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The January 6 Insurrection Hoax

September 2021 • Volume 50, Number 9 • Roger Kimball

Roger Kimball is editor and publisher of The New Criterion and publisher of Encounter Books. He earned his B.A. from Bennington College and his M.A. and M.Phil. in philosophy from Yale University. He has written for numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times Book Review, and is a columnist for The Spectator World, American Greatness, and The Epoch Times. He is editor or author of several books, including The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America, The Rape of the Masters: How Political Correctness Sabotages Art, Tenured Radicals: How Politics Has Corrupted Our Higher Education, and Vox Populi: The Perils and Promises of Populism.

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The following is adapted from a lecture delivered at Hillsdale College on September 20, 2021, during a Center for Constructive Alternatives conference on “Critical American Elections.”

Notwithstanding all the hysterical rhetoric surrounding the events of January 6, 2021, two critical things stand out. The first is that what happened was much more hoax than insurrection. In fact, in my judgment, it wasn’t an insurrection at all.

An “insurrection,” as the dictionary will tell you, is a violent uprising against a government or other established authority. Unlike the violent riots that swept the country in the summer of 2020—riots that caused some $2 billion in property damage and claimed more than 20 lives—the January 6 protest at the Capitol building in Washington, D.C. lasted a few hours, caused minimal damage, and the only person directly killed was an unarmed female Trump supporter who was shot by a Capitol Police officer. It was, as Tucker Carlson said shortly after the event, a political protest that “got out of hand.”

At the rally preceding the events in question, Donald Trump had suggested that people march to the Capitol “peacefully and patriotically”—these were his exact words—in order to make their voices heard. He did not incite a riot; he stirred up a crowd. Was that, given the circumstances, imprudent? Probably. Was it an effort to overthrow the government? Hardly.

I know this is not the narrative that we have all been instructed to parrot. Indeed, to listen to the establishment media and our political masters, the January 6 protest was a dire threat to the very fabric of our nation: the worst assault on “our democracy” since 9/11, since Pearl Harbor, and even—according to Joe Biden last April—since the Civil War!

Note that phrase “our democracy”: Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, and various talking heads have repeated it ad nauseam. But you do not need an advanced degree in hermeneutics to understand that what they mean by “our democracy” is their oligarchy. Similarly, when Pelosi talks about “the people’s house,” she doesn’t mean a house that welcomes riff-raff like you and me.

I just alluded to Ashli Babbitt, the unarmed supporter of Donald Trump who was shot and killed on January 6. Her fate brings me to the second critical thing to understand about the January 6 insurrection hoax. Namely, that it was not a stand-alone event.

Read entire article-- it is really good:

https://imprimis.hillsdale.edu/january-6-insurrection-hoax/

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Oct 7, 2021Liked by William Whitten

Hello William Questions = Christian Zionists and Mossad. Curious what Trumps relationship with Mossad is. www.an report.com Ryan Dawson also on sub stack, Ryan was the first, to my knowledge, in exposing Epstein. Were Maxwell & Epstein inside the Israel Intelligence community? How might this tie Jared Kushner, Clinton’s and Trump? Dawson, his work I have found interesting. He’s layered out Biden family corruption rather well. Back to Zionists, the chosen ones &Jared Kushner, his Jewish-Christianity. Have you an opinion on the Kushner-Trump marriage? Chelsea Clinton converted too. Her Jewish husband’s father, like Jared Kushner’s father, spent some time in prison. Trust these US spokespersons? One more quickie- Chris Hedges, his views on religion + politics. Have you an opinion on Chris? Hedges certainly is no fan of Biden’s (off topic). Appreciate this Soldiers of Christ article - thanks to the presenter & thank you for opening my eyes a little wider.

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Oct 5, 2021Liked by William Whitten

Thanks for sharing this via Glenn Greenwald.

Dr Gregory M Davis & his production "What the West Needs to Know" 2006 documentary on Islam. I found this intriguing.

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There does exist and has existed for a generation, an international Anglophile network which operates, to some extent, in the way the radical Right believes the Communists act. In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so. I know of the operations of this network because I have studied it for 20 years and was permitted for two years, in the early 1960s, to examine its papers and secret record.

Carroll Quigley

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Illegal Drug Trade BOOMING with Biden’s Open Border

Human traffickers, drug smugglers, and criminals of all kinds love open borders. They love open borders as much as they would love it if everyone left their doors unlocked at night. Under the fraudulent Biden Administration, criminals of every stripe are pouring across our southern border. With them come stolen children, trafficked women, domestic slaves to be sold cheaply, and lots and lots of dangerous illegal drugs.

Of course, there are also legitimate refugees. There are those who are fleeing abhorrent circumstances created by poverty, the deprivation of criminal gangs, and criminal governments, but we repeat ourselves. There are those who hope to obtain a safer, more prosperous lifestyle and are willing to work for it. Sadly, for such people, life on the border must be all but intolerable. Surrounded by desperate criminals, and desperation in general, decent people without the resources for self-defense cannot hope for much. More sadly still, many of these end up becoming sex slaves and labor slaves.

So it is for them and for the future victims of the criminal sea in which they subsist, that we hang our heads in consternation.

Inevitably, the flow of drugs coming across the border has been ratcheted up to levels it has never before reached. To make matters worse, we’re not talking about 1970s strength marijuana. The Mexican drug cartels have stopped producing grass for American markets altogether. They cannot compete with the GMO weed being produced in American labs and in American basements.

No, today, all of the South American drug trade aimed at North American users is made up of heroin and cocaine, just to name the staples. But it’s much worse than that, as much of these drugs are laced with the deadly Chinese-created synthetic opiate, Fentanyl.

Fentanyl is so dangerous that just a few grams of the drug can stop the respiration of a healthy, 200-pound man. It is hundreds of times more potent than heroin and thousands of times more potent than morphine – and most people who take it know this. Sadly, the American pharmaceutical industry has grown so powerful and has gotten so out of control that they have intentionally addicted hundreds of thousands of people to opioid drugs — artificial pain killers. Those inarguably dangerous prescription drugs are more expensive than the heroin coming across the border.

https://www.conservativenewszone.com/articles/illegal-drug-trade-booming-with-bidens-open-border/

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https://youtu.be/cmX5NEHziAo?t=5

The US government alleged that Thomas Caldwell was an OathKeeper who helped organize the organization’s presence at the US Capitol on January 6th will finally be released from prison. Thomas said he wasn’t a member of the group.

Caldwell never entered the US Capitol on January 6th and has since his arrest been held in prison. He will be released due to health concerns.

One of the charges against Caldwell is that he communicated with fellow Oath Keepers about their travel plans to the US Capitol.

We truly are living in a totalitarian state today.

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The media to this day insists that Caldwell is an OathKeeper and that he led the “insurgency.”

This is all complete fake news. Here’s an earlier video.

Investigative reporter Julie Kelly wrote about Thomas Caldwell’s story at American Greatness earlier today.

On Monday Thomas Caldwell joined Tucker Carlson with his wife Sharon Caldwell to tell their horrific story. This was a very moving interview. Most Americans have no idea we are now living in a police state. They’ll eventually catch on.

Thomas Caldwell, a J6 defendant ensnared in the Oath Keepers case, will be on ⁦

@TuckerCarlson

⁩ tonight. He’ll discuss his “horror story” that began when FBI raided his farm at 5:30am on January 19. I interviewed him and his wife last month:

https://freedomjournalist.com/tucker-carlson-interviews-jan-6-victim-in-unbelievable-interview-video/

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..." the roots of Christian Zionism went back to the British Imperial ideology, in which certain very prominent British establishment figures including Lord Palmerston, Lord Balfour and Shaftesbury saw support for a Jewish home in Palestine as part of a manufactured or synthetic ideology in which they claimed the British people to be the ‘Chosen People’, the ‘Lost Tribe of Israel.’"

I would suggest that the roots of Christian Zionism were planted centuries before Palmerston, Balfour, and Shaftesbury were gleams in their fathers' eyes.

Consider the Stone of Scone and the legend that it is the rock that Jacob's head rested on when he dreamed of a stairway to Heaven. Just as the "native" Americans were likely hikers from Siberia, it is not unimaginable that western Europe became the New Israel following the diaspora. While I laugh at the relatively recent fantasy of a Rapture and those modern Christian Zionists who hoped to discover a Red Calf that would signify the rebuilding of the Temple in Jerusalem, it is not far-fetched to say that Muslims are worse than German Nazis. The Grand Mufti of Palestine was allied with Hitler and when the partition of Israel was voted for by the United Nations, he ordered all Muslims to kill all the Jews. There are many books that document the atrocities committed by Muslims when the nation of Israel was first established.

The story of the conflict between the children of Hagar and the children of Sarah is being written every day and the Afghan caliphate and the Biden-supported Iranian nukes are the only things keeping China from being the world's ruler.

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