After watching the turmoil associated with our new President being confirmed and his actions during his first weeks of leadership, I’ve decided that it’s time for me to express my opinion on a few things while I still can.
First, I would like to make a few observations about the “insurrection” that occurred on January 6th. That wasn’t an insurrection; that was a riot no different in my opinion than the riots that have been taking place at cities primarily controlled by Democrats over the past year. Hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters peacefully gathered to listen to him reiterate why he felt the election was rigged. He never suggested that the crowd engage in a riot. Less then 200 actually engaged in destructive activity, and some of those rioters had ties to a left leaning philosophy (ANTIFA).
Why weren’t the security personnel prepared??? If you followed the details of post-riot news, you would have noted that the D.C. Chief of Security resigned. I contend that others including the Mayor of D.C. and the Speaker of the House, Pelosi, should have been held accountable.
I attended the 4th of July parade in D.C. several years ago. The entire “mall” area including the Capitol complex was surrounded by security checkpoints. We had to go through a screening very comparable to that conducted at airports which included “wand” screening for weapons and the inspection of all purses and bags. Why wasn’t that level of preparedness in place for this event???
The Democrats continue to “milk” this event for rationale to continue to scare our citizenry and reduce our freedoms. The inauguration event was more like you would expect in a third world country run by a dictator. Thousands of military troops and a fence topped by concertina wire surrounding attendees? Now I hear many military units have been told to continue to remain in place for the foreseeable future??? Ironic side to all this is that the Democrats contend the border wall between us and Mexico is unnecessary but now they want a wall in D.C.???
As I pointed out in a previous letter our 1st Amendment rights are under a full out attack by the liberals. The rich nerds in California who own and control many of the social & TV media platforms have instigated censorship against anyone who has beliefs opposed to their own. Leading up to the election, they joined together to make sure President Trump was muffled and that any negative information about the Bidens was masked. That my fellow readers is censorship and should scare the h*** out of you. Well guess what’s going on now; they are trying to censor anyone who had close ties to President Trump.
And, have you heard the latest, the FBI solicited the Bank of America to search their files and identify anyone who was in D.C. during the riot. Excuse me, isn’t that an invasion of privacy. Now we have to be concerned that just because we happened to be present someplace, sometime, we might be accused of participating in criminal activity??? Folks, that should also be of great concern to all of us.
The second Impeachment trial for former President Trump has just finished as I write this. What a total waste of time when there are so many problems facing this country that need to be delt with. Oh, and how about the House Democrats assigning a representative who has ties to a Chinese spy to lead the charge against the former President?
I’m waiting for the House of Representatives to impeach President Biden using one of the same charges that was used against former President Trump. That is, the charge of withholding money from Ukraine until something was provided. President Biden publicly bragged about doing that back when he was Vice President. Oh, and how about the Biden family scandal that is slowly being uncovered. No doubt in my mind that President Biden was directly and knowingly involved in getting Ukraine and China to donate money to members of the Biden family.
Since I mentioned the House of Representatives, how about the censoring of one of the newest members recently for having previously suggested conspiracies which were later proven to be untrue. Why shouldn’t the same thing be done to all of those Democrats involved in the first impeachment conspiracies against former President Trump which were proven to be untrue?
President Biden has just announced that we will return to participate in the former 2015 Paris agreement on fossil fuel emissions. If you haven’t ever investigated what this agreement amounted to, let me provide a few details. We pledged to cut our emissions by at least 26% by 2025 as compared to 2005. China who now leads the world in emissions of greenhouse gases, and has continued to build additional coal-fired power plants, agreed to a goal of zero growth in their emissions by 2060. Excuse me, that doesn’t sound like a very fair contract. Seems to me like we are agreeing to destroy our country in order to save the world???
It should be clear to the reader after watching the weather emergency in Texas and other states, that totally relying on wind and solar energy is unrealistic. This morning I also got to thinking about how this emergency would be magnified if everyone was depending on electric vehicles???
Finally, the new President is not off to a great start on unifying this country. I’ve lost count but I think he has now signed over 30 Presidential Orders on things ranging from stopping the construction of the oil pipeline running from Canada to the Gulf Coast which will result in dramatically more negative economic disasters than just the loss of construction jobs, to an order which when expanded, will allow biological males to participate in female sports, to not only stopping the building of the border wall between us and Mexico but opening up the border to illegal immigration. In the case of the latter decision, how can we rationalize doing this when we are in the middle of a pandemic crisis with emergency economic needs for our own citizens many of which are unemployed and out of work??? Well, I haven’t seen a single action that he has taken that I agree with. These actions in my opinion are more reflective of a dictator rather than a President of a Democratic country!
Jerry Esmay
Stevensville
Rick Landry says
* Here’s a little follow-up which addresses the claims ANTIFA members were arrested in the Capitol Riot:
FALSE.
None of the 230 people arrested for alleged participation in the Capitol attacks were linked to any left-wing movement. There is no evidence that Sullivan was a member of Antifa, Black Lives Matter or any other left-leaning group, especially a “leader” of Antifa.
Representative Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), one of Trump’s most devoted allies, felt it prudent to speak out against the Antifa angle.
“Some say the riots were caused by Antifa,” McCarthy said Wednesday. “There is absolutely no evidence of that, and conservatives should be the first to say so.”
Rick Landry says
Based on the TOTAL lack of response, I would conclude few reader’s are moved by your pearls of wisdom, Mr. Esmay. Since you advance many totally debunked points and allegations, it would appear you depend upon right-wing echo chambers as your “news” source(s). Whatever feeds your desperately insecure cognitive bias.
As usual, your writing is filled with logical fallacies, the imprimatur of flawed reasoning. This time, however, I grow weary of addressing these, as it is clear you are not open to improving your thought processes, but rather wish to parrot what you would prefer to believe.
From my POV, and I am not alone, the storming of the Capitol was incited by the fascist strongman Donald Trump, in a pathetic attempt to pull off a presidential coup in order to remain in power. An extreme act of lawlessness by a thug whose ambition it remains to become America’s first presidential-dictator. And you, Mr. Esmay, justify and support this? You might care to brush up on some other key terms germane to this topic: treason amd sedition?
As for your discourse parsing semantics, I provide you a link to this AP article:
Riot? Insurrection?
Words matter in describing Capitol siege
By DAVID BAUDER
January 14, 2021 GMT