{"id":17902,"date":"2023-01-06T09:43:58","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T14:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=17902"},"modified":"2023-01-06T21:21:35","modified_gmt":"2023-01-07T02:21:35","slug":"new-york-post-biden-is-turning-jan-6-into-a-national-anti-republican-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/06\/new-york-post-biden-is-turning-jan-6-into-a-national-anti-republican-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Post: Biden is turning Jan. 6 into a national anti-Republican holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York Post, January 6, 2023<\/h3>\n

Biden is turning Jan. 6 into a national anti-Republican holiday<\/a>\"\"<\/a><\/h1>\n
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James Bovard<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Is President Joe Biden on the verge of proclaiming a new national holiday? On Friday, Biden will hold a White House ceremony to commemorate the second anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol Clash. Biden has perennially invoked that day\u2019s violence to sanctify his own power and demonize Republican opponents. The speech will likely echo Biden\u2019s theme from September insisting that MAGA Republicans (which effortlessly becomes all Republicans) \u201cembrace political violence<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

At Friday\u2019s shindig, Biden will pirouette as the Savior of Moderation<\/strong> \u2014 notwithstanding his vitriolic midterm congressional campaign speeches castigating Republicans for \u201csemi-fascism.\u201d\u00a0Biden will present Presidential Citizens Medals to a dozen people connected to either the 2020 election or the Jan. 6 (J6) ruckus. The event will be part of the sustained effort to coronate Team Biden as the mirror image of rampaging pro-Trump protesters.<\/p>\n

Perhaps Team Biden will seek to turn J6 into America\u2019s Guy Fawkes Day.<\/strong> In 1605, Catholic extremists were caught placing kegs of gunpowder beneath the room where the House of Lords and King James would soon meet. The conspirators were caught before they could destroy England\u2019s rulers. For more than 400 years, British citizens have celebrated Guy Fawkes Day with bonfires to mark the anniversary.<\/p>\n

Guy Fawkes commemorations result in \u201cHatred of All Things Catholic,\u201d Catholic.com says. Biden and fellow Democrats are crafting a J6 narrative that could end in \u201cHatred of All Things Republican.\u201d<\/p>\n

But to achieve that end, the feds need far more scalps. Not satisfied with rhetorically burning Donald Trump in effigy, the Biden administration is sending federal agents to ravage the lives of as many J6 protesters as possible. Some experts predict a deluge of new prosecutions in the coming months.<\/p>\n

Plenty of individuals attacked police or destroyed federal property at the Capitol on J6, and they deserve harsh punishments. But there are not enough such culprits to support the Biden storyline of an insurrection that almost toppled the government.<\/p>\n

The primary proof of J6\u2019s grave peril is the sheer number of federal indictments and convictions the Biden administration has notched. Attorney General Merrick Garland boasted Wednesday that the J6 \u201cinvestigation has resulted in the arrest of more than 950<\/a> defendants for their alleged roles in the attack.\u201d<\/p>\n

The total arrests far exceed the number of violent private citizens at the Capitol that day. A Justice Department press release noted, \u201c860\u00a0defendants have been charged with entering or remaining in a restricted federal building or grounds.\u201d Shades of Lee Harvey Oswald!<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cTrespassing plus thought crimes equals terrorism\u201d is the Biden standard for prosecuting J6 defendants.<\/strong> Newsweek notes the FBI treats all those charged with a J6 offense \u201cas domestic terrorists<\/a>.\u201d Prosecutors are refraining from formally charging J6 defendants with terrorism because that unsubstantiated charge would be laughed out of federal courtrooms. But for scoring J6 federal triumphs, \u201cparading without a permit<\/a>\u201d is close enough to terrorism.<\/p>\n