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Many see Democrat double standard on political violence when it comes to Jan. 6, Kavanaugh threat
By Natalia Mittelstadt JustTheNews.com EDITOR’S NOTE—This section is reserved as an editorial and may not necessarily reflect the policy of this publication.
The January 6th Committee kindly asks you to ignore the FBI By Congressman Andy Biggs TownHall.com The FBI found no evidence President Trump, or his allies coordinated any part of the Capitol riots. The January 6thCommittee would like for you to ignore that. Pelosi’s stacked commission has proven exceptionally effective with at least one thing: ignoring any piece of evidence that does not align itself with the committee’s predetermined outcome. Peddling emotion-filled accounts of January 6th, with undisguised partisan vitriol, is far more effective in furthering the left’s messaging strategy than conducting a balanced fact-finding investigation. If you were to take a step away from the noise and examine the facts in an unbiased fashion, you would discover a wildly different version of events than what the unselect committee would have you believe. Reports emerged in August of 2021 confirming the FBI did not have any sort of evidence connecting President Trump or his allies to an organized effort to enter the Capitol or overturn the 2020 election results. In fact, they could find no evidence of a plot to overturn the election at all. But key members of the committee have ignored that evidence, choosing instead to flock around television cameras and present a darker, inaccurate version of events. (Continued on page 16)
During a tumultuous week, Democrats pressed hard during a prime time televised hearing to condemn the violence 18 months ago during the Jan. 6 riots while staying mostly muted on the arrest of an alleged assassin targeting conservative Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh over abortion rights. The performance has many critics seeing a hypocritical double standard. Liberal Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz said Democrats' Jan. 6 hearings have been staged to be so unfair and one-sided that it reminded him of the work of the late Sen. Joe McCarthy decades ago or a production of the Soviet-era Pravda network. "This reminds me of my youth, when, at eight o'clock at night, we would watch the House Un-American Activities Committee, or the McCarthy committee, holding spectacle hearings in order to tell one side of the story, never having anybody to present the counter narrative," Dershowitz told the Just the News, Not Noise television show. "But at least in those days, you had an almost equal number of people on the Democrat side," he added. "Here we have Nancy Pelosi fixing, rigging the committee, making sure that the only two nominal Republicans on the committee are anti-Trump Republicans so that nobody will present a counter narrative. It's just so Pravda." Dershowitz said while Democrats have roundly criticized former President Donald Trump's speech on Jan. 6 as incitement -- comments the law professor said were actually protected by the First Amendment -- they
have not condemned Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer's threats to Kavanaugh and Justice Neil Gorsuch that they "will pay the price" for their stances on abortion. "I would expect Chuck Schumer who I've known for years and years, who I remember was a former student at the Harvard Law School, to retract and apologize for the statements he made in front of the Supreme Court threatening Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and having a dog whistle," Dershowitz said. "I mean, unbalanced people, like people like the person who went to Kavanugh's house could easily have misinterpretedwhat Schumer said and saying that was a license for violence." From columnists to TV pundits, there have been lots of efforts to compare and contrast Democrat rhetoric on the two cases of political violence. During the televised Jan. 6 committee hearing on Thursday, Chairman Bennie Thompson (DMiss.) began with saying he was reminded of the "dark history" of the U.S. with regard to slavery and the Ku Klux Klan as he heard "voices today try and justify the actions of the insurrectionists on January 6th, 2021." Thompson said that on the day of the riot, "it was domestic enemies of the Constitution who stormed the Capitol and occupied the Capitol, who sought to thwart the will of the people, to stop the transfer of power. And so, they did so at the encouragement of the president of the United States, the president of the United States trying to stop the transfer of power, a precedent that had stood for 220 years, even as our democracy had faced its most difficult test." The Mississippi Democrat said that after losing at both the ballot box in
2020 and in the courts afterwards, Trump continued his conspiracy to overthrow the election. "Donald Trump was at the center of this conspiracy, and ultimately Donald Trump, the president of the United States, spurred a mob of domestic enemies of the Constitution to march down the Capitol and subvert American democracy," he continued. Thompson added that legal jargon mentioned during the hearings, such as "seditious conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, conspiracy to defraud the United States boils down to this: January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup, a brazen attempt, as one rioter to put it shortly after January 6th, to overthrow the government. The violence was no accident. It represents seeing Trump's last stand, most desperate chance to halt the transfer of power." Rep. Liz Cheney (RWyo.) also said during the hearing, "President Trump summoned the mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack. You will also hear about plots to commit seditious conspiracy on January 6th, a crime defined in our laws as conspiring to overthrow, put down, or destroy by force the government of the United States or to oppose by force the authority thereof." No one made at the hearing, however, made any mention of the plot to assassinate Kavanaugh just one day earlier. Early Wednesday morning, Nicholas John Roske from California was carrying weapons near Kavanaugh's Maryland home before being arrested. He admitted to intending to break into the home and kill the justice before committing suicide. According to an affidavit, Roske also told law enforcement that "he was (Continued on page 16)
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CDC spends $420k on location data for monitoring beyond claimed COVID tracking: reports
By Mary Lou Lang JustTheNews.com The Golden Horseshoe is a weekly designation from Just The News intended to highlight egregious examples of wasteful taxpayer spending by the government. The award is named for the horseshoe-shaped toilet seats for military airplanes that cost the Pentagon a whopping $640 each back in the 1980s. This week's Golden Horseshoe is awarded to the Centers for Disease Control for spending $420,000 to buy location data for millions of Americans' phones. While the data was purportedly acquired for COVID-19 tracking, the agency is reportedly using it to support varied, agency-wide surveillance efforts far beyond pandemic monitoring, according to federal spending watchdog site OpenTheBooks.com. While the CDC claimed it purchased the data to monitor Americans' adherence to lockdown curfews and visits to pharmacies for vaccine monitoring, the CDC envisages tracking people as they engage in physical activity and visit gyms, parks, weight management businesses — and even places of worship, according to public records obtained by Vice through a Freedom of Information Act request. The documents "show that although the CDC used COVID-19 as a reason to buy access to the data more quickly, it intended to use it for more-general CDC purposes," Vice reported. "The CDC admitted in the document that there
were plenty of nonCOVID-19 uses for this data, stating, 'The mobility data obtained under this contract will be available for CDC agency-wide use and will support numerous CDC priorities,'" OpenTheBooks.com reported. A controversial data broker, SafeGraph, sold the data to the CDC. Some researchers claim that while the information was aggregated location data, it can be "deanonymized and used to track specific people," the watchdog site reported. The records obtained by Vice show the CDC foresees using the data for a wide variety of analytical purposes extending far beyond COVID tracking. "CDC also plans to use mobility data and services acquired through this acquisition to support non-COVID-19 programmatic areas and public health priorities across the agency, including but not limited to travel to parks and green spaces, physical activity and mode of travel, and population migration before, during, and after natural disasters," Vice reported. "The mobility data obtained under this contract will be available for CDC agency-wide use and will support numerous CDC priorities." The documents established 21 "potential CDC use cases for data," according to Vice. "The CDC shouldn't use tax dollars to surveil U.S. citizens," wrote Adam Andrzejewski, CEO and founder of OpenTheBooks.com. "The new arms race is between government using the latest in tech(Continued on page 16)
