Posted on 06/16/2022 4:03:34 AM PDT by MtnClimber
A real committee would also investigate the other, far larger and more lethal riots on iconic federal property months earlier.
Congress should investigate fully the January 6 riot at the Capitol—and similar recent riots at iconic federal sites.
But unfortunately, it never will. Why not?
The current committee is not bipartisan. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) forbade Republican nominees traditionally selected by the House minority leader to serve on the committee.
No speaker had ever before rejected the minority party’s nominees to a select House committee.
Pelosi’s own cynical criteria for Republican participation were twofold: Any willing minority Republican members had to have voted to impeach Donald Trump while having no realistic chance of being reelected in 2022.
Of some 210 Republican House members, that left just Representatives Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) and Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) who were willing and able to fit Pelosi’s profile.
A real investigation would have ignited argumentation, cross-examination, and disagreements— the sort of give-and-take for which congressional committees are famous.
In contrast, the January 6 show trial features no dissenting views. Its subtext was right out of the Soviet minister of Internal Affairs Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria’s credo: “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime”.
If Donald Trump was not considering a third run for the presidency, would the committee even have existed?
Its slick Hollywood-produced optics demonstrate that the committee has no interest in inconvenient facts. Why did a Capitol officer lethally shoot a petite unarmed woman entering a Capitol window? And why was the officer’s identity and, indeed all information about his record, withheld from the public?
Why did the committee not investigate whether large numbers of FBI agents and informants were ubiquitous among the crowd? After all, progressive New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg who was there January 6, claimed, “There were a ton of FBI informants amongst the people who attacked the Capitol.”
About his own journalistic colleagues advancing a psychodramatic “insurrection” narrative, Rosenberg scoffed, “They were making too big a deal. They were making [Jan. 6] some organized thing that it wasn’t.”
A real committee would also investigate why there were lots of warnings that a large crowd would assemble, but apparently little government follow-up to ensure security, should rogue elements turn violent.
A real committee would learn why the government and media insisted that officer Brian Sicknick was killed by Trump supporters—even when it was known he died of natural causes.
None of the questions will be answered because none will be asked because the committee’s role is not inquiry but confirmation of a useful narrative.
A real committee would also investigate the other, far larger and more lethal riots on iconic federal property months earlier.
On May 31, 2020, for example, violent demonstrators tried to rush the White House grounds. Rioters sought to burn down the nearby historic St. John’s Episcopal Church.
Washington Mayor Muriel Bowser mysteriously did not send police to reinforce overwhelmed Secret Service agents who at moments seemed unable to keep the mob from the White House itself.
The giddy New York Times later crowed, “Trump shrinks back.” Was the Times preening that the president was a coward for retreating from a righteous mob?
As a precaution, the Secret Service removed the president and first family to a safe underground bunker.
Such riots near or at the White House continued for much of the fall, before mysteriously tapering off in the last weeks before the election.
Less than three weeks after the violent Washington riot, Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris seemed to incite the continuing violent protests, “They’re not going to stop . . . This is a movement . . . they’re not going to let up. And they should not, and we should not.”
Note that Harris’ cheerleading was joined by a host of prominent left-wing luminaries who contextualized the violence. The “1619 Project” architect Nikole Hannah-Jones boasted, “Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence.”
Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo pontificated, “And please, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful.”
Note that the 2020 summer rioting, arson, and looting continued for nearly four months. Its toll resulted in over 35 dead, some 1,500 police officers injured, around 14,000 arrests, and between $1-2 billion in property damage.
The violence was often aimed at iconic government buildings, from courthouses to police precincts. There were never any federal investigations to determine why state, local, and federal officials allowed the destruction to continue.
Why were the vast majority of those arrested simply released by authorities?
And how had antifa and BLM radicals orchestrated the violence using social media? What was the role of prominent elected officials in either condoning or encouraging the violence or communicating with the ring leaders? A truly bipartisan House select committee dedicated to ending all violence directed at the White House, the Capitol, or federal courthouses might have been useful in probing this dark period in American history.
And that is precisely why there was no such committee.
And congress should investigate to determine who was behind the organization of the ANTIFA/BLM riots. Who trained the riot leaders, who funded the transportation, who was paying the rioters, who paid for and delivered the pallets of bricks, who sent the U-Hauls full of clubs and shields? Did anyone in congress or other branch of government have a hand in any of this?
You ask questions that the Democrat Socialists would never willingly answer, unless burning matches were thrust beneath their fingernails. So other means of discovery would have to be instituted, like money trails, phone communications and GPS tracking of suspects. Very little will be written down, and emails would be deleted, but movement can still be traced.
No government agency is prepared to make this kind of commitment. It would take a dedicated cadre of outsiders to do the necessary scut work, and when approaching the perpetrators too closely, also highly dangerous.
Pelousy’s picks should have been expelled from the uniparty immediately thus making her bipartisanism just what it is a sham.
We are more than ever divided as a nation.
Wrong and unpopular edicts are being thrust upon us by those somehow in power .
We need strong elected officials and a house cleaning for the hired help.
Question:
“There were never any federal investigations to determine why state, local, and federal officials allowed the destruction to continue.”
Answer(s):
“They’re not going to stop . . . This is a movement . . . they’re not going to let up. And they should not, and we should not.”
The Party will never investigate itself. And believe you me, the riots were overseen by The Party.
Hmm, sounds vaguely familiar of the rash of black church burnings back in the 90's when the Clinton clan clamored for power?
RE: the J6 committee itself - If by chance the conservatives do win a majority five months, I would fully expect to have the J6 hearings continue under conservative control. I would expect that any democrat on that committee be selected by the GOP Speaker of the House. I would expect that ALL of the FBI operatives who instigated the J6 incursion would be forced to testify, with full immunity so that nothing is left out, the details of that day. Specifically who ordered them to do what they did. If the truth ever came out about that day I suspect that a whole bunch of dirty politicians would be spending some time in the slammer for true insurrection and orchestrating a coup to overthrow a duly elected president, DJT. And at the top of that list would be a foreign-born half-black communist with extremely wide ears who should have never been allowed to run to be our president. IMHO, he is the brains behind all of this madness and joe is simply a useful idiot.
J6 was not a riot.
Congress is a legislative body.
Not that it stays in its lane, or is competent. I view it as a fundamentally anti-USA institution, enemy within. But even so, its nominal functions are spelled out in the consitution.
What in the world do you mean, "they should not [let up]?"
Congress has oversight to look into why DOJ ignored it and to determine if any of its members were giving orders.
The charter they drafted for themselves falls along those lines ...
https://january6th.house.gov/about
“What in the world do you mean, “they should not [let up]?”
Once again, someone does not read the column and jumps off the deep end.
IF you had taken the time to read the column, you too would have known the quote is (and by the way did you notice the quotation marks) from Kamala Harris.
So I can only speculate what SHE meant.
Sheesh.
You're right. It was a DEADLY riot. I mean, all the networks are saying so; ergo, it must be true. /sarc
It seems to me Kamala is earning the charge of incitement, which then only reasonably would bear responsibility for all damages and mayhem BLM (and related rioters) carry out.
She’s calling for it and they presumably will wreak havoc in coordination with her. It sounds criminal to me.
“It sounds criminal to me.”
You are forgetting, in post Constitutional United States, we now have a two tier Justice system. One for conservatives & Republicans and a Just-us system for the left & far left.
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