Your Lying Eyes and the Truth of January 6

People are always telling me that big organized events can’t possibility be the result of government or elite conspiracy because somebody would say something somewhere at some time. Then, when a man says something lots of places and lots of times, the government and media cover for him, presenting as a harmless well-meaning sad sack a central player in the conspiracy. Several years later, as the truth starts to come into focus (a truth I knew all along, for the record, documented on the pages of Freedom and Reason), the government charges the man with a misdemeanor, he cops a plea, and disappears.

Ray Epps imploring people to breach the Capitol on January 6, Washington DC, 2021

Check out the first paragraph of this News 1 story on his guilty plea and marvel as the sheer beauty of top-notch propaganda: “Ray Epps, a onetime Donald Trump supporter who was the target of a right-wing conspiracy theory about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack that forced him into hiding, pleaded guilty on Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge for his role in the US Capitol riot.” I need to translate: “one-time,” i.e., the role he performed as a Trump supporter in organizing the riot to be blamed on Trump; “target of right-wing conspiracy theory,” i.e., called out by people who believe their lying eyes; “forced into hiding,” i.e., making Epps unavailable for questioning.

The Deep State chose poorly when they selected Ray Epps to be among the federal agents and contractors who organized the January 6, 2021 riots in Washington DC. He was prone to braggadocio. The Deep State is desperate to distract the public from learning about the appearance of new video and audio of Epps bragging about his role in January 6. This evidence joins the a voluminous record to leave no doubt who Epps was. Indeed, the video of Epps is so ubiquitous that it exposes for all to see the function of the January 6 Committee and the corporate media apparatus.

Note: There was no insurrection.

Epp is not the only one who spilled the beans. Look up a cat named John Earl Sullivan. Ray and John even appear together. You won’t hear much about Sullivan in the news, but the District of Columbia Attorney’s Office announced the following on November 16, 2023 (yep, two days ago): “A Utah man was convicted today by a jury in the District of Columbia of five felonies and two misdemeanor charges related to his conduct during the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the US Capitol. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the US Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the 2020 presidential election.” Assisting DC Attorney’s Office in Sullivan’s prosecution was the Department of Justice National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section. Noting the respective race of the two men, the cynical might wonder whether Epps got off easy and Sullivan had the book thrown at him; however, the vast majority of those the government threw in prison are white men.

To clarify the Attorney’s Office memo, the purpose of the Capitol breach was to prevent the process of making legal challenges and reviewing vote certifications under the 1887 Electoral Count Act (ECA), a process Democrats had used in previous elections to challenge Republican victors. Several of the state certificates were fraudulent and the Administrative State needed a mechanism for thwarting what would have almost certainly been a successful challenge of the 2020 election. Trump supporters had no interest in preventing the process from going forward by rioting. That’s why Trump held a rally and implored them to peacefully and patriotically make their voices: to steel the spines of Republican lawmakers Trump had also requested National Guard troops to police the event four days before the riots.

In case readers missed it, Congress changed the ECA in a stealth reform, i.e., the Electoral Count Reform Act (ECRA), tucked away in an omnibus appropriations legislation passed on December 2022. They did this to obstinately, to use the language from the talking points memo, “reform and modernize the outdated 1887 Electoral Count Act to ensure that electoral votes tallied by Congress accurately reflect each state’s public vote for President.” Another translation is necessary: “accurately reflect each state’s public vote for President,” i.e., make it all-but-impossible to challenge a state certification on future January 6 joint sessions.

Why was Epps scouting Baked Alaska in the weeks before January 6?

There’s more. The first two busses of “insurrectionists” to arrive that day were ghost vehicles full of FBI and other government agents.

What’s going on here?

The questions I ask are rhetorical. This was a fedsurrection. The reason the Washington DC and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi declined Trump’s request to bring in the National Guard was that the riot was planned. The Deep State knew Republicans were going to challenge state certificates and that their actions were warranted. The reason the Denver judge ruled late last night that Trump incited the violence on January 6 but declined to remove him from the Colorado ballot is a thing called “discovery.” Kash Patel’s testimony blew up everything. Which is why you haven’t seen it. Go find it. Watch it.

For more, I direct you to Darren Beattie’s Revolver News. I have to go rake leaves on this beautiful fall day.

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Andrew Austin

Andrew Austin is on the faculty of Democracy and Justice Studies and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin—Green Bay. He has published numerous articles, essays, and reviews in books, encyclopedia, journals, and newspapers.

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