Since January 6th, we have been barraged with scary news reports about the anticipated violence to be carried out in Washington and in state capitals across the nation by insurrectionists. Some law enforcement agencies have picked up “chatter” portending attacks from so-called right-wing hate groups – although other agencies reported nothing more than the usual “chatter.” They did not see any “credible” evidence of a national – or even a local – attack.
Apparently, I have better intelligence than some of those law enforcement agencies. I predicted that there will be little to no outbursts of activity from the conservative right. And … there was virtually none.
Typical of the post-Inaugural headlines across the nation was this from US News and World Report, “THE NATION WAS QUIET and calm Wednesday as Joe Biden was sworn in as the 46th president of the United States, despite warnings of potentially violent protests at state capitols across the country.” (Emphasis by publication.)
What a terrible disappointment that must have been to the fearmongers in the national press. And that disappointment was in Portland and Seattle where some violent rioting took place. But it was not by any right-wing nutcases. The violence came from the typical anti-American left-wing nutcases.
Bunches of black-garbed left-wing Antifa terrorists took to the streets on the west coast to rampage.
They left damage and looting in their wake (pictured above). According to police reports, they were armed — including Molotov cocktails. Tear gas dispersed them – and police arrested more than a dozen.
Their stated mission was nothing less than the overthrow of the American government. They wanted no talk of unity with Republicans – and wanted no part of any Democrats speaking of unity. They wanted revenge no matter who is in charge. It is no small irony that they attacked a Democrat headquarters – condemning Biden for being too moderate and conciliatory.
Sounds like an act of sedition to me, but you would not hear that word from the reporters, pundits and panelists at CNN and MSNBC. In fact, if some informational umbilical cord is tethering you to those outlets, you would not even know that the rioting out west even took place – because they did not bother to report on it. Instead, they reported on the arrest and charging of a single Capitol Hill rioter.
To be honest, there were a couple of places where large crowds did peacefully gather. It did not make the news because (1) they were peaceful and (2) because the left-wing news chose to ignore them for obvious reasons. Those were the thousand of flag-waving Americans who came out to see Trump depart from Joint Airbase Andrew and who lined the streets to welcome Trump back home in Florida.
In anticipation of the alleged efforts to take down the American government, Washington. D.C. went hyper cautious in a fit of political paranoia.
In a departure from reality, the perpetrators of both the myth and the over-exuberant response said the protective overkill was due to the likelihood of an army of pitchfork-bearing insurrectionists descending on Capitol Hill – and across the nation. These concocted over-the-top reports of an anticipated nationwide coup had one notable consequence. It resulted in a lock-down militarization of our nation’s capital.
Of course, they claim that an “abundance of caution” was better than the normal level of protective activities. Au contraire. That is the basic excuse of authoritarian regimes – protecting the people from fantastical dangers and enemies. It is the essence of a police state.
The United States survived the “insurrectionists” in the same way the nation survived the invasion by the military forces (approximately a dozen Medieval-clad solders) of the fictional Duchy or Grand Fenwick in the movie, “The Mouse that Roared.” The threat to the United States in the movie and on Inauguration Day was about the same.
Yes, there are nutcases out there, and they can present a certain level of localized danger.
They need to be interdicted and dealt with through the normal legal and constitutional systems. But the idea that we came “close” to losing the Republic – as many news commentators alleged — is downright ridiculous.
What we saw from Democrat leaders and the mainstream media was nothing less than a monumental conspiracy theory. It surpassed even their phony and completely debunked Russian collusion conspiracy theory.
Unfortunately, these fanciful theories are not the result of ignorance by those advancing them. They know better. They have malicious intent to misinform gullible people for political benefit.
On several occasions, President Obama has offered good advice to the American people. He did it again on Inauguration Day. He said that we should not stay locked into our favorite news sources, but to take in those with differing viewpoints.
If you think those were insurrectionists on January 6th and even a remote possibility of bringing down the Republic by mob rule on Inauguration Day, you DEFINITELY need to broaden your consumption of news.
So, there ‘tis.
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It’s about time for the Country to realize that the “riot” (three or more persons) was “instigated” by others. Again, an obscene plan to discredit Trump supporters. Their “viciousness” was demonstrated by the COMPLETE lack of activities on election day — when the Country was supposed to burn down.
I’m not sure where the insurrections were during the inauguration but I do know where they should be. PRISON
We have a bunch of stupid people out there and as you know you can’t fix stupid
Right you are Charles and you are at the top of the stupid list
But on the other hand. . . .how do you or anyone, including me, know that law enforcement presence didn’t deter those such as the ones on Jan 6th? We cannot be sure. I felt comfortable knowing that we were safe with such presence. It was embarrassing that we had to resort to the tactics of a third world country but – just look what we have become in the past 31 years!
We have legislated ourselves to death with the idea that all would follow the law. But in reality, the criminals are the ones who pay no attention to them. Meanwhile, we law-abiding people are being strangled as we try to follow laws that are sometimes ridiculous and impossible to enforce and adjudicate.
Hence, the restlessness among Americans. Don’t get me wrong, I do NOT in any way condone the violent actions of some of WE THE PEOPLE. However I can certainly understand their frustration exacerbated by an opinionated and unfair press.
The trouble makers were the Antifa and BLM members that attacked the Capitol. So we can thank Biden and Pelosi and Schumer for the attacks and they can eat the crappy comments they spewed forth when the event happened. We know they cheated to get bozo into the Oval Office. They will suffer through history as the parasites that caused all the trouble and disgrace. Just look at the rabble they are assembling for their team.
I c you got all wrong
Again. The insurrectionest were the proud boys militias white suppremaist One in every five had been in the military. And some active duty police. All trump maga. STOP the LIES. No one believes that crap anymore
No….is an idiot
When are YOU PEOPLE GONNA STOP!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ALL you do is spew HATRED TOWARDS A PRESIDENT WHO LOVES AMERICA INSTEAD OF 8 YEARS OF ONE WHO HATED IT AND COULDN’T WAIT TO IMPALE HIS HATE ON THE DEM PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!! LEAVE OUR PRESIDENT TRUMP ALONE YOU HAVE TERRORIZED HIM AND HIS FAMILY LONG ENOUGH!!!! IT WAS ANTIFA, BLM AND IT WAS PLANNED BY THE ONE AND ONLY DEMS WITH THE RINOS TAGGING ALONG. IF YOU BELIEVE THE DEMS THEN YOU DESERVE TO LIVE IN THE THIRD WORLD COUNTRY THEY WANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
JC, you stole my thunder. You’re absolutely correct about who the 1/6 trouble makers at the Capitol were. Starting with Viking Man, they were largely identified by comparison with pictures of rioters in American cities during 2020. Those who got away that day have gone back home to Portland Oregon to ply their violent trade.
#termlimits
Leftist Democrats in Washington have for years tried perpetuating the idea that conservatives are irrational nut jobs, hell bent on overturning the government, which is furthest from the truth. Their constant attacks and outrageous accusations only reflect how their evil, paranoid and demented brains work and reflect their own inner guilt for entertaining those ideas themselves. Their mouth piece for their thoughts of course is mainstream media, which is worse than any lapdogs I’ve ever seen. And of course since most people are too lazy to seek truth for themselves and are willing to accept the vomit the media regurgitates daily , there is a huge population of folks out there brainwashed by their vomit. Of course where does that lead but to lambs ready for the slaughter who will hang on to every drooling word as gospel. And these are the people who consider themselves “woke”, which is a joke…no pun intended. So now we have 75 million people who truly are woke and are on to what the leftist democrats have been doing. They favor big tech, big business, Wall Street, the elite to do their bidding, in league with many RINO’s as well, forgetting about the American people who put them where they are in the first place. The Right doesn’t need thugs like antifa or BLM to conduct their hatchet jobs. We work alone…thank you very much.
Thank you very much for writing this very insightful article. Whoever wrote this article has more common sense in the tip of their little finger than Joe Biden and his entire administration combined. The truthfulness of this story is absolutely 100% accurate in all of its assessments. This is my first posted comment on this website and I will be watching closely for more stories from this source. Note: It is my humble opinion that the future of Free Speech is going to be coming from sources like this website. I would much rather voice my opinion and post my responses in places like this than through any other sensored forum or platform the left has to offer. My advice to Conservatives is to GET THE HELL OFF of platforms like Twitter and Facebook. You will get much more intelligent commentary by responding to stories like the ones produced by networks like this one anyway. As a result the Conservative movement will become much stronger and more unified at a much faster rate than it ever will on Twitter or Facebook.
When will the Democrat’s admit collusion in the riots. Harris even bailed the out, said it was peaceful bull the burned looted and got away with thanks to democrats in office. There seem to be a double standard here.
DemocRats mastered all 4 corners to destroy our President Mr Trump, the American people votes ( Pelosi,Orosco,Harris, Biden & maybe Obama elected/forced themselves into their positions). They made sure to silence and take away our freedom of speech and violated all our rights! by manipulating ALL the medias like poppets. If they set up the insurrections to impeach Mr Trump …there’re will be those that will come forward and leak how they did it all
Replying to John D. The Conservative movement may get stronger, but it will all be for nothing when elections can be easily stolen like the last one! More and more proof is coming to light, but does anyone believe that anything will be done about it? We now have a “one party” system of government where our traditional American values have been subjugated to being part of the New World Order.