2 January—A U.S. Capitol police sergeant who is still evidently recovering from wounds he suffered in the 6 January riot has been complaining on receptive media that the violence and horrors he witnessed then were unlike anything he had witnessed as a soldier in Iraq. So what else is new? Certainly a domestic riot—insurrection or otherwise—is unlike combat in a war zone in any number of ways.

The Capitol police chief at the time of the riot resigned amid criticism of how the U.S. Capitol Police (USCP) handled the attack. And six USCP officers have been suspended with pay, while 29 others have been placed under investigation for their actions during the fracas.

And, as other Capitol cops have retired or are talking about it, the USCP is worried about being able to recruit new personnel. Now it’s known, I guess, that Capital cops are expected to do more than herd tourists and salute politicians.

A long-retired army lieutenant general appointed by Nancy Pelosi (the beloved Speaker of the House, who is even older than Joe Biden and as scummy as Charles Schumer and Donald Trump combined), besides suggesting that perimeter fencing be installed around the Capitol and some Republicans be run out of D.C. and put on no-fly lists, called for the hiring of 1,000 more cops, of whom 350 would provide personal security for members of Congress. And that nincompoop wasn’t kidding. The question is, why didn’t he recommend 540 personal security officers, one for every voting and non-voting member? Not that Nancy and he give a damn about the Republican members.

Overkill and politically motivated bullshit pure and simple. There shouldn’t even be a fence around the White House. Yet this retired general officer with nothing but administrative experience under his stars wants to put one around the Capitol. It’s Pelosi’s not-so-subtle way of keeping the rabble—i.e., the mere voters—even farther from the corridors of power than we already are. And, as usual, the pols, many of whom must have been fouling their Depends on 6 January, are thinking of themselves first and foremost.

While the riot last Epiphany may be hyped as an insurrection by the same alarmists who soil their pants over climate change—a violent uprising against an authority or government—I don’t think it was that exalted. Rather, I believe it was merely a horde of guileless assholes incited by their moronic assholissimo (who probably didn’t have the smarts to know what he was getting himself or the country into) to disrupt the congressional certification of electoral votes.

Certainly it got out of hand, just like the riots conveniently motivated by police killing non-White people, in which arson, looting, and other catastrophic mayhem have tended to go unpunished and even unpublicized in highly biased media. But what took place 6 January 2021 was not an insurrection. And in all events politicians of whatever persuasion must not be allowed to use it to their political advantage . . .