Don's Tuesday Column

        THE WAY I SEE IT   by Don Polson  Red Bluff Daily News   6/01/202

               “All gave some; some gave all”

It bears contemplation and pause for respect: The memory of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers, sailors, pilots and Marines whose last breaths were given in defense of America. It has always been true that “people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” While generally attributed to George Orwell, the sentiment stands as a stark reminder of the selfless sacrifice that accompanies what may be “the last full measure,” the giving of one’s life defending kin and country.

“What is Biden hidin’?” is a theme widely applicable: Keeping Jan. 6 arrestees (not “rioters,” if the media rule against so labeling violent protesters applies) with no criminal record, under solitary confinement with no bail and gag orders—amounts to hiding injustice, trampling their right to defend themselves.

Keeping Capitol Hill security footage out of public view and defense attorneys’ hands suggests they’re hiding the recordings from Americans, and those incarcerated for protests and actions. That also conveniently allows the cherry-picked recordings of rowdy, violent breaches of police lines to be the official record of that days’ events, rather than the hundreds of thousands of peaceful rally attendees who did no wrong.

Proving the news media’s role in the hiding, we saw (in spite of attempts to divert our gaze) that there were not only violently-enforced restrictions by “antifa-blm-ers” on who could be called “press” covering their “riots” (by definition); but also, the news media helped spread the phony, “mostly peaceful” narrative. Never once were the nightly, organized attacks and attempted destruction of a Portland federal courthouse—as well as the literal burning of police stations, and attempted murder of cops—called “insurrection.” Jan. 6 was not sedition.

On the Southern border, there’s an invasion (show me a definition that refutes it)—an invasion that didn’t exist until the literal cancelling of border wall construction, the cancelling of stay-in-Mexico refugee policies, and the cancelling of deportation processes—the Biden/Harris policy is to ignore it, deny it, and hide it.

“This week, our southern border was invaded…by a delegation of members of Congress. Unlike President Joe Biden and his vice president, who have yet to visit the border, Congressman Mike Garcia (R-Calif.) joined a group of his colleagues who traveled to the U.S. border with Mexico. What the GOP delegation found there was disturbing.” 

“GOP Congressmen Find Abandoned Wall Construction at the Border, Along With Something Far Worse” (by Gwendolyn Sims, 5/27): Garcia and his colleagues found miles of makeshift and ineffectual temporary fencing, near giant piles of wall construction materials. Trump’s fence/wall defied attempts to walk through; Biden’s mess of makeshift fencing stops no one. More news media complicity in “hidin’ the story” of Biden/Harris’ de facto open border.

More Biden hidin’ ensued when the delegation attempted, but were refused, access to the El Paso (TX) Intelligence Center (EPIC), a government agency that provides “tactical intelligence (on the southern border) to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies on a national scale.” The weeks-long effort to view—by members of the House Appropriations Committee—EPIC’s facility fits a pattern: Hiding things that would reflect poorly on the Biden/Harris agenda, accomplishments and “transparency.”

“You can make conjecture about why it is they don’t want us in there, but my opinion is they have data that they’re gathering in this intelligence center which is clearly indicating that our open borders are actually a more serious problem than the average American understands right now.” (Rep. Garcia)

Last week, news media hid the story: “Another Left-Wing Hoax About Trump Blows Up” (by Rick Moran, pjmedia.com). To understand the gravity of this revelation, use the way-back machine to remember the outrage and spin that ensued over the “Mueller Report” in early 2019. I’ll restate the truth: Mueller and his dozens of Trump-hating, Hillary-loving lawyers spent as much as $40+ million in their “jihad” to find Donald Trump’s “collusion” with Russia, Putin or whoever—to “steal” the 2016 election.

They found literally nothing, although Democrat/media fanatics twisted words that weren’t in the Report to say otherwise. Their only claim to “impeachable” fame was the ambiguity of the Report’s “no evidence to prove Trump didn’t obstruct justice” claim, which has never been an actual legal position. When A.G. Bill Barr concluded “no obstruction” by Trump, the howling reached crescendos. To Trump-deranged Dems, Barr and the Report only said it “because Trump was the President”; ordinary Joe or Joan would be in the gray-bar-hotel.

Dems: “The DOJ memo that Barr used to pronounce ‘no obstruction’ had a ‘smoking gun’”; the impeachment articles charged “obstruction,” sucking some Republicans like Mitt Romney (R-Media) onto the not-so-high-ground of presuming guilt without evidence.

“Judge Amy Berman Jackson apparently put that theory to rest when she ordered the release of part of the memo that dealt with how Barr reached that decision. Barr relied on advice from several sources, including the Office of Legal Counsel. The OLC recommended against prosecuting Trump, not only because there are constitutional issues with prosecuting a president for obstruction, but also because even if Trump were a private citizen, there wouldn’t be enough evidence to charge him.” No obstruction, even if Trump were a private citizen.

Similar secrecy accompanies veiled attempts to inject “Critical Race Theory” or other so-called “anti-racist” propaganda into schools. “The racist revolutionary claptrap in these documents should be nowhere near a school classroom” (Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton). Such materials place the phrase “Make America Great Again” just below “lynching,” “hate crimes,” “the N-word,” and “racial slurs.” Teach American greatness, not lies about America’s history.