What Gives The Arsonists The Right To Demand Firefighters Hurry To Put Out The Blaze, Even As They Stand There With The Gasoline And Lighter?

How cyn­i­cal and gra­tu­itous are House and Senate Republicans in their call for unity?
Even as the Hallowed Halls of Congress was invad­ed, des­e­crat­ed, and blood spilled there­in, Republican right-wing Congressmen, includ­ing their leader Kevin McCarthy, call for uni­ty but take no respon­si­bil­i­ty for their part in foment­ing the insurrection.
Every Republican Senator and mem­ber of the US House knew with­out a sin­gle iota of doubt, that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris won the pres­i­den­tial elec­tions of 2020.
Instead of tak­ing respon­si­bil­i­ty for their actions, they engage in the default hypocrisy of (what-about-ism).
What about the so-called Antifa riots dur­ing last sum­mer, they ask? They make no men­tion of the cir­cum­stances that brought peo­ple of all col­or to the streets in cities, towns, ham­lets, the nation’s length and breadth, and across the globe.

More con­se­quen­tial, is the fact that it has been shown that many of the inci­dents of vio­lence, includ­ing arson and mass destruc­tion of prop­er­ty, were actu­al­ly car­ried out by white right-wing ter­ror­ists, in the hope of ignit­ing a civ­il war.
The idio­cy of their (what-about-ism), miss­es a lit­tle nugget, nei­ther (BLM)Black Lives Matter, which mil­i­tates for equal­i­ty, fair­ness, and an end to police vio­lence, nor the boogey­man (ANTIF) Anti-Fascists, hap­pens to be the President of the United States, who is sworn to uphold the Constitution.
The insur­rec­tion­ist Republican cau­cus in the United States House of Representatives has some gall to talk about the George Floyd protests that engulfed the coun­try after a cop mur­dered him in broad day­light, with­out denounc­ing police vio­lence, or show­ing respect to the black community.
The House Insurrectionist cau­cus’s dis­re­spect­ful stance can­not be ignored; it is now a full-fledged white suprema­cist cau­cus that threat­ens and intim­i­dates oth­er US House members.

How can there be heal­ing when the peo­ple who cre­at­ed the prob­lems we are fac­ing are still in pow­er, and have not been held accountable?
What gives the arson­ists the right to demand the fire­fight­ers hur­ry to put out the blaze, even as they stand there with the gaso­line and lighter?
How remark­ably rich that these insur­rec­tion sup­port­ers now demand that Democrats abdi­cate their respon­si­bil­i­ty to the Constitution, and get togeth­er to sing kumbaya?
Look at what Trey Goudy and Jim Jordon did to Hillary Clinton in the Bengazi scan­dal they dredged up. Did they show mag­na­nim­i­ty? No, they did not?
There was no rea­son for them to be mag­nan­i­mous in the first place; Secretary Clinton had done noth­ing wrong.
Nevertheless, the Republican arson­ists con­tin­ued with years of hear­ings and dem­a­goguery, which in the end turned up noth­ing either crim­i­nal or negligent.
The White suprema­cists cau­cus, now caught with its tail in the crack, wants Democrats who will soon con­trol the two branch­es of the Legislature and the White House, to all of a sud­den join hands with them and sign we shall overcome.

In the first instance, the absur­di­ty of that is breath­tak­ing; they haven’t tak­en respon­si­bil­i­ty for aid­ing and enabling Donald Trump in his efforts to over­throw the leg­isla­tive branch of the US Government and make him­self a dear-leader for life.
They have not con­ced­ed that their actions were crim­i­nal. They have not agreed that Trump did any­thing wor­thy of removal. Only ten mem­bers of their cau­cus vot­ed with Democrats to impeach Trump a sec­ond time.
If Senate Republicans did their duty to their oaths, to the Constitution, when they had the oppor­tu­ni­ty to return san­i­ty to the nation, the nation would not be in this mess today.
They abdi­cat­ed their respon­si­bil­i­ty to the Constitution; the result is that the United States House of Representatives was attacked and blood spilled.
More con­se­quen­tial, is the sus­pi­cion that the invaders intend­ed to spill the blood of the Republican’s own vice pres­i­dent Mike Pence, and oth­er lead­ers of the nation.

One Republican insur­rec­tion­ist argued on the House floor in defense of Donald Trump,” Lincoln did not seek ret­ri­bu­tion after the civ­il war.”
The real­i­ty is that Abraham Lincoln erred in not pun­ish­ing the trai­tors who waged war on their own coun­try. Let us stop with the non­sense hero-wor­ship­ing fal­li­ble men who made mistakes.
“Treason,” the crime of betray­ing one’s coun­try, espe­cial­ly by attempt­ing to kill the sov­er­eign or over­throw the gov­ern­ment.
The trai­tors who seced­ed from the Union and waged war on her should not have walked away after their defeat. A strong and unequiv­o­cal mes­sage should have been sent once the war was over, one that would have made it clear that if you betray your coun­try, this will be the outcome.
Instead, Lincoln allowed them to walk away as if they had done noth­ing wrong. Because of those actions, they con­tin­ued to believe in their cause to this day. They have erect­ed mon­u­ments to their heroes, not just in south­ern states but all across the coun­try and even at the nation’s capital.
The result of Lincoln’s fail­ure to pun­ish the trai­tors of April 12^th, 1861 to May 13^th, 1865, result­ed in the White Supremacist bat­tle-flag being parad­ed in the Capitol build­ing on January 6^th, 2021.
That despi­ca­ble flag is what it was all about.

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Mike Beckles writes for thinkers.
Mike Beckles is a for­mer Police Detective, busi­ness­man, free­lance writer, a black achiev­er hon­oree, and pub­lish­er of the blog mike​beck​les​.com.