An incident perhaps not known to many, a bunch of Republicans got together for a baseball game in 2017 at a field in Alexandria, Va., only to be the victims of an armed assault by one James Hodgkinson who managed to wound five before being gunned down himself. Bizarrely, the FBI investigation of the incident concluded that it was a matter of “suicide by cop,” Hodgkinson’s primary motive apparently being to die as a result of his attack.
What that conclusion failed to take into account was that the assailant was a radical Leftist, a devout follower of Bernie Sanders, and had what appeared to be a Republican hit list in his pocket. At the same time the Capitol Police who were on site, there to protect GOP Minority Whip Steve Scalise who was among the wounded, were in plain clothes, possibly leading Hodgkinson to believe he could commit mass murder and escape unharmed. Yet the FBI, apparently loathe to highlight violence coming from the Left, concluded it was “suicide by cop!”
No doubt incited by the queries of Republicans such as Brad Wenstrup [Ohio] who was at the 2017 game, the FBI recently published a list of domestic terrorist attacks between 2015 and 2019 which included the aforementioned incident. But what is distressing is that an agency which America clearly needs to act with complete objectivity could betray such an obvious political bias, a bias which “conservatives” maintain was evident throughout 2016 as Trump was under investigation at the insistence of Obama’s Democrats even before he was elected. And how truly appalling, how truly fascistic is it that the Biden administration is now trying to purge the military as well as various other public service sectors of anyone of “suspicious” conservative views!
Perhaps nothing better illustrates the ideological dementia that has come to pervade the Left than a recent article in the Huffington Post by its White House Correspondent S.V. Date which announced that the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol was “1000 % worse than 9/11.” As I pointed out in my blog of Feb. 16, not one of the Capitol invaders carried a gun, their intent perhaps best represented by the individual who broke into Pelosi’s office, lit a cigar and put his feet up on her desk in an expression of complete disdain for everything she represents. I am in no way exonerating such behavior, but did you know that in the 70s the radical leftist group the Weather Underground invaded the Senate, Pentagon and State Department, using bombs in their various assaults? Did you know that Patrisse Cullors is a big fan of that anarchist group? Did you know that B.L.M. assailed dozens of government buildings throughout the summer of 2020 and indeed violated the fundamental principles of Democracy day after day by brazenly defying the Rule of Law? It is overwhelmingly obvious to anyone but the most delusional that the sins of the Left, given the mindless bias of our culture, are invariably forgiven in the name of “social justice,” while those of the Right are demonized to an extent that is ridiculous. Did you know that on the night of Jan. 6, after what was apparently the near downfall of the American government, the U.S. Congress simply resumed its session in accordance with its preordained schedule. The horror! The horror!
In response to the lunacy of the Huff Post article, the Wall Street Journal published an op-ed piece by Debra Burlingame, the sister of the pilot of American Airlines flight 77 who was murdered in his cockpit, his plane and its innocent occupants then turned to the slaughter of others. The memories she invokes of that horrible day are truly depressing, none more so than the fact that human remains were still being discovered in Lower Manhattan years later by utility workers of various sorts. But in its attempt to bolster the narrative that White Supremacy is the greatest threat to a Civilization that was in fact founded by Whites, that those who are concerned with the defense of our Freedoms are in fact the greatest threat to Freedom, the Left continues to stoke the myth that Jan. 6 was the worst thing to have ever happened to America. It has the same degree of intellectual integrity as the FBI’s original contention that James Hodgkinson’s primary goal wasn’t to kill Republicans, but merely to kill himself!