Originally published at crisis magazine
Can we finally talk about January 6 without fearing that Feds might bang down our doors at dawn? After all the lives that have smashed on the scaffolding of craftily-edited footage, fantastical narratives, and media malfeasance, can we at last talk about the national disgrace of January 6?
No, not the fiction force-fed us by the media. The real disgrace of imprisoning U.S. citizens for their political beliefs in an effort to cover up wrongdoing by the other political party. The disgrace of citizens serving long periods in solitary confinement, years without a trial, beatings by guards, withholding of essential medical care, the abridgement of the right to religious services and access to Bibles, the stigmatization and destruction of their families, and the crime of the (Un)Select Committee destroying primary evidence.
That disgrace.
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The DOJ is still arresting citizens (as late as last week). But with a cleanup on aisle 6 coming in January, the chicanery is about to end. Soon we’ll mock the obviously false narrative that was stuffed down our gullets, and we will wonder how we ever swallowed it. Common sense should have
