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   From: js@phendrie.con   
      
   The select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol held its   
   first hearing Tuesday, and Republican lawmakers took the occasion to demand   
   justice — for the terrorists who took up arms against the U.S. government on   
   that terrible day.   
      
   Six Republican members of the House, escorted by a man in a giant Trump costume   
   bearing the message “TRUMP WON,” marched on the Justice Department Tuesday   
   afternoon to speak up for those they called “political prisoners” awaiting   
   trial   
   for their roles in the insurrection.   
      
   “These are not unruly or dangerous, violent criminals,” Rep. Paul Gosar   
   (Ariz.)   
   proclaimed at a news conference outside DOJ headquarters. “These are   
   political   
   prisoners who are now being persecuted and bearing the pain of unjust   
   suffering.”   
      
   Rep. Louie Gohmert (Tex.) speculated that “we have political prisoners here   
   in   
   America.”   
      
   They distributed copies of a letter alleging the Jan. 6 defendants had been   
   denied “potentially exculpatory evidence” and subjected to “cruel and   
   unusual   
   punishment.” Their supporters waved signs proclaiming “Free the Jan. 6   
   Political   
   Prisoners,” and “Jan. 6 Was an Inside Job.”   
      
   The lawmakers, ironically, had to cut short their defense of the   
   insurrectionists, because demonstrators disrupted them with heckling,   
   whistleblowing and signs (“Traitors Sit Down”).   
      
   The half-dozen lawmakers, including Matt Gaetz of Florida and Marjorie Taylor   
   Greene of Georgia, made explicit what has become more obvious by the day:   
   Republicans stand with those who attempted a violent coup on Jan. 6. And it’s   
   not just the wingnuts. House Republican leaders held a news conference before   
   the hearing, blaming Jan. 6 not on seditionists but on Capitol Police and,   
   particularly, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.   
      
   https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/07/27/jan-6-hearing   
   -begin-republicans-side-with-terrorists/   
      
   So Pelosi, not Trump, sent the Dec. 19 tweet saying "Be there, will be wild!"   
   Pelosi, not Trump, harangued the crowd with non-stop stolen election lies for   
   70   
   minutes at the Ellipse.  Pelosi, not Trump, told the mob that if they don't   
   "fight like hell," they won't have a country any more.  Who knew?   
      
   Gosar, Gohmert, Gaetz and Greene belong in prison.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)