Letter to the editor: What will Jan. 6 justice look like?

Pat Buchanan’s comparison of Jan. 6 to 9/11 (“Why the left can’t let go of Jan. 6,” July 27, TribLIVE) is a good example of turning the facts upside down. Jan. 6 was not “just a protest, a riot, a shameful disgrace.” Most sources say it was an act of domestic terrorism, a violent insurrection. I would add that it clearly was a fascist attempt to destroy our democracy.

Comparing Jan. 6 to mass shootings is a false equivalency. The loss of life and bodily harm done to our police by our own citizens was tragic.

I see so many of my Republican neighbors displaying their “support the blue” signs, but they clearly support their Republican legislators who chose to not support the Capitol police in their search for the truth. A sad and a disgraceful reaction, clearly un-American.

The mob, thinking it had the right to nullify the election and hang Vice President Mike Pence, is incomprehensible!

Who is responsible for that angry mob? Which government official planned, encouraged and participated in their actions? I think there is a good case to be made that those officials are traitors.

Buchanan’s concern should not be the slap on the wrist the foot soldiers received, but what accountability there will be for the instigators. Will we have two systems of justice, one for the foot soldiers and one for the rich and powerful? Or will we demand that justice be applied to all, based on their role on that tragic day, regardless of their position of power?

Patricia Oliver

North Huntingdon