Erase and Criminalize

Ashli Babbitt is mentioned in the article. Why has she dropped in the memory hole? Look at any high profile shooting and you'll know the shooter's name and all the who, what, where, when. Since when does one use deadly force on someone not armed and not presenting a direct physical threat?

Many of us have removed ourselves from Facebook. yes it takes my contact away from friends and family but I grew up when we didn't even have a phone. this requires me to get creative and use other means of communication. Freedoms are not issued by government or corporations. They will learn the hard way that Americans can survive without them. I see many new companies that will have their chance now that these few companies will fade away. -------Grampa

You are seeing exactly WHY the left has been SO intent on overturning the 2nd/A - beginning with confiscation of the spooky black AR15s. They do not want the "American Cultural Revolution" to become the 2nd Civil War. There is only one way to assure that; Disarm the U.S. citizenry. Beware the coming days and weeks. Their insanity is deep and real. Do not give them reason to go fully berserk on us. Stay calm and cautious.

Impeachment of President Trump is a slap-in-the-face to everyone who voted for Trump in 2016.

Thank you for this excellent article, Chris. Would that there were more voices such as yours on Capital Hill, but the madness has taken over to such an extent that it would make Robespierre proud. God help us...truly.

Thank you again, for an important article. This discussion is critical on a global scene if not just the U.S.
Things have changed slowly in the U.S., but as Victor Davis Hanson has pointed out, large media giants can sway public opinions, such as Twitter and others. It is almost a "trial by media".
Everyone knows that an editorial can sway nations, or lead to wars. So it is important to understand the dangers produced. Trump can be forgiven for his "Fight like hell", but a more appropriate terminology could have been less troublesome. "Be determined" or use Churchillian terms ("Never give in, never give in...")would have been a better choice.
The facts should be laid out squarely in front of the American republic.

But you can bet other agenda will surface just to set the money thing in the right direction.
Much of this is due to wanting a profile of respectability without the deeper issues at stake.
The issue is not about immigration, the wall to keep out unwanted but to maintain a country whose level of crime is high, with guns carried by ordinary citizens (it does not happen in countries where handguns are illegal), and which are sometimes used against police. This is in stark contrast to Margaret Thatcher's dictum "Support the police".
Without homogeneity found ordinarily in the small community out in the country, the U.S. is fast-tracked to second or third place on the global stage, behind China, and possibly Japan, both of whom know a strong sense of shame, which apparently is not on the agenda of the Democrats.
You have to feel sorry for Trump. He gave it his all. It wasn't for the money. It was to achieve a better outcome for sliding U.S.
If China takes charge, economics on the global stage may well be rewritten. Everyone will be collaterally damaged.
And Iran may well push into a foray no one wants.

I salute Mr. Farrell for his timely and insightful article. I am grateful knowing we have level-headed, concerned Americans who place Constitutionally protected free speech above and beyond revanchism and personal interest. Only two days prior, I had raised similar convictions corresponding with a group of like and unlike-minded friends where, in part, I wrote:

All I am talking about is the implication of accusing Trump of "insurrection" to circumvent the idea that there is a very dangerous development of antagonizing half the US population. Whether one agrees with what Trump said or not or even if they impeach, destroy, imprison or kill the guy, it is not going to take away the fact that half the US population believes that they are being ignored, taken advantage of, and cheated by a deeply entrenched system orchestrated by elites who think they know better. This is a movement the origins of which predate Trump. Trump is a symptom and not the cause of what is happening. No one can blame a President for leading the cause of the downtrodden. All Presidents have a platform and an agenda to run on. Why should Trump be excluded from his executive privilege? He openly ran on that platform. He did not hide it. The real problem lies with those who fear him lest he destroys their wet dreams of sucking the world dry of unending wealth. His supporters sincerely believe that the elites have been and will be raking in huge fortunes at the cost of impoverishing millions of working-class families and shrinking the middle class. With the coming democratic agenda, China is going to eat us alive.

It is totally irrelevant what McConnell or anyone else thinks —left or right. They are all professional politicians with twisted tongues. They are predators that worry only about their survival!!! Ignoring these protestors is a recipe for a general uprising and possibly civil war that must be appreciated. (I am hoping that you are not fooled by those agents provocateur who foment violence to create confusion and demonize the honest protestors). It is easy for someone fortunate enough to have a comfortable job not to feel the agony of families who, literally and without exaggeration, do not have enough to feed their families. It also has to do with their perceived threat that the general culture, traditions, and way of life that they're used to for centuries are going to abruptly change to something totally unfamiliar (to say nothing of socialism taking hold) that caters to the whim of only the few who are going to benefit from it at the expense of the rest of the population.

Part of my argument is that by mischaracterizing Trump's words as "insurrection", the media is whipping the population into a frenzy. Legally they have no leg to stand on. And yet they keep harping on the word to brainwash the impressionable into believing that which is not true. They are doing a disservice to this nation. I actually predict that, if they continue this charade, they are the ones who are going to cause the real insurrection.

Chris, you get to the meat of the problem at the end, and it's why I'm not hopeful: It *is* "the Establishment", it *is* both parties. Remember that it was Nixon who first opened up to China even before Clinton took best advantage. Both sides campaign in shirt sleeves and casuals, but govern in suits.
But I have found it is not possible to talk to either side to point out that there is plenty of blame to go around on both sides, or to try to find common ground. That is no longer what people want, and it is what is needed.
Maybe a group of folks to meet in living rooms, away from the damned MSM, both sides just looking, however gingerly and tentatively, for that common ground I know is there?

There is evidence that Antifa types were involved . . .

The group would have had to left before Trump started speaking . . . it's a 45 minute walk to the Congress.

Apart from sheer bloody minded vindictiveness what really is the point in impeaching Trump?
Biden takes over next Wednesday January 20th.

What has been going on? The press's constant lies are responsible for all the hate. I do not believe the goal is one party or the other. The goal is the hate and division. For globalization to happen you have to destroy the old and bring in the new. Einstein was right, "the elite class controls the press, the politics and usually the religion." The goal is 'Divide and Conquer'.

Big Tech's draconian censorship of conservative voices is so egregious and hypocritical that even some powerful Democrats are becoming concerned by the Tech tyrants' trashing of First Amendment rights because these leftists realize that censorship is a double-edged sword that social media could use against the left in the future. It is said that if you give a fool enough rope, then he will hang himself. Big Tech's leaders had better start heeding this admonition and change their unfair censorship policies or they will justifiably lose their Section 230 protections. In that case, it couldn't happen to a more deserving bunch of fools.

The current upheaval in the US, is simply the forerunner of how Socialism/Marxism gain total control over the place where you live AND how your daily life functions PLUS, any of Your Basic Freedoms, their thinking DISAGREES with. Simply ask any person who has lived under the Soviet, Chinese or African versions of this sick philosophy have had to suffer..

Thanks for posting this excellent article. The mainstream Media in the U.S. and Canada are a cesspool of the Far Left. They, not Trump, have to be exposed for their jackboot behaviour.

Nobody has articulated it any better. He says it all. I envy the clarity of thought and writing skill to get it out there with Chris.

Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro, Chevez all silenced and eliminated competition. Gun confiscation followed.
I do not "feel" disenfranchised by the vote steal. I AM disenfranchised by the dysfunctional voting system, courts, legislatures, representatives, branches of government, media and big tech.
I am no longer represented by government. This is a Marxist, Maoist Revolution.

There is little said about the direction that is being taken to remove any democratic mention from the "Great Reset". Surely if this is such a good Idea why is the public that that this is intended for not asking questions and qualifications?
I believe at least 80% of the general public are unaware that they've been set-up to accept a new way of life. Too many fabrications of fact and general apathy helping the lie.

The American particularly and the Western media have portrayed President Trump for the past four years as the reincarnation of the Devil on Earth. He has kept the U.S. out of unnecessary, costly and body-bag wars and coups d'etats unlike most U.S. Presidents since 1776. He has worked to bring back jobs to the U.S. from low wage and almost slave nations Mexico and most of Asia. He has demanded that the EU pay their fair share of NATO to protect their own nations. In the past 25 years, most Congresses and Presidents signed free trade agreements with other nations which outsourced American industry and know how and made the American worker and middle class paupers, heavily in debt and totally insecure about their jobs and future. Trump tried to correct this betrayal of the American worker and industry by U.S. Congresses and past Presidents. With exceptional courage, Trump supported Israel and recognized Jerusalem as her Capital - despite the fury of anti-Semitic nations and peoples throughout the world.

I've got a lot of respect for Donald Trump, he did a heck of a lot of good for America and her people, and it's because he's not a career politician, that he achieved things for the US, that Democrats didn't even think about... let alone do. I don't think Biden won a fair election, and I think America will rue the day that Biden scraped into the White House. Good luck America, I think that you're going to need it. "Up The Donald"!!

The US is entering very dangerous times. As a person who has visited it over the last 45 years I'm saddened to see the corruption that is self evident on the Hill. It has been more glaring than ever over the Trump presidency that what is supposed to be a democracy wasn't. The ruling elite have the mindset as in communist countries that they are born to rule no outsiders like Donald Trump there ideals are worthless which is so sad. He was the best president since Reagan, got on with the job unlike Clinton, Bush, Obama. The founding fathers named the country the USA for good reason - the word democratic was left out . One only has to look at countries that use the word democratic, they are anything bet i.e. the People's Democratic Republic of East Germany, Albania etc etc.

Excellent comments from Chris Farrell. The power and thus arbitrary control by social media giants of public discourse and thus their selective restrictions on what is discussed, should long ago have been subject to legislated restrictions. In the most absurd manner they are making a mockery of the democratic process, not least that of selectively restricting free speech. Facebook, twitter, etc. are thoroughly undemocratic in instinct, their owners puffed up little dictators who need to be shut up.

Despotic and Dangerous. The demise of democracy and its inherent failed state. Peaceful co-existence has its limitations in a capitalist system built upon human slavery. The politics of envy and resentment has now become the dominant factor in American society. Social inequality has become the norm rather than the exception and a civilisation that lacks empathy is a catastrophe in the making!

You forgot the Biden family cash for influence scandal. The same kind of thing has ended political careers here in the U.K.

I'm betting that the UK Labor party (which should be known as the UK party of diehard communists) has sent researchers to the US to study how the Democrats managed to swing the General Election in Bidens favor. It wouldn't surprise me if the UK suffers a landslide Labor "victory" in our next general election. I have only two words to say to those in the USA and Britain that have bought the US Democrats' victory - Buyer Beware.

It is surely time for wise governments to understand the very real danger of allowing enormously wealthy and internationally influential online communication companies to become self appointed political censors. Legislation has been enacted to prevent commercial organisations developing monopolistic economic powers and it is now time for similar curtailment of the likes of Twitter and Facebook's political meddling.
Complete freedom of expression has always been a hard won and essential feature of democratic government and whilst some politicians may accept it's denial when it suits their purposes others perhaps more savvy must not not allow complacency to endanger this desperately precious foundation of western civilisation.

I am saddened by the level of atavistic democratic trend in the US. I am more saddened by the blind solidarity of the ultranationalistc sentiments that justify even unpresidential behavior in democratic America. For us in the so-called Third World countries the US is currently a very bad example.