Commemorating, Or Denying the Insurrection

TODAY IS INSURRECTION EVE. Tomorrow, a day which will live in purely American infamy, is Insurrection Day. We should be responding accordingly, appropriately. Flags should be lowered to half staff, local prayer vigils and solemn patriotic ceremonies should be underway all across America's fruited plain, and we should all, as a nation, be once again resolving that never again shall the taint of treasonous, traitorous insurrection stain our history and our souls. President Biden will be at Valley Forge, delivering appropriate remarks, the location appropriate because of George Washington, and because one of the jet airplanes turned missile, the one which was heroically prevented from destroying the White House of the nation's Capitol building by the heroic actions of the doomed crew and passengers, crashed nearby in a Pennsylvania pasture on September 11, 2001. The twin tragedies of modern American history, of the early twenty first century. May the dear lord bless and keep all who died in these two national tragedies, nine eleven, and the insurrection. As we face this somber anniversary we are confronted with the horrible reality that the second great tragedy was entirely American made. No foreign hatred precipitated it, but only the greed, hatred, and criminality of the president of the United States, and his criminal associates and accessories. January 6 has become and shall always remain a sad day of somber national reflection and resolve. That is, except for the roughly forty three percent of the benighted American population which almost inexplicably chooses to ignore this important day, and considers Trump's insurrection to have been "overblown"by the media, or merely a peaceful protest that got a little bit out of hand. The United States government was nearly violently overthrown by a criminal madman who wanted to become dictator for life, dozens of police offiers were maimed for life, several people died. The unpatriotic, un-American forty percent are, of course, Trump supporters. Traitors, if unwitting, all of them. Donald J. Trump, the traitor president, insurrectionist-in-chief, will celebrate Insurrection Day in an entirely different way. He will praise and glorify the criminals, the insurrectionists themselves, more than three hundred of whom are currently serving time in prison, as Trump hemself should be and, if jsutice adheres, will someday be. He promises, if elected, to pardon them all. He calls them, these treasonous criminals, "political prisoners", and "hostages". His supporters, who are no less criminal than Trump or those incarcerated, presumably agree. Trump's insurrection was no accident, nor was it a peaceful protest gone amok,nor a guided tour of the capitol building with an unusual format. Emphatically, it was not a glorious crusade for freedom and the American way, intended to keep Trump in power by correcting the results of a "stolen" election. It was an attack on democracy,a violent attempt to overthrow the United States government, thoroughly conceived and planned to the last detail by Trump, weeks in advance. If justice is served, Trump will end up in prison. Arguably, he should end his life facing a firing squad.