US citizens were already getting fucked over long before this capitol riot. Snowden exposed this corruption but unfortunately Americans forget very quickly that Obama was in office and allowed his NSA to spy on Americans without a warrant :/ Too bad Trump was too cowardly to pardon him.
Snowden has applied for Russian citizenship, which means he is willing to pledge allegiance to the Russian government, which is an enemy of the United States. Some people also argue that Snowden revealed more classified information than was necessary to alert US citizens of the spying abuses, but this is debatable. For me, the red line is Snowden applying for citizenship of one of our enemies, and as such am not in favor of him getting pardoned.
None of your points are relevant to why there was so much security during inauguration since it wasn't to stifle American's ability to exercise their first amendment right to protest, it was about National Security. The military is present at every inauguration and SOTU, my points were just explaining why they had the threat level so much higher than previous ones.
Consider what your response would be if this were Trumps inauguration. Mine would be the same - I don't think yours would though.
There is no reason to have 25,000 troops in DC. This is an occupation of the US capital. There was no credible evidence there was going to be violence on any scale (beyond the 'normal' violence we see in Democrat-run cities every day), let alone the scale that would require 25,000 troops to stop the violence. The US did not have this many troops guarding DC when it was at War, including during the Civil War. The presence of this many troops has nothing to do with the riots, it is a show of force on the part of Democrats.