2022 Will Be an Interesting Year for Liberty
(My Fleming Foundation article)
The Democratic Party has moved so far Left its partisans have lost touch with what’s going on in America. But they still sense there’s a high chance they’re going to get wiped out in the midterm elections this year. They see prices rising everywhere. The polls show Biden is highly unpopular and Hispanics are moving toward the Republicans.
To start the new year, the NY Times ran a long op-ed, “Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now.” It shows how deluded these people are.
It begins by mentioning “the very real bloodshed of that awful day … a deadly riot at the seat of American government.” But it withholds the detail that the only person who died by violence was veteran and protester Ashley Babbitt, murdered by a Capitol police officer with a record of disciplinary problems. Nothing happened to him.
The editorial board writes, “things are far from normal. Jan. 6 is not in the past; it is every day.” They don’t mention the political prisoners still rotting in AG “Vyshinsky” Garland’s D.C. jails gulag, most guilty of nothing worse than misdemeanor trespassing.
And they sure don’t mention how Garland, when questioned by Rep. Massie during an October hearing, refused to say anything at all about clear evidence federal agents provoked the advance on the Capitol. See the video here. It shows a man later identified as Ray Epps ordering, “We need to go in!” And the peaceful protesters chant, while pointing at him, “Fed! Fed! Fed!” Epps has been identified by Revolver.news as a federal agent. He also has never been indicted, let alone sent to the D.C. Gulag.
Having been shown the images at the hearing, Garland refused to comment, saying it was an ongoing investigation. When Massie then asked him, simply, how many federal agents might have been there, Vyshinsky still refused to comment.
Vyshinsky ought to be impeached and removed from office. But he won’t be, because it’s the Democrats who are imposing a Soviet tyranny on us. Perhaps, if Republicans actually do take control of at least one house of Congress, a year from now they could hold real hearings on what the Feds actually did on Jan. 6.
The Times again: “It is Republican lawmakers scrambling to make it harder for people to vote and easier to subvert their will if they do.” But all Republicans want is the same thing as the 2004 Commission on Federal Election Reform, co-chaired by former Democratic President Jimmy Carter: a uniform photo ID presented when voting.
And I’m still waiting for Democrats to show me the source code on the election machines used in the 2020 election. As Scott Adams says, if you can’t audit it, then it’s just a fake election. I can read code. Show it to me.
This from the Times actually is true: “In short, the Republic faces an existential threat from a movement that is openly contemptuous of democracy and has shown that it is willing to use violence to achieve its ends.”
But the threat comes from the Democratic Party’s imposition of tyranny, with the violence coming from its enforcers in Antifa and BLM. Notice how those terrorist groups are a lot less active this year with their masters now calling the shots.
The Times: “Thanks largely to the dogged work of a bipartisan committee in the House of Representatives, this reckoning is underway. We know now that the violence and mayhem broadcast live around the world was only the most visible and visceral part of the effort to overturn the election. The effort extended all the way into the Oval Office, where Mr. Trump and his allies plotted a constitutional self-coup.”
The committee is a farce. It has not subpoenaed Garland, Epps or anyone else. It has not demanded the release of the voting-machine code.
The Times also doesn’t care about the destruction of the First Amendment’s “right of the people peaceably to assemble” – without federal agents provocateurs sabotaging it, effectively preventing any future such assemblies by conservatives or Republicans.
The Times also doesn’t care about the attack on the First Amendment, for which it claims to be the foremost guardian, in the arrest and torture in the Gulag of Julian Assange, a real journalist.
“Above all, we should stop underestimating the threat facing the country,” the Times warns. Indeed, and the real threat comes from the Biden tyranny and its Vyshinskyite henchman, Garland.
It’s sad how the Democratic Party I knew growing up in the 1960s and 70s, which gave us such protections of our liberties as the Church Committee investigation into the federal snoop agencies, has descended to this level of outrage.
The 2022 election may be the last chance we have to reverse this clear and present danger to our country.
John Seiler blogs at johnseiler.substack.com