We All Know Right From Wrong
We don’t need Commandments or Courts to tell us what evil looks like.
You may have watched in real time, as I did, the horrific scenes as thousands of insurrectionists stormed the Capitol on January 6. Or maybe you saw clips of the worst of it later, brought to you by brave reporters armed with cell phone cameras instead of fire extinguishers or flag poles.
You may be wondering, as I am, how those people could have been spun into such a froth they would leave their homes to travel to that spot, fully prepared to storm the building in order to stop by any means possible the final confirmation that would give Joe Biden, the winner, the presidency over Donald Trump, the loser.
They came prepared to do bodily harm. Some of them wanted to see certain members of congress dead. We know this because they said so and we have their voices on record. We saw the ugly symbolic noose waving in the breeze against the backdrop of our beautiful, historic Capitol building, even as it was setting up with banners and bleachers for the upcoming inauguration of the next president, Joseph R. Biden.
They came to terrorize their own government.
The Capitol was rigged with barriers and fences, designed with more hope than efficacy, placed more…
