Quote:Remember when having a bunch of people invading a building housing part of the Legislative Branch of government and interfering with the proper functioning of those elected officials was a bad thing - an insurrection? That's what the left claimed about the January 6th hooliganism, but they are, so far, strangely quiet about a bunch of "pro-Palestinian" protestors invading the Hart Senate office building.

Now, this isn't an insurrection, by any reasonable standard of the word. But then, neither was J6. The incursion of these - let's be honest - pro-Hamas protestors is trespassing; it is very likely interfering with the proper functions of the United States Senate by being disruptive. The brief video shown doesn't portray any property damage - although it does show the rather clueless protestors resisting cops who are trying to remove them.

So where are the cries of "OMG INSURRECTION" from the left now?

For that matter, what do these protestors actually want, aside from, presumably, the destruction of Israel, the only country in the Middle East with a freely elected government? Oh, yes, they unfurl banners with the usual lurid cry of "GENOCIDE" on them; another example of their general cluelessness, as in the history of warfare, no military force has gone to greater effort to avoid collateral damage than has the Israeli Defense Forces in their operations against Hamas and Hezbollah. There is a lot of shouting, but it's unclear what they are actually advocating - and it's entirely possible, were you to talk with any of these people, they wouldn't be able to articulate any coherent policy advocacy themselves.

As much as we can tell as to what they want, the diminishment if not the destruction of Israel, these protestors are already getting much of what they wanted from the outgoing Biden administration, aren't they? Only earlier today we covered Joe Biden's outgoing administration's chucking of Isreal under the bus, but that isn't enough for these people. They want Israel gone.

We have weeks yet to go before the Trump administration takes hold of the levers of power, and things are already growing more and more unsettled. The inauguration itself will very likely be marked by protests at best - and the right to protest is enshrined in the First Amendment. But it will be mildly surprising if there are no outbreaks of violence, especially in our major cities. There are already signs of dissent and outright defiance.

And not all of the dissent is coming from barely-organized leftist protestors.

We are headed for interesting times, folks, and the inauguration is likely to just be Round One. Prepare accordingly.

As for this protest in the Hart Senate office building, on X, one wag commented:

Indeed.