Preview of the J6 Committee After School Special
The professionally produced show will be vapid - but the underlying message of "we can get you anywhere, anytime and for any reason and there is nothing you can do" is deadly serious.
The J6 Committee’s After School Special scheduled for primetime Thursday night is nothing more than a continuation of the final attempt to impeach President Trump.
It's as boring and pointless as a soccer match that runs out the required 90 minutes with no score (or nil-nil, as they say) and yet continues for another 15 minutes of "extra time" due to penalty calls during the match.
Here are some facts:
J6 Committee members:
NeverTrump Republicans:
Cheney, Kinzinger
Insane Democrats:
Aguilar, Lofgren, Luria, Murphy, Raskin and Schiff
Every single Democrat member of the committee voted to impeach President Trump on both the first and second attempt and Cheney and Kinzinger voted no on both articles of the first attempt and yes to impeach on the second attempt.
Lofgren, Schiff and Raskin were parts of the House impeachment management teams - Schiff was the lead manager on the first, Raskin on the second.
There was violence at the Capitol complex - but it was not sophisticated, organized, premeditated violence. Other than the venue, it differed very little from the year of BLM/ANTIFA violence experienced around the nation during 2020. As a matter of fact, the BLM/ANTIFA protests/riots/looting/arsonfests contained far more organization and coordination via social media.
During 2020, America was told that rioting, looting and burning was cool as long as your beliefs were strongly held (and approved by Democrats).
We have been told it is "insurrectiony" to merely question an election - even though Democrats objected to certification in 2000, 2004 AND 2016 - and a member of this committee, Jamie Raskin, was one of the Democrats objecting to certification of 2016.
The committee members were selected exclusively by Nancy Pelosi and is "bipartisan" in name only.
The Committee has misused their subpoena power to arrest resistors like Peter Navarro (compare that to Eric Holder ignoring a Congressional subpoena a few years ago)
To date, even though some people have been charged with "seditious" conspiracies, not one shred of evidence has been presented of any organized insurrection.
Those arrested are being prosecuted in DC courts, and as we saw with Michael Sussman, these courts are quite friendly toward Democrat wishes - a few examples:
A Florida man who threw stuff (wooden boards and a fire extinguisher) at police officers guarding the Lower West Terrace tunnel of the Capitol was sentenced to more than five years in federal prison.
The QAnon Shaman, Jacob Anthony Chansley, plead guilty to a single charge of obstruction of an official proceeding and was sentenced to 41 months in prison.
But most have not come to trial at this point. Richard Barnett, the guy pictured sitting at Pelosi's desk with his feet up, was charged with possession of a dangerous weapon while in the Capitol (a stun gun in his pocket) could face up to 82 months if convicted.
Some of the charges involved actually striking police - I agree that this should be considered serious (a couple of people getting sentences from 28 to 41 months) - but in all cases. None of the people from the BLM/ANTIFA people have seen anything near these sentences - the couple who firebombed a police car in New York just got a maximum of two years in prison and they get to keep their law licenses.
Compare that result to 41 months for being shirtless while wearing a buffalo hat and wandering through the Capitol.
It is a mistake to think this is just a clown show about Trump and the UltraMAGAs.
It is a message to Trump that if they can't get him, they will hurt his people and if he runs again they will hurt more.
It is also a message to the rest of America that they can get you any way they want, for anything they want and at any time they want, and you can do nothing about it. Even if you are innocent, you will be hurt by the process.
Hey, Mike, we were channeling the same topic! Here's mine:
Anyone with a Journalism Degree has had to study the famous 1966 Supreme Court case of Sheppard v. Maxwell. The Supreme Court had to decide whether the right to a free press supersedes due process and the right to a fair trial.
The court sided with Sheppard voting 8 to 1 against the First Amendment. The pretrial publicity, the “doxxing” of all the witnesses and jurors, and the “media circus” surrounding the case made it virtually impossible for Dr. Sam Sheppard to receive a fair trial.
Well, here we go again…
Tomorrow night during primetime, on a cable or network news station near you, the January 6th Committee will put on its own media circus. And they’ve recruited James Goldston, (former president of ABC news who ran “Good Morning America” and “Nightline”) to do their dirty work. According to a June 6 story by Mike Allen in Axios, Goldston will use of mix of live witnesses and pre-produced video, never-before-seen official White House photographs, and “clips” of depositions.
Kind of makes you wonder why the bunch of lawyers on the alleged “Bi-Partisan Committee” can’t tell the story and conduct their own investigation.
So why do I care? Why don’t I just skip the witch hunt? Because in their zeal to frame Donald Trump and make sure he can never run again, they are denying the rights of others.
They are making it nearly impossible for the January 6th Detainees, some of whom have been sitting in isolation for a year and a half, to ever receive a fair trial. God knows, they’ve already been denied a speedy one.
But these are “terrible people,” I’ve been told. “Insurrectionists” who deserved to be locked up 23 hours a day, for 18 months, for the crime of walking into their own country’s Capitol, many at the invitation of their own Capitol Police. Even if they are eventually found guilty, they deserve a fair trial.
I’ve tried talking to the sheriff, the attorney general, even my senator. No one wants to touch it. I can only conclude they’re all afraid to be tarred with the January 6th brush. (Not good for the career, you know).
Well, what happened to standing up for the Constitution? To standing up for U.S. citizens being denied their rights? For America’s values which used to be the envy of the world?
I see my country slowly disappearing. I see the legacy of my father and grandfather, both veterans in World Wars, slipping away. What does America mean anymore?
Certainly not what you’re going to see tomorrow night. There is no way Lady Justice can be blind in this climate. Or that she can prevail. Let’s hope she survives.
Incredibly sad and maddening. I cannot wrap my head around the injustice and double standards. If the GOP loses in the 2022 midterms and doesn't win the WH in 2024, our once free country will no longer be.