Jan 6 Cte Missed Forest For The Trees?

Big fail of Jan 6 Cte is not its focus on fringe nuts & bad GOP paint job but ignoring Electoral reform & bigger crises in street crime as well as political violence that now includes attacks & deadly threats vs pro-life groups.

WSJ’s Kimberley Strassel in “The Forest for the Jan. 6 Trees” follows up the paper’s earlier op ed on the obvious need for electoral reform to short-circuit more Capitol Hill drama in the future by also reminding “the Capitol riots were only one example of the growing problem of political violence.” She cited dozens of attacks on pro-life groups since the Supreme Court’s draft opinion overturning Roe v Wade was leaked, including the fire-bombing of a Portland pregnancy resource center. In a remarkable admission of guilt without remorse, “an outfit called Jane’s Revenge says it perpetrated some of the attacks, several featuring graffiti reading: “If abortion isn’t safe, you aren’t either.” In a communique, the “group of many” then threatened worse: “Now the leash if off … We promised to take increasingly drastic measures against oppressive infrastructures. Rest assured…those measures may not come in the form of something so easily cleaned up as fire and graffiti…From here forward, any anti-choice group who closes their doors and stops operating will no longer be a target. But until you do, it’s open season.” In normal times Jane’d be behind bars pronto.

Perhaps most remarkably, however, President Biden and AG Merrick Garland say and do zilch about cutting the legs out from under these “other” nut jobs, let alone the plot(s) to assassinate Justice Kavanaugh. Concludes Ms. Strassel: “This is the real story – the explosion of political violence on all sides—and the committee is missing the forest for the trees.”

Davd Soul