6 Apr 2024 12:04 pm
Almost all who came to Washington on January 6 came to protest what then Vice President Mike Pence called “an election with significant allegations of voting irregularities and numerous instances of officials setting aside state election laws.” Added Pence in his famous missive recusing himself from intervening, “I share the concerns of millions of Americans about the integrity of this election.” “Given the voting irregularities that took place in our November elections and the disregard of state election statutes by some officials,” Pence continued, “I welcome the efforts of Senate and House members who have stepped forward to use their authority under the law to raise objections and present evidence.”
Pence would seem to have swallowed what Democrats, Rove Republicans, and the media were uniformly calling the “big lie.” In one voice, they had been assuring America that the 2020 election was, in the words of the Brennan Center for Justice, “one of the most secure elections in our history.” What helped make it secure, claimed the Brennan Center, was that “the votes were counted in a timely manner.”
Abraham Lincoln knew the election results before he went to bed on election night 1860. One hundred and sixty years later, votes were still being counted a week or more after the election. No matter. In 2020, once respected institutions chose to honor the “final, most essential command” of the “Party” in Orwell’s 1984, namely “to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.”
In 2020, the Democrats and their Rovian allies were that “Party.” If their operatives were willing to play by Orwellian rules, the patriots in flyover country were not. On January 6, they showed up in Washington to assert their First Amendment right “peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” As even Pence conceded, those grievances were real. The overwhelming majority of those arrested did assemble peaceably. Worst case, they expected punishment comparable to the hundreds arrested for disrupting the Senate confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Reported NPR blithely, “Most of those charged this week with disorderly conduct, crowding or obstructing paid fines of $35 or $50.”
The J6ers had no such luck. Instead of the expected wrist slap, they have endured the greatest mass injustice against American citizens since Japanese internment. The “critical mistake” we all make is not to denounce this infamy every day until November.
Trump Should Talk More About January 6, Not Less - American Thinker
Pence would seem to have swallowed what Democrats, Rove Republicans, and the media were uniformly calling the “big lie.” In one voice, they had been assuring America that the 2020 election was, in the words of the Brennan Center for Justice, “one of the most secure elections in our history.” What helped make it secure, claimed the Brennan Center, was that “the votes were counted in a timely manner.”
Abraham Lincoln knew the election results before he went to bed on election night 1860. One hundred and sixty years later, votes were still being counted a week or more after the election. No matter. In 2020, once respected institutions chose to honor the “final, most essential command” of the “Party” in Orwell’s 1984, namely “to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears.”
In 2020, the Democrats and their Rovian allies were that “Party.” If their operatives were willing to play by Orwellian rules, the patriots in flyover country were not. On January 6, they showed up in Washington to assert their First Amendment right “peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” As even Pence conceded, those grievances were real. The overwhelming majority of those arrested did assemble peaceably. Worst case, they expected punishment comparable to the hundreds arrested for disrupting the Senate confirmation hearings of Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh. Reported NPR blithely, “Most of those charged this week with disorderly conduct, crowding or obstructing paid fines of $35 or $50.”
The J6ers had no such luck. Instead of the expected wrist slap, they have endured the greatest mass injustice against American citizens since Japanese internment. The “critical mistake” we all make is not to denounce this infamy every day until November.
Trump Should Talk More About January 6, Not Less - American Thinker