Is that so?

I heard that a cobra bit you.

Bullet Points:

** Hanoi Jane spews – Wanting to murder anyone who opposes your stances is the hallmark of authoritarian evil, so thanks for stating your position so clearly, Jane.

** “The smuggling organizations to our south are very well organized and resourceful,” he said, referring to Mexican cartels. “Each and every person crossing through the Tucson Sector must pay these criminal organizations,” he said. “The migrants we encounter are completely outfitted in camouflage by the smuggling organizations before they cross. Most run from and fight our agents to avoid apprehension. Many are previously deported felons who know they are inadmissible to the United States and many pose a serious threat to our communities.”

** An Apology: The Associated Press reports that alleged members of a Mexican drug cartel penned a letter apologizing for the kidnapping of four Americans and the killing of two of them last week. The letter also claimed that the five perpetrators of the violent attack had been handed over to Mexican police.

“We have decided to turn over those who were directly involved and responsible in the events, who at all times acted under their own decision-making and lack of discipline,” the letter reads. The AP obtained the letter through a Tamaulipas state law enforcement official. It added those involved in the attack on the Americans had gone against the Gulf cartel’s rules, which include “respecting the life and well-being of the innocent.”

Images posted on Twitter show five men on the pavement with their hands tied — next to a small pickup truck, with a handwritten letter of apology on the windshield.

** 87,000 – Testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Adrian Smith (R-NE) questioned Yellen on the ambiguity of her opening statement. Smith prefaced his question by noting the 87,000 new IRS agents hired at the agency over the next decade to conduct tax enforcement on Americans.

Treasury Department Secretary Janet Yellen acknowledged on Friday that 90 percent of IRS audits will be conducted on small businesses and families.

** The Insurrection – Tucker Carlson has begun showing some of the security footage from the Capitol Building taken on January Sixth.

This evidence confirms what common sense knew from the first: that the day did not involve was not a riot, not a trespass (since the public was invited into the rotunda by the police), and barely deserved the name of a public disturbance. There were minor acts of vandalism.

No one was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher. There was one murder: that of Ashley Babbitt. Jacob Chansley, whom the press dubbed “the Q-Anon Shaman” did not lead an armed revolt against the government. He led a prayer asking heaven to bless the police.

I always knew from first-hand eyewitnesses that the characterization of the day as violent was a lie, and an outrageous lie, for I had family members at the gathering.

So I knew since that day that there was no noise, no disturbance, no sounds of sirens or loud commotion audible or visible to those within a hundred yards of the building. There were no police rushing to the scene, no SWAT teams, and no National Guard. Not even a fire alarm was pulled.

The footage shows a protest, gathered lawfully, under the color of a legal permit. Members of the crowd were invited into the rotunda by the Capitol police and filed through the velvet ropes. Certain hooligans — almost certainly Federal officers acting as agents provocateur — smashed windows and tried to stir the crowd to violence.

Because the protestors were patriots who love the republic and revere the public symbols thereof, the agents provocateur were unsuccessful.

So the news media, acting in concert, pretended there had been violence anyway.

The police then opened fire on the crowd with tear gas and flash grenades and attacked them. These are the images shown on a continuous loop as part of the unconvincing propaganda campaign.

The one thing the day clearly was not was an insurrection. The one thing no protestor could honestly be called was an insurgent.

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