General
Who remembers what happened last month?
Precisely one month ago today a truly extraordinary, appalling event occurred. Astonishingly, it seems few people can instantly bring to mind what it was.
An earthquake somewhere; a tsunami; a bushfire perhaps? It was none of these, shocking though they are.
In fact it was a choreographed and rehearsed ‘event’ appended to a particular time and date. Long planned, brutal and brazen in its intent, violent and ultimately deadly for five individuals.
January 6, 2021, witnessed an assault on the United States Capitol by hundreds of rampaging Trump-doting, right-wing extremists. The mob easily breached the inadequate security lines, smashed windows, busted doors and, once inside, almost made it into the in-session chamber…
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