Will January 6 Be the New July 4 for Our Descendants?

Posted on January 13, 2023 | 3 Comments

By John Zmirak Published on January 12, 2023

John Zmirak

On December 16, 1773, a small group of radicals in Boston broke the law. By dumping British tea into Boston Harbor, they defied the will of their long-standing government, violated property rights, and provoked a savage reaction by their rulers.

Far more than Tories condemned them. Moderates in 13 colonies backed away from the radical actions of an “extremist” anti-government group which had aggressively flouted the rule of law in the name of “liberty.”

Their motive? To stop the “tyrannical” British East India Company from imposing the kind of slavery on the Colonies that it had already imposed across India. The impact of this attack? A new set of harshly coercive laws imposed by the British Parliament.

On April 24, 1916, a small group of radicals in Dublin committed treason. Using weapons smuggled from a Germany then at war with Great Britain, they tried to take over Dublin. Their motive? To stop Irish soldiers fighting for Britain in World War I, and proclaim an Irish Republic after hundreds of years of occupation. Protestants and Catholics, loyalists and nationalists alike denounced this assault on the public authorities, which was doomed from the start.

As “Brittania’s Huns with their long-range guns” dragged the Irish Republicans to prison, civilians booed and spat on them from their windows. The impact of this attack? Mass arrests, a setback for moderates seeking more local autonomy for Ireland, and a wave of firing squads that wiped out the rebellion’s leaders.

Courage or Folly?

On January 6, 2021, a tiny percentage of the hundreds of thousands of Trump supporters who gathered at the U.S. Capitol to protest a stolen election entered the building — many of them unaware that entry was forbidden. A few dozen of those behaved aggressively, barging through locked doors or trespassing in congressmen’s offices. Several committed vandalism.

Because of this intrusion, efforts to question dubious electors sent from fraud-friendly U.S. states were totally stymied, and the few members of Congress who’d backed election challenges furiously backtracked.

The whole of the mainstream media and most conservative outlets harshly condemned the protest, calling it an “insurrection” and comparing it to the 9/11 terror attacks and Japan’s attack at Pearl Harbor. (The Stream was an exception. Here’s what I wrote on January 7.)

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