Posted on 01/07/2022 3:49:50 AM PST by Kaslin
"Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now."
That was the headline over the editorial of 1,000 words in The New York Times of Sunday last.
On first read, I thought the Times was conceding its obsession and describing its mission. For the editorial began by bewailing yet anew the "horrifying" event, "the very real bloodshed of that awful day," the "once-unthinkable trauma."
Still, a year later, said the Times, "the Republic faces an existential threat," as the "Capitol riot ... continues in statehouses across the country, in a bloodless, legalized form that no police officer can arrest and that no prosecutor can try in court."
"We should stop underestimating the threat facing the country. ... (our) democracy ... is in grave danger."
What the Times is saying is that the electoral reforms being enacted democratically in red states -- requiring voter IDs, for example, and subject to judicial review -- are a Republican continuation of the Capitol riot.
Why cannot our liberal media let it go? Why does the distortion and hysteria about Jan. 6 seem to grow with each retelling?
Now, undeniably, as I wrote in a column the next morning, Jan. 6 was "The Worst of Days for Trump & Trumpists."
"The worst of the day's events for Trump came when a segment of a friendly crowd of 50,000 he just addressed concluded its march down the Mall to the U.S. Capitol by smashing its way into the building and invading and occupying the Senate and House chambers.
"Members of Congress were forced to flee and hide. A protester, an Air Force veteran, was shot to death by a Capitol cop. Vice President Mike Pence, who was chairing the joint session, was taken into protective custody by his Secret Service detail. Doors were broken open. Windows were smashed, and the building was trashed ...
"What Americans watched was a mob occupation and desecration of the temple of the American Republic." I added, "And the event will be forever exploited to discredit not only Trump but the movement he led and the achievements of his presidency."
That last line understated what an obsession Jan. 6 has become for the nation's establishment and media elite.
The left cannot let go of Jan. 6. Indeed, it has fixated upon, exploited and exaggerated the riot to discredit and destroy the Trump presidency in the history books and to prevent Donald Trump from ever running or being elected president again.
Though Trump was exonerated by the Senate of the impeachment charge brought by Nancy Pelosi's House, the House select committee wants to try Trump again and again in the court of public opinion and wants President Joe Biden's Department of Justice to find some crime with which to charge and convict him.
There are other reasons the left cannot let go of Jan. 6.
Democrats have no other issue on which to run this November.
The Biden presidency has produced an uninterrupted string of disasters: the Afghanistan withdrawal debacle, the Texas border crisis, inflation, an explosion of gun violence and murders setting records in Democrat-run cities, failure to produce an adequate federal response to the delta and omicron waves of COVID-19.
Again, Jan. 6 was a riot, involving assaults on Washington and Capitol cops and the disruption of a formal congressional procedure to validate the electoral vote victory of Joe Biden.
But was Jan. 6 really the planned coup, the terrorism, the sedition, the armed insurrection, the attempt to overthrow the U.S. government?
Was Jan. 6 really comparable to Pearl Harbor and 9/11, during each of which 3,000 Americans went to their deaths in an hour's time and major wars followed -- as Vice President Kamala Harris said yesterday?
If so, why, a year after Jan. 6, 2021, has no one been charged with inciting a rebellion, sedition, treason, armed insurrection, plotting a coup, or a takeover of the government of the United States?
Thus far, all the charges prosecuted and punished are consistent with a riot, which is what Jan. 6 was. Comparisons of this three-hour mob action to Pearl Harbor and 9/11 are almost sacrilegious.
Was that QAnon shaman occupying the chair in the Senate chamber really the moral equivalent of Mohamed Atta ramming an airliner into the World Trade Center or Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto plotting the Dec. 7 surprise attack on Pearl Harbor?
Another reason for the left to paint up the horror of that day is that the perpetrators of Jan. 6 were not the radical left who battled cops and burned and looted Seattle, Portland, Milwaukee and scores of other cities in the aftermath of George Floyd's killing.
They were the "deplorables" of Trump, the populists of the American right, against whom any slander is justified.
Question: If the left is so terrified of Trump it feels it must prevent him from even running again, by imposing a criminal conviction, what does that say about the left's belief in American democracy?
What does that tell us about the left's trust in the people?
The Marxist domestic enemies are going to treat this day like September 11th every year. We will never hear the end of it. Their hypocrisy is utterly laughable considering all the damage their paramilitary groups BLM and Antifa have done in the past 5 years but of course that is ignored.
Our so called “moderate” citizens continue to think we can have a nation which allows 60m+ delusional Covidiots (aka “liberal democrats”) to rule the country without any damage. We won’t survive the rest of this decade until more “moderates” wake up.
Unfortunately, we didn't learn from all of the ambushes we walked into earlier, and walked right into this one. The Democrats have their Reichstag fire, and they're going to use it.
They treat this as if 9/11 was nothing but a child’s play
Boy, are the Rats a bunch of pathetic little pukes. You get in their face and they’ll run like rabbits.
Open your eyes people..The reason the SCUMbag ANTI America POS Demonrats cannot let this go is two fold. One, to stop any future Patriots from gathering or trying to take DC by force and two, to stop Trump from ever running for office again.
PERIOD!
This is why they can't let go. As long as they know that we know, they will continue to act like gangsters that just robbed a bank.
Was Jan. 6 really comparable to Pearl Harbor and 9/11, during each of which 3,000 Americans went to their deaths in an hour’s time and major wars followed — as Vice President Kamala Harris said yesterday?
If so, why, a year after Jan. 6, 2021, has no one been charged with inciting a rebellion, sedition, treason, armed insurrection, plotting a coup, or a takeover of the government of the United States?
November 3-4. 2020 was in fact Pearl Harbor II. Foreign and Domestic enemies of the USA stole the election and seek to enslave the world via 24/7 monitoring and censorship. Jan 6th was the Reichstag Fire II, for the new Nazi regime. And Klaus Schwab (child of the Fascist collaborator) and George Soros and the Davos kings and queens are still behind this great evil.
Those doing this must be punished for their crimes. And their crimes against humanity related to the Covid Crisis being used to establish Global Totalitarian Slavery.
Time will prove Jan. 6th to have been a democrat conspired hoax. It will backfire bigly on them.
Bingo!
“the very real bloodshed of that awful day,”
What? Now they’re first admitting that Ashley Babbit was murdered?
Will there be blue tag sales?
You win the thread. This is cover for a stolen election. They can’t walk that back and they won’t stop.
Jonathan Turley
EXCERPT By declaring the Jan. 6th riot an “insurrection,” some Democratic members of Congress and liberal activists hope to bar incumbent Republicans from running. Even support for court filings is now being declared an act of rebellion.
Speaker Pelosi helped fuel this movement — before Jan. 6 even occurred — by declaring that the Republicans supporting election challenges were “subverting the Constitution by their reckless and fruitless assault on our democracy which threatens to seriously erode public trust in our most sacred democratic institutions, and to set back our progress on the urgent challenges ahead.”
However, it has not been treated legally as an insurrection.
Those charged for their role in the attack that day are largely facing trespass and other less serious charges — rather than insurrection or sedition.
That’s because this was a riot that was allowed to get out of control by grossly negligent preparations by Capitol Police and congressional officials.
While the FBI launched a massive national investigation, it did not find evidence of an insurrection.
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———
To paraphrase an article from yesterday:
When southerners literally took up arms against the federal government in the Civil War, all were pardoned. Meanwhile, more than 700 people have been charged with crimes in connection with the events on Capitol Hill. In essence, more people are being prosecuted for January 6 than for secession in the Civil War.
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