Authored by Paul Ingrassia via American Greatness,
The next commentary was tailored from remarks I delivered at an occasion held in Toms River, New Jersey, by the Patriot Freedom Project, a company, based by Cynthia Hughes, dedicated to shedding gentle on the plight of January 6 defendants and their households.
At present we commemorate the third anniversary of one of many darkest days in our nation’s current historical past—although not for the explanations the Left believes.
The tragedy of January 6, 2021, was not that it was an “assault on our democracy,” not to mention an “rebellion.”
However somewhat, it was a possibility for the deep state to lastly take away its masks and start the persecution and imprisonment of Americans, harmless patriots labeled home terrorists merely for exercising their First Modification proper to peaceably assemble on public property, the overwhelming majority of whom didn’t commit any acts of violence on Capitol grounds. As we later discovered, by way of the disclosures of footage from Capitol grounds that day, many of those peaceable demonstrators solely entered the Capitol after being waved on by Capitol police, who actively enabled them to make the alleged breach, solely to later flip round and scapegoat them as trespassers and insurrectionists when it grew to become politically handy to take action.
As we’ve got additionally discovered within the months and years since that fateful day, federal brokers have been seeded all through the crowds, each exterior and inside the Capitol, tasked with overtly inciting the demonstrators to violence. Regardless of that irrefutable reality, an exceptionally small variety of them did commit any violence. Completely zero engaged within the act of rebellion, which is a authorized time period of artwork with a really particular that means: specifically, the Framers of the 14th Modification, from the place that time period originates, had in thoughts preventing Confederate War Generals from returning to authorities, who took up arms and actually waged struggle in opposition to the Union. No one who confirmed up on the Capitol steps on January 6 engaged in a riot—hardly any of them have been even armed, and those that have been armed have been, at most, carrying round pepper spray. Present me an instance in the complete historical past of the world of a profitable armed rebellion accomplished with pepper spray.
The tragedy of January 6 continues by way of the current second, on the third anniversary, and can stay a tragedy as long as harmless Individuals stay locked up, each single certainly one of them denied due strategy of legislation. This may possible proceed till Donald Trump is reelected this November. As you all know, many January 6 prisoners proceed to languish behind bars—many nonetheless within the DC Gulag, and a few in essentially the most horrific situations of solitary confinement. The media has continually demonized these political prisoners (which President Trump refers to as “hostages” of our authorities) as home terrorists. And the remedy they’re at present getting is, unsurprisingly, that of a home terrorist: merciless and inhumane, disadvantaged of basic rights, together with the proper to significant authorized help, meals in some circumstances, and the naked minimal requirements to remain alive. All for merely exhibiting up on the Capitol, a public discussion board on which Individuals have lengthy loved their rights to assemble and communicate for hundreds of years, to contest an election whose outcomes have been tainted by the stain of illegitimacy—one thing that historical past has vindicated, overwhelmingly, within the months and years since that day.
If the reality shall prevail, right here is how historical past will keep in mind January 6: peaceable demonstrators have been lastly fed up with a authorities that had develop into outwardly tyrannical (and I’m not speaking about President Trump).
They noticed violence all all through the earlier summer season, dedicated by rogue, militant left-wing organizations corresponding to BLM and ANTIFA. These organizations have been allowed to commit untold billions of {dollars} of injury to private and non-private property, however the complete regime, together with each social gathering institutions and the mainstream media, excused them for each motion and even designated them as “peaceable protests,” asking tv audiences to disclaim observable actuality, as church buildings have been broadcast actually burning to the bottom whereas companies have been looted and ransacked, and anarchy was unleashed in nearly each main metropolis from coast to coast. This once more was the backdrop in opposition to which, on January 6, a relatively tame counter-response passed off.
The 2020 presidential election noticed all types of unprecedented rule adjustments, late-night poll drop-offs, conveniently timed “water most important” breakages that obstructed the electioneering course of, to not point out rampant, government-instigated, top-down censorship of each tales just like the Hunter Biden laptop computer scandal that will have been outcome-determining on the outcomes of the overall election, and political candidates, just like the President of the USA himself, who was pressured off each main social media platform—Fb, Twitter, Instagram, you title it—thereby censoring his voice within the weeks earlier than he left workplace.
So, the regime took away the President’s First Modification proper to talk and the folks’s First Modification proper to peacefully show. The individuals who arrived on the Capitol on January 6 did so not out of retribution in direction of their authorities however out of desperation for his or her political state of affairs—what felt like a last-ditch effort to have their voices heard.
The reason for January 6 is subsequently in the end the reason for the American republic: will it survive or will it too be relegated to the dustbin of historical past? That trigger will probably be decided, in the end, by whether or not President Trump is re-elected this November. Thus far, we’ve got cause to be cautiously optimistic. He has by no means polled this nicely earlier than in his complete political profession. The momentum behind him appears to be rising stronger by the day, even because the weaponized justice system will get increasingly more belligerent, an indication of desperation for positive, with every successive indictment.
We live by way of really historic occasions, not only for the historical past of America however for the historical past of the world, as a result of the 2024 presidential election can have world-historic penalties, for the place America goes, so goes Western civilization.
Whether or not that dwindling gentle of freedom, which America lengthy stood for, ever will get rekindled will largely come right down to what occurs in a number of months from now. It’s our responsibility to proceed to unfold the reality, the perennial enemy of tyranny, within the lead-up to the election. We have to proceed to show the totally faux narrative about J6, which was fully discredited for the rubbish propaganda it at all times was by the (partial) launch of January 6 footage.
We have to maintain the momentum going robust behind President Trump and stay vigilant of left-wing fraud and scheming, which can absolutely get extra determined as they lose management of the narrative and see all their lawfare show ineffective.
We should pray for the nation, for the President, and for one another—and particularly for the victims, together with these nonetheless locked up—and for the wives and kids of many victims, who proceed to endure unspeakable hardship—financially and emotionally—every day.
We should additionally, and that is vital, stay unified as a motion. Collectively, we’re a lot stronger than if we merely proceeded individually. A robust, completely satisfied, and united entrance is what the Left fears most about President Trump and his supporters, which is why they’re doing every part of their energy that they presumably can to carry him down as soon as and for all.
Allow us to ship a transparent and unwavering message to them that they can not break our resolve by any means. We’re stronger than ever earlier than. They are going to be met with resistance not like something they’ve ever skilled in the event that they a lot as dare try to cease our momentum or strike any certainly one of us down. We must always settle for nothing lower than victory, as a result of out of that victory will come true justice—the justice all these political hostages and their households have lengthy waited for and a lot deserve.
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