So, You Want to Heal the Nation?

[Wandering Monk]

When everyone who participated in the seditious riot at the US Capitol is arrested and charged, and when all the violent extremists in the US have been arrested and imprisoned, then we can talk about healing.

We can all do our part by paying attention, scouring the FBI images of wanted rioters, and reporting anyone we know who was there participating. Then, keep your ears and eyes wide open and report anyone you suspect may be plotting political violence against our government.

 

[74x12]

When everyone who participated in the seditious riot at the US Capitol is arrested and charged, and when all the violent extremists in the US have been arrested and imprisoned, then we can talk about healing.

We can all do our part by paying attention, scouring the FBI images of wanted rioters, and reporting anyone we know who was there participating. Then, keep your ears and eyes wide open and report anyone you suspect may be plotting political violence against our government.

That's not healing. That's your vendetta. You want revenge.

 

[Wandering Monk]

That's not healing. That's your vendetta. You want revenge.

Do you disagree that they should all be arrested?

 

[JustGeorge]

Even if they are all arrested, I doubt that will bring healing.

What do you think will bring healing? For the right? For the left? Those who aren't either?

 

[Cooky]

I just hope they don't get so crazy they try and assassinate Biden or Harris. That would be a real wake-up call for this nation if that happened. It would lead to a civil war, because the left would try to ban guns and the right would rebel.

...Knock on wood that doesn't happen.

 

[Wandering Monk]

Even if they are all arrested, I doubt that will bring healing.

What do you think will bring healing? For the right? For the left? Those who aren't either?

Recognition that extremist will be imprisoned, that justice will be meted out. Should make wannabes think twice.

 

[Audie]

That's not healing. That's your vendetta. You want revenge.

No, it is find out what really happened.
And act accordingly.

 

[JustGeorge]

Recognition that extremist will be imprisoned, that justice will be meted out. Should make wannabes think twice.

I certainly hope so, but that isn't healing. That's repressing. And while this kind of thing should be repressed, it still won't heal the wounds that seem to exist in this country.

 

[Shadow Wolf]

I just hope they don't get so crazy they try and assassinate Biden or Harris. That would be a real wake-up call for this nation if that happened. It would lead to a civil war, because the left would try to ban guns and the right would rebel.

...Knock on wood that doesn't happen.

I can totally see this backwatds country politicizing the hell out of such a thing.

 

[Audie]

Recognition that extremist will be imprisoned, that justice will be meted out. Should make wannabes think twice.

Will this apply in the future to all rioters?

 

[Valjean]

Ah, the old "up against the wall" approach.

Isn't that pretty much the approach taken by the Phillippines under Marcos, Chile under Pinochet, Spain under Franco, Italy under Mussolini, Germany under Hitler, Argentina under Videla, Cambodia under Pol Pot, &c. &c?
How did work out there?

 

[Quetzal]

It would lead to a civil war, because the left would try to ban guns and the right would rebel.

The motion to ban guns has never been entertained nor has it ever been drafted. I am tired of having to say it.

 

[Cooky]

The motion to ban guns has never been entertained nor has it ever been drafted. I am tired of having to say it.

But if someone assassinates a president in this day and age, Especially Biden or Harris, protests might emerge, causing intense milital provocation between polarized groups!

 

[Quetzal]

But if someone assassinates a president in this day and age, Especially Biden or Harris, protests might emerge, causing intense milital provocation between polarized groups!

Speculation, nothing else.

 

[Cooky]

I can totally see this backwatds country politicizing the hell out of such a thing.

It would be absolutely horrific in every way. We have to make sure that doesn't happen.

 

[Orbit]

That's not healing. That's your vendetta. You want revenge.

That's accountability.

 

[Quintessence]

That's not healing. That's your vendetta. You want revenge.

I don't know about vendettas or revenge, but I agree that what the OP proposes has little to nothing to do with healing. Healing would be a proposal to increase awareness of mental/physical health and provide better mental/physical health services for all tho are in need of them.

 

[Brickjectivity]

When everyone who participated in the seditious riot at the US Capitol is arrested and charged, and when all the violent extremists in the US have been arrested and imprisoned, then we can talk about healing.

We can all do our part by paying attention, scouring the FBI images of wanted rioters, and reporting anyone we know who was there participating. Then, keep your ears and eyes wide open and report anyone you suspect may be plotting political violence against our government.

I'd like to know why they were carrying the Confederate flag, too.

 

[Sunstone]

When everyone who participated in the seditious riot at the US Capitol is arrested and charged, and when all the violent extremists in the US have been arrested and imprisoned, then we can talk about healing.

We can all do our part by paying attention, scouring the FBI images of wanted rioters, and reporting anyone we know who was there participating. Then, keep your ears and eyes wide open and report anyone you suspect may be plotting political violence against our government.

You got your priorities straight. Huge point, though. If we drop the ball on getting at and solving the root problems causing and contributing to this, we'll be dealing with insurrections from here on out until the end of America. And more than insurrections.

Last, we'd best learn to walk and chew gum at the same time.

 

[Audie]

The motion to ban guns has never been entertained nor has it ever been drafted. I am tired of having to say it.

Never been entertained?