Parliaments under #attack worldwide. Extremism, riots, vaccine mandates and violence

Having published last year, inter alia, on extremism in the United States, the January 6, 2021 siege at the U.S. Capitol, fringe anti-vaxxers and violence associated with anti-masking efforts, we now meld these topics and others within a global context and project as to their ramifications worldwide. More specifically, we found individuals and groups ascribing to variant (and sometimes overlapping) extremist and fringe precepts threatened or attacked parliaments globally. The principal impetus for such violence was due to respective government-initiated COVID-19 health and safety measures or the lack thereof. Violent subversives among anti-pandemic advocates, militants, conspiracy-laden individuals, hate group members and other belligerents — a salad bar of radicalism of sorts — were found to have imperiled legislatures globally. This reality evidences that these incidents were not random or furtive acts, but rather, purposeful, brazen, planned, symbolic and meriting attention. More specifically, legislatures should adopt a heightened security posture. After all, legislatures are bound to be targeted again here and abroad. 

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