Violent seditionists are being arrested by SWAT te
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Dirge for a Paramecium in E Minor.
I'm going to check the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's Fall schedule to see if they have that work in their queue. Nope, maybe I'll email the suggestion.
It turns out that when arresting some of the participants in the Jan. 6 insurrection, police departments have been using SWAT teams and similarly heavily armed teams to do the actual arresting part. It also turns out that the rabid militia members, Proud Boys, and similarly armored-up seditionists only too eager to end democratic rule in America to appoint Donald Blowhard Trump their god-king do not like that, so we're all going to hear about it.
Everybody got their tiny, tiny bows ready? Well rosin 'em up, because it's time for a symphony. I call this one Dirge for a Paramecium in E Minor.
Politico brings us this story, in which we learn that Proud Boy leaders and other quasiprofessional militants have been moaning to willing far-right, pro-Trump "news" outlets that the circumstances of their arrests have been very very mean, with battering rams smashing in doors and "people who looked like stormtroopers" pointing "M4 weapons" at them.
We also learn that law enforcement has been using this level of force when attempting arrests specifically of insurrectionists who "displayed body armor or other armament" during their participation in the attempt to topple government, and that the folks complaining are prominent members of militia groups and the aforementioned "Proud Boy" violence-seekers.
In other words, law enforcement is deploying substantial force against those who have already shown that they own militia equipment designed to fend off police raids and/or have membership in a militia group that has advocated for violence against the government based on some twitchy-fingered bozo's definition of "tyranny."
Yeah, you can see why arresting officers are going to take every possible precaution when coming to arrest those sedition-minded thugs.
These are folks who have premised their identities on being willing to attack government figures, and who proved capable of carrying out such attacks during their crime spree in the U.S. Capitol.
You bring body armor to a supposedly "peaceful" march intended to intimidate Congress into ending democracy rather than abiding an election you don't like, you're going to get put on a special FBI list in honor of your devotion.