After subjecting the country to nearly two years of Star Chamber proceedings known as the January 6th Committee, Democrats, some Republicans, and the lapdog media are apoplectic over the decision of House Speaker McCarthy to give the full set of Capitol surveillance video to Fox News’ Tucker Carlson.  Congressional hearings are supposed to be conducted for the purpose of uncovering the truth.  The January 6th Committee charade was anything but that.  The results of the hearings were decided before the first hearing was held.  “We told you Trump was bad and dangerous, and here’s the proof.”  Repeat after us, “January 6th was the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.”  To publicize these predetermined findings, the Committee (a/k/a the Democrats) took carefully tailored testimony only from those witnesses whose stories they approved of, and aired carefully selected video clips from some 41,000 hours of surveillance video.  Now, before I get into this, let me say, as I’ve said before, what happened on January 6th was shameful, in that what should have been a perfectly legitimate protest went out of control.  More than 1,000 people have been hunted down and charged with crimes.  Many of the criminal charges were appropriate.  Anybody who broke down barriers and broke into the Capitol needed to be arrested and prosecuted.  Anybody who put his hands on a police officer or did violence needed to be jailed.  Violators should have been taken promptly to court, fined, and sent on their way.  Simply put, there was no insurrection.  Yet more than two years after the fact, prisoners remain in pretrial lockup in the D.C. jail.  In short, the January 6th Committee performance was a farce, because it highlighted only the reaction of the crowd, ignored the events that motivated that crowd to be on Capitol Hill that day, and covered up the incompetence that permitted the protest to get out of control.  What culminated in the January 6th protest resulted from the three concepts at the heart of the law of official misconduct: misfeasance, nonfeasance, and malfeasance.  An official commits misfeasance when he does or permits others to do things they are not supposed to do.  Examples would be illegally changing election laws without the action of the State legislature, which is unconstitutional, and stuffing, or permitting allies to stuff remote ballot boxes with spurious paper ballots in the dead of night.  These actions might well tend to convince people that the election process was corrupt and motivate them to protest that corruption.  And so it did.  It was well known to dozens of law enforcement agencies that massive protests would occur on January 6th.  Not rebellion or insurrection – protests.  And here is where nonfeasance occurred.  Although forewarned of the protests, although President Trump repeatedly offered 10,000 military troops to bolster security, and although the head of the Capitol Police begged for help, Nancy Pelosi rejected the offers.  This resulted in the Capitol Police being woefully understaffed on January 6th.  This could have and should have been prevented, witness the iron-clad security measures put in place for the Biden inauguration.  The Democrats’ failure to act doesn’t excuse the excesses of January 6th protestors, but it explains how the situation went out of control.  The Committee permitted no mention of this official negligence.  It conflicted with their preordained conclusions.  Malfeasance occurs when an official acts with malicious or evil intent.  An example would be smearing others to cover up one’s own illegal acts or omissions.  Many people had good reason to question the conduct of and the result of the 2020 election.  No, this doesn’t mean that I think it was stolen or that it could be proven to be stolen.  Elections are notoriously difficult to overturn in court, and they should be.  However, representatives of any Party have an absolute right to challenge an election in court, or in Congress.  We have a long history of such challenges.  For instance, Lyndon Johnson lost a 1941 Senatorial election in Texas when his opponent belatedly “found” enough ballots to win.  Sound familiar?  Running for the Senate in 1948, LBJ was prepared.  He delayed reporting the vote from Duval County till he was ahead by 87 votes out of nearly 1 million cast, earning him the name “Landslide Lyndon.”  His opponent went to court, noting that the last 249 voters in Duval County had voted in alphabetical order.  A friendly judge killed the lawsuit and the rest is history.  Democrats who like to call others “election deniers” forget they delayed the reporting of electoral votes in 2001, 2005, and 2017, claiming fraud.  Yet in 2021, all protests, or even lawsuits about the 2020 elections are labelled as seditious, insurrectionist threats to “our democracy.”  Note that democracy is at risk only when they win.  When Democrats broke windows, overturned and burned cars, and assaulted police on January 20, 2017 during the Trump inauguration, that wasn’t “an attack on democracy.”  In 2020, when Democrats burned cities, assaulted more than 1,000 cops, killed dozens of people, ruined businesses, caused billions in damage, and took over police stations and courthouses, in protest over the murder of a career criminal, that wasn’t “an assault on democracy.”  It was “a mostly peaceful protest.”  And on May 31, 2020, when rioters in Washington, D.C., attacked the White House, burned St. John’s church, the Church of the Presidents, which had stood since 1816, and forced President Trump into a security bunker, that wasn’t “an attack on democracy.”  On January 6th, the only death was the murder of unarmed Ashley Babbitt by a Capitol police officer.  He wasn’t prosecuted, or even investigated.  Democrats gave him a medal.  But a nitwit with dopey horns on his head, who dared to enter the Senate Chamber threatened our democracy.  Don’t get me wrong, he deserved to be prosecuted, but back to the videotape.  Democrats are decrying the fact that Tucker Carlson is airing video that proves the January 6th Committee was uninterested in the truth.  The video proves many people were let into the Capitol by police, and some, including the idiot with the horns, were escorted through the building by police, instead of simply being arrested on the spot.  This video was denied to the January 6th defendants who have been tried or pled guilty.  This is a blatant violation of their 6th Amendment rights, and the convictions may now be overturned.  The point is, Democrats wouldn’t be screaming about the video release if they didn’t have something to hide, and they have plenty to hide.  The January 6th mess was not an attack on our democracy.  It was a challenge to the self-important,  privileged bastards entrenched in Washington, who pretend to be the guardians of our freedom, but who, in reality, guard only their own phoney-baloney jobs, while our freedom ebbs away.  The January 6th protests dared to disturb the comfort of the fat cats.  That can’t be tolerated.  If your place of business is burned to the ground, they call it just the mostly peaceful price you have to pay for the First Amendment.  If the schedule of their place of business is merely interrupted, they call it an insurrection.  I call it all bullshit.