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[ [link removed] ]Add your name now to demand that every member of the insurrectionist mob that
stormed the U.S. Capitol be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the
law>>

PFAW Member,

The assault on the U.S. Capitol was a shameful day for our country. Since
the election in November, Donald Trump and his far-right enablers in
Congress have been pushing phony conspiracy theories about election fraud.
This week they escalated their attacks on our free and fair elections, and
the peaceful transfer of power that is the bedrock of our democracy, with
last-ditch efforts to obstruct congressional certification of the
Electoral College results. We now see the result.

The siege on the U.S. Capitol was insurrection, pure and simple – an
attempted coup and an act of domestic terrorism that cannot be swept under
the rug. Those responsible must be held to account.

There are the actors themselves – the mob of pro-Trump extremists who
descended on Washington D.C. for yesterday’s rallies and ultimately
stormed and occupied the U.S. Capitol, some of them with guns.

There are those who incited the incident – Trump, his allies in Congress,
and the right-wing media figures and activist leaders making baseless
claims against the legitimacy of the election.

There are the apologists – those who acknowledge the siege was wrong but
minimize its severity and want to shield the actors from accountability.

While all of them should be held accountable and face justice in their own
way, we must start with the insurrectionist members of the Trump mob who
infiltrated the halls of Congress and threatened violence against our duly
elected officials. Those people should be criminally prosecuted, to the
fullest extent of the law, for their violation of any number of laws
during yesterday’s incident in which one woman was shot and killed.

[ [link removed] ]Add your name now to demand that those who stormed the U.S. Capitol be
prosecuted!>>

I’m no stranger to violence by white supremacists – and, make no mistake,
this was very much a racially charged incident … from the fraud
allegations promoted by the inciters, to the Trump activists’ resistance
to Kamala Harris, the first African American and South Asian woman elected
to the office of Vice President, to the double standards on display in how
the authorities handled the protesters (with kid gloves, as opposed to the
many incidents we’ve seen of police shooting unarmed Black people).

I worked for years as an investigative journalist and then the managing
editor at the nation’s most firebombed (by the Klan) newspaper –
Mississippi’s oldest Black newspaper, the Jackson Advocate. I led the
organization that has more martyrs among its ranks than any civil rights
group, the NAACP.

The use of violence to silence and intimidate others, and to subvert our
democratic processes and deny voters their voice, is nothing new, but that
doesn’t make it any less abhorrent or unacceptable. When you do not
prosecute the perpetrators, it gets worse. And that doesn’t change because
an incident is stoked and incited by the President of the United States
and members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

Shame on them. And shame on those who took part in the siege. No matter
how misinformed, how manipulated, and how infected by conspiracy theories
these pro-Trump activists are, they should be expected to know that what
they did was both grossly wrong and illegal. And justice demands that they
pay a price.

[ [link removed] ]Sign now to demand that the insurrectionists of January 6, 2021 be
arrested and prosecuted>>

We will get through this, together. Order will be restored. The House and
Senate have certified the results of the election, confirming that Biden
and Harris will be sworn in as our next president and vice president on
January 20. We will celebrate the historic victories in Georgia that will
give the Biden-Harris administration a Congress it can work with to tackle
the urgent challenges we have ahead of us.

As we do, we will work to ensure that those who incited, enabled and/or
participated in this insurrection are held to account.

Thank you for standing up for justice and defending our democracy.

-- Ben Jealous, President 

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