Reader offers thoughts on Capitol invasion

Dear Editor,

By now everyone has seen more than enough of the persons who ‘took over’ our Capital building. Here are a few points to ponder:

• Recently it was reported that our President and his legal team had done ‘research’ on pardons granted ‘before’the crimes to be committed were done.

For himself, his family members and his attorney of record, the famous Mr. Rudy.

We wondered what the heck, why would someone ‘grant pardons’ for crimes not yet done, and most concerning, for the Presidential family members. Hmm.

• After watching photos and videos on the news of the individual office invasions it struck me as rather suspicious that not even Nancy Pelosi had locked her office before the voting session. If all the offices ‘were’ indeed locked, then I hope each person responsile gets more charges for that crime.

• Isn’t it odd that many of the top D.C. law enforcement are ‘resigninng’? If I had done my best, planned my best for the voting and the persons known to be coming to protest, WHY resign? Prove you did your best, document your actions and present them to the public!

• Did not the FBI have a serious responsibility when so many known political activators were ‘on their way’ to Washington, D.C., to provide better assistance and readiness? I wonder if we can get each one’s ‘stimulus money’ amounts reversed.

• Should not a designated area have been prepared for ‘protestors’? Did they have a permit to gather? Certainly no one would grant a permit for that particular place and time without condidering who the heck was coming?

• The actions of those involved in the ‘takeover’ of the Capitol surely need consequences. Do we have any ‘enhancements’ of law breaking, such as double the punishment time and fines for disruption of our political system? We should.

• Since the protest, and indeed the planeloads of protesters themselves, were known of in advance, why wasn’t the National Guard already in place? The sheer volume of protestors whould have called for ‘assistance’.

• What failure of airline safety measures happened to allow that number of weapons to arrive? Or were they all purchased in D.C.?

• Are the federal prisons ready for the inflow of these activists once they are convicted of federal crimes? Such persons may pose additional problems for the prison inmate population and/or the staff.

• Having seen the hours of live footage, the endless replaying of clips, I am ready for some other news. Stop giving both sides, Democrats and Republicans, ‘free advertising’. Give us more good news. The public, at least my husband and I, are fed up with the endless clips of crimes in general. Crime happens, I get it, but we need more firm and appropriate punishments to fit those crimes, perhaps deter it in the future. That’s what we hope for.