INSURRECTION: POTENTIAL DISASTER ALMOST OVERLOOKED BY PUNDITS AND MEDIA©

INSURRECTION:  POTENTIAL DISASTER ALMOST OVERLOOKED BY PUNDITS AND MEDIA© 

This will be to the point.  One of the things that disappoints me about the coverage from all the media I have been watching from noon on Wednesday until now is that most of the commentators and pundits have missed and are not emphasizing one of the major points of the insurrection incited by Donald Trump on Wednesday. That point is that had the mob been successful in breaking into the House Chamber and the Senate before the legislators were evacuated, many members of congress and the Vice President of the United States would very likely have been KILLED.  The mob was very, very angry. Some were angry enough to take the lives of their political opponents.  Our daughter lives in Falls Church, Virginia. They know very conservative church members who went to the rally, but when it started heading for the Capitol they left because there was so much anger expressed in the crowd.

In the past three days I have heard played some of the video in which there were very violent threats against Vice President Pence, one report said some mobbers were talking about taking him out and hanging him on a tree in the Capitol grounds. I also heard vile, vulgar threats against Nancy Pelosi, Speaker of the House. Is there any doubt what the mobbers would have done to Chuck Schumer, Mitt Romney, and Lindsey Graham in the Senate? Undoubtedly many other Democrats and some other Republicans in both chambers would have been targets.

Many in this mob were violent and murderous.  One guy said he didn’t care about the tallying of the vote then underway, he just wanted “WAR!”

Two thoughts: First, where would this nation be right now on Saturday morning if any or all of those people would have been killed? I hang my head in shame and despair and shed tears at the thought.  Second, Donald Trump incited this mob and while they were in the capitol he was on the phone trying to reach Republicans to continue to contest the legitimacy of the electors in several states.  We know this because he accidentally got hold of Utah Senator Mike Lee looking for someone else.  This in the middle of this insurrection! Then White House sources told reporters he and Rudy were almost gleeful at what they were watching on TV. This shows how truly callous and ruthless this man is.

Think of it. The President of the United States of America inciting a riot at the U.S. Capitol, one that had a murderous element that but for some strong barriers and quick acting security could have seen many of our elected leaders dead and injured.

This danger must be highlighted and this man must be brought to account for this.

Finally, a word to some young men and perhaps young women who labored with me in the California Roseville Mission, who are staunch supporters of President Trump. I encourage you to think seriously about the disaster that was narrowly avoided which I have mentioned above. If you are secretly saying to yourselves, I wish that mob had succeeded, I wish Pence, Pelosi, Schumer, Graham, and Romney had got what they deserve, you have great cause to repent. Not for political reasons (I am a life-long Republican), but because the anger engendered in you by the actors and actions in this situation were not and are not God-inspired.  This is not God’s way.  Please listen to me, my young friends.  If you are filled with hate, anger, and resentment and in your heart sustain what transpired at the Capitol on Wednesday, you have forsaken all that you were taught as a missionary in the California Roseville Mission between 2002-2005.

Thank God, we dodged the bullet of the death and injury of our duly elected representatives.

Let’s think together again, soon.