The first of the January 6 peaceful protesters was sentenced in federal court this past week. It was both a tragedy and farce. A Trump supporter who took the bus to Washington, DC because he can’t afford his own car was treated as a domestic terrorist, and the Obama-appointed judge threw the book at him.
The protester’s attorney is an American combat veteran – and he wept over the violation of his client’s civil rights by the US government. That protester’s life has now been destroyed because he took a selfie picture in the US Senate chamber on January 6th.
The peaceful protest of that day has repeatedly been described as an “insurrection.” This is a lie that has been repeated endlessly by the Biden regime and the media.
The January 6th protests were not an insurrection. Any reasonable person understands this. But the “insurrection” term just won’t seem to die, no matter how many lies about that day are debunked. And it’s not like we don’t have examples of actual insurrections in US history that we can compare January 6th to, if we’re willing to simply look.
I’ve written previously about the first insurrection in American history, known as the “Whiskey Rebellion.” It took place during George Washington’s presidency, and unlike the supposed January 6 peaceful protest, it was a very, very bloody event. Civilians in Pennsylvania who were rebelling against a discriminatory whiskey tax died in that insurrection, and so did federal soldiers.
The leaders of the Whiskey Rebellion were sentenced to death. President Washington defused the situation by not only repealing the unjust whiskey tax on Pennsylvania farmers, but also by pardoning those insurrection leaders. By not hanging the leaders, he de-escalated the desire to topple the fledgling American government.
Needless to say, the child-sniffing dementia patient in the White House today is not nearly as smart as George Washington was. While George Washington sought unity and peace among Americans, Joe Biden seeks crushing tyranny over anyone who objects to his fake election.
The Whiskey Rebellion is ancient history. The assassination of Abraham Lincoln was another obvious insurrection. America ended up with a president from a completely different political party after Lincoln was murdered in a Democrat plot. But what about more recent insurrections since the post-Civil War period? Have there been any?
Imagine my surprise this summer as I was crossing a book off my summer reading “bucket list” when I learned about the most recent insurrection in America (not counting the 2020 stolen election, obviously). As it turns out, there was an attempted insurrection on November 1, 1950 – and it was nothing like the events of January 6th.
That was the date when a pair of Puerto Rican communists attempted – and almost succeeded – in assassinating President Harry Truman (a Democrat, for those who aren’t old enough to remember). The goal of the assassins in this largely forgotten event was to topple the US government, so that their island nation of Puerto Rico could win independence and become a communist s***hole country like Cuba would become under Fidel Castro just a few years later.
There’s even strong evidence that the plot to topple the American government was hatched by Pedro Albizu Campos, the Fidel Castro-wannabe of Puerto Rico in those days. (There’s a high school named after Campos in Chicago, and Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez considers the bloodthirsty Campos one of her spiritual socialist mentors.)
In other words, it was a clear-cut, indisputable insurrection. President Truman was living at the Blair House that November (the president’s guest house in DC), due to the White House undergoing renovations. The hapless assassins only learned about this by accident from a cab driver as they were on their way to carry out their attack. In those days, the president only had one Secret Service agent and three DC cops protecting him. Truman was looking out a second-story window at the Blair House as the two communist assassins opened fire with German automatic weapons.
I don’t want to give away the ending, but you can probably guess based on the fact that Truman finished out his term. The point is that real insurrections are bloody, violent, and involve the use of copious amounts of gunfire – with casualties on both sides. Real insurrections don’t involve patriotic Americans taking peaceful selfies in the Senate chambers with the Qanon shaman.
The book, by the way, is “American Gunfight” by Stephen Hunter and I HIGHLY recommend it. It’s a rip-roaring page-turner that culminates in a meticulous recreation of a frantic 38-second gunfight that very nearly changed the course of the Western hemisphere. I give it two six-guns up!
Based on everything I’m hearing, President Donald Trump is horrified by what Joe Biden is doing to the January 6th protesters. The events of that day were nothing like a real insurrection. There were no cops or federal officers who were killed by protesters that day, as would happen in a true insurrection. The only death by gunfire was an unarmed housewife named Ashli Babbitt, who was assassinated by a Capitol Police officer whose identity is still being hidden from the public.
Treating the selfie-takers at the US Capitol as if they were actual insurrectionists and/or terrorists is a crime against humanity. Ruining their lives over a constitutionally protected protest is an act that Harry Truman and the Founding Fathers would have violently protested themselves.
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The so called Jan. 6th insurrection was a plot by the democrats with the aid of antifa to further their attacks on Donald Trump and to cover up the fraudulent election of senile Joe. Pelosi knew what was going to happen so she turned down the presidents offer of having the national guard on hand as security. Now they are using the rhetoric of the protesters as being domestic terrorists which some actually were the antifa people that were there who had maga hats and clothing to wear hidden where they could put it on and entered the capital building placing the blame on innocent peaceful protesters.
NO word yet of the 60k CNN and NBC paid to one antifa slob for starting the riot, dressed as a Trump supporter.
Willie is exactly correct. and the FBI had infiltrated the Antifa group and assisted them when the full truth comes out. I call for the disbanding of the FBI and the start of an investigative arm of the US Marshall’s service. The FBI has outgrown it’s original mission and needs to stay out of ALL politics, along with all other police forces.
What has been going on in the DEMOCRAT RUN cities of the United States for half a year before the elections was a serious, partly armed and murdering, INSURRECTION with the aim of toppling the, then, existing government! THAT WAS AN INSURRECTION!
I know, it is still continuing, and the murder rates are still rising – Only: It is now not aimed at “Regime Change” (as Obama and Biden had practiced in Libya, Syria, Ukraine, with thousands of deaths) but simply at terrorizing the population into SUBMISSION and FEAR OF OPPOSING THE HENCHMEN OF THIS TERROR now sitting in Washington.
Now, compare that to walking into a building as PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION -and nobody had a gun (they were only shot at) and nobody set the place alight: No Portland, Kenosha, Minneapolis, etc!
So, we had both, INSURRECTION and TERROR RULE:
The first for the purpose of Forcing REGIME CHANGE;
the second for ENFORCING REGIME DICTATORSHIP!
Wow an insurrection against Truman surprise: and the perpetrator has a school named for him and a representative in the house that consider him a mentor: that’s like hillary,Joe Biden mentor kkk: what other skeletons are in the disquise of democracy embrace socialists communist agendas : of globalization. Sad for the shaman. But where is CNN anti fa insurrectionist Sullivan?
The Democrat’s being led by Pelosi are trying to destroy another political party with her lies and inuendoes(half truths) . Will she also go after all Democrat’s that said revolt including her AOC, Waters Schumer and others I think not , She is just wasting money again for politics. She wants to control the nation.
Its way past time for Biden to DIE !
Someone needs to buy every single Demo RAT a dictionary and a set of encyclopedias! Obviously schooling failed them they do not know the definition of a single word!
Trust me if this was 1991 he would have been in the ground a long time ago! I would have quickly put him there myself CIA’s top assassin 1991!
The Hornmen took a picture with Pelosi son in law inside Capital building on 01/06. Picture was early morning on internet among other pictures like police open barricades and in invited people inside. These pictures was gone at noon or so. I forwarded them to my friends with a link but they were gone. The reality is that PELOSI ANTIFA AND BLM are the Guilty ones. No justice is in USA criminals walk free and Law binding Citizens are treat like once. There is no DOJ anymore the name DOU. Biden HoHa Pelosi Schumer and their soldiers distorting our country and they needs to be the one procecuted9.
January 6th at the U.S. Capital surely did not appear peaceful to me. Personally, I would classify what happened as somewhere between peaceful and an insurrection but somewhat closer to an insurrection.
Carolyn, it’s CNN sheep like you who are allowing the democRatic party to lead our nation to the Communist China slaughter house! Wake up and get your head out of your ass! Can’t you see what’s happening? Do you think it’s OK for America to have political prisoners being tortured? It’s time for all Americans to stand up against the communist democRat liberals and take back our freedoms! We need to start with people like you to wake up and not allow this to happen! We must insure election integrity so that these traitors who were illegally elected cannot take over our country! Only American citizens should be voting and these voters should have to show identification so each voter can only vote once. Those who say requiring identification is voter suppression are part of this illegal regime trying to overthrow our country. This IS insurrection!! Those Americans being illegally held as political prisoners were NOT involved in an insurrection!! They MUST be released NOW! Where is the ACLU? What if President Trump would have had all of the BLM terrorists imprisoned? I guess there would have been many cities saved from burning, looting and murders!!! It’s time to take America back from these corrupt China funded democRats! I think it’s time to look at Obama’s tax returns! How is it that after “serving our country” he can now afford a 12 million dollar mansion and throw lavish parties for the rich and famous?