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Dave Conant - MO's avatar

In your introductory rundown of recent incidents of political violence you are very careful to use terms like "alleged" and "suspected" when describing the status of the instigators. One reason why the situation has worsened is that there are no apparent consequences in real time for taking innocent lives or even threatening them. One wonders if the law enforcement agencies responsible for pursuing these cases are so bereft of talent and/or leadership that they are unable to build an effective case in a reasonable amount of time and see these people publicly tried, convicted if guilty and put away.

If I, or any of your other readers, had appeared on national television and said to a crowd of people "you need to go to the Congress, find Mike Pence and force him to do what is right", I'd have very quickly been involved in a stern conversation with members of the Secret Service and, very probably, not be in a position to write this from home. I don't understand why, while under investigation as he certainly should be, the disgraced former president and failed insurrectionist and his clique of close followers aren't being detained under guard like the rest of us would be. I also don't think that there is an explanation that would make sense to anyone whose career isn't politically driven.

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