Of the more than 725 Americans arrested so far for various crimes related to the Capitol protest on January 6, 2021, nearly every defendant faces the same two misdemeanor charges: “entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds” and “disorderly conduct in a restricted building or grounds.”
The basis for the offenses is not, as the American people repeatedly have been told, that the building was closed to the public that day. After all, hundreds of people were allowed inside as Capitol police stood by; no signage or official announcements alerted the public that the building was off-limits.
Instead, the Justice Department has argued that the presence of both Vice President Michael Pence and incoming Vice President Kamala Harris rendered entry into the Capitol on January 6 a federal crime under 18 U.S. Code section 1752.
DOJ CHARGES OATH KEEPERS WITH ‘SEDITIOUS CONSPIRACY:’
Interestingly, the DOJannouncementdescribes the charges with reference to the statute’sinclusionof efforts to oppose or delay execution of a law, not its reference “to conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them …” But watch, the MSM and the Schumer/Pelosi crowd will frame it rhetorically as if the defendants are being charged with conspiracy to overthrow the government.
In September, the New York Timesconfirmed that FBI informants infiltrated the Proud Boys, an alleged militia group, and participated in the first breach of the Capitol perimeter right before 1 p.m. The man seen with the Proud Boys before the first intrusion was Ray Epps.
Senator Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) asked Matthew Olsen, head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division, whether any plain-clothes officers were at the Capitol on January 6. Olsen, who announced today the formation of a domestic terror unit within DOJ, said he was not “aware” of any plainclothes officers within the crowd or inside the building on January 6. Cotton slammed Olsen for repeatedly refusing to give the committee specific answers. “Did you prepare for this hearing, did you know this hearing was happening before this morning, Cotton asked Olsen.
Cotton also pressed Olsen about Epps; Olsen deferred the question to Sanborn. “Do you really expect us to believe you’ve never heard the name Ray Epps, you don’t know anything about him?” Cotton asked. Olsen said he had “no information at all” about Epps.
When politics is your religion and government is your God, a public building is your church.
The four-hour disturbance at the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, according to Beltway aristocracy and the media, wasn’t a legitimate protest that turned violent in some areas—it was a sacrilege. Never mind that the building itself sustained minimal damage—early reports estimated $30 million for repairs but the actual figure is around $1 million—the real vandalism occurred when thousands of Americans wearing MAGA hats invaded the cathedral of government power occupied by America’s political deity.
And the alleged apostates are paying a dear price.
Since January 6, lawmakers, judges, and federal prosecutors have routinely described the Capitol building as holy ground. “To those who engaged in the gleeful desecration of this, our temple of democracy, American democracy, justice will be done,” Pelosi said after the breach. Representative Mario DÃaz-Balart (R-Fla.) tweeted on January 6 that “the Capitol building is the center and sacred symbol of democracy.”
After the joint session reconvened later that evening, Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) mourned how “this sacred place was desecrated by a mob today, on our watch. This temple to democracy was defiled by thugs who roamed the halls.” Senator Ed Markey (D-Mass.) thanked the first responders who protected “this sacred Chamber.”
Here is how Joe Biden’s Justice Department recently described the actions of Robert Reeder, a Maryland man whose life has been ruined since he was charged with four misdemeanors related to his participation in the January 6 protest: “The attack on the U.S. Capitol . . . was one of the only times in our history when the building was literally occupied by hostile participants,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Joshua Rothstein wrote in an August filing. “The Defendant chose to be a part of the desecration of the Capitol rotunda. The Defendant stood in the center of the rotunda, where Ruther (sic) Bader Ginsburg, John Lewis, Ronald Reagan, Dwight Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, and Abraham Lincoln, among others, lied in state. What the Defendant chose to record and celebrate at that place, at that time, was antithetical to the events that most Americans associate with the Capitol rotunda.”
“Indeed, his very presence in the Capitol rotunda that day was a desecration of hallowed ground.” (emphasis added)
Now, for credentialed D.C. insiders like Joshua Rothstein, that undoubtedly is true. After all, Reeder, unlike Joshua Rothstein, did not attend Columbia Law School. Reeder was a FedEx truck driver until the company fired him after his arrest and now he can’t find another job. As he said during his sentencing hearing last Friday, he is “radioactive”—so he cannot afford to throw himself a 40th birthday party like Joshua Rothstein just did. Rothstein’s party, held at a rented-out D.C. restaurant, was complete with truffles and monogrammed cookies and attended by former Homeland Security director Jeh Johnson and other Beltway bigwigs, Politicoreported.
In fact, Robert Reeder, thanks to people like Josua Rothstein and his journo pals, doesn’t have many friends any more. Reeder’s teenage son, who shares his father’s name, doesn’t want to go to school; he’s bullied because of his father’s involvement on January 6, even though Reeder didn’t attack anyone or vandalize any property.
Reeder’s family and neighbors have abandoned him, too. As Reeder tearfully explained to a federal judge on Friday, even his church told him to stop coming because he was a distraction. “That’s tough because it was my support group,” Reeder told Judge Thomas Hogan, who ignored Reeder’s desperate plea for compassion and sentenced him to three months in prison for pleading guilty to one count of “parading” in the Capitol building—a place Hogan described as “sacrosanct.”
Rothstein, who wanted Reeder in jail for six months, told the court Reeder walked around like “he was a congressman” on January 6.
While it’s true Reeder did enter the Capitol building twice, he acted nothing like a United States congressman.
Reeder didn’t vote to add trillions to the national debt in the name of COVID relief, climate change, or infrastructure. He didn’t put his legislative imprimatur on COVID tyranny such as lockdowns, mask requirements, and vaccine mandates or cower to the teachers’ unions random demand of $640 billion to open schools this fall.
The official congressional record does not show Reeder as a co-sponsor of Joe Biden’s $3.5 trillion boondoggle—a figure closer to $5 trillion according to some analyses—that will raise at least $2 trillion in new taxes and redistribute the windfall to Democrats’ pet projects including paid family leave, child tax credits, free college, expanded health care coverage, and “clean energy.”
Robert Reeder isn’t responsible for a wide open southern border that threatens our safety and our sovereignty. There’s no evidence he consented to deploy millions of U.S. troops and spend trillions of U.S. tax dollars on failed foreign wars that culminated with a humiliating exit from Afghanistan resuling in the murder of 13 American servicemembers while leaving behind $80 billion in weaponry and artillery.
He didn’t participate in two preposterous impeachment trials against Donald Trump, one of which was a ruse to cover-up the Biden family overseas racket before the 2020 primaries, or the vile character assasination of a Supreme Court justice nominee.
He didn’t marry his brother to commit immigration fraud, repeatedly lie to the American public about an “abundance of evidence” to prove Trump-Russia election collusion, scream “we’re gonna impeach the motherfucker” after being sworn-in to Congress, encourage people to publicly harass Trump officials, or bend a knee in the “sacred” Capitol building to honor George Floyd. There is no statement from Reeder condemning America as systemically racist and supporting a new federal holiday to collectively repent for George Floyd’s death.
Reeder never made empty promises to hold Big Tech, the FBI, and China accountable. Nor is he responsible for skyrocketing consumer prices, a stagnant national economy, a looming supply chain crisis, or the fact that public approval ratings for everyone from Joe Biden to congressional leaders of both parties are tanking.
Joshua Rothstein was wrong when he claimed that January 6 was the first time the Capitol had been invaded by “hostile participants.” With the exception of a handful of decent lawmakers, the “sacred” ground of the Capitol building is occupied by “hostile participants” every day—congressmen of both political parties, who hold American citizens such as Robert Reeder and the other 630-plus January 6 defendants in open contempt. Those representatives have done far more irreversible damage to the country than a few thousand Trump supporters could ever do—and, unlike January 6, their rampage is ongoing.
But the real heretics continue to rule while Robert Reeder, who told the court last week he “is a good man” despite how his government portrayed him, is off to jail. My guess, however, is that our country would be much better off if it were run by men like Reeder rather than the people in charge right now.
Two-thirds want BLM riots probed, more than Jan. 6
66% of Likely U.S. Voters think Congress should investigate last year’s violent protests, in which more than 2,000 police officers suffered injuries in the line of duty. Democrats have been pushing for a partisan, witch-hunt-type investigation into the crowd of Trump supporters who were trespassing on federal property on January 6.
Trump praises 1/6 rally "love," suggests Ashli Babbitt killed by top Democrat's security chief
Ex-Christians face many mental patterns reinforced by Bible-belief and Christian culture. In traditional Christian teachings, no sin is too small to send you to hell forever. Christians live in a world of shoulds and should-nots, and in the Protestant ethic, daily failings are moral failings.
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A photoshop that went viral depicting Republican members of Congress among the crowd that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. Flickr / outtacontext
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There was a lot of great feedback to yesterday’s newsletter on critical race theory. Some of it, frankly, persuasive enough to move my position a bit. I don’t think you’ll ever see me supporting outright bans on teaching certain critical theories in schools, but many readers made a strong case about a) the damage CRT teaching is doing in their communities and b) the fact there are better alternatives for anti-racism training. Here’s one such note:
“The thing is, you could have had all those eye-opening experiences through diversity trainings that were not based in CRT!” Kira from New Jersey said. “Chloe Valdary's Theory of Enchantment is a prime example of an antiracism training that is not founded in CRT. CRT is, in fact, skeptical of empathy as a means to reduce racist attitudes (see ‘empathetic fallacy’ on the CRT Wikipedia page; I have also seen this viewpoint in action). The training that was done where I used to work seemed to sow division, awkwardness, and paranoia rather than fostering compassion and empathy… Of all the issues out there, I really wish there was a space for ‘other’ in terms of what the ‘left’ and ‘right’ are saying. I'm generally a lefty, but I feel so far afield from most of the vocal liberals on this issue.”
Roman Protasevich, the Belarusian journalist and dissident who was taken off a diverted passenger airliner earlier this week, appeared in a video “confessing” to organizing mass riots. Experts say the video shows signs of coercion and torture. (The Washington Post, subscription)
New York prosecutors convened a special grand jury to consider evidence in a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s business dealings. (Fox News)
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has significantly scaled back its street-level enforcement under President Biden, carrying out fewer than 3,000 deportations last month, the lowest level on record. (The Washington Post, subscription)
What D.C. is talking about.
January 6. In recent months, Democrats have been pushing for a 9/11-style commission to investigate the riots at the Capitol on January 6. The commission would be a 10-person body that would investigate the cause of the riot, as well as the events that led up to it. The riot caused some 140 injuries and tens of millions of dollars of damage. Five people also died on January 6, including a woman shot by a Capitol police officer, though two died of natural causes and one — Capitol police officer Brian Sicknick — suffered a stroke after engaging rioters. Two other Capitol police officers committed suicide in the days after.
Last week, 35 Republicans in the House of Representatives joined Democrats to vote in favor of establishing the investigatory commission. Four-fifths of House Republicans opposed the commission, but it passed with a 252-to-175 vote. Democrats argued the commission was crucial to understanding what happened that day, and the independent commission would make suggestions for better securing the Capitol and preventing similar events in the future.
Former President Trump urged Republicans not to vote for the commission, calling it a “Democrat trap.” Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) opposed the bill, saying several committees were already investigating the day’s events and noting that $10 million has been allocated to improve Capitol security.
The bill is now in the Senate, where the commission is facing stiff opposition after Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) announced his opposition to the bill, and colleagues quickly fell in line. McConnell suggested the bill could interfere with criminal cases and raised concerns that a Democratic chairman would control staff hiring (even though the commission would be split evenly between Republicans and Democrats). Yesterday, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said he planned to force a vote on the commission.
Below, we’ll take a look at some reactions from the right and left.
What the right is saying.
The right mostly opposes the commission, arguing that it is a partisan effort to tie all Republicans to the riots.
The Wall Street Journal editorial board said the commission “could be useful if it answered outstanding questions and agreed on a common set of facts about events,” but the prospects for that are “none and slimmer.”
“Speaker Nancy Pelosi has been driving this idea, and she has a record of using these commissions for partisan ends. Her goal here is to drive her narrative that the riot was a planned attempted coup, and to run on that theme to keep the House in 2022…But hidden in the fine print are tools empowering Democrats,” it said. “The bill gives the chairman unilateral authority to demand information from federal agencies and appoint senior staff. ‘Thanks to powers invested in the Chairperson alone, the Democratically-appointed members would have significant control over the direction of the investigation’ and the ability to stop GOP members from ‘engaging in mischief,’ New York University law professor Ryan Goodman reassured a Washington Post writer… Multiple investigations of the Jan. 6 events are already underway… Unless a commission could work together, its effort would be redundant.”
In Newsweek, Ben Weingarten said the commission is part of a “rolling effort to exploit the inexcusable, pathetic and disgraceful actions of several hundred people to further the narrative that up to half the country constitutes would-be or potential domestic terrorists.”
“But perhaps most disturbing is this: The proposed commission is to be charged with investigating and reporting upon, in part, ‘the influencing factors that fomented such [an] attack on American representative democracy while engaged in a constitutional process.’ In pursuit of this effort, it ‘may secure directly from any Federal department or agency information, including any underlying information that may be in the possession of the intelligence community, that is necessary to enable it to carry out its purposes and functions.’
“The danger herein is obvious,” Weingarten said. “This commission would give partisans the ability to use the full powers of the federal government to investigate their wrong thinking political foes. ‘Influencing factors that fomented such [an] attack’ are, of course, virtually limitless. Are you a politician who dared question the legitimacy of any aspect whatsoever of the 2020 presidential election? Are you a think tank that pointed out any of the anomalies in that contest? Are you a law firm that litigated against state executives and administrators who made election law over and above state legislatures themselves? Are you a media organization that printed stories covering these themes, or a social media maven who promoted them? Why would we assume anything other than all of the above, and more, would end up in the commission's crosshairs?”
“McConnell claims it’s a ‘slanted’ and ‘unbalanced’ proposal, one born in ‘partisan bad faith.’ Sen. Marco Rubio opposes it, even though he hasn’t read the bill. Sen. Josh Hawley is upset it doesn’t investigate violent Black Lives Matter protests throughout 2020, too. And Sen. Ron Johnson now claims Jan. 6 was just a largely ‘peaceful protest.’ As of now, Sen. Mitt Romney stands as the lone Republican senator committed to voting for the commission,” Benson wrote.
“An investigation is wise on its merits, but there are also sound, partisan reasons for a Jan. 6 commission. It’s exactly what the Republican Party, neck-deep in an identity crisis, needs to restore the American public’s confidence in the party,” he added. “Setting the record straight on one of the party’s darkest days will serve, at best, as a means to successfully move on from the issue. It’s an opportunity to address the matter and show penitence where appropriate, thereby winning back disgruntled Americans who gave up on the party after the Jan. 6 events. In the days following Jan. 6, at least 140,000 Republicans in 25 states changed their party affiliations, and it’s likely tens of thousands more in other states did the same. Such a large-scale exodus is very unusual, political scientists say, and it poses a serious threat to the GOP and the success of its message. Conservative lawmakers should be seeking to find a way to regain the trust of those who left the party but may yet return.”
What the left is saying.
The left supports the commission, arguing that it’s a necessary step towards understanding the events of that day — and preventing a similar event from happening again.
In Vox, Andrew Prokop pointed out that Republicans were the ones who suggested the idea for a commission in the first place — only to make an about-face.
“Republicans have evidently calculated that such a commission’s findings would likely hurt their party’s electoral prospects,” Prokop wrote. “Some even admit this: ‘Anything that gets us rehashing the 2020 election, I think, is a day lost on being able to draw contrast between us and the Democrats’ very radical left-wing agenda,’ Senate Minority Whip John Thune told reporters last week… Even though Republicans would likely be able to prevent a bipartisan 1/6 commission from achieving much of substance, they’d really prefer not to have one at all.
“That’s because, as Thune admitted above and as Liz Cheney’s ouster shows, party strategists view any discussion of Trump’s attempt to overturn the election result as a harmful issue for their party at this point,” Prokop said. “They want to make the 2022 elections about Biden and Democrats, not Trump… The GOP base is out of step with public opinion on this issue. So they’d really like it to just go away.”
“McCarthy’s putative reasons for rejecting the commission boil down to two main points,” Chait said. “First, he calls the hearing ‘duplicative,’ citing an ongoing criminal investigation by the Justice Department and hearings in the Senate Homeland Security Committee. McCarthy has not previously evinced much concern over the damage of duplicative hearings, having supported ten investigations into Benghazi, six of them in the House, the last of which he frankly described as an effort to damage Hillary Clinton’s poll numbers.”
“Second, he claims that the January 6 investigation fails to appropriately emphasize the events he wishes to use as deflections,” Chait added. “It ‘ignores the political violence that has struck American cities, a Republican Congressional baseball practice, and, most recently, the deadly attack on Capitol Police on April 2, 2021.’ It is true that this investigation of a violent insurrection by the president’s allies, intending to pressure Congress to overturn the election results and hand the sitting president an unelected second term, does not principally focus on other, different violent episodes. The September 11 Commission did not get into the Oklahoma City bombings or the invasion of Grenada. Street gangs taking advantage of protests to loot stores, or mentally ill loners attempting to kill politicians are different problems than a president attempting to cancel an election because he lost.”
In The Washington Post, Greg Sargent laid out the five “ludicrous” reasons Republicans oppose the commission and deconstructed them: “1) The commission is too “partisan.”… 2) The timing is all wrong… 3) The commission has been hijacked by politics… 4) The commission should also focus on police protests… 5) Other existing committees should do this.”
“This will generate lots of outrage,” Sargent wrote. “But that isn’t the right sentiment. It implies that on this matter, Republicans can be shamed into following latent principles that they might otherwise adhere to if criticism of them is pointed enough. But their excuses are so untethered from anything remotely resembling good-faith argumentation that no such presumption is deserved. A better response is to point out that Republicans oppose the commission because it will incriminate them, and that their phony justifications are merely about obscuring this truth — and nothing more.”
My take.
It’s a pretty depressing spectacle.
The day after the January 6 riots, I wrote that it was the end of Trump’s political career, that he had successfully ended our streak of peaceful transfers of power, and that the mob storming the Capitol would go down as one of the more shameful days in American history. Trump’s influence on the party has not yet waned, but the rest of it holds true.
Do I think this was some kind of coup? No. Is this anything like 9/11 or Pearl Harbor? Of course not. Those comparisons are overblown. Was it domestic terrorism? The FBI defines that as “violent, criminal acts committed by individuals and/or groups to further ideological goals stemming from domestic influences, such as those of a political, religious, social, racial, or environmental nature.” You be the judge. Was it an insurrection? That’s defined as “a violent uprising against an authority or government.” Again: I don’t think it’s nutty to say these events fit that definition.
Whatever you want to call it, here’s what I’d say: a bunch of buffoons collectively stormed one of the most sacred places in our nation’s capital, ransacked offices, beat up police, caused millions of dollars of damage and compelled Capitol Police to use deadly force to protect our elected representatives (even if there’s a reasonable debate about whether that force was necessary). It might have been a spontaneous decision to storm the building, but it didn’t spring forth from nothing. The mob very clearly stated their intent to injure or kill members of Congress — out loud, on video, on social media. Weeks of events and planning around the rally led to the riot. And a lot of money was involved in making it all happen.
So I think it’s worthy of a commission.
Yes, there are other investigations. And yes, I’m concerned about our spy agencies overreaching on claims of domestic terrorism and concerned about how rioters are being treated in jail. But the Congressional committees are almost singularly focused on boosting Capitol security, and it’s the Justice Department that is responsible for nailing down criminal charges. Other important questions about that day still linger: was this an organized plan or spontaneous looting? Were members of Congress involved in any way, shape or form, besides perpetuating the lie of a stolen election? What about the pipe bombs planted the night before? What about the riot’s exposure of the vulnerability of hard copy electoral ballots? And of course, why were the Capitol Police so understaffed and underprepared, and the National Guard so slow to respond?
Democrats are going to try to centralize power on the commission. I’m not going to pretend there aren’t political calculations being made on the left. That’s how it always goes. But at least they’re standing on solid ground. The bill text on staff hiring for the commission is identical to the 9/11 commission, as Susan Collins suggested, and identical to that of a Jan 6 commission Republicans proposed shortly after the riots. Even if the House bill isn’t satisfactory, that’s the point of sending it to the Senate. Propose amendments. Negotiate. Change the bill.
Instead, Republicans are planning to filibuster. And for what? 65 percent of the public wants an independent commission, including 37 percent of Republicans. 52 percent already believe Trump is solely or mainly to blame for January 6. The politics of investigating it might be bad, but the politics of ignoring it could be far worse.
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Your questions, answered.
Q: I've seen some comments from people saying things like "I'll continue wearing a mask to avoid being labeled a Republican.” While I think it's mainly a joke, do you think there is some underlying truth to this? Will the mask become just another way to virtue signal rather than "listening to the science"?
— Chris, Philadelphia, PA
Tangle: I think the vast, vast majority of people — liberals included — don’t like wearing masks. And if they are wearing one, I suspect there’s probably a good reason for it. My advice would be to proceed with caution. Some people are immunocompromised, some people are unvaccinated (for a myriad of reasons), some people are simply traumatized from the last year and not ready to take it off. I know there have been some articles about the “forever maskers,” too, who seem to find comfort in the face covering. Masks are, after all, quite common in other parts of the world.
I’m sure there are some people putting on their masks to signal their political ideology and the fact they are “not a Republican.” That strikes me as extremely childish and silly. Regardless, I don’t think it’s going to be particularly common (I’d venture to say that in a few months, it’ll be exceedingly rare).
Now that I’m fully vaccinated, I am not wearing my mask anywhere it’s not mandated. I went to my best friend’s wedding on Saturday and did not wear a mask. I ate dinner indoors last night, maskless (need your mouth for food), then went to the Brooklyn Nets playoff game (which was absolutely glorious). I went to the gym on Monday for the first time since March of 2020. It was a “mask optional” setting and I chose not to wear one. I’m healthy, relatively young, fully vaccinated and blessed enough not to need a mask — I’d prefer not face-sweating and smelling my own breath all day, so I’m pretty much done with them.
But I’m also going to be respectful. At the height of the pandemic, I was disheartened to see how many people refused to wear masks. Nevertheless, I never demanded anyone put one on or wear one around me. I just avoided them. It was a scary time with lots of unknowns, and I had people in my life who were very high-risk, so I took every precaution I could. Now, I’m not going to question anyone who takes a while to remove the mask — or those who may wear it for years to come. If they want to keep it on, it doesn’t impact me at all, and I’m sure they’ve got their reasons.
A story that matters.
More foreign-born Americans are moving to the center of the U.S. than in past years, according to a new report by the Heartland Forward. Population growth in the U.S. is slower than it’s been in a century, but industries across America are relying more on immigrant workers now than in years past. “The report's findings counter perceptions that immigrants tend to settle on the coasts ‘because they're not welcome’ in the middle of the country,” Axios reported. “Those invested in the region believe there's a case to be made for attracting immigrants of all skill levels to the country's geographic middle.” (Axios)
Numbers.
37%. The percentage of conservativeRepublicans who support the formation of a bipartisan Congressional commission to investigate the January 6 attack.
55%. The percentage of moderateRepublicans who support the formation of a bipartisan Congressional commission to investigate the January 6 attack.
86%. The percentage of moderate Democrats who support the formation of a bipartisan Congressional commission to investigate the January 6 attack.
97%. The percentage of liberal Democrats who support the formation of a bipartisan Congressional commission to investigate the January 6 attack.
$110 million. The amount of new funding for Palestinians announced by Secretary of State Antony Blinken.
2 million. The number of people who evacuated an Indian coast in preparation for a storm.
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