Case For Stronger Charges Against Insurrectionists

Amidst talk of how difficult it is to charge individuals involved in the insurrection with the serious crimes of which most appear guilty, too much attention is being paid to the mindset and intent of each individual.  Analyzing the mindset of an individual in a riot in order to determine the individual's intent doesn't reveal anything. By their merely being involved in a riot, a rioter has surrendered their decision-making and their individual goals to the decision-making of the group and the goals of the group.  What each individual would do alone is no longer relevant in a riot situation.  For this reason, every person who can be shown to have participated in any part of the storming of the Capitol building should be charged with conspiracy to commit murder.  We know that the goals of the group were to murder Pence and every member of Congress.  We know this because there were numerous individuals who came prepared to do that, with guns, gallows, soft handcuffs, bear spray, tasers, knives and other weapons.  The group was there to gut the elected Congress of the USA.  Any individuals who didn't want to take part in murder certainly had the opportunity to leave and most all of them chose not to do so.  They knew there was a desire for violence in their group and they knew that they were aiding and abetting that violence by being present.  If any of them had a desire for peaceful protest, they surrendered that desire to the group's desire for violence.  Sociologists can testify to this.  There is scientific evidence to justify the strongest possible charges for every person who entered the Capitol building.  Charge them all with conspiracy to commit murder and convict them.