Land of Snitches
The perversion of democracy is not autocracy; it starts out as suppression. (1).
Hear the deafening.
Witness the blindness.
Attend the flight from truth.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (Maryland 8th) has a problem. He and three other Congressional colleagues are about to be investigated for being snitches. The Republican Congressional warlords will be trying to make their lives a palpable hell for the next two years at least.
Think ‘snitch swamp.’
Recall that Raskin, who prior to being elected to Congress was Professor of Constitutional Law at American University College of Law, led the House Second Impeachment Team. Raskin together with Rep. Lofgren and Schiff, both seasoned Impeachment prosecutors will be determining, based on testimony and communication resulting from investigation by the Select House Committee into the Attack January 6, potential federal crimes for the DOJ to investigate and bring to justice.
In the Trump phantasmagoria, they are snitches.
These four — Lofgren, Raskin, Schiff and Cheney — are more threatening than other ‘snitches’ who testified at the public hearings of the House Select Committee. Witnesses like Cassidy Hutchinson. (2)
‘Pity the ‘girl,’ using the Office of the President like that to make a name for herself.’ Cluck, cluck.
‘Nobody knew her.’
Nobody cares.
But Lofgren, Raskin, Schiff and Cheney? Now there’s a different caliber of snitches. To the gibbet for them. Gather up your tar and feathers.
Mainstream media witnesses of this charade are ‘alter-snitchering:’ repetitively intoning that the J6 Committee doesn’t have the authority to indict…that the J6 Committee wasn’t convened for this purpose… that the Committee’s move will risk thwarting the investigative work of the DOJ… could backfire the effort to indict Trump… he’ll walk, won’t he?
Translation: ‘Nobody likes a snitch.’
Trump-world beckons. It’s nauseating to watch. The world that is euphemistically called the ‘political dark side,’ a curious epithet designed to familiarize the audience with suppression as a ‘fact of life.’
Our guides in this phantasmagoria are Rudy Giuliani and Sen. Lindsey Graham. Both were once media darlings — “America’s Mayor,” and “Senate Stand-up Quipper,” respectively. They are studies in ‘snitch-chicanery.’ Their tar and feather buckets are concealed like the…weapons cache the Oath Keepers kept ‘locked and loaded’ in a guarded Virginia Storage Facility. (3)
Today, they are euphemistically called the “wacko team,” out to ‘save America.’
Really, useful guides.
Robert Draper, who interviewed Trump at Mar-A-Lago and attended the rally as an observer on January 6 documents the rampant delusions of the attackers:
“…In MAGA theology, repeated as daily catechism across the conservative media ecosystem, it was never we but rather they — Antifa, Black Lives Matter, the paradoxically effeminate and easily-brought-to-tears socialist left — who resorted to deadly violence. This, despite the omnipresence of heavily armed Proud Boys and Oath Keepers and Three Percent Militia, whose plans for combat today would later be a matter of public record.
The cognitive dissonance of January 6 was therefore so jarring that only a circular logic could ease the confusion. The enemy was nowhere in sight. It was, in fact, not there at all. But because violence was there, so was Antifa, by definition.”
-p. 449, Weapons of Mass Delusion, 2022, Robert Draper
Draper captures the soul of ‘snitcheroo:’ mob justice is orchestrated justice. A justice which emanates not from the will of the people, but from the will of ‘my people:’ “… it was never we but rather they…”
What starts as a ‘misunderstanding’… ‘misinformation’… even ‘misguidance’ (ref. Oath Keepers’ defense), ends up as hate symbology.
So too, is the stuff of suppression, in this moment a voyage of self-suppression. (4) Little wonder that Trump could so matter-of-factly call off the attackers, via real-time video feed: his was the voice to not reset the assault, not to turn back the tribes, but — for the moment — to liberate the throng from self-suppression.
‘Yeah, we showed America Pence’s noose.’
The J6 Committee was left with a formidable task: to not only glean from testimony and email communications the inciting of the assault, but/and to restore the series of events. In other words, to overcome self-suppression. To acquaint the public in public with the journey to recognition and self-assessment and thereby to conviction.
And for this what remains of the J6 Committee will be drummed into the public square for derision and ignominy.
‘Yeah, there is something criminal afoot.’
December 8
Notes
1-Hannah Arendt, cf. Gessen, Surviving Autocracy
2-Cassidy Hutchinson, cite Medium piece
3-Jury is Out
4-Contrast repression with suppression. One is unconscious (repression), one is voluntary (suppression). Explain coining the term “self-suppression.”
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