J6 “hearing” is political theater

The January 6 / J6 Committee “hearing” will be broadcast tomorrow evening (Thurs., June 9) at 8pm on major networks (except Fox). It’s all political theater; Democrats admit it.  See also here and here.

Julie Kelly at American Greatness has been tireless in her efforts to report the corruption at DOJ, resulting in J6 prisoners (in reality just patriotic protesters at a peaceful rally) still languishing in DC jails with no due process protections as enumerated in the Constitution. Ms. Kelly previews the committee hearings to be televised:

. . . [W]ill the committee release 14,000 hours of surveillance video to show what happened inside and outside of the Capitol building on January 6? Biden’s Justice Department quickly designated the footage as “highly sensitive government material” that remains under strict protective orders in court proceedings. 

Allowing the public to view most of the video is the best way to uncover the “truth” about what happened that day. Why continue to conceal it? If January 6 is comparable to 9/11 and other deadly terror attacks, as Biden and his apparatchiks insist, Cheney and her colleagues should authorize the immediate and unedited release of all publicly-funded security video.

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Where are the internal investigative reports on police misconduct on January 6? Will the committee make public the inquiry into the police killing of Ashli Babbitt? What about the three other fatalities that day? [see, e.g., here]. Democrats continually describe January 6 as a “deadly” insurrection but the only people who died were Trump supporters. Will Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill), who cried at testimony by police officers during last July’s hearing, shed similar tears for four dead Americans whose deaths were wholly or partially a result of excessive force used on January 6?

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Speaking of the FBI, will the committee disclose how many undercover agents and informants were in any way involved with January 6? Reporting by the New York Times last year confirmed at least two informants infiltrated the Proud Boys months before and were among the first to “breach” the perimeter of the grounds. 

Court filings reveal that undercover federal agents were stationed around the building before the chaos unfolded; hundreds of elite FBI agents were summoned to Quantico the weekend before January 6 and deployed to downtown D.C. that morning. For what?

A top FBI official refused to say whether FBI agents or informants provoked or engaged in violent behavior that day. As the recent trial of Michael Sussmann again showed, a seamless relationship exists between Democratic Party interests and the nation’s top law enforcement agency—so much so that the FBI has a workplace at Perkins Coie, the Democrats’ powerhouse law firm.

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Ms. Kelly concludes:

It’s highly unlikely, of course, that the committee will address any of those matters during this week’s hearing or in subsequent performances. Meanwhile, congenital liars such as Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) will perpetuate long-debunked narratives including the number of police officers who died as a result of January 6 (the answer is none) or that Trump loyalists brought firearms into the building (they didn’t).

A sham congressional committee working with a corrupt Justice Department boosted by a dishonest national media can only be expected to create political propaganda, not expose the truth; no matter how hard Liz Cheney pretends her vengeance mission is legitimate, most of the American public isn’t buying what she’s selling. 

Read the full column here. 

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"Capitol Punishment": must-see documentary

 

Over the weekend, our household watched the documentary Capitol Punishment, about the January 6 rally in DC.  It is a must-see.  The Daily Signal’s full interview with Nick Searcy and Chris Burgard is here, and I recommend either watching the video of the interview or reading the transcript before watching the documentary itself.

I found a review online that reflects our own reactions at conejoguardian:

Every freedom-loving American who honestly cares about what transpired on January 6, 2021 in our nation’s capital needs to see the riveting new documentary, Capitol Punishment. It’s a gripping and engaging story truthfully told by the people who were there on the ground that day.

The movie depicts what the mainstream media and our government wouldn’t show the American people — what actually happened. It’s an awakening for the people who have yet to understand the precarious position our freedoms are in. I had no idea how bad the deception, lies and cover-up could be until I watched this alarming account.

Recently, I had the privilege of interviewing Chris Burgard, the director, and Nick Searcy, the producer, of Capitol Punishment. The most pressing question for me was, what provoked Chris and Nick to document the events of January 6? Nick explained that it wasn’t until they returned home and saw how the media portrayed it — in a totally false way, inconsistent with what they personally witnessed.

“As the lies started to build up, we decided we wanted to make a movie about that day,” Nick told me.

He says the media suggested that there were only a few thousand people attending the events in D.C. that day, when in fact there were well over a million present to peacefully protest an election they thought was fraudulent and possibly stolen.

Chris noted that there was virtually no police presence except at the Ellipse where President Trump was speaking. Strangely, there were no camera crews, either, “almost as if it’s not happening,” he said. At one point on their walk to the Capitol, Chris told his wife Lisa, “There is something wrong going on here. There is no police presence and no major camera crews from CNN, MSNBC, FOX. This is eerie and I have a bad feeling that someone is going to die here today.”

Chris also witnessed suspicious people with military microphones dressed in typical Antifa and BLM apparel, with backpacks. Chris’s crew also documented a few people changing from pro-Trump clothing to Antifa and BLM clothing in the bushes. [Actually it was the other way around;  Antifa and BLM protestors wearing black clothes & face masks are filmed changing clothes into pro-Trump “patriots” garb. -D]

. . . I implore you to watch Capitol Punishment and decide for yourself if the legacy media and our government deceived the American people.

To watch online for $9.99 (and worth every penny} click here.  I’ve seen links to free access online, but it’s a small amount to pay for such a valuable resource.

The documentary also focuses on the murder of Ashli Babbitt.  When news outlets refer to the “deadly” insurrection of January 6, it's not the Trump supporters who were the aggressors.  One of the victims, Ashli Babbitt was fatally shot by Capitol Police officer Lt. Michael Byrd.  No charges.  The documentary has very distressing but moving interviews with Ms. Babbitt’s widower, Aaron.  Below is an image of Ashli Babbitt by Stilton Jarlsberg via BookwormRoom:

  

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Arming Ohio teachers

 

meme seen on BookwormRoom

Jeremiah Poff at The Washington Examiner reports:

. . . Arming teachers has had mixed results in the past due to varying levels of participation. A 2020 report from the RAND Corporation found that 28 states already permit armed teachers under certain circumstances, while others, including Texas and Florida, have passed laws specifically encouraging the practice.

Now, in the aftermath of Uvalde, the policy has received renewed attention in state capitols as lawmakers look to enact new measures to harden security at schools.

Ohio

A bill allowing teachers in Ohio to carry firearms is headed to the desk of Republican Gov. Mike DeWine, who has indicated he will sign it.

"My office worked with the General Assembly to remove hundreds of hours of curriculum irrelevant to school safety and to ensure training requirements were specific to a school environment and contained significant scenario-based training," DeWine said of the bill. "House Bill 99 accomplishes these goals, and I thank the General Assembly for passing this bill to protect Ohio children and teachers."

Once enacted, the bill will add Ohio to a list of several states that already allow teachers to be armed. . . .

Read the full report here.

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Remembering D-Day

On this day in 1944, the Normandy Invasion, also called Operation Overlord or D-Day, was launched.  D-Day marked the beginning of the Allied invasion of western Europe during World War II. Below is a Navy team in training:

They landed on Utah Beach. Blogger's late father is first row center -- the skipper.

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If "Build Back Better" was a swing set

 Meme of the day via PowerLine:

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Daniel Greenfield on Deliberate Destruction

 

Daniel Greenfield explains in detail why our downward spiral is the result of deliberate destruction:

Our Economic Misery Isn’t An Accident, It’s The Plan

Americans can’t afford to buy a used car or even gas because the Left doesn’t want them to drive. They can’t buy homes because the Left wants to destroy the suburbs and force everyone to live in megacities. They have trouble buying meat because the Left wants them to eat soy.

The same is true for the whole exercise in planned economic misery that we’re experiencing.

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There are predictions that gas will hit $6 a gallon nationwide by the summer because the Biden administration has worked hard to raise energy prices and create artificial shortages. Biden’s people just got through once again sabotaging oil and gas leases because they want higher energy prices. $6 a gallon is not the result of political inattentiveness, that is the plan.

Inflation isn’t an unintentional accident either. . . .[I]nflation is doing what it’s meant to do, wiping out savings, and triggering retaliatory interest rate hikes to “cool down” the economy. The middle class ends up poorer and more vulnerable, government dependency rises and social mobility falls. Socialism starts looking better every day. That’s how it worked in the twentieth century and still works today.

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If Americans don’t understand that our misery isn’t an accident or incompetence, but part of a plan then the downward cycle will continue to play out with increasingly worse outcomes.

Until the Left finally gets what it wants. And then the rest of us won’t have anything left.

Much more at the link here.

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Bill Gates recommends Fake Food

 

Dr Joseph Mercola doesn’t think much of bazillionaire Bill Gates and his elitist de-populationist fake food agenda.  Dr Mercola is posting, as usual, at NOQ, and here’s the bullet point summary:

STORY AT-A-GLANCE

• Bill Gates appears to be behind the push to stop breastfeeding and encourage uptake of BIOMILQ, a cell-cultured “human milk” made in a lab, along with other varieties of fake food
• Nearly every large meat and dairy processor/manufacturer has also acquired or developed plant-based meat and dairy substitutes
• This “protein” industry convergence is jeopardizing the resilience of the food system and reducing genetic diversity of livestock and crops
• When you factor in soy production as well as the use of conventional energy sources, lab-grown meat may be worse for the environment than conventionally produced chicken and pork
• There are signs that the fake meat industry may be failing before it ever gets off the ground; shares of Beyond Meat lost $6 billion since March 2020 due to weak sales growth
• To save the planet and support your health, skip all the fake meat alternatives and opt for real food that’s being raised using regenerative, grass fed methods

Click here for the full article.  My caveat:  In the article, one of the sections is headed “Abbott [Nutrition’s Sturgis, Michigan facility] Enriched Shareholders While Formula Sickened Babies.” Maybe, but maybe not.  From a reader comment posted by lakerman1 at Lucianne.com:

These are the facts as I understand them. Two babies became ill and died, and two more became ill but survived. A particular bacterium existed in all four babies, and all four babies were on Abbott formula. The federal inspectors went to Abbott, but did not find the bacterium in secure processing areas, but found it in external, non-secure areas of the plant. So the FDA shut down the entire plant. It is much more likely that the four babies’ formula bottles were contaminated by their caregivers in preparing the bottles.

For one thing, I wouldn’t trust the FDA any more than I trust the CDC, NIH, FBI, or DOJ.

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