I suspect the proximate motivation was simply to discredit the J6 protestors. From the outset that narrative was necessary to keep people from looking at the very real issues of potential ballot fraud and numerous irregularities in the 2020 election.
Trump's rising popularity, particularly with the disaffected portion of the electorate, makes it essential to tar him with the same narrative and for the same reason.
For some, those last vestiges were destroyed long ago.
Which is the great danger to the Republic here: a growing number of Americans are losing confidence in American government. There is a critical mass of such Americans which, if reached, will catalyze a true insurrection and rebellion.
All government rests on the consent of the governed. This is true even in totalitarian regimes. If enough of the governed withdraw their consent, no government can survive.
I agree. One of your colleagues on Substack, El Gato Malo, put up a piece this morning offering the following: “consider the possibility that they’d burn it all rather than hand over power and get dragged into the light.” Many have concluded that this is much more than a possibility.
My great fear is that the very natural anger brewing within the electorate will play right into that, and we will all participate in burning everything to the ground.
It may be there is no good alternative, but I am fervently praying that a way forward can be found which does not end the Republic. The United States is not perfect, but it is vastly preferable to the authoritarian systems that would likely follow it.
Oh wait. There weren't even trials, so we now one step even below the Soviets.
And yet, most people I know are still clueless, and the few that aren't are too morally cowardly to want to get involved, thinking they can just hide in their houses watching TV and 'sit this one out." Truth is, they can't; they won't... and they never intended for these cowards to be ABLE to.
Not that these fasco-Marxist, Frankfurt School, Gramscian faux judges would be smart enough, but the fact is that the left always, as Jaques Mallet du Pan wrote 200 years ago, devours its own young as cited below.
"Show me the man, and I will show you the crime" said Stalin's secret police head, Laverentiy Beria. Interestingly, what ALWAYS happens with the fasco-Marxists, they get hoisted on their own petards. In “Considerations on the Nature of the Revolution in France, post-revolution Jaques Mallet du Pan wrote “A l’exemple de Saturne, la révolution dévore ses enfants” – Like Saturn, the revolution eats its children. (Mallet du Pan aptly refers to the Greek myth of a titan who ate his children upon birth to prevent them succeeding him.)
Or as another has said “Frankenstein’s monster always returns to burn the castle.” Or perhaps as George Carlin said about the stupid people who don’t get it, “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” George Carlin
I am non-violent and advocate following the law. The battle is really one of MLK and Ghandi resistance. So all you Deep Staters reading this, pound sand. Rather, it is not me, but HISTORY and a God who is there that will find these corrupt judges out, who are ultimately part of the gay governor and his attempt to turn CO. into the next California (after all, EVERYONE wants a feces strewn, drug infested streets with all the businesses driven out, right? I am a dual US/Canadian citizen, but was originally born in SF, then lived a long time in its sister city, Vancouver, BC). The Robespierre brothers learned this as they were marched up their own guillotine; Trotsky learned this as the Bosheviks put an ice pick into his heart, and almost ALL the people who brought Stalin to power, such as Kamenev, et al, learned this, including his NKVD (secret police) head Lavrentiy Beria, who fell out of favour, was dragged out of a meeting, a rag stuffed in his mouth, and summarily shot, Mao’s Lin Piao learned this. Virtually ALL the people who brought Stalin to power, such as Lev Kamenev and Trotsky were later murdered by him. Hitler's Night of the Long Knives murdered Ernst Rohm and a lot of others. Hitler's judge Roland Friesler "only" was found dead in his kangaroo court building after a bombing. And so on. And all those knee-jerk Democrats in Chicago? Now whining about illegal immigrants taking money from the city, overrunning their parks, destroying their communities, etc. Same with that mayor of NYC, who will never be mistaken for Einstein.
We now have no legal system. All put in place by Obama, who furtively did all this while giving his crocodilian smile to the idiot public. I have have - or had - multiple IDIOT friends who voted for this guy. One fellow, when I told him that our rights come from God, not the state, of course reverted to the idiot "racism" canard. "That's funny" I told him. "Who did you vote for in teh 2000 election?" Of course it was Man Bear Pig Gore. "I voted for TRUE, 200% black, son of slaves Alan Keyes in the primary."
And typical of the fasco-Marxist left, he never replied.
All of this is mind-boggling. WHAT is going on in the courts? Are judges being bribed and blackmailed? Have the political elites completely taken over the legal system? THIS is the true threat to our Constitutional Republic!
Explains why MSM's orders were to call it an insurrection.
Explains why J6 innocents are in jail.
I suspect the proximate motivation was simply to discredit the J6 protestors. From the outset that narrative was necessary to keep people from looking at the very real issues of potential ballot fraud and numerous irregularities in the 2020 election.
Trump's rising popularity, particularly with the disaffected portion of the electorate, makes it essential to tar him with the same narrative and for the same reason.
It's "lawlessness". Been going around.
Trump’s deep state persecutors have destroyed the last vestiges of plausible deniability.
For some, those last vestiges were destroyed long ago.
Which is the great danger to the Republic here: a growing number of Americans are losing confidence in American government. There is a critical mass of such Americans which, if reached, will catalyze a true insurrection and rebellion.
All government rests on the consent of the governed. This is true even in totalitarian regimes. If enough of the governed withdraw their consent, no government can survive.
I agree. One of your colleagues on Substack, El Gato Malo, put up a piece this morning offering the following: “consider the possibility that they’d burn it all rather than hand over power and get dragged into the light.” Many have concluded that this is much more than a possibility.
My great fear is that the very natural anger brewing within the electorate will play right into that, and we will all participate in burning everything to the ground.
It may be there is no good alternative, but I am fervently praying that a way forward can be found which does not end the Republic. The United States is not perfect, but it is vastly preferable to the authoritarian systems that would likely follow it.
What's up with the courts in not only the USA but Canada as well?
Something stinks.
To high heaven.
If I were American, i'd be a registered Independent.
An I who'd vote Trump just as a 'Fuck off, slaver' at this point.
I have to admit, while I have my reservations about Trump, he is by far the best option available at this point.
Can you say "Soviet show trials?"
Oh wait. There weren't even trials, so we now one step even below the Soviets.
And yet, most people I know are still clueless, and the few that aren't are too morally cowardly to want to get involved, thinking they can just hide in their houses watching TV and 'sit this one out." Truth is, they can't; they won't... and they never intended for these cowards to be ABLE to.
We have exchanged the rule of law for the rules of lawyers.
It is not an improvement.
Not that these fasco-Marxist, Frankfurt School, Gramscian faux judges would be smart enough, but the fact is that the left always, as Jaques Mallet du Pan wrote 200 years ago, devours its own young as cited below.
"Show me the man, and I will show you the crime" said Stalin's secret police head, Laverentiy Beria. Interestingly, what ALWAYS happens with the fasco-Marxists, they get hoisted on their own petards. In “Considerations on the Nature of the Revolution in France, post-revolution Jaques Mallet du Pan wrote “A l’exemple de Saturne, la révolution dévore ses enfants” – Like Saturn, the revolution eats its children. (Mallet du Pan aptly refers to the Greek myth of a titan who ate his children upon birth to prevent them succeeding him.)
Or as another has said “Frankenstein’s monster always returns to burn the castle.” Or perhaps as George Carlin said about the stupid people who don’t get it, “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” George Carlin
I am non-violent and advocate following the law. The battle is really one of MLK and Ghandi resistance. So all you Deep Staters reading this, pound sand. Rather, it is not me, but HISTORY and a God who is there that will find these corrupt judges out, who are ultimately part of the gay governor and his attempt to turn CO. into the next California (after all, EVERYONE wants a feces strewn, drug infested streets with all the businesses driven out, right? I am a dual US/Canadian citizen, but was originally born in SF, then lived a long time in its sister city, Vancouver, BC). The Robespierre brothers learned this as they were marched up their own guillotine; Trotsky learned this as the Bosheviks put an ice pick into his heart, and almost ALL the people who brought Stalin to power, such as Kamenev, et al, learned this, including his NKVD (secret police) head Lavrentiy Beria, who fell out of favour, was dragged out of a meeting, a rag stuffed in his mouth, and summarily shot, Mao’s Lin Piao learned this. Virtually ALL the people who brought Stalin to power, such as Lev Kamenev and Trotsky were later murdered by him. Hitler's Night of the Long Knives murdered Ernst Rohm and a lot of others. Hitler's judge Roland Friesler "only" was found dead in his kangaroo court building after a bombing. And so on. And all those knee-jerk Democrats in Chicago? Now whining about illegal immigrants taking money from the city, overrunning their parks, destroying their communities, etc. Same with that mayor of NYC, who will never be mistaken for Einstein.
We now have no legal system. All put in place by Obama, who furtively did all this while giving his crocodilian smile to the idiot public. I have have - or had - multiple IDIOT friends who voted for this guy. One fellow, when I told him that our rights come from God, not the state, of course reverted to the idiot "racism" canard. "That's funny" I told him. "Who did you vote for in teh 2000 election?" Of course it was Man Bear Pig Gore. "I voted for TRUE, 200% black, son of slaves Alan Keyes in the primary."
And typical of the fasco-Marxist left, he never replied.
Leftists are idiots
To borrow from Macbeth, "we but teach bloody instructions which, being taught, return to plague the inventor."
There is no way the Democrats do not come to regret this.
Considerably!
Just as Gbil7 says, "Are the judges being bribed and blackmailed?"
If we have no legal system, we have no country, border be damned.
All of this is mind-boggling. WHAT is going on in the courts? Are judges being bribed and blackmailed? Have the political elites completely taken over the legal system? THIS is the true threat to our Constitutional Republic!