By Christopher
Garbacz | American Thinker
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It was a peaceful protest. Patriot Purge screen grab.
I saw Tucker Carlson’s Patriot Purge (all
three parts) for free on RoxyTube yesterday
along with 175 others. (That’s right only 175 people were watching it then.)
There is a lot to recommend. Indeed, everyone should see it and determine for
themselves if Tucker has raised relevant issues as to whether there was an
“insurrection” on January 6 at the U.S. Capitol or not.
Most of you who read American Thinker know
that Tucker set out to tell the truth. For reasons discussed below, he may not
yet have the complete truth, but there are numerous markers he reveals that
suggest what may have happened.
Tucker has lots of video footage of the events of January
6. After the Trump rally, thousands walked down the Mall to the Capitol. They
thought they were exercising their Constitutional right to demonstrate in favor
of Trump. Many thought that Mike
Pence had the power to invalidate electoral votes from questionable
states as a result of fraudulent voting and throw the Presidential contest into
the House Of Representatives to be resolved. They thought that, by being near
the Capitol, they could stiffen Pence’s backbone. There was no plan to enter
the Capitol.
When the crowd arrived at the Capitol there were people
with bullhorns urging the crowd to enter the Capitol and express their views.
It is highly unlikely that these were Trump supporters. If not, who were they
representing? Could they have been FBI, BLM. or ANTIFA, or any of a host of other
organizations that wanted to frame Trump?
It is interesting to view the videos that Tucker puts up.
On the one hand, a few very strong people were scaling the walls as though
there was an assault in progress ala Pont du Hoc in Normandy.
At the same time, everybody else was being ushered into the Capitol by merely
walking up the steps, where the Capitol Police ushered them in.
Come on in, they were told. Just don’t do any damage. In
fact, there was little damage. Trump supporters don’t do damage. I can only
assume that those scaling the walls were not Trump supporters, but those who
wanted to create a lasting visual of an assault.
When the citizens entered the Capitol our brave members
of Congress were told to hide. They did. Not one member of Congress came out to
greet their fellow citizens.
A horrifying episode is the video of Ashli Babbitt being
shot after putting her hands on a window into the Speakers Lobby. There is no
warning. She is unarmed. She is not attacking anyone. An eyewitness journalist
reports all this. Nothing then or now explains why she was shot. You see her on
the floor bleeding to death. You hear her mother lament her loss unable to
understand what happened.
After January 6, Tucker tells us that the FBI mounted the
greatest manhunt in the history of the U.S. to capture and prosecute 630
citizens who were possibly entrapped mainly into trespassing. They knocked
doors down and terrified families with shock and awe. Tucker claims they wanted
to emulate our Iraq experience. Those who likely did the entrapping have not
been prosecuted.
Hundreds of January 6 trespassers have been held in the
D.C. jail for months on end without either bail or a trial, and they experience
gulag-like political punishment. One who is out on bail describes the horrors
of the DC gulag—beatings and inhuman conditions are rampant. The prosecutors
and judges in D.C. are adamant that these people are domestic terrorists—yet
there is no evidence to support this. How are the jailers allowed to continue
to abuse Trump supporters?
Tucker makes a strong case that half the country and most
all of D.C. have gone mad. This ties in with Tucker’s earlier historical
listing of hysterias throughout the ages—witch trials, heretic trials, pogroms,
and so forth.
There is a House Select Committee to Investigate the
January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. “Attack” in
the committee’s name seems to imply that it’s already passed judgment.
Censorship of committee members also suggests the committee has already arrived
at its conclusion.
If you read some of the documents the committee released,
it is obvious that its entirely anti-Trump membership has already made up its
mind that Trump supporters are domestic terrorists and that Trump instigated
the “insurrection.” The committee has asked for all relevant information
regarding January 6. Ask this: Will the committee watch Patriot Purge?
The main flaw in the documentary is something over which
Tucker had no control: I don’t believe he had access to those members of the
government who could have provided more details on what happened.
Obviously, the FBI was not available. The FBI has a long
history of being a police force unto itself, able to act without consequences.
This extends back to J. Edgar Hoover’s blackmailing presidents. It has continued
thru Ruby Ridge, Waco, and right to the present. Does anyone believe that the
FBI is a national treasure and that we couldn’t do without it?
The FBI has an agenda that doesn’t necessarily support a
constitutional republic with checks and balances and a rule of law under which
all are treated equally. Agents specialize in early morning arrest raids that
are totally unnecessary and in infiltrating innocuous organizations and then
leading them into illegal activities.
The basic rule for anyone who is paying attention is that
you never answer questions from the FBI. They are very good at entrapment, as
we know from what happened to Michael Flynn.
But the FBI is only one branch of the federal police. How
many federal police are there? Almost every federal agency has its own police.
Bureau of Land Management, Customs, IRS (adding thousands of agents to attack
conservative tax filings), EPA, FDA, Secret Service, Federal Marshals, Capital
Police (which now has set up new operations outside of D.C.), Interior
Department, Border Police (which now waves anyone across the border), DEA, CIA,
Transportation, National Park Police, and on and on, not to mention secret
government organizations.
And don’t forget the National Guard deployed from all
over the country to “protect” the Capitol from further domestic terror attack
after January 6. Exactly where the threat came from no one knows since no
evidence has ever been presented that there was a viable threat. The total
number of Federal Police we know about is greater than 100,000 not counting
support staff. With support staff, it’s around the size of the Marines. This
might tell you something about how afraid DC is of ordinary citizens who must
be kept under control. But Tucker couldn’t get information from any of them.
Julie Kelly would have provided an interesting interview
for Patriot Purge regarding who really are the most dangerous
people in DC—a few hundred mainly peaceful and older trespassers for a few
hours on January 6 or the everyday crowd in Congress. She could explain, as she
did here,
that the D.C. in-crowd is the most dangerous given its utter contempt for
fellow citizens, enactment of legislation detrimental to the country, and wild
spending coupled with excessive taxation on an ongoing basis.
Take the time, as I did, to watch the documentary (which
is also available for free at TuckerCarlson.com)—and
then contemplate how much more Tucker could have shown if our government was
transparent about the events of January 6.
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Christopher Garbacz is a former economics
professor.
