The Insurrectionists Must be Held Accountable

Our country reached a point of no return last week and those responsible must be held to account

Rusty D. Pickens
11 min readJan 13, 2021
January 6, 2021 — a day that will live in infamy. Reuters

On January 6th, 2021 the American Republic saw an entire political party cross the Rubicon — we may no longer claim that there was a “peaceful transfer of power” between our 45th and 46th Presidents. The failed attempt at an armed-takeover of a branch of U.S. government resulted in the deaths of Americans — all in pursuit of a false reality propagated, animated, and reinforced by one political party in a desperate attempt to retain power.

I watched in horror as an angry mob of Trump #MAGA supporters — exactly the people that Hillary Clinton warned us about in 2016 — received their disjointed, hate-infused, and thinly-veiled marching orders from their commanders before they made their way from the White House to the U.S. Capitol on the same day the Congress was fulfilling its ceremonial duty to certify the presidential election. Among others, Mo Brooks, Rudy Giuliani, Don Jr., and the Insurrectionist-in-Chief himself did what they’ve been working toward for months now — but this time instead of political rhetoric and first amendment protected speech, their words translated into violence, murder, and vandalization to our nation’s most sacred building.

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Rusty D. Pickens
Rusty D. Pickens

Written by Rusty D. Pickens

#Geek using my powers of technology for better government. Founder of @580Strategies - Former @ObamaWhiteHouse and @StateDept

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