January 6 hearings – kangaroo court

The January 6 hearings began last night, to much fanfare and a slick video by a veteran TV producer. All of it is a sham, because no one at those hearings wanted to admit the truth. Which is that the January 6 event was a false-flag pseudo-operation, with direct support from the FBI. But at least two legacy media members, ever so reluctantly, now admit that the game is over before it begins. These hearings, they admit, will not unite the country in revulsion against Donald J. Trump or what he stands for.

First reports from the January 6 hearings

The most palatable non-paywall reports come from:

• National Public Radio,
• Slate, and
• US News and World Report

From these three sources we learn about the slick introductory video. It shows a mock hangman’s noose hanging over the Capitol, and tells stories we have not heard before. The two token Republicans on the committee made the most of their role as turncoat prosecutors. Rep. Liz Cheney (RINO-Wyo.) is, by all odds, the worse of the two.

Tonight, I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible. There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonor will remain.

CNAV takes that last to be an accusation against us as well as to the House Republican Conference. Indeed Liz Cheney accused absolutely everyone who voted for Trump in the last election of a dishonorable stance. Thus we see the very essence of a prosecution of half the country in the legislature. Which is exactly what the Framers of the Constitution forbade.

No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed.U. S. Constitution, Article I, Section 9, Clause 3

Yet that is exactly what the January 6 Committee exists to write.

Fred Kaplan at Slate says, “Go for it!” In his piece, he calls the January 6 hearings “slam-dunk convincing” that Trump was making insurrection, therefore treason.

The truth of the matter

Nothing could be further from the truth. From witnesses on the ground, and footage that still remains, we know the January 6 event was a false-flag pseudo-operation. No one – ever – mentioned Ray Epps, the obvious Fed who harangued people the night before.

Tomorrow, we need to go into the Capitol! Into the Capitol!

Nor did anyone mention the FBI altering its Wanted page to remove Ray Epps.

Or about others who took down fences and “Area Closed” signs in advance. See here and here. For that matter, here you can search CNAV’s entire January 6 archive.

Other witnesses have told CNAV that the rally before the march to the Capitol numbered at least 100,000 strong. It might have numbered 200,000. So according to last night’s narrative, the brave Capitol police managed to stave off an onslaught having the strength of at least ten, maybe twenty, divisions of infantry! Common sense dictates that such a crowd, had they all moved, could have taken the Capitol easily. That they did not, gives the lie to the entire narrative.

Nor did anyone mention those same Capitol Police admitting Antifa and BLM activists by the busload through the Eastern Portico. Which is another thing CNAV has heard directly from witnesses.

But the most remarkable thing about this event is that only one person died from a shot fired in anger. Furthermore, the statuary and paintings in the Rotunda suffered no damage, nor theft either.

And now some halfway decent insights on what the January 6 hearings will and will not do

To their credit, Fox News Channel refused to cover the January 6 hearings. And for all the boasting by NPR, Slate, and USN&WR, they acted wisely. As King Solomon would have said, we saw “nothing new under the Sun.”

But from NPR and US News we heard this salient admission. Forty-nine years ago, the Senate pre-empted soap operas and game shows to present a national spectacle more riveting than any soap opera. The Watergate Committee did convince the public that they had created a monster (Richard M. Nixon) and must destroy him. Ask George Gallup!

And the American public did indeed destroy the monster. Nixon resigned and the Democrats swept into Midterms with supermajorities and then took the White House. If Jimmy Carter hadn’t made such a mess of things, he could have continued in office.

Well, according to these two sources, that isn’t going to happen this time. Domenico Montanaro at NPR lamented that Fox offered alternative programming.

The reality is: a significant portion of the country — and many of the very people who need to hear the facts about what happened on Jan. 6 — will have never heard the primary source evidence presented, making it difficult for Americans to get on the same page about what truly happened that day.

Boo Foxtrotting Hoo. But at least he’s halfway honest.

What do you expect?

Susan Milligan at US News also wrongly believes the narrative. But she, too, concedes that the January 6 hearings will change few if any minds. She cites a far deeper partisan divide, and a Republican base in no mood to concede that Trump did anything wrong.

Of course what none of these three – not Milligan, Montanaro, nor especially Kaplan – want to admit, is that Joe Biden is not a legitimately elected President. Dinesh D’Souza has produced incontrovertible evidence that the Democrats stole the election. That evidence resonates with anyone who has seen his documentary. And in the middle of the furore over that film, the January 6 Committee presents its kangaroo court, complete with Liz Cheney delivering an opening statement worthy of William Talman, as Los Angeles County District Attorney Hamilton Burger, in any of the hundreds of episodes of the now-classic TV program featuring America’s favorite fictional lawyer, Perry Mason. (But the people have already heard from the Raymond Burr of this drama, who is Dinesh D’Souza.)

Worse than that, Liz Cheney cries foul on half the country. We know the Democrats stole the election. Those who attended the rally went there in a desperate bid to urge the Vice-President to do the right thing. He did the wrong thing – and Joe Biden has made a mess Jimmy Carter could scarcely dream of making.

It won’t work

Liz Peek at The Hill knows the most important truth. The “made-for-TV” January 6 hearings, she says, will not rescue the Democrats. She points out Biden’s mess, his embarrassments, and the national discontent. Maybe she thinks that, had those hearings taken place before Biden had a chance to make a mess of things, they might have been more effective. But she also says the schedule of six prime-time hearings is a recipe for failure.

Most likely, instead of convincing independent voters that Republicans should be frog-marched to political Siberia, the hearings will further divide the nation. A nation, importantly, that elected Joe Biden largely because he promised to bring the country together. He has not done that, and this bitterly partisan dog-and-pony show will surely remind voters of that failure.

Again: the nation didn’t elect Joe Biden. Dinesh D’Souza proved that. But Biden did promise to bring the country together. Ironically, he has brought the country together – against him. Whether Trump runs again to serve out the term he should have served before, or Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) rides the wave of disgust with the mess without any possibility of an ex post facto law against him, the results will be the same.

Update: the ratings