On Inauguration Day 1,500 January 6 demonstrators were pardoned, and scores were released from prison.  President Trump kept his promise to the 77 million who voted for him. It was the beginning of the end for another dark chapter in our country’s history. It isn’t unique. Black citizens in the democratically controlled south were denied justice for a hundred years. In World War II thousands of Japanese families were interned in concentration camps denying them their constitutional rights. In 1992, a botched FBI raid In Ruby Ridge, Idaho resulted in the FBI killing a dog and a 14-year-old boy, and later they used a sniper to kill a mother holding her baby. In 1993, in Waco, Texas the same empowered FBI killed 75 people including 25 children in a botched military attack on a Church.

January 6 (J6) was a unique day in American history. The demonstrators believed the election had been stolen.  Even years later, in May of 2022, a Rasmussen poll found 55% of voters believed “cheating likely affected the outcome of the 2020 presidential election.”  The J6 crowd was emotionally charged and easily manipulated and entrapped by bad actors.

Preparations for securing the Capitol were suspect. It was left open and vulnerable – think of a bait car. Requests for additional personnel were ignored, installed barricades were ineffective and some were moved prior to the demonstration. Mysterious characters were used to incite the crowd. The FBI, against all logic, claimed they had no agents monitoring the demonstration. Pipe bombs were discovered under strange circumstances. Capitol doors were unlocked and many demonstrators simply walked past passive and observing Capitol Police. Real time reporting falsely stated an officer was severely beaten with a fire extinguisher and later died due to his injuries. The demonstrators were not so fortunate. Air Force veteran and nurse, Ashly Babbitt was shot without warning at point blank range by Capitol Police as she stood on the other side of a damaged but reasonably secure barrier.

After the event, Democrats and the press started calling the demonstrators “insurrectionists” and making exaggerated claims of Capitol Police being seriously injured and killed in the line of duty. They hired cinematographers to stitch silent security camera footage together and added sound to present the worst possible impression of the event. As most know, proper editing and sound effects can make a circus bear dancing with a handler look like an enraged grizzly killing a man. This enhanced footage was used to poison the already 90% Democrat jury pool. Wild claims are still being made from the halls of Congress and in the compliant press about deaths and injuries caused by the “insurrection.”

Now we move to the trials. There is a real possibility of a systematic and orchestrated entrapment effort. The jury pool had been poisoned. Not since the Democratically controlled Jim Crow South had defendants faced a more unfair jury, but requests for change of venue were denied. The defendants were also denied proper discovery. Much of the security camera footage, so effectively edited and enhanced then used to poison the jury, was denied to the defendants because of “security” issues. Much of the testimony from federal agents and Capitol Police was questionable and subject to interpretation. Although not grounds for mistrial, the government had almost unlimited money and manpower. They spent over a million dollars per conviction on average citizens, most with no previous criminal history. Many took the offer of pleading to a lesser offence as they did not have the means to present an expensive defense.

The 77 million who recently voted for Trump wanted the J6 defendants pardoned. Not because they condone violence against police, but because they believe the Constitutional Rights of every J6 defendant were violated. It was a process so poisoned by the Democrats, the Justice Department, the Capitol Police, and the press that the only remedy was a Presidential pardon. We are a nation of laws and equal justice represented by a blindfolded Lady Justice. The Biden Justice Department attempted to destroy that system. I hope, for our country’s sake and the safety of our citizens, the justice envisioned by our Founding Fathers and Constitution is restored and protected. There is more than a little irony that the pardons were signed on Martin Luther King Day, a day honoring a man who gave his life in a fight for justice.  To all J6 prisoners released, I say, “Welcome Home!”