Everyone I know condemns the egregiously intolerable attacks that broke out in America’s Capitol Building last week.
Tragically, 42-year-old Capitol Police officer and Iraq War veteran Brian Sicknick died of injuries believed to have resulted from being struck in the head with a fire extinguisher by one of those criminal rioters.
Sicknick, a former Air National Guardsman, served in Operation Desert Shield and Operation Enduring Freedom before joining the D.C. police force.
Dreadfully as well, 35-year-old Ashli Babbitt, an unarmed White 14-year U.S. Air Force veteran, was fatally shot by a U.S. Capitol Police employee when attempting to illegally enter the House Chamber.
Babbitt had served as an air base security guard during Afghanistan and Iraq deployments, and later in an Air National Guard unit known as the "Capital Guardians."
Making matters obscenely worse, the aberrantly unrepresentative mob actions drew public attention away from deeply seated passions that brought an enormous assembly of overwhelmingly peaceful Trump supporters to the nation’s capital to protest presidentially determinative election irregularities favoring Joe Biden.
The legitimacy of such concerns can’t simply be dismissed as hyperbole.
Attorneys general of 18 states had joined a Texas lead in filing a U.S. Supreme Court lawsuit documenting compelling evidence of sufficient mail-in ballot election irregularities to have changed the outcomes in each of four critical battleground states --- Pennsylvania, Georgia, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Although the suit failed to gain an evidentiary hearing in court, those 19 official state government plaintiffs nevertheless stood legally accountable to warrant the accuracy of their pleadings.
President-elect Biden’s promises of being an agent of unity and healing certainly weren’t evident when he directly blamed President Donald Trump for having "unleashed an all-out assault on our institutions of our Democracy from the outset," whereby the riots that broke out were “but the culmination of that unrelenting attack."
To put this entire matter into perspective, the vast majority of those several hundreds of thousands of individuals who assembled in Washington were there not to assault American institutions, but rather, out of grave concern that those cherished institutions and civil liberties are under assault by radical leftist elements of the Democratic Party.
Any condemnations of President Trump being soft on lawlessness or "equal justice" are ironically hypocritical following a past summer of "mostly peaceful" protests devolving into virtually unchallenged devastating public and private property destruction, lootings, injuries, and homicides in several major Democratically-run cities.
Two New York police were shot, another was stabbed, nearly 400 others were injured during the two weeks of demonstrations, and blocks of stores boarded up, vandalized and looted before Gov. Andrew Cuomo finally issued a plaintive request, "You don't need to protest. You won. You won."
"Protesters" in Portland, Oregon vandalized businesses and set fires in attempts to burn down a county government building and a police precinct.
David Dorn, a 77-year-old Black former small-town Missouri police captain was shot and killed outside a friend’s St. Louis pawn shop he was attempting to defend. Four active service officers were also shot and wounded.
Felony charges were filed against Mark and Patricia McCloskey, a suburban St. Louis couple who pointed guns at protesters who had broken down a gate leading to their property and had reportedly threatened to take over their home.
Meanwhile, Democratic lawmakers in Los Angeles gave judges the discretion to release more than 650 people arrested for mob chaos and bedlam without bail as we also witnessed these and numerous other impotent state and municipal leaders acquiesce to incompressible demands to defund the police.
Viscerally offensive assaults have been perpetrated against our nation’s Foundational leaders and legacies. Portland, Oregon mobs, among numerous examples, pulled down and desecrated statues of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Thomas Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt.
Demiurgical attacks on America’s history are currently being infused and inflicted into a growing number of public K-12 school programs throughout our country by a New York Times-sponsored "1619 Project" which portrays America as a hopelessly racist culture forever rooted in plantation slavery of the pre-Civil War South.
Mandated corporate and government employee training programs promulgate divisive "critical race theory" and "White fragility" propaganda that America is systemically and irredeemably a White supremist country under the contradictory gaslighted guise of benefiting "diversity and inclusion."
The president many millions of us voted for, along with his campaign confidants, were spied on by an Obama-Biden administration-endorsed "Crossfire Hurricane" investigation premised upon a phony Russian "dirty dossier," which in turn, was sponsored by the Clinton campaign to divert public attention away from Hillary’s "email problem."
We have watched the sorry spectacle of a three-year-long impeachment charade that ended by clearing the president of foreign collusion offenses that we have since learned that --- even if true --- would have paled in significance to Biden Inc. family foreign influence peddling with China, Ukraine and Russia that evidence on son Hunter’s laptop from hell indicates to have truly happened.
We witnessed U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi who led that impeachment theater further dramatize her contempt for President Trump by smugly tearing up her copy of his State of the Union Address from behind his lectern.
Now, with less than two weeks remaining in President Trump’s remarkably accomplished and maligned term of office, Democrats again led by House Speaker Pelosi, plan to impeach him once more.
This madness will only inflame a tinderbox that is now America.
Larry Bell is an endowed professor of space architecture at the University of Houston where he founded the Sasakawa International Center for Space Architecture (SICSA) and the graduate program in space architecture. Larry has written more than 700 articles for Newsmax and Forbes and is the author of several books. Included are: "How Everything Happened, Including Us" (2020), "Cyberwarfare: Targeting America, Our Infrastructure and Our Future" (2020), "The Weaponization of AI and the Internet: How Global Networks of Infotech Overlords are Expanding Their Control Over Our Lives" (2019), "Reinventing Ourselves: How Technology is Rapidly and Radically Transforming Humanity" (2019), "Thinking Whole: Rejecting Half-Witted Left & Right Brain Limitations" (2018), "Reflections on Oceans and Puddles: One Hundred Reasons to be Enthusiastic, Grateful and Hopeful" (2017), "Cosmic Musings: Contemplating Life Beyond Self" (2016), "Scared Witless: Prophets and Profits of Climate Doom" (2015) and "Climate of Corruption: Politics and Power Behind the Global Warming Hoax" (2011). He is currently working on a new book with Buzz Aldrin, "Beyond Footprints and Flagpoles." Read Larry Bell's Reports — More Here.