocotrader rdkflorida2 Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575139

"Yet here you are telling me that I'm "complicit" in the attempt to "kill democracy." Totally. It's not too late for you to change, tho..... “No self-governing society can survive such a threat by denying that it exists,” he said. “To deny it is to be complicit in what happened.” On Senate floor, Leahy recalls shock of Jan. 6 attack, says Trump must be held accountable By Shaun Robinson Jan 6 2022 Speaking on the floor of the U.S. Senate Thursday morning, Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., recalled the chaos that unfolded there exactly one year earlier and said that former President Donald Trump needed to be held accountable for inciting “an attempted coup” that day. Leahy said he was shocked to see police officers rush into the Senate chamber on Jan. 6, 2021, responding to what he soon learned was a violent attack by Trump supporters attempting to stop Congress’ formal certification of the results of the 2020 election. “We are in the business of words, but there are none to adequately capture the damage that (Trump) and his henchmen have done and are doing to our country,” Leahy said in what he called some of the most somber remarks of his eight-term Senate career. Get Final Reading delivered to your inbox.Sign up free. Leahy recalled seeing a man standing several feet away from him wearing a vest that read “police” and holding a submachine gun. The senator had never seen anything like that in the legislative chamber before, he said. As police ushered lawmakers into a secure area, Leahy said one officer grabbed his arm and said, “We’re going to watch out for you, Shamrock.” That line stuck with him because “Shamrock” was the code name police gave him when he was sent a letter containing anthrax during an attack in 2001, he said. A year earlier, “we saw a mob — Americans who turned into a mob — and turned their back on our nation’s constitutional history,” Leahy said. “They were rejecting everything that made America great.” But the threat to American democracy has not passed, he said. Since the insurgency, Leahy said, there’s been “a concerted effort” by some members of Congress to downplay or mischaracterize the events of Jan. 6, 2021, calling that an insult to the people who died either in or as a result of the attack, including police officers. “No self-governing society can survive such a threat by denying that it exists,” he said. “To deny it is to be complicit in what happened.” It’s important to hold not just the people who attacked the U.S. Capitol accountable for their actions, Leahy said, but also the person who “egged them on”: Trump. “It is detestable how so many were so callously used as cannon fodder,” Leahy said. “Their actions were wrong, but many believed they were acting as patriots. The former president told them so … Meanwhile, he and so many of his cronies, unlike many of his followers who stormed the Capitol, have paid no price for their roles.” In an interview this week with VTDigger’s Vermont Conversation, U.S. Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., also described an ongoing threat to the country following the Jan. 6, 2021 attack. Asked if he believed the failed coup that day was a rehearsal for a successful one, the House member and candidate to replace Leahy in the Senate replied, “Yes, I do.” “There are efforts to use through legislation the capacity to overturn a presidential election, rather than the use of violence that failed on January 6,” Welch said. “So yes, it’s very much a work in progress.” Leahy was one of an array of senators who spoke on Thursday about the insurgency and its aftermath. President Joe Biden also spoke at the Capitol, saying in a scathing attack that Trump and his allies “held a dagger at the throat of America.” Top Republicans were absent from the commemorative events, The New York Times reported. In a written statement Thursday, U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., said American democracy is under attack, and that attack goes deeper than the violence of Jan. 6, 2021. “It is not just the subversion of democratic norms and voting rights that is undermining our democracy,” he said. “Our democracy is also under attack because all across this country people increasingly believe democracy itself, and our government, does not work for them.” vtdigger.org