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12/19/22 Historical Referral

Post by Amskeptic » Mon Dec 19, 2022 9:04 am

Robert Hubble - Today's Edition Newsletter
On Monday, December 19, 2022, Americans will witness history in the making. A congressional committee will recommend that the DOJ pursue criminal proceedings against a former president for engaging in insurrection to stop the peaceful transfer of power. The recommendation will be based on an exhaustive, transparent, bipartisan investigation that unfolded in public. Republicans boycotted the committee after GOP leadership unsuccessfully attempted to appoint participants in the insurrection to the body investigating their crimes.

The criminal referrals should not be cause for celebration or feelings of vindication. Rather, they should be a cause for hope and increased resolve that our experiment in democracy will endure despite the actions of faithless servants and aspiring tyrants. The United States of America is bigger than Trump and his skulk of cowards. It will outlast them, hold them to account, and subject them to the judgment of history.

The criminal referrals and findings of the January 6th Committee are critical steps in setting the record straight for future generations. The names of the insurrectionists will be memorized by schoolchildren learning about dark passages in our nation’s history: Benedict Arnold, Aaron Burr, Jefferson Davis, Donald Trump, Jim Jordan, Josh Hawley, Ted Cruz, . . . .

Sadly, the insurrection continues to this day as the GOP seeks to shield members of its party who remain in Congress after they betrayed the Constitution. No Republican member of Congress agreed to appear before the Committee to provide crucial evidence in one of the most important investigations in our history. The recalcitrant members of Congress continue to violate their oaths every minute they obfuscate, impede, and distort the work of the Committee. They deserve to be expelled from Congress. Indeed, the Committee may recommend discipline or criminal referrals for members who failed to comply with lawful subpoenas issued by the Committee.

In a depraved act of supreme disrespect and partisanship, a “shadow” committee of Republicans will issue a “counter-report” to the official report of the January 6th Committee. That report will seek to lay blame for security lapses at the Capitol for the insurrection. The response by law enforcement and intelligence agencies is a legitimate area of investigation—and will be covered in the January 6th Committee’s report. But the point of the “shadow committee’s” separate report is to confuse and dilute media coverage of the findings in the J6 Report. Sadly, many members of the media will give “equal time” to a “PR stunt” by insurrectionists and the serious and sober effort by the J6 Committee to understand the root cause of the insurrection.

Trump is acting like a wounded and cornered animal. He is lashing out on his vanity media platform, resorting to the language of incitement that ignited the insurrection. It is doubtful that any other president in American history will ever be credibly accused of insurrection by a congressional committee. Trump is entering a league of one.

The political backlash against the Committee and its members will be savage. Kevin McCarthy has vowed to remove Adam Schiff from the House Intelligence Committee in retribution. Republican leaders of all stripes will lie, distort, and deflect. The tired refrain of “What about Hillary’s emails?” pales in comparison to charges of insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress, and conspiracy to defraud the United States (i.e., the fake electors scheme).

For those who care about defending democracy, the vote of the Committee on December 19, 2022, will be momentous. To the extent you can, ignore the noise and focus on the rare achievement that is the sign of a functioning democracy—an effort to hold a former leader to account for his crimes in office. Whatever happens, the judgment of the January 6th Committee will be inscribed in stone as the official history of the unsuccessful insurrection that culminated in the events of January 6th, 2021.
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Re: 12/19/22 Historical Referral

Post by JLT » Wed Dec 21, 2022 12:47 pm

No lies detected.
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Re: 12/19/22 Historical Referral

Post by Amskeptic » Fri Jan 20, 2023 3:15 pm

JLT wrote:
Wed Dec 21, 2022 12:47 pm
No lies detected.
Let's welcome Kevin McCarthy to the bed he has made. I hope we don't have to watch.
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Post by kreemoweet » Mon May 15, 2023 10:41 am

Of course it is now clearer than ever how full of, let's call it "partisan hypocrisy" , these folks are who keep talking about
"insurrection" and etc. Apparently they believe that disrupting legislative business with mob action is not only OK, but commendable, if done by Dems/leftists/progressives in support of their preferred policies. Ditto for riots, violence, attacks on law enforcement officers, destruction of government and other property, etc. which only amounts to "insurrection" if performed by right-wingers. Similarly, violence and other illegal
action to disrupt inaugurations of Republican presidents is apparently a legitimate exercise of free speech, and arrests made in consequence should be dismissed by judges and prosecuters without a second thought, but the same behavior against donkey-elects is worthy of vast resources and task forces being brought to bear to develop the evidence to bring all those nasty "insurrectionists" to justice for their unthinkable trespassing.

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Re: 12/19/22 Historical Referral

Post by JLT » Mon May 15, 2023 2:36 pm

I must be horribly misinformed. I don't recall any Democrat-fueled crowds storming the US Capitol recently. I wasn't informed about people endorsed by Democrats rioting, attacking police officers, destroying government property, etc. If they had, they would certainly be subject to arrest and trials.

As for arrests being part of free speech, well, as long as the demonstrations being peaceful and non-violent, it IS free speech being exercised. (I know. I've been arrested for this.) That's why the ACLU has defended the rights of the Ku Klux Klan to demonstrate.
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Post by sgkent » Sun Jun 04, 2023 10:51 pm

regardless what people think, I am LMAO that people were warned not to drink the Koolaid of everyone gets a trophy logic, and now that everyone has a trophy it hasn't changed one iota how they feel about themselves, or their net worth. Instead they are paying 50% more for everything, and twice as stressed. Some refugee from Afghanistan said it all this week, "In all the years it was never this bad in Afghanistan. Do something to stop this craziness, I came here to live a better life but you people have turned this into a living hell." They were mostly peaceful protests the Democrats supported, the fires and dead were just special effects. BTW, what is Hollywood's obsession with guns and violence?
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Post by JLT » Mon Jun 05, 2023 11:08 am

sgkent wrote:
Sun Jun 04, 2023 10:51 pm
BTW, what is Hollywood's obsession with guns and violence?
It sells tickets and advertising time. "Give 'em what they want to see," as John Prine sang (but he was talking about sex, not violence).

And the NRA and the gun manufacturers certainly aren't complaining, as long as gun sales keep going up and up. The more insecure people feel, the better it is for their business.
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Re: 12/19/22 Historical Referral

Post by SlowLane » Tue Jun 06, 2023 10:48 am

JLT wrote:
Mon Jun 05, 2023 11:08 am
sgkent wrote:
Sun Jun 04, 2023 10:51 pm
BTW, what is Hollywood's obsession with guns and violence?
It sells tickets and advertising time. "Give 'em what they want to see," as John Prine sang (but he was talking about sex, not violence).
Or...
"Blow up your TV,
throw away your paper.
Go to the country,
build you a home."
- Spanish Pipedream by John Prine (talking about life in general)
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Re: 12/19/22 Historical Referral

Post by JLT » Tue Jun 06, 2023 11:59 am

SlowLane wrote:
Tue Jun 06, 2023 10:48 am

Or...
"Blow up your TV,
throw away your paper.
Go to the country,
build you a home."
- Spanish Pipedream by John Prine (talking about life in general)
John was an astute observer of the human condition, for sure.

Let's hope we all find Jesus (or some similar substitute) on our own.
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