Small People with their Big Lies!

The bespectacled Attorney General rose from his chair, there was a sense of gravity in the room, a feeling that we were in the midst of distressed times when resolute men needed to stand and be counted. He gazed about the edifice and the expectation of the crowd was the reckoning of a great address, a statement of purpose, a statement of direction which would unify the body politic. The cabinet member proceeded and explained to the nation in the strangest and possibly most absurd terms the greatest threat to the people, the Republic, and the constitutional order came from “white supremacy!” What? Did we accurately catch what he said? Amongst earnest people, there was a collective shaking of the head. I thought this was a serious moment for serious people? Didn’t turn out that way! Instead, we get political rhetoric at best, demagoguery at worst. In a country divided, with a President who claimed he was elected to be a great unifier, such a message was Orwellian. The AG had just proceeded to recite recent convulsions in American history, mass shootings in which crazed gunmen acting alone slaughtered innocents. Whether the massacres took place in Charleston, El Paso or Pittsburgh, it was concluded by authorities, there was no organized conspiracy, no network orchestrating these attacks, no headquarters with a leadership manipulating events. These were the actions of individuals, alienated, maniacal killers who acted on their own impulses, leaving hatred, death and destruction in their midst. In the aftermath of these slaughters, the nation, people of all backgrounds mourned the dead and cast scorn on the perpetrators and their wicked thoughts and actions. But, the Attorney General did not seem to see the events in this manner. The Secretary attempted to link these murders with other abominations such as the catastrophic terrorist attack on 9-11. The Al-Qaeda plan of that time period encompassed a great deal of detail and took a network of Osama bin Laden’s ring of gangsters to carry out. The plan was a foreign conspiracy with bin-Laden being the maestro headquartered in the caves of Afghanistan. The result- 3,000 Americans were martyred and the United States armed forces were mobilized to stamp out bin-Laden and this blight on civilization. Here the American people mourned the dead but were unified against this foreign threat which sought not only to kill Americans but to destroy the entire American civilization. The connection of 9-11 to the killings in Charleston, El Paso and Pittsburgh would appear to be the death of innocents, and an attempt to link foreign terrorism with domestic white supremacist murderers. But the former Supreme Court nominee and his Leftist Democratic cohorts did not stop there because this political elite wanted to create a further nefarious connection between these events with a contemporary connection, which included segments of the opposition GOP. What? Are they serious? In his remarks, Mr. Garland made an insidious reference to the riot at the Capitol on January 6th in which he implicitly made an association of the rioters of 1-6 to the lone white supremacist murderers in Charleston, El Paso and Pittsburgh, as well as with the Al-Qaeda killers on 9-11. Wow! Quite a mouthful, a terrible analogy with little or no evidence but altogether a lot of bloviating. As of this date, regarding 1-6, there seems to have been no central control, no leadership of the riots, and no organizational planning. One person, a rioter, was killed but no weapons were retrieved from the trespassers. The nation, members of both political parties were aghast at the events of that day and demanded justice. Yet, the Left has pursued an agenda which accuses the GOP of being behind the events of 1-6, even though there is no evidence to suggest this is a reality. This would certainly be the erroneous impetus for Merrick Garland to make his rabble rousing claim comparing the white supremacist murderers, the 9-11 fanatics, with the 1-6 rioters, with the complicity of the GOP serving as a moral equivalent and accomplice with these other abominations. Wow! Now that is demagoguery! Lots of accusations with little evidence! How can one take this seriously?! But as the infamous propagandist Joseph Goebbels asserted, “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.” Let’s keep our fingers crossed that the public will not be duped.