January 9, 2021 - opinionated blog post

 A crazy few days since January 6, 2021.

To start President Trump had his posts deleted under the guise of "inciting violence" and not only that his personal Twitter account @realDonaldTrump has been permanently suspended. He tweeted that he will not be going to the inauguration on January 20th and considering what happened on January 6th, probably a smart move. However, it was one of the tweets Twitter had cited to delete his account.

There's reputedly an ongoing surge going on of anyone who may have attended the January 6th rally or indeed who was in anyway involved with the "riot" that took place on Capitol Hill. And allow me to state for the record that we had loss of life in that incident, and let me say the Air Force veteran who died after being shot inside the US Capitol was tragic. What I would also say with regards to that is entering into a governmental building is definitely a very dangerous thing to do.

I'm not happy about what happened and if there was any chance to successfully challenge the 2020 elections it evaporated. Certainly understandable in light of these events, there was already a chance that the objections weren't going to lead to anything substantial. Once this reprehensible event took place, it definitely hadn't lead to anything substantial.

What I think happened on that day is that some people got caught up, the mob went nuts. I'm distinguishing the mob from those who were there to show their support for President Trump. And who knows there is a plausible possibility that there was an element there looking to cause trouble. They were successful unfortunately and the Democrats - or collectively progressive liberals - can turn around and become the faction of "law & order" although they want to defund police.

It's galling to see Joe Biden and Kamala Harris compare the chaos on Capitol Hill with the chaos in many American cities over the past summer. In my opinion, if they want to allege Trump supporters were handled with kids gloves while BLM was treated far more aggressively, in my opinion BLM was treated with kid gloves. What's the difference between the riots, looting, and unrest of last summer - it went beyond George Floyd - and what happened at Capitol Hill? NOT A DAMNED THING!

They're the same, people got out of control. There is a segment of the population who think it's OK to riot over racial issues, it's not Dr. Martin Luther King said so himself even if he did say rioting is the voice of the unheard. Rioting is not OK regardless and I've heard the argument that we're upset over property but not as upset over the loss of human life. I don't think theft and destruction to protest a loss of life is a very good equivocation.

BTW, I was hoping this morning to share with you a video of about 30 minutes featuring Rudy Giuliani who was involved with Trump's electoral legal efforts and the former mayor NYC and a former federal prosecutor. When I got home last nite, I saw that his video was deleted and only had the opportunity to view at least the first 5 to 10 minutes of the video.

Now since Trump has been banned from Twitter and Facebook we might see a purge on Google owned YouTube and while Giuliani still has his channel he had a video deleted sharing his own observations of what happened on Capitol Hill. He believes that this unrest there was planned with people bringing specialized equipment to break glass and rope. Whether or not Trump had a rally on January 6 - which was heavily publicized through the President's social media - something like this was likely to happen. And it was deleted, why?

We need the facts and the truth and unfortunately it's going to get suppressed. The media other than FOX News and others - well the upstarts anyway even if FOX is allegedly going more liberal. Anything that turns this narrative away from this being a pro-Trump riot is a problem. Let me state this again, I don't care who was involved or their political leanings it's a problem when a gov't building is assaulted.

So either way I will stop here. Hopefully I'll share something with you at the same bat time which is at 11:30 PM on this bat channel.

I fear we will have more trouble ahead, I see there is a yet another "right-wing" rally planned for Joe Biden's inaugural. Hopefully it won't be as unruly, though it will be a very turbulent start for a presidency.