SRQ DAILY Jul 23, 2022
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Not long ago, most people agreed the events of Jan. 6 deserved condemnation, with. Certainly, those who witnessed first-hand rioters breaching the U.S. Capitol to disrupt an election certification viewed the behavior as unacceptable at the time.
Every U.S. representative from Florida criticized the events then. That included U.S. Rep. Greg Steube, a long-time supporter of police who took offense as criminals pushed past and through officers. He issued a statement vividly illustrating the horrors up close that most of us watched unfold on TV screens, events we at first could only could judge based on news footage shot from a distance.
“I condemn the actions of those today who broke through security, U.S. Capitol Police and law enforcement to force themselves into the Capitol,” Steube said in a statement. “I witnessed our law enforcement officers being injured, gassed from their own tear gas and afraid for their lives as they attempted to hold the line. I and three other members were barricaded in a room surrounded by demonstrators until the hallway was clear for us to get out. I want to personally thank Kim Campbell with Sergeant-at-arms, Officer Reginald Cleveland and the two other officers who were barricaded in the room with us for their professionalism.
“The violence and lawlessness we saw today was completely unacceptable, and as a nation, we must do better. As I condemned the violence we saw in our nation’s capital from BLM and Antifa, I condemn violence and rioting of any kind, by any group or organization.”
But Steube since took that statement down from his House website’s press release section. He left a statement explaining why he would object, along with a majority of Republicans, to certifying votes from several states on Jan. 6 that helped Joe Biden wrest the presidency from Donald Trump.
It’s disappointing so many who spent careers in politics went along with objections. But then, representatives on both sides of the aisle have frequently objected to electoral votes seemingly with no reason besides a disdain for the electoral outcome. Up until now, it mostly served as a symbolic expression of a sense an incoming president doesn’t deserve to serve. Steube is within his rights to feel that way about Biden.
But rioters went much farther. They interrupted a long history of peaceful transfers of power, perhaps the single greatest attribute elevating U.S. democracy as a model for civilization and symbol to the world.
In year and a half since the events of Jan. 6, Americans have only consumed more upsetting images and alarming stories of what occurred. We saw what prompted Steube to express his outrage so poignantly at the time. While we will never view the violence in person, we see it through cell phone and surveillance video.
Yet, Steube’s own assessments have shifted in a completely inexplicable direction. He now categorizes the rioters and insurrectionists as “trespassers.” He has directly compared the events to other out-of-hand— and certainly criminal — protests like when radical environmentalists forced their way into the Department of Interior last year.
This week, he attacked the Department of Justice for not charging seven staffers for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert for entering the U.S. Capitol and refusing to leave when Capitol Police asked in June.
“Biden’s DOJ announced they won’t be prosecuting Colbert’s team for trespassing at the Capitol complex,” Steube tweeted Friday. “Meanwhile, they continue to make January 6th arrests for the exact same crime. What happened to equal justice under the law? Not political justice.”
Maybe politics has hazed the imagery Steube once described so clearly.
Jacob Ogles is contributing senior editor for SRQ MEDIA. 
Editor’s note: Zander Moricz, Pine View School’s 2022 graduate, said he was asked to censor parts of his graduation speech. But the U.S. Department of Education asked him to give his original speech in Washington this week. The following excerpts of the speech were released by the DOE nationwide.
In my position, I am asked, what can be done to help the children of Florida? The answer. Listen. Listen to the students and respect what they say enough to act on it. Respect our warnings enough to mobilize around them. Respect our please enough to vote on them...
I was my school’s first openly gay class president, and I am way too young for that to be the truth. But it is my community’s promise that each time a bar is raised, it is used as a rung to be scaled on the ladder we climb towards freedom.
As we advance upwards, we look back not due to fear of falling but to find our footing and to see the great distances that we have come, because the climb doesn’t begin on the same rung for everyone, and if we are all to make it, to enjoy the same views of dignity across our spacious skies, then we must offer hands to those beneath us.
Zander Moricz is a recent graduate of Pine View School.
The Players Centre presents Love, Linda: The Life of Mrs. Cole Porter. July 14-16 & 21-23, 2022 at 7:30pm; July 17 & 24, 2022 at 2pm. The timeless music and lyrics of Cole Porter weave through the compelling narrative of Linda Lee Thomas, the Southern beauty who was the driving force behind the legendary songwriter. Studio 1130-The Crossings at Siesta Key, 3501 S. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota. Please park and enter the mall at the Connors Steak & Seafood.
The 13th CCWC will be held from July 18 to 24, 2022 at Nathan Benderson Park (NBP), located in Sarasota-Bradenton, Florida. Held in alternate years, these championships are for entire boats from individual clubs around the world. Dragon boat races are water sport activity in which teams race in a canoe-like vessel.
Nathan Benderson Park
The Fantasticks, with Book & Lyrics By Tom Jones and Music By Harvey Schmidt, will show July 21 - 24. “Try To Remember” a time when this romantic charmer wasn’t enchanting audiences around the world. The Fantasticks is the longest-running musical in the world and with good reason: at the heart of its breathtaking poetry and subtle theatrical sophistication is a purity and simplicity that transcends cultural barriers. The result is a timeless fable of love that manages to be nostalgic and universal at the same time.
Venice Theatre Jervey Main Stage
Come early to enjoy a walk through The Bay Park, then find a spot on the Civic Green, set out your blanket, lawn chairs and a picnic if desired. We recommend you bring beverages and bug spray, but definitely don't confuse the two! Once the sun sets, enjoy the free movie, popcorn and ice cream stretched out under the stars. Brought to you by our Founding Business Partners of The Bay! Run time: 1.5 Hours Date and time Fri, Jul 29, 2022, 7:30 PM EDT Location The Bay Park - Civic Green North side of the Municipal Auditorium, 801 North Tamiami Trail.
The July Gallery for Art Uptown will exhibit "MOXIE by Rita Rust." Rust's watercolor action portraits capture the feeling of joy that can be found even in the darkest times.
FST Improv Presents: Comedy Lottery Playing Through July 30 on Saturdays at 7:30pm. It’s the lottery where everyone wins! Twelve lucky audience members determine the fate of our team of highly adaptable improvisers by selecting the night’s lineup from FST’s bucket of over 50 different improv games. Once the night’s games are chosen, our cast of funny people will be off to the races, spinning scenes, sketches, and songs to win your laughter. What will they come up with next? We have absolutely no idea. But one thing is for sure: every Saturday night, their destiny is in your hands.
Florida Studio Theatre's Bowne's Lab
A classic Southern love story. When the unflappable Jack Key moves in next door to the endearingly neurotic Lizzy Nash, sparks fly. Over time, neighborly nagging softens and a deeper connection emerges between the two high school teachers. As the leaves turn yellow and the months march on, kept secrets shake loose and the pair finds themselves facing the same question: how do you know when you’re ready to live, and love, again? Maytag Virgin by Audrey Cefaly will play beginning June 29, 2022 in FST's Keating Theatre. Run Time is 2 hours with a 15-minute intermission.
Florida Studio Theatre's Keating Theatre
Every Wednesday from 3:00 to Close we offer discounted pricing on select bottles of wine. Explore our extensive domestic and imported wine list or just indulge in your favorites. Tripletail Seafood & Spirits will extend Savor Sarasota to Tripletails Summer Savor, through July. Taste Chef Traes extensive special Savor Menu of appetizers, entrée’s and desserts, with suggested wine pairings from our imported and domestic wine selections. Tripletail Seafood and Spirits Happy Hours menu. 3pm-6pm Every Day, Classic & Signature Cocktails, Wine and Beer $1 off plus some delish new Small Bite offerings. https://www.tripletailsrq.com/
The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is pleased to announce the opening of As long as there is sun, as long as there is light. Selections from the Bring Gift and The Ringling Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art. The exhibition will run Nov. 21, 2021 – Aug. 13, 2023, in the museum’s Searing Wing. In 2020, The Ringling received a significant gift of art from Murray Bring and Kay Delaney Bring, in support of the modern and contemporary collection. Highlights from the gift include an important minimalist work by Anne Truitt and a monumental work on canvas by Gene Davis, both artists affiliated with the Washington Color School, an art movement during the 1950s to 1970s in Washington D.C., made up of abstract expressionist artists Additional works in the gift represent a generation of prominent artists who work, or have worked, in abstraction, including Clement Meadmore, Jules Olitski, Beverly Pepper, Rebecca Salter, Kenneth Snelson, and Yuriko Yamaguchi, among others. Also on view are sculptures and paintings by distinguished African American and Latin American artists from The Ringling collection, including William Edmondson, Eduardo Mac Entyre, Omar Rayo, Baruj Salinas, and Joyce de Guatemala.
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