OVERTHROWING DEMOCRACY IS NOT THE SAME THING AS PROTESTING POLICE VIOLENCE
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Thom Hartmann
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🗓️ 6 January 2022
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
As Biden told us, we stand at an inflection point of history. The fate of democracy here and around the world is actually hanging in the balance. What happened on 1/6 & how likely is it to happen again? Dr. Steven Chermak, Contributor-START: National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism. Political Reporter-Boston Globe Jazmine Ulloa shares her reflections from reporting inside the Capitol on 1/6/21.
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| 0:48.0 | And greetings my friends, Patriots, lovers of democracy, truth and justice, believers and peace |
| 0:53.5 | freedom in the American way. Now, you know, eventually some official brand may come out. |
| 0:59.8 | I am proposing Sedition Day, January 6th. You know, I'll explain exactly why in just a moment. |
| 1:05.9 | But number one, and just to give you an overview of our day, overthrowing democracy is not the same |
| 1:12.5 | thing as protesting police violence. Contrary to what you may have read in all the responses to my |
| 1:18.8 | tweet, as Biden told us, we stand at an inflection point of history, the fate of democracy here |
| 1:24.7 | and around the world is actually hanging in the balance. Hopefully our attorney general was |
| 1:29.1 | listening to President Biden's speech. I'll get to that, as I said. Also, how's progressives to |
| 1:35.5 | restore American democracy are in have endorsed legislation to add four new seats to the Supreme |
| 1:41.6 | Court? Good on them. Jasmine Uloah, who was inside the Capitol on January 6th, is going to drop by. |
| 1:48.8 | Jimmy Carter weighs in on the depravity of Donald Trump. He's got an op-ed in the, I believe |
| 1:54.3 | it's the Washington Post. There is a lot to cover today and awful lot to cover today. And I want to |
| 2:00.0 | start out with my rant over at Hartmanreport.com. It's titled Sedition Day. Overthrowing democracy |
| 2:06.0 | is not the same thing as protesting police violence. You know, the anniversary of hundreds of |
| 2:12.2 | Capitol police, House and Senate staffers, members of Congress, and people who work in the |
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