Comparison of the storming of the Capitol with the Reichstag fire Reichstag fire in the U.S.? By Pommes Leibowitz
[This article published on Jan 13, 2021 is translated from the German on the Internet, https://philosophia-perennis.com/2021/01/13/reichstagsbrand-in-den-usa/.]
The Reichstag fire occurred in the middle of the campaign for the March 5, 1933 Reichstag election. As the initial statements at the scene showed, people were convinced, even in high circles of the NSDAP, that the KPD was attempting an uprising. Other contemporary observers thought it was an action by the new rulers to legitimize planned political reprisals. (From Wikipedia)
History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme. The so-called "storm" on the U.S. Capitol is also politically instrumentalized and becomes the basis for censorship and agitation against supposed enemies of democracy. Quo vadis USA?
Here is a lay video of the "storm" shared on Facebook. The doors are opened and a peaceful mass of people, among them an astonishing number of professional photographers holding up not their cell phones but huge cameras, enter as if it were open day.
For comparison, here is a "storm" from 1983, a bombing by left-wing extremists. One of the accomplices, Susan Rosenberg, sentenced at the time to 58 years in prison, later pardoned by Bill Clinton, is now an activist and organizer with Black Lives Matter!
1983 Capitol bombing Source: U.S. Senate Commission on Art What would a serious, journalistic approach to the "Capitol storm" have looked like?
It starts by asking the right questions:
1. how could this happen? How can it be that a group of more or less unorganized lunatics invades a government building? Normally, demonstrating near government buildings is already forbidden, and barricades and huge