The Terrorists Who Went Free

The lingering effects of January 6, 2021 on this country,

It’s been five years since terrorists attacked the U.S. Capitol and tried to steal your vote, assuming you didn’t vote for Donald J. Trump.

I’m sure the mainstream media has never put it in quite those words - because I’ve read as much about January 6 as any one person can.

On that day I was at home. I had recently become a professional journalist, and was investigating the radical right in America, but had no idea what they had planned, as opposed to the researchers I would meet later. Every one of them knew what was going to happen on January 6, as did at least one Department of Homeland Security (DHS) intelligence analyst who tried to stop the attack.

I can see it in my mind’s eye, though the names would only be revealed later - Robert Keith Packer, the terrorist wearing a “Camp Auschwitz” shirt, Lisa Eisenhart and Eric Munchel, the mother-and-son terrorists with zip ties, ready to murder any legislator they saw, and Matthew Thomas Purse, the terrorist they called “Mr. Extra Creepy,” who went after journalists. I can see all of them, though it was only thanks to the Sedition Hunters that they were ever identified at all.

I am also a Sedition Hunter, something I rarely talk about. In my dreams, all of the terrorists were held accountable - ten years minimum for entering the building, and hopefully, the death penalty for committing treason - but that’s not what happened.

Since the pardons, the traitors have only gone on to sexually assault children, commit home invasion robberies, try to kill more police, and continue their aberrant, antisocial behavior towards American society.

We did the best we could, but we are led by cowards, who let our work, the work of the Sedition Hunters, go to waste. Even before the pardons, the January 6th Committee could have pushed much harder to hold Trump accountable for his crimes, dug deeper to investigate January 6, leaked critical information when they were stonewalled, and engaged in any number of “outside of the box” tactics to bring these terrorists to justice, but they just couldn’t do it. By nature, Democrats are cowards.

Still, I’m proud of the work that we did. One day, when our country needs our help again, we’ll be back.