Posted on 06/10/2022 10:35:04 AM PDT by george76
As during Communist control of Soviet Russia, the Jan. 6 Committee’s purpose is to prop up a dying, corrupt regime..
The House Select Committee on Jan. 6 launched the public phase of its proceedings Thursday night in a prime-time hearing with all the fanfare of a Soviet show trial, complete with production assistance from a former president of ABC News.
Just as the communists gathered in Moscow between 1936 and 1938 to purge their political opponents in public show trials, nine members of the lower chamber filed into the Cannon House Office Building to demonize their political opponents as domestic enemies.
“I’m from a part of the country where people justify the actions of slavery, Ku Klux Klan, and lynching,” Chairman Bennie Thompson of Mississippi said in his opening. “I’m reminded of that dark history as I hear voices today try and justify the actions of the insurrectionists on January 6th, 2021.”
Thompson went on the brand today’s political opposition as modern-day Confederates and “domestic enemies of the Constitution,” cloaking his own authoritarian admonishment under the moral righteousness of preserving American democracy.
“The world is watching what we do here,” Thompson said. “America has long been expected to be shining city on the hill, a beacon of hope and freedom, a model for others when we are at our best.”
The hearing, however, possessed all the signature hallmarks of the infamous Moscow Trials nearly 100 years ago, in which opponents to Joseph Stalin’s regime were hauled before the public and charged with treason and sedition. And those who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 are far from the only targets of the witch hunt spearheaded by Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney and Rep. Thompson.
Legitimate political opposition on Thursday was absent from the hearings. No counternarrative was allowed by the regime, which barred the opposing party’s selected representatives as every cable network except Fox News carried the programming live. Members conducting the show trial accused their opponents of conspiracy to topple the U.S. government, just as the Soviets accused Old Bolshevik leaders of plans to terminate Stalin. Never mind that American institutions held on Jan. 6, and the federal government came nowhere close to collapse when congressional proceedings were interrupted.
The trials in Moscow culminated in the “Great Purge” of dissidents to the incumbent regime, with defendants given death sentences. The Jan. 6 proceedings are aimed at the ultimate purge of former President Donald Trump and his supporters, albeit through societal exile and jail sentences as opposed to execution. According to whistleblowers in the FBI, a purge within the federal law enforcement agency has already begun.
On Tuesday, Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan sent a letter to FBI Director Christopher Wray detailing allegations of multiple whistleblowers who reported they were terminated for their dissident (conservative) views from the agency.
“[He is a] decorated Iraqi War veteran being run out of the FBI,” Jordan said on Fox News Tuesday night of one whistleblower. “His allegiance to the country is being questioned because he had the gall to say something that offended the FBI leadership about the Jan. 6 investigation.”
The other [individual] is also having the same thing happen to them simply because, on an anonymous questionnaire, they said something that the leadership disagreed with them about Jan. 6.
Six in total have come forward, Jordan told Fox News’s Laura Ingraham.
Meanwhile, the Jan. 6 Committee’s prime targets have included prominent members of the prior administration, just as Stalin’s deputies prosecuted leaders of the old regime. On Friday, former Trump Trade Advisor Peter Navarro was taken by the FBI in handcuffs and charged with crimes stemming from the committee’s work. On Thursday morning, hours before the Jan. 6 Committee’s prime-time show trial, lead Michigan GOP gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley was arrested by the same agency.
Of the more than 100 subpoenas issued by the Select Committee ostensibly established to probe the Capitol riot, less than 10 percent, according to a Federalist analysis, have targeted individuals directly involved in the chaos. The rest have gone after Americans who committed the now-apparent crime of holding a peaceful demonstration at the White House and espoused unacceptable views in the eyes of the incumbent regime.
The radical progressives are panicking.
IMO > Schiff should have been kicked out of Congress for the
way he ran his anti-Trump investigation.
He told the public that when they saw the information he was
privy to, they’d understand why he acted like he was.
Then that info never came out, while the man spent month
after month just blasting Trump every single day.
He doesn’t have a single truth gene in him. He’s unfit for
public office.
His attack on Trump was what I would term a prosecutable
offense. He played heavily on trust for Trump. He gave
the Left the idea that Trump had done something on the
order of Treason. He hadn’t.
Kick the guy out and lock him up for a decade or two.
You know, Trump is at times intemperate and forceful about
his Twitter comments. We need a man with gumption, and I
will put up with this minimalist downside. The man gets it
and we need him at the helm.
We need a man that will push back against the lying enemies
of our nation.
People like Cheney don’t like him, so they can’t see past the
end of their nose enough to honestly evaluate what the man
was doing, that was good for the nation.
He was no threat to this nation.
Right now we have a man in there that is a dire threat to
it, and she can’t address that at all.
He’s not fit to make his own financial decisions, and yet
she has no fear of him being at the helm.
You know, people have no ability to reason. It’s shocking
how intense that gets at times.
Liz would be so embarrassed if she could grasp how out of
line she truly is.
I wondered about that too - but since all the alphabet networks were forced to or decided to show them the ratings might be decent.
I think Liz is second in charge of this. hat way they can say it wasn’t biased. But we all know she needs to call herself a Demorat instead of faking Republican.
I’m frankly not watching much of this crap shoot the Dems are doing because there’s not a dang thing I can do about it. And the American citizens doesn’t seem to dare stand up to it...let alone our representatives.
I’m not watching either. What a waste of time.
I agree with your thoughts there.
Benny Thompson plays Andrei Vyshinsky as Barack ‘Man of Steel’ Obama smokes his pipe in the shadows.
It is no longer the fbi it is the ‘Democrat Bureau of Investigation’......
This is some 3rd world crap going on!
Honest to God, how in the hell do the damn democrats have the NERVE to try and pull this shit show off????
The Select Committee on January 6th is a fraud.
They aren’t investigating what actually happened on January 6.
They’re harassing Trump supporters and trying to abolish the electoral college.
Jim Banks, (R) Indiana
0 interest in this Soviet kabuki theater
Sadly, when Republicans retake the House and Senate they’ll just get back to the work of losing them back to the democrats again.
Well, what are we supposed to think after seeing it time and time again?
My theory is that, to boost ratings, Dems turned on their TV’s to the show and went for a walk.
I just found this info on Instapundit.
“ Context: The evening newscasts on CBS, NBC & ABC average anywhere from 18 to 20 million viewers combined on a typical night. Those newscasts do not air in primetime. The January 6 hearings airing in primetime Thursday took in just 11+ million viewers on those three same networks.“
That should put their knickers in a twist. 😁
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