As the mainstream news media, technology and Wall Street corporations, and the Democratic Party leadership continue to censor and rage against President Trump and all Trump supporters for the riot on January 6 at the Capitol, there is tremendous hypocrisy. For example, out of one side of his mouth, President-elect Joe Biden* says his is the presidency of all Americans and it is time to heal. The other side of his mouth is labeling Trump supporters, saying, “Don’t dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob, insurrectionists, domestic terrorists. It’s that basic. It’s that simple.”

Records validate that a small portion of protesters at the Capitol became rioters, and they are being arrested and dealt with accordingly.

The greater issue at hand is that this single event has evolved into a narrative that all conservatives and Christian conservatives are “domestic terrorists.” That means that 74 million people who voted for Donald Trump are somehow painted with the same broad-brush with the handful that stormed the Capitol, and are somehow now something less than deserving of a job, and having life and liberty.

The amplification that the riot last week was a coup attempt, an insurrection, clearly is not the truth. Coup attempts and insurrections are conducted with weapons, mass violence, executions, and mob-generated detentions aimed at heads of state, not inept legislative bodies. This was not close to that. Let us, however, not excuse this event. The Constitution guarantees the right to peaceably assemble, and that’s not what happened.

The Epoch Times chronology of January 6 documents that there were those with violent intent, and there were those among the protesters who were trying to prevent such violence. Once again, however, Democrats are using the event and Trump’s remarks to impeach him and impugn his supporters. His remarks did not advocate or call for violence:

“We’re going to walk down to the Capitol and we’re going to cheer on our brave senators and congressmen and women… Because you’ll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength and you have to be strong… We have come to demand that Congress do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated—lawfully slated. I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard.”

Observations:

• The left harshly criticizes others for broad-brushing and stereotyping people, yet they are doing this with anyone who supported Trump.
• The censorship and canceling of dissenters’ is alarming.
• Passing on outrageous conspiracy theories as fact is counterproductive to solving the challenges we have as a nation.
• Advocating dictatorial, unconstitutional actions should be avoided.
• Protests and civil disobedience are never successful unless there is a clear objective.
• Violence should be an extraordinary last resort unless in self-defense (History of Concord, Lexington).

The Christian standard was established by Christ who said in Matthew 5:17, “Do not think that I came to destroy the Law or the Prophets. I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.”

Christ kept the law. He was a light to the world. He changed the world. You can, too.

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The House of Representatives voted to impeach the President. This time for “high crimes and misdemeanors” and stating that the 14^thAmendment prohibits a person from holding office who has “engaged in insurrection or rebellion against” the US. The Articles of impeachment further outlined that the President “engaged in high crimes and misdemeanors by inciting violence against the Government of the United States.”

It can be debated whether the President incited violence. Those on the President’s side, who know the meaning of words, can legitimately say he did not incite violence, and the handful who did the violence made their own decisions. Those opposing him argue his remarks were a dog whistle.

The political party in control of the House is trying to ensure that Donald Trump never runs for or holds office again. The words insurrection and rebellion do not describe what occurred on January 6.

Insurrection is defined as: an act or instance of revolting against civil authority or an established government.

Rebellion is defined as: open, armed, and usually unsuccessful defiance of or resistance to an established government.

A handful of people, unarmed, is hardly an insurrection or rebellion. But the victor writes the history and solidifies the narrative.

Conservatism and Trump will long carry the black mark from this unpeaceful assembly and lawless act by a small group of undiscerning rioters—no matter the facts on who instigated, facilitated or directed it. This is insurrection and rebellion redefined as a grave warning.

Consider the past five years of facts that don’t seem to matter:

• The Democratic Party and its leadership paid for a false dossier on Donald Trump;
• used the false dossier to get a warrant to spy on his campaign;
• conducted a highly visible and media-charged investigation on Russian collusion that found nothing;
• put people associated with Trump in jail;
• repeated the investigative narrative about a non-existent quid pro quo call with the Ukrainian President;
• impeached Trump on baseless charges resulting from the aforementioned;
• relentlessly pursued disrupting and obstructing most everything of his administration’s actions;
• and somehow won an election amid a mountain of election fraud evidence that was systematically suppressed by the mainstream media.

Does any of this sound like insurrection?

The impeachment is perhaps symbolic of socialist regimes. When socialist regimes take over a country, they usually have kangaroo tribunals resulting in execution of the opposition. With this impeachment, the President was politically executed.

It also sends a strong message to all that those in power are politically intolerant of those who dissent or disagree, already evidenced by the coordinated censorship and cancelling of diverse opinion. On one hand, they call for healing. On the other, some 74 million citizens are held in contempt because of their support for Trump.

Don’t believe me?

Read what they are saying. I wish it wasn’t true. It’s not fair. It’s not American.

Proverbs 29:2 says, “When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice: but when the wicked bear rule, the people mourn.”

Lord, show us your way.

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