January 2
The Year of our Lord, 2022. It remains subject to Him.
In American Downfall I write:
There are some dark days coming. The divisions in this country will grow as high and mighty people are brought before the bar of justice. As the pandemic continues more people will get sick and die. And what other plagues bellall us are still unknown.
I do know that in a few days it will be January 6 once again. Like a buried beach worm that does not stay in the sand for long; actions and consequences have a way of making their way to the surface. More and more of these facts concerning January 6 are coming to light. Evidence is being collected, a narrative is forming. Much more is yet to be revealed.
Since January 6, more than 725 defendants have been arrested. Charges stem from assaulting, resisting, and impeding officers and employee. 75 have been charged with using a deadly weapon or causing serious bodily injury. 140 police officers were assaulted. 10 people so far have been arrested for assaulting members of the media, with over 640 defendants having been charged with entering or remaining in a restricted federal buildings or grounds. 75 have been charged with destruction of government property and theft of said property. Over 300 have been charged with corruptly influencing an official proceeding of congress. 145 have pleaded guilty to misdemeanors, 20 to felonies. 70 individuals have been sentenced, 31 having received periods of incarceration, 18 to a period of home detention and probation. The Capitol riots caused $1.5 million worth of damage to the building.
And this: Five people died. One officer was killed by fellow Americans, a civilian was killed by police, and three died from the shock of being there.
January 6 was a SHOCK event, literally and psychologically, meant to disorient you, and the country. Like a flash bang thrown in the middle of a graduation party. Just think of those cops on the front lines, literally assaulted and traumatized. Many of them were in hand to hand combat for over three hours. Two committed suicide. This shock event worked on that day and in the subsequent weeks and months as the country slowly came to grips with it. Like an eagle that hits a window hard, it takes time to come out of the daze and figure out what happened. What happened is becoming clearer.
As the Jan 6 committee moves up the chain of command, and begins to hold to account the organizers and planners, the one who inspired it, will they be able to justifiably nail Trump? This remains to be seen. Morally speaking Trump is responsible for that day. Check out his speech to the crowd before they marched to the Capitol and add the other facts that have since surfaced. But will he be held accountable for the events of January 6? Most likely not since other indictments from other venues may go public first. The SDNY has an active investigation into Trump and his business practices, as does the New York Attorney General, and indictments from them is likely. The State of Georgia also has an active investigation into Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 Georgia elections in his favor. We have tapes on that one. The Department of Justice has a potential case of obstruction of justice, while the D.C. district attorney is also looking into Trump’s actions and omissions on January 6.
What we have learned and will continue to learn has shocked the sensibilities of most decent Americans. What the former President did after the election of 2020 is beyond anything you might even consider possible. First they rightfully went to the Courts, and when they lost everything there, they began a pressure campaign against State politicians and election officials. After that the pressure on the Vice-President began in earnest. When he refused to budge, they resorted to violence and criminal deeds.
What we know up to this point, is that the Crowd at the behest of Trump and his closes advisors attempted to disrupt and delay the certification of Joe Biden because they knew once that happened, game over. They wanted to occupy the Capital and give certain politicians enough time to reject some electors while replacing them with others more favorable. Of course it was a gambit, no one know if it would work, but what did Trump have to lose. They had tried everything else and on each count they lost. This was their last chance, so they went for it and they failed once again, but they left destruction in its wake. It is that destruction that we are now unpacking.
The January 6 Committee will be holding public hearings and bringing to even greater focus the actions and omissions of those at higher levels, including Trump himself. He will feign ignorance, or lie, or both. What he created has become bigger than him, and I dare say, more dangerous. Trump is a man. Trumpism is a movement. The two are separate from one another,. Trump will fade and die, trumpism will remain and may grow stronger, and likely will, but it won’t include Trump. The anti-vax crowd have already turned on Trump. This is why Alex Jones of infowars is so upset, because Trump said great things about the vaccine and suggested people get the booster. What Trump spawned, at least an element of it, is now working against him. A House divided cannot stand.
And by no means am I alone in my quest for truth and accountability. There are many people in this country of diverse backgrounds, former Presidents, Army Generals, republicans, democrats, independents, straight, gay, black white, rich, poor, Protestants, Catholics, and million of Americans of good will who condemn what happened on January 6. I am not alone.
The Church too must claim its mea culpas. Many clerics and lay people were complicit during the Trump era. They remained silent in the face of an unprecedented attack on American institutions. All because of conservative juriists. That is what they got for their silence. We will not forget nor will history forget. It will become a dark stain in the history of the Church for generations to come. They will look away and many will walk.
You say I hate Trump. I hate what he has created. He will soon fade and I pray that God will have mercy on his soul. He will pay for his crimes here at home, one way or another, and he will go before a judge. His story will play out but it will become a footnote. What I fear are the people and politicos who have felt embolden by Trump and now with trumpets they shout their way forward.
The human disposition to hate others of other groups remains an infection in Americans and we saw it on display in the Trump era. That will grow. That ‘spirit’ was defeated in 1945, but slowly, it crawls its way out of the sludge and once again begins to inspire a new movement.
Pray we must, I say.