Pete Hendrickson (@LostHorizons)

W. Is Right-- January 6 REALLY IS Just Like 9/11... ..."foul spirit" stuff and all. But not in the way Bush meant. "There is no safety for honest men but by believing all possible evil of evil men." -Edmund Burke ON SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, George W. Bush gave a speech in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. In his remarks, Bush equated the events at the Capitol building on January 6, 2021, to the events in New York, Arlington, and Shanksville on September 11, 2001. More specifically, Bush alleged that those responsible for the crimes committed on both January 6, 2021 and September 11, 2001 were of the same ilk-- "children of the same foul spirit". (It is assumed that the domestic actors who allegedly disdain pluralism, disregard human life, and are determined to defile national symbols to which Bush referred in his speech are those connected with January 6 rather than the BLM rioters, looters, arsonists and murderers who rampaged through American cities and tore down monuments throughout the summer of 2020, although he never expressly distinguished his target.) Many howls of outrage erupted across the heartland at the perceived smear. I even heard lifelong Republicans meeting in a party headquarters building muttering about removing Bush's portrait from the wall. And to the extent that Bush meant to suggest that the protestors/tourists who entered the Capitol building on January 6-- most of them at the invitation of the Capitol police, and most of whom just wandered around taking selfies before strolling back out again-- with the officially-asserted al-Qaeda villains responsible for the heinous crimes and violence of 9/11, the outrage was justified. However falsely portrayed by unscrupulous Democrats and their MSM collaborators, the January 6 Capitol crowd was unarmed and almost entirely peaceful. It caused almost no damage at all, and was plainly on hand for the valid purpose of encouraging Congress to give a proper hearing to the evidence of systematic fraud in the 2020 election many Republican members were prepared to present. But actually, George Bush was much more right than he probably meant or understood himself to be (unless he is possessed of a sharpness of wit which never made itself apparent to me during his time in office). And those on the populist right denouncing Bush's speech are also overlooking the truth lurking-- whether deliberately or ironically-- within Bush's words. Continued: https://losthorizons.com/N/164.htm#1