Why is CNN not calling this an insurrection?
I thought whenever anyone ever broke into a government building to protest it was an end of democracy and the total end of our values and who we are in a rules-based order?
These insurrectionist democracy destroyers are somehow mere “angry protesters,” according to CNN?
Is CNN trying to overthrow the values in a democracy of who we are?
CNN:
Hundreds of angry protesters loyal to the powerful cleric Muqtada al-Sadr broke into Baghdad’s heavily protected Green Zone on Wednesday, denouncing the nomination of a new prime minister.
Mohammed Shiya al-Sudani was formally nominated to lead the country on Monday by the Coordination Framework, the largest Shiite alliance in the Iraqi parliament.
His nomination followed the mass resignation of al-Sadr’s parliamentary bloc, a group of over 70 lawmakers who withdrew from the governing body last month in an apparent show of force after months of political stalemate.
Iraq has struggled to form a new government since parliamentary elections in October; Sadr’s own attempts to form a government have previously foundered amid opposition from rival blocs.
“If the Sadrist bloc remaining [in parliament] is an obstacle to government formation, then all lawmakers of the bloc are honorably ready to resign from parliament,” Sadr said in a televised speech in June.
This is really casual talk about an insurrection against our values, no?
I mean – no joke, folks.
Al-Sadr is a whole lot more hardcore than Donald Trump, and he might actually call for a total overthrow of the government.
Of course – he didn’t.
His people went into the parliament and just mulled around, maybe there was some guy with horns on yelling and being cool with the cops.
Then they left.
But CNN not calling this an insurrection is just beyond the pale.
Look at it:
Flags, selfies – the whole bit.
That is more extreme than January 6 at the Capitol, which the Americans said is a global threat to democracy.
And Liz Cheney claimed that the whole world was at risk, because if one democracy falls, they all fall.
Iraq is obviously and indisputably a lot more democratic than the Ukraine. No one on earth could try to make a serious argument that the Ukraine is more of a democracy than Iraq.
So why is this not a crisis, Liz?