COMMENTARY

YOU MAY HAVE HEARD that the House and Senate unanimously passed legislation (98-0 in the Senate and 416-11 in the House) to provide visa funding for Afghans who worked along side our troops as translators during the war.

Before you get excited over the fact that our lawmakers finally provided funds for something worthwhile … stop.  You know they never pass single-purpose legislation; they always have to tack on something else.  Like the so-called infrastructure bill that includes climate change funds and “do-gooder” stuff for the left.

To get the funds for the translators, Republicans had to give in on Capitol security funding.

You need to know that just half of the $2.1 billion bill will go toward Afghan refugee relocation. The other half will be used to bolster security at the Capitol, including $100 million for the Capitol police.  The remaining funds will be use to pay costs incurred by the assault on the Capitol.  Probably some for the elaborate premature memorial for Officer Duane Sickman, who was not a victim of the riot after all.

WHAT THEY DON’T WANT YOU TO KOW is that the U.S. Capitol Police currently has a budget of about $460 million to support 2,000 officers, who cover a measly 1,200 acres in the heart of Washington DC. 

Compare that with the City of Atlanta, where that city’s 2,000-person police force covers more than 120 square miles on a budget of about $220 million. Police budgets in municipalities like Detroit, Minneapolis and Oakland are also dwarfed by the Capitol Police budget.

CAPITOL POLICE BUDGET INQUIRIES led William Yeatman to reveal in his piece for The Hill Online, that what may well be the reason why there’s so much secrecy shrouding the shooter of Ashli Babbitt and their ill-equipped response to the FBI warnings of impending riots on January 6, 2021.

Because the Capitol Police organization is part of the legislative branch, public disclosure laws don’t apply.  It is funded directly out of Congress’ budget.  As Nancy Pelosi’s own police force, so to speak, it’s easy to see how she was able to order testimony by officers who will say what she wants said, with emotion.

SPEAKING OF THAT TESTIMONY – Just when I thought I had heard everything, a fellow American remined me that I should know better to think that would be possible. 

In a letter to the editor of the Arizona Republic, Alan Austin of Phoenix reminds  readers of the movie, ”Private Ryan,” and the realistic portrayals of young American soldiers going ashore, throwing themselves at the enemy, risking their lives in the name of freedom to defend democracy. “Many died and are buried on foreign soil,” he writes, “over half a million gave their lives.”

I’ll forgive Austin his fabricated figure of lives lost.  Of the 10,000 casualties, there were 1,465 American deaths on D-Day according to published details.

However, his drawing a comparison of the feeble defense of our Capitol by policemen on January 6, 2021, against unarmed Americans, with the brave soldiers who stormed the beaches of Normandy while facing a well-armed enemy, was utterly disgraceful.

“Listening to the Capitol policemen give testimony,” Austin wrote, “I saw men marching in (soldiers’) shoes fighting for democracy, (against) invaders attacking the Capitol, trying to destroy our system of government.”  Adding to that far-fetched comparison, he compared it to the Americans who gave their lives on Peleliu and Guadalcanal.

Nancy Pelosi aims to keep January 6, 2021 on the minds of voters.  By enlisting tear-jerking testimony from Capitol policemen, she won over a gullible Alan Austin of Phoenix.  And RINO Adam Kinzinger, too, who was tearful during the hearing.

It’s imperative that we win back the House in 2022.

Now, more than ever … may God continue to bless the United States of America.