Tuesday, March 15, 2022

The Purpose Of The Jan. 6 Select Committee Is To Suppress Free Speech

From The Federalist.com (Oct. 12, 2021):

A third round of subpoenas issued last week by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s select committee on the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol has revealed the committee’s investigation for what it is: a brazen attack on the First Amendment rights of peaceful, law-abiding Americans.

Indeed, it’s not too much to say that the committee’s targeting of ordinary Americans poses a far greater threat to freedom and democracy than the Capitol riot ever did.

Why? Because the subpoenas were issued to a pair of private citizens, right-wing activist Ali Alexander and a man named Nathan Martin, as well as a group the men were associated with called Stop the Steal, which had applied for and received a permit from the U.S. Capitol Police to hold a rally on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6.

Ali and Martin didn’t take part in the riot and have no connection to it. Both men were indeed present at the Capitol grounds that day, along with hundreds of thousands of other people, to host a rally for which, I repeat, their organization applied for and received a permit from U.S. Capitol Police. But their permitted event never even took place.

As Martin told me back in January, about a week after the riot, he was setting up for the event when he saw people entering the U.S. Capitol building from a side door, which didn’t seem right to him. Shortly thereafter, Martin received a text that the event was canceled and he left the Capitol grounds. He didn’t find out about the riot and the breach of the Capitol until he got back to his hotel room later that day.

Martin, an Iraq War veteran and city councilman in Shelby, Ohio, was much like the vast majority of people who came to Washington, D.C., to protest the election in January. He wasn’t there to cause trouble or incite violence, and he didn’t think the protest would change the outcome of the election. His hope, he told me, was that Republican lawmakers would put their objections on the record and go through claims of election fraud “line by line,” especially from states where instances of fraud and irregularities were well-documented. [read more]

Now the stupid, partisan commission said President Trump committed crimes to overturn the election. Specifically from the Washington Times articles it said:

The panel said Mr. Trump was told repeatedly that claims of voter fraud were minor or unfounded* and that he had legitimately lost the election. But he rejected them and continue to mislead the public to lay the groundwork to reverse the Electoral College result.

So, now I guess it’s a crime to give an informed opinion. Geez. The Dems just don’t want Trump to run again. Never mind that Crooked Spying Hillary basically said that Trump stole the election from her. That’s okay. No commission needed on her. Nothing to see here. She conceded the election though. He didn’t. So, at least he is being consistent.

*So, which is it? Minor or unfounded? It can’t be both. Also, since when is it that voter fraud at any amount is good? Hey, you have minor bone cancer. Don’t worry about.

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