Posted on 01/05/2022 4:12:31 AM PST by Kaslin
As we await findings and conclusions of the House Select Committee on the Jan. 6 attack, let's take a moment and do our own soul-searching about what is going on.
The House Select Committee is engaged in Washington's favorite pastime -- looking for whom to blame. The sidelight of this pastime is the pretense that things that are very complicated can be made clear and simple.
And the other side of the coin of the search for whom to blame is the refusal to step up and take personal responsibility.
The latter, unfortunately, is increasingly becoming a hallmark of today's culture and is exactly the opposite of the personal characteristic that built America.
As I wrote in a recent column, one of the great errors of today's culture is equating the political process we call democracy to a culture that embodies the principles of a free society.
The triumvirate of protection of life, liberty and property -- the pillars of a free society -- are all under siege today. Unfortunately, the democratic process is, with alarming frequency, now used to undermine these pillars of liberty.
The vast expansion of government power through debt, taxation and regulation amounts to a direct assault on the private property of American citizens.
The storming of the Capitol building on Jan. 6, regardless of if and how it was planned, regardless of the motivations of those involved, put on display disregard for the principles of law and protection of property that are more fundamental than the democratic and political processes.
Unfortunately, the pathology producing this disregard for the fundamental institution of protecting property, for respect and regard for what is not yours, has become widespread. What we learned on Jan. 6 is that this pathology is nationwide, in all political streams, and not limited to the left.
The incident on Jan. 6 was just the latest in many such incidents.
I am not the first to point out that exactly the same behavior was rampant across the country in years prior to Jan. 6, 2021, perpetuated by Black Lives Matter and other progressive groups and justified by the same leaders of the Democratic Party that are now driving the Jan. 6 witch hunt.
In July of 2020, a mob toppled a statue of Christopher Columbus in Baltimore and threw it into Baltimore's Inner Harbor.
When asked about this, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who is from Baltimore, responded, "People do what they will do."
The reporters prodded Pelosi to condemn the mob action, but she refused.
The mob behavior and mentality on display on Jan. 6 was already getting rooted in our country and justified and encouraged by political leaders in the Democratic Party.
Suspicions about improprieties in the electoral process in 2020, which led up to the Jan. 6 incident, were and are quite justified given the closeness of the election coupled with the track record of dishonest behavior in the Democratic Party.
Behind the first impeachment of President Donald Trump was grossly improper and illegal behavior in which the so-called Steele dossier, fabricating evidence of the Trump campaign conspiring with Russia, amounted to the FBI working with the Democratic Party to undermine a Republican president. Where is the investigation of this grotesque incident? All is quiet.
As the core values that were the basis of the founding of the USA are undermined and purged, as eternal truths are displaced by politics, all sense of truth and meaning is being lost. The result is a dangerous tendency to anarchy.
I call on Republicans to take on responsibility for leading the nation back to its core values.
And to advance these truths in our minority communities, where for years the left has co-opted the message of freedom and personal responsibility with a message of blame and victimhood. Releasing these communities from the left will also release us from such close elections
A year ago, FR was where she is now ..........where was she then?
What’s Jan. 6 Really About?
Patriots, known as real Americans, wanting the truth.
The breachers at the capital were a government, antifa BS where a few good Patriots got cought up in the moment.
The Dems narrative of their version of the Reichstag Fire continues. Worked for the National Socialist German Workers’ Party ( German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei) to create fear and loathing of the opposition. The propaganda was used as a pretext for the consolidation of power and limitless purges of “the enemy,” for the sake of national security Same play book
The lunitic fringe will embrace...
It’ll all go over like a fart in a crowded elevator, the talking heads will spin the failure to auto-rotate and soften the landing, it will quietly disappear like the Steel dossier or multiple impeachment attempts.
Can’t wait to see Nancy in action at the planned ceremony on the Capitol steps. LOL
The people scared the crybabies who thought they were untouchable.
Was anyone watching the proceeding that day? (Jan 6)
I was watching for a couple of hours and just after Ted Cruz made some reasonable argument about delaying the certification until things could be sorted out, the ‘riot’ took place.
But I missed it! Did Nanzi Pelousy crap her pants and run out f the room? Why is there no video of that?
What’s Jan. 6 Really About?
Americans protesting is what it is about.
But, as I was driving yesterday listening to talk radio my thoughts did wander to something we do not discuss too often. Something that likely did ‘wake-up’ the congressional critters.
How easy it was for a group of unarmed individuals to breach the building.
How vulnerable they actually are.
It demonstrated a huge hole in our National Security.
They laughed at President Trump, in summer of BLM in DC, going to the bunker for safety as rioting took place in the streets of DC. To flash forward to Jan. 6th and the actual breach of the building by unarmed individuals.
I accept they were startled, scared and frightened at the breach. I accept it panicked them. I accept there was damage done by individuals, but the vast majority of the crowd remained outside.
It is important for us to grasp that for them, over the years having orchestrated things like the Arab Spring, this appeared to them that their tables had been turned. I believe this is why they call it an insurrection, because it is what they themselves have orchestrated around the globe.
But, that isn’t what January 6th was about. It wasn’t about the illegal overthrow of the government process, it was a demand for redress. And though we hoped for the certification to be questioned, delayed and examined properly many accepted that in the end we would need to deal with whatever the outcome would be.
“Was anyone watching the proceeding that day? (Jan 6)”
Yes, we were. Had several network closed feeds on simultaneously. Both inside and outside as it went down. Rep Paul Gosar was speaking his opposition and interrupted when the chambers was breached and the shot rang out. Pelosi had already left earlier. She had heads up and knew it was coming long before anyone else did.
The problem is nobody reads books anymore. Especially the people that should be reading one book called Mein Kampf.
Peaceful Demands For Secure Elections Do Not Constitute ‘Insurrection’
The Federalist ^ | JANUARY 03, 2022 | Jordan Boyd
Posted on 1/4/2022, 2:13:47 PM by george76
To corrupt media, Democrats, and Big Tech, anyone who protested the 2020 election is no different than the fools who stormed the U.S. Capitol.
On the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, the corporate media is working overtime to convince the American public that Republicans as a whole stormed the nation’s beacon of democracy at the beginning of 2021 and have waged a war on all that is good and decent. While lunatics and fools did invade the Capitol last January, tens of thousands of Americans peacefully assembled to demand answers from the government about what they believed to be the sloppiest election in which they’ve ever voted.
Political violence should always be condemned, but a majority of the people present in Washington, D.C., and on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6 weren’t violent. Yes, hundreds of people stormed the U.S. Capitol in a riot, but tens of thousands of people of all ages, races, backgrounds, and lifestyles gathered together that day at the Save America Rally to protest the Democrats’ sleazy election manipulation and hear from President Donald Trump. ——Snip——
What violence? The majority of the violence happened when the police attacked the demonstrators. The only murders occurred at the hands of the police.
A pack of rowdies roaming the halls of Congress doesn't constitute violence
Liz, you are parroting the Leftist lies.
The basic premise still holds,IMHO:
Peaceful Demands For Secure Elections Do Not Constitute ‘Insurrection’
“What’s Jan. 6 Really About?”
The icing on the democrat coup cake wherein the democrat party with the help of several weak rinos murdered a white female protestor and covered it up.
Nanny Nan has completely lost control of her assigned
kindergarten class. Not only do they ignore her
instructions, they’ve learned her methods and now think
nothing of binding and gagging their teacher to bully her
into submission. When two bulls meet...you get the picture.
A nation ruled by bullys tends to accumulate a great quanity
of BS.
Keeping Trump from ever holding public office again.
So long as this congress is in session, nobody is safe. This congress is all about thieving and tyranny.
Melchior, Caspar, and Balthazar.
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