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Source: Politicususa, can't get the page to link.The Chairman began by saying the point here is to restore the rule of law, restore the rule of law. Can you even pretend to do that, if you stand by and support Donald Trump, who on day one, as the Chairman of the Committee just said, day one of his presidency, pardoned 1,500 insurrectionists, including hundreds of people who violently assaulted and attacked American police officers.
Let’s just take one person who is free today, Julian Khater, who had been convicted after having every due process protection, the right to counsel, the right to cross-examine witnesses, the right to introduce evidence, but they had him completely. They knew exactly what happened. Most of this was videotaped, so the whole world could see it. Well, Julian Khater repeatedly violently assaulted our officer protecting us in Congress, Officer Brian Sicknick, who then proceeded to have several strokes and died on January 7th, 2021, the next day.
The family of Officer Sicknick is absolutely devastated and demolished by what’s just happened. I invite any of my colleagues, including the new Members to this Committee who maybe weren’t here on January 6th and didn’t experience the trauma of that violent insurrection, when we saw a mob marauding through here, yelling, “Hang Mike Pence, Hang Mike Pence,” and looking to assassinate Nancy Pelosi. And now, you have the temerity to come forward and say, this is about public safety? How much safer are we now with these 1,500 criminals at large in Washington, DC and going out into the country? Are you vouching that these are not, these people are not going to be attacking any other police officers? Are you vouching that they’re no longer a threat to public safety? What an outrage. What a scandal.
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To come forward and say it's about public safety is a highly referenced page from their basic playbook - gaslighting, doubling down on brazen lies, vindictiveness, etc.
For 4 more years, this is the STUFF we will face. If that shooter in PA had slightly better aim, the conversation might be different. God is cruel.
Stay safe & warm, Derf
I hope there’s a list of the addresses where the released convicts will reside? Need to know if any in the area. Feeling a bit less safe.
Guess they won't be able to claim that anymore!
”Science is more than a body of knowledge; it is a way of thinking. I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time—when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the key manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness.”
From: ”The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”
Author Carl Sagan, 1995
(Somebody posted it in the Q&A on Fleckenstein’s board yesterday. How I happened upon it.)