Posted on 07/03/2022 10:17:06 PM PDT by MarvinStinson
It took just minutes for Democratic Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson to invoke the Ku Klux Klan, slavery and lynching during Thursday’s opening statements of the Jan. 6 hearings.
Committee chairman Thompson delivered the opening statement of the hearings investigating the Jan. 6 riot.
“I am from a part of the country where people justified the actions of slavery, the Ku Klux Klan and lynching,” Thompson said. “I’m reminded of that dark history as I hear voices today try and justify the actions of the insurrectionists on January 6th, 2021.”
“All of us have one thing in common: we swore the same oath,” Thompson continued. “The same oath that all Members of Congress take upon taking office and afterward every two years if they are reelected. We swore an oath to defend the Constitution, against all enemies: foreign and domestic.”
“The words of the current oath taken by all of us — that nearly every United States Government employee takes — have their roots in the Civil War,” he said.
Thompson noted how the 1814 burning of the Capitol was due to foreign enemies, but then explained that after the South seceded from the Union, “Congress adopted a new oath to help make sure no person who had supported the rebellion could hold a position of public trust. Therefore, congresspersons and U.S. Federal Government employees were required for the first time to swear an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies — foreign and domestic.”
“That oath was put to the test on January 6, 2021.” (RELATED: BANKS, JORDAN, NEHLS, ARMSTRONG, And DAVIS: Don’t Fall For Nancy Pelosi’s Elaborate January 6th Coverup)
The committee has subpoenaed more than 100 individuals, interviewed nearly 1,000 witnesses and has roughly 100,000 pages of evidence.
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi barred Republican Reps. Jim Jordan of Ohio and Jim Banks of Indiana from serving on the committee. Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney and Illinois Rep. Adam Kinzinger were permitted to serve on the committee.
The committee told Politico they want viewers to be outraged about the incident going into 2024. The committee reportedly said they hope its presentation will stoke the same anger Americans felt on Jan. 6 now and convince them that the issue has only become worse and still threatens the 2024 election.
The rats probably hope all of them will.
I suppose they would know first hand?
I find it utterly hilarious that the Leftist DEMs keep invoking the KKK and slavery, as with racism, Jim Crow, etc., while TOTALLY AND BLANTANTLY IGNORING history and that it was the DEMs that instituted and supported all of the previously mentioned.......
Democrats always accuse others of what they are doing.
Crap Burnie is that the only song you can play ?
A whole LP album, both sides, one song.
More like an old 8 track that never stops playing one song.
Will your corpse STILL be playing that one song years after you’re dead ?
Im sure this stupid a## was friends with senator byrd. These idiots still spewing their vomit on us all
He’s an idiot.
One would think a Democrat would be hesitant to bring up his party’s past overt racism.
Instant loss of credibility. Any Democrat that tries to use Democrat policies to slam Republicans is a moron. This is like the idea that any political argument devolves into someone being associated with Hitler. Slavery and lynching didn’t end because of a march in Alabama, it ended because white Christian Republicans put an end to it.
Yes, and the party of lynching.
Did they discuss lynch mobs, kangaroo courts, and neck-tie parties?
The "January 6 Committee" is having quite a party!
Any American who is not alarmed does not understand what's going on.
Obviously he hasn’t learned a thing. Do they want to revert back to the good old days?
Right the area, the region, the place....was where the Dems were. What a sneaky, lying politician.
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