To the Journal editor:

What is there left to say about the attempted coup at the United States Capitol on Jan. 6 while Congress was in session?

Words like horrific, infuriating, chaotic, criminal don’t seem to capture the depth of the affront to our democracy that was perpetrated by the President of the United States and his followers.So we would like to focus on just one word: sedition. Here’s how the US Code defines it:“If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the U.S. contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.”18 U.S. Code § 2384

The events of Jan. 6 fit every part of that description. Documentary evidence is ample, since many of the perpetrators live streamed their actions. Indictment and conviction should be straightforward. In addition, charges of murder and attempted murder could be added as those who claimed to ‘Back the Blue’ killed a member of the Capitol Police and severely injured several other officers

This was not vandalism; this was not a riot; this was not exercise of 1st Amendment Rights. It was sedition and should be dealt with as such.