by Victor Davis Hanson
Congress should investigate fully the January 6 riot at the Capitol – and similar recent riots at iconic federal sites.
But unfortunately, it never will. Why not?
The current committee is not bipartisan. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., forbade Republican nominees traditionally selected by the House minority leader to serve on the committee.
No speaker had ever before rejected the minority party’s nominees to a select House committee.
Pelosi’s own cynical criteria for Republican participation was twofold: Any willing minority Republican members had to have voted to impeach former President Donald Trump while having no realistic chance of being reelected in 2022.
Of some 210 Republican House members, that left just Representatives Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., and Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., who were willing and able to fit Pelosi’s profile.
A real investigation would have ignited argumentation, cross-examination, and disagreements – the sort of give-and-take for which congressional committees are famous.
In contrast, the January 6 show trial features no dissenting views. Its subtext was right out of the Soviet minister of Internal Affairs Lavrentiy Pavlovich Beria’s credo: “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”
If Trump was not considering a third run for the presidency, would the committee even have existed?
Its slick Hollywood-produced optics demonstrate that the committee has no interest in inconvenient facts. Why did a Capitol officer lethally shoot a petite unarmed woman entering a Capitol window? And why was the officer’s identity and, indeed all information about his record, withheld from the public?
Why did the committee not investigate whether large numbers of FBI agents and informants were ubiquitous among the crowd? After all, progressive New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg who was there on January 6, claimed, “There were a ton of FBI informants amongst the people who attacked the Capitol.”
About his own journalistic colleagues advancing a psychodramatic “insurrection” narrative, Rosenberg scoffed, “They were making too big a deal. They were making (Jan. 6) some organized thing that it wasn’t.”
A real committee would also investigate why there were lots of warnings that a large crowd would assemble, but apparently little government follow-up to ensure security, should rogue elements turn violent.
A real committee would learn why the government and media insisted that officer Brian Sicknick was killed by Trump supporters – even when it was known he died of natural causes.
None of the questions will be answered because none will be asked because the committee’s role is not inquiry but confirmation of a useful narrative.
A real committee would also investigate the other, far larger and more lethal riots on iconic federal property months earlier.
On May 31, 2020, for example, violent demonstrators tried to rush the White House grounds. Rioters sought to burn down the nearby historic St. John’s Episcopal Church.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser mysteriously did not send police to reinforce overwhelmed Secret Service agents who, at moments, seemed unable to keep the mob from the White House itself.
The giddy New York Times later crowed, “Trump shrinks back.” Was the Times preening that the president was a coward for retreating from a righteous mob?
As a precaution, the Secret Service removed the president and first family to a safe underground bunker.
Such riots near or at the White House continued for much of the fall, before mysteriously tapering off in the last weeks before the election.
Less than three weeks after the violent Washington riot, Democratic vice-presidential nominee Kamala Harris seemed to incite the continuing violent protests, “They’re not going to stop . . . This is a movement . . . they’re not going to let up. And they should not, and we should not.”
Note that Harris’ cheerleading was joined by a host of prominent left-wing luminaries who contextualized the violence. The “1619 Project” architect Nikole Hannah-Jones boasted, “Destroying property, which can be replaced, is not violence.”
Former CNN anchor Chris Cuomo pontificated, “And please, show me where it says protesters are supposed to be polite and peaceful.”
Note that the 2020 summer of rioting, arson, and looting continued for nearly four months. Its toll resulted in over 35 dead, some 1,500 police officers injured, around 14,000 arrests, and between $1-2 billion in property damage.
The violence was often aimed at iconic government buildings, from courthouses to police precincts. There were never any federal investigations to determine why state, local, and federal officials allowed the destruction to continue.
Why were the vast majority of those arrested simply released by authorities?
And how had antifa and BLM radicals orchestrated the violence using social media? What was the role of prominent elected officials in either condoning or encouraging the violence or communicating with the ring leaders?
A truly bipartisan House select committee dedicated to ending all violence directed at the White House, the Capitol, or federal courthouses might have been useful in probing this dark period in American history.
And that is precisely why there was no such committee.
It is my sincere desire to provide readers of this site with the best unbiased information available, and a forum where it can be discussed openly, as our Founders intended. But it is not easy nor inexpensive to do so, especially when those who wish to prevent us from making the truth known, attack us without mercy on all fronts on a daily basis. So each time you visit the site, I would ask that you consider the value that you receive and have received from The Burning Platform and the community of which you are a vital part. I can't do it all alone, and I need your help and support to keep it alive. Please consider contributing an amount commensurate to the value that you receive from this site and community, or even by becoming a sustaining supporter through periodic contributions. [Burning Platform LLC - PO Box 1520 Kulpsville, PA 19443] or Paypal
-----------------------------------------------------
To donate via Stripe, click here.
-----------------------------------------------------
Use promo code ILMF2, and save up to 66% on all MyPillow purchases. (The Burning Platform benefits when you use this promo code.)
I’m almost 69 and will confirm that bitch is one of the scariest looking women I’ve seen.
A face that not even a mother could love.
Isn’t it fun to watch these people trying to change history in real-time? We all know that Jan 6 was no insurrection; people actually die in those. Since no one actually got killed because it was all a psyop, and based on the lies of the past, we can be sure that what goes in our history books will instead not be the truth.
After all, these are the same people who still hawk one of the biggest scams of our lives: the “Holocaust.” Which is yet another narrative which falls apart when any logic is applied. (Regardless of what you believe, the fact remains that no one, jews or otherwise, were ever gassed or baked, at any time during the war or after. They had no need to use inflammable gas to kill them; all they had to do is put them all in a small room and seal it off, they’d have all died of asphyxiation in minutes, with no nasty residue [and contaminated bodies] to clean up after; the Germans also didn’t have the coal it would have taken to heat crematory ovens, nor the facilities built to handle them. And think about this: in ’44 and ’45, when the Nazis were supposedly killing up to 3,000 jews per day — in itself ridiculously un-doable — the Germans had lots more worries than their concentration camps; things like all their railroads were destroyed, they had no food, electricity or running water, and no medical supplies could be delivered, leading to major outbreaks of Typhus and Syphilis. Do you honestly believe that while fighting and losing a two-front war that Germany would take the time to divert resources it simply didn’t have in order to needlessly murder prisoners? Or if they were, that the Allies wouldn’t have gone in and stopped them? You see how just those few things blow gaping holes in the “official” story?)
Now think about how they’re pounding home Jan 6, like it’s Holocaust II: Insurrection Boogaloo. Like Mark Twain said, “Lies and damned lies,” that’s the only way these people operate. And we’re getting to see it all on TV, in a nicely-done, professional Hollywood gloss. These people are masters at propaganda.
Why believe anything they say? Logic rips them a new asshole every. Single. Time.
The Jan 6 protest was an event that scared the shit out of the parasitic DC elites as they scurry about like feral cats covering up each other’s shit . This band of treasonous alleged representatives who are owned by the Highest bidder had to propagandize the shit out of this protest and of course the MSM LEFTIST BAGS OF SHIT took every lie Pelosi and company feed them and ran with it like scalded dog with a demonic repetitious fever with no effort to verify !
Of course the world heard a multitude of lies over and over making Gobbels blush in his grave
Someone must be subsidizing all these (rioters). It’s never happened quite this way . Is there anyone you can think of who has used terror tactics before? Israel maybe. Or double citizens in the USA> Congress.
Is this person for real? They are shocked that the masks fell off, or are they too ignorant and materialistic to see that there were masks? No No. None of that. They are just consummate liars that want us to believe there are two parties with opposing interests that might even tangentially care about the interest of any citizens.
Well, for starters, what should have been about was the stolen election of 2020 which was the real insurrection.