A Republican congressman who denied there was an insurrection and likened Capitol rioters to tourists was photographed barricading the chamber doors against them
Rep. Andrew Clyde, R-Ga., second from top
left, and security barricade the door of the House chamber as rioters disrupt
the joint session of Congress to certify the Electoral College vote on
Wednesday, January 6, 2021. Reps. Troy Nehls, R-Texas, blue shirt, Markwayne
Mullin, R-Okla., right, and Dan Meuser, R-Pa., second from right, are also
pictured. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images) Thomas Colson
"Republican legislators can be bi-partisan when it comes to saving their own necks, but not when it comes to protecting American democracy." Raiderlegend
Mon, May 17, 2021,
3:53 AM
- A GOP lawmaker who has said there was no insurrection was seen barricading the House on January 6.
- Rep. Andrew Clyde said last week that the riot resembled a "normal tourist visit."
- But he had been photographed pushing furniture against the chamber's doors.
- In the 1943 film "The Ox-Bow Incident," three men, innocent of a crime they're accused of committing, are hanged by a lynch mob spurred on by unconfirmed accusations. But for the inciting rhetoric of a few unscrupulous and excessively vengeful mob leaders, the unconscionable act of executing innocents might have been avoided.
- Here, in the final scene, one of the men who voted against the lynching reads the letter one victim wrote to his wife before being hanged. Not only do his words touch on the importance of law in civilization, but also the threat lawlessness imposes on the "conscience of humanity."
- final scene
A mistake in judgment and rush toward blind justice leaves guilty parties with pained and stained consciences. Each must own and wear his feeble moment of "cowardice in the face of evil," for the rest of his earthbound life; which for one guilt-ridden mob leader, ended with a self-inflicted blast upon returning to his study.
