Posted on 06/19/2024 7:13:53 AM PDT by Heartlander
If Republicans are too timid to talk about January 6, former president Donald Trump is not. “They are victims of what happened. All they were doing is protesting a rigged election,” said former president Donald Trump of the J6ers on Sunday before adding, “There has never been people treated more horrifically than J6 hostages.”
Quick to accuse Trump of dissembling, the major media were surprisingly silent about what they might normally brand as a lie. It is possible they have begun to realize that Stalinist show trials do not exactly reinforce Democrat messaging about “saving democracy.” With the media in quiet retreat, Trump supporters have the opportunity to take the offensive. To do so, they need to know some basic facts:
The provocateurs who started the action did not hear Trump speak
Trump’s speech on the Ellipse began at noon, an hour behind schedule. At about 1:10 p.m. Trump said to the crowd, “And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.” This is the longest quote from Trump’s speech to appear in the article of impeachment and the one most quoted by those who accuse him of inciting a riot.
By this time, however, the action was already underway at the Capitol, about a 45-minute walk from the Ellipse. At 12:53 p.m. the ubiquitous Ray Epps and his crew first breached the lightly guarded bike racks on the Capitol’s west side. At 12:58, a single individual—not yet identified—pulled down the temporary fencing protecting the lawn and with it the signs saying, “Area closed.”
The police response inflamed the protestors
At 1:06, while Trump was still speaking at the Ellipse, the Capitol Police “less lethal” team began shooting a barrage of grenades, gas, and rubber bullets into the growing mass of still-peaceful protestors on the Capitol’s west side. “That was a shooting gallery out there,” said Stan Kephart, the use-of-force expert who reviewed the video footage for the Epoch Times. “There was no tactical reason for it at all.”
Police action led to the death of three protestors
At 1:28, 56-year-old father of five, Kevin Greeson, collapsed after a Capitol Police flash bang exploded in his face. Greeson would soon die of cardiac arrest. At 2:44 p.m. Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd shot and killed the unarmed Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran. At about 4:15 p.m. 34-year-old Rosanne Boyland lost consciousness when the Metropolitan Police first gassed and then pushed a mass of protestors on top of her. Once the pile cleared, MPD officer Lila Morris struck the dead or dying Boyland over the head with a branch several times. This was all captured on video. The DOJ did not investigate Boyland’s death. The House committee report does not mention her.
No Capitol Police officers died a result of the events on January 6
On January 8, citing “two law enforcement officials,” the New York Times told its readers that “pro-Trump rioters” struck Capitol Police officer Sicknick with a fire extinguisher. The Times added this chillingly fraudulent detail: “With a bloody gash in his head, Mr. Sicknick was rushed to the hospital and placed on life support.”
In fact, Sickick died of natural causes on January 7. More than 100 days after his death, a Judicial Watch law suit forced the DC medical examiner to release Sicknick’s autopsy report. Sicknick died as a result of two strokes at the base of his brain stem caused by a clot, a “natural death.” Following his death on January 7, someone in authority gave the ghoulish order to make Sicknick the victim of a very specific murder. That “someone” needs to be identified.
On the second anniversary, House Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries repeated a by now well-worn lie, saying, “As a result of the events on January 6, the lives of five heroic officers were lost.” In the trials of the J6ers, judges or prosecutors would routinely repeat the saga of the five martyrs to provoke the jurors. In reality, of the five, one died of a stroke, and four subsequently committed suicide for reasons no one seems eager to explore.
The treatment of those arrested has been horrific
In the wake of January 6, the FBI has arrested more than 1400 citizens and incarcerated some 500 among them, the most sweeping mass injustice against American citizens by the federal government since Japanese internment.
In researching my new book, Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6, I wanted to get beyond the numbers and show the effect of the DOJ’s casual cruelty on the lives of real people. Of the ten women I profile, two were killed by police action on January 6, six have been imprisoned, and two await sentencing, one of whom is a great-grandmother. The worst offense any of the ten committed was to break a window.
The women arrested have been treated like hardened criminals. Lisa Eisenhart, a 57-year-old nurse, was kept in maximum security during her stay at the notorious DC gulag. For warmth, guards gave her a single thin blanket in a unit so cold in the morning she could see her breath. Before showers, they chained her hand and foot.
During her first two weeks in federal prison, Christine Priola, a 49-year-old occupational therapist, was confined in “the hole.” The sensory deprivation—no exercise, no TV, one book a week—would have been bad enough, but for five of her fourteen days, Christine had to share the tiny cell and its open toilet with a man, a sexual predator who claimed to be a woman.
For a single non-violent misdemeanor, Dr. Simone Gold, a 57-year-old physician and attorney, was sentenced to sixty days at the Miami Federal Detention Center, a maximum-security prison. Dr. Gold, who had a permit to speak at the Capitol on medical freedom, got swept in to the building with a crowd through open doors. Eisenhart and Priola also entered through open doors. Each of the three stayed about 15 minutes and left without touching any officers or breaking any objects. Their stories are not exceptional.
There is a two-tier justice system
The window breaker, Rachel Powell, a mother of eight from Western Pennsylvania, is now serving a 57-month sentence in a West Virginia federal prison. By contrast, Urooj Rahman, an attorney who threw a Molotov cocktail through the window of an empty NYPD patrol car, setting it on fire, was sentenced to 15 months in prison. Then, too, the hundreds of women arrested for disrupting the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation hearing—an “official proceeding” by any measure—received $30 to $50 fines.
There is much more than can be said, especially about the evolution of the pipe bomb story and the slow walking of the request for help from the National Guard, but these issues are hard to shrink wrap into talking points. To offset any lingering nonsense about an insurrection, a quote from Ashli Babbitt’s mother, Micki Witthoeft, does nicely: “The gun-toting populous of the United States showed up that day without guns.”
Jack Cashill’s new book, Ashli: The Untold Story of the Women of January 6, is now available for purchase.
How about the whole thing was set up?
That is an excellant summary in only eight words.
My summary:
It was a planned trap.
Hannibal Barca couldn’t plan a better trap.
J6 was Notice of Intent to deal as harshly as possible with anyone and everyone remotely associated with efforts to announce the fact that President OBiden Has No Clothes.
It’s the ant theory of discipline. When that first ant gets out of line, you squash him flat. Without warning, without hesitation, without mercy. This serves as encouragement to the remaining ants NOT to get out of line.
Yuppers.
Ray Epps being Their Patron Saint.
When it looks like you were invited into a location, maybe think of the Spider and the Fly.
When charged I believe the J6 protesters thought they would be treated like all other Protestors of the ‘Summer of Love’. They thought wrong.
While any rational observer of the events of that day would so conclude, (to my knowledge) physical proof beyond a reasonable doubt of Ms. Pelosi's culpability has not yet been compiled, confirmed, and condensed for public discussion.
I would phrase it like such: The Jan 6th protest was infiltrated by bad actors to poison the good intentions of the vast majority of Americans that decided to exercise their First Amendment rights to peacefully protest.
Unusual repeat of a Free Republic user-id
“The gun-toting populous of the United States showed up that day without guns.”
next time, they won’t
Not sure if you have read this summary of the Jan 6 setup.
I’d say the Dems exploited it more than set it up
The dems MUST push the ‘insurrection’ narrative... staying on the offensive...
otherwise it would be revealed they had committed election fraud.
and since they also certified the fraudulent election...
then they would be guilty of treason.
nicely laid out facts about the truth of J6
Forgot the pipe bomb, didn’t include the skullduggery about the timeline and sequencing of the motions occurring while Mike Pence presided in the House (? Senate)
“the FBI has arrested more than 1400 citizens”
When was the last time the FBI arrested 1400 illegal aliens for violently entering the United States and charged them with crimes resulting in multi-year sentences?
Apparently citizens have far less Rights then foreign nationals. At least to the Department of “Justice” of the so-called United States of America.
An interesting article. However, I wonder why the author left out writing about the videos showing the Capitol Police voluntarily opening doors and removing barricades, and ushering the citizens in?
They had 2 teams of documentarians there ...
I wonder if the ones who committed suicide..5...weren’t actually lifelong cops but were perhaps a team of state actors - agitators- that fled the country and their disappearance needed to be accounted for?
***Following his death on January 7, someone in authority gave the ghoulish order to make Sicknick the victim of a very specific murder. That “someone” needs to be identified.***
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