By Monica Showalter | The American Thinker
An FBI official had some bad news for Democrats at a congressional hearing Wednesday on the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
Here's the Daily Caller:
"How
many firearms were confiscated in the Capitol or on Capitol grounds during that
day?" Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson asked Jill Sanborn, the FBI official,
during a Senate Homeland Security hearing.
"To
my knowledge, we have not recovered any on that day from any other arrests at
the scene at this point," replied Sanborn, who serves as FBI assistant
director for counterterrorism.
"I
don't want to speak on behalf of Metro and Capitol police, but, to my
knowledge, none," she added.
This rather ruins a Democrat narrative.
Democrats for months have been dining out on about
how the mobbing of the Capitol last Jan. 6 was really an "armed
insurrection," and "an assault on democracy," rather than a
crowd that had a few fringe players of no
discernible politics who rarely voted, who managed to invade the
Capitol due to poor policing, made worse by intelligence from the FBI that was
never passed on to them.
But that's a little reality Democrats and their media
shills would prefer to ignore.
They've invested a lot in the phony narrative that the
Capitol was subject to an armed insurrection. They've started by
going Third World on us, encircling the Capitol with ugly
razor wire fencing along with thousands of poorly fed
and highly
disrespected (among Democrats) armed National Guard
troops. That's all because of the supposedly amazing threat
that these fringe players have purportedly posed to the
republic. Capitol cops have already demonstrated that there are ways
to control any such out-of-control situation if they want to — one of them
shot dead a protester at close range, against all standard police practices,
and managed to keep his name out of the papers. No
second-guessing thus far there.
The problem at the Capitol was poor policing, not entirely
the fault of the Capitol Police, given that they seemed to lack critical
intelligence, but they also did not take steps for basic crowd
control. Some even invited the protesters in, which shows some
amazingly crossed communications. The crowd, which at Trump rallies
is historically peaceful, was not a great cause for suspicion.
The only thing going on was the Democrat need to create a
hysterical narrative of an armed insurrection, and a siege, to enable them to
put in a whole host of censorship measures, including military purges, social
media spying, cancel culture writ large, and more to discourage Republicans
from assembling freely, which is their First Amendment
birthright. As for Democrats, well, they can't create a crowd
because Joe Biden is a zero-charisma dotard who was "elected"
neither freely nor fairly. But they sure can make political hay from
promoting the phony narrative of "armed insurrection."
And they started the claptrap early. Here are
several instances of misinformation and fake news to support that
hysterical Democrat narrative:
Arrested
Capitol rioters had guns and bombs, everyday careers and Olympic medals —Reuters,
Jan. 14, 2021
Dozens
Arrested for Capitol Riot After Feds Find Guns, Violent Threats and Molotov
Cocktails —NBC News, Jan. 10, 2021
Police
seized alarming number of weapons on Capitol rioters, court documents show ("Guns"
are featured in the lede) —The Hill, Jan. 16, 2021
Guns,
knives, bombs and bear spray: Here are the weapons Trump supporters brought to
DC on the day of the Capitol attack —CNN, Feb. 17, 2021
It went on and on, and these weren't low-level media
organizations. These were some of the bigs.
Now there were no guns confiscated, according to a top
FBI official, who spoke under oath. As Sen. Ron Johnson notes,
this doesn't sound like any armed insurrection he knows of.
Armed insurrections tend to be the work of leftists, such
as this one, Lori
Berenson, who made herself famous by collaborating with
Marxist terrorist guerrillas with big plans to blow up the Peruvian national
Legislature, before she was busted, put on trial, and convicted and left the
courtroom screaming revolutionary slogans about how being leftist exempted her
and all her filthy buddies from any terrorist
designation. I wrote about that here.
She got let out,
got expelled, lives off the trust fund in the
States as some kind of left-wing activist, and remains unpopular in
Peru. Oh, and unlike the so-called Washington rioters, she
gets gushy
press coverage.
That is an example of an authentic armed insurrectionist
and what an authentic armed insurrection looks
like. Nowadays, she campaigns for abolishing prisons, which
sounds about par for such a person.
The Capitol rioters? A few fringe people who
got their moment in the sun based on inadequate police work. It's
the reality based on the FBI official's statement. No
guns. This doesn't sound like any armed insurrection we know
of. The fringies need to go to jail, as do truly violent leftist
rioters like Antifa, with whom we hope they share their prison
bunks. But to indict the events of Jan. 6 on claimed gun grounds
falls apart. Democrats, once again, have been caught in a monstrous
lie.
