Committee a disgraceful sham

OPINION:

Nancy Pelosi is pushing the Jan. 6 committee process even as she is clearly culpable for having failed to deploy National Guard troops prior to that day. She was warned repeatedly of the need for troop protection.

Various Capitol rioters remain in deplorable solitary confinement, subjected to beatings and torture without the opportunity of bail, under the Stalinist-style tactics of jail warden Wanda Patten. She has the blessings of left-wing D.C. prosecutors.

D.C. Mayor Bowser is likewise culpable, as she failed to deploy law enforcement to the Capitol prior to and during the riot itself.

Ray Epps of Arizona incited a huge crowd the evening of Jan. 5, 2021, to get it to storm the Capitol the next day. No one from the Justice Department is investigating this man. Yet Merrick Garland and his goons at Justice attack parents as “terrorists” for objecting to insane school-board policies requiring their children to genuflect to CRT.

It is a proven fact that government agents were active participants in the Capitol riot crowd along with Epps. Was Epps a government operative? Politicians and mainstream media refuse to touch this issue.

The media continues to describe the event as a “deadly insurrection.” First, it was not a mass-casualty event. The one direct death that resulted was from a Capitol Hill agent shooting a female rioter. Second, insurrection is the advocacy of the violent overthrow of the U.S. government. This event was a riot, not an insurrection. The media members who mislabel it are the ones who have conveniently forgotten about the 545 riots, lootings and killings which surged throughout the nation during the summer of 2020.

Be there no mistake. Pelosi’s Jan. 6 commission is a sham. And as usual it is just a ruse to attack the primary object of her hatred subject: Donald Trump.

EARL BEAL

Terre Haute, Ind.