For God and Country

Insurrection!

January 12, 2021 The God Squad Season 1 Episode 12
For God and Country
Insurrection!
Show Notes

What else could our episode this week possibly be about? 

Adria's out this week (will be back net week, when ALL FOUR of us should be back together!) so the boys and Rosemary are on their own to break it down. We cover the following questions:

-What actually happened? (No one really knows yet, and you shouldn't trust anyone who says they do.)
-Acknowledging that we're speculating in advance of the facts, was the utter failure of the Capitol police to control the mob due to higher-level incompetence, on-the-ground bias, or both? (Opinions are divided.)
-How is a Christian to treat their enemies? (This answer should be obvious to anyone with a passing knowledge of the faith, but it bears repeating.)
-Can we neatly summarize the reaction on left and right? (Rosemary gives the most cynical possible answer.)
.....and more!

Reference links:
-The best tik-tok of events we've found so far (sadly came out after we recorded): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/10/us/politics/capitol-siege-security.html?referringSource=articleShare
-Slate article about the terrifying zip-tie people: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/01/was-there-a-plan-for-hostages-or-killings-at-the-capitol.html
-Referenced article about disparate police responses to right and left protests: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-polices-tepid-response-to-the-capitol-breach-wasnt-an-aberration/

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Music and sound effects credit:

Gustov Holst's Thaxted, as performed by Kevin MacLeod, and "red tailed hawk" (no, it's not an eagle; eagles don't sound like that) as recorded by Craig Smith, both under the Creative Common License.

 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode

https://freemusicarchive.org/music/Kevin_MacLeod/Classical_Sampler/Thaxted

https://freesound.org/people/craigsmith/sounds/479610/


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and our generous graphic designer, Anonymous.