By now, undoubtedly everyone heard of Nancy Pelosi’s “January 6 Committee,” since the Fake News Media endlessly peddles the committee’s balderdash. While the committee is commonly referred to as the “January 6 Committee” or the “J6 Committee,” the complete name is the “Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.” The committee was established by the Democrat majority in the United States House of Representatives. See January 6th Committee Page. The Republican Party members in the United States House are not formally participating in the J6 Committee, after the Democrat Speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, refused to allow the House GOP Leader, Kevin McCarthy, to select all of the Republican representatives to serve on the panel. See CBS News:
The J6 Committee consists of all Democrats and two Never Trump Republicans (who are participating without the approval of the Republican House Leader), Liz Cheney from Wyoming and Adam Kinzinger from Illinois. The willingness of Reps. Cheney and Kinzinger to serve on the J6 Committee, and their willingness to support what many observers view as an illegitimate committee, running roughshod over the rights of Americans, and their willingness to attack fellow Republicans, earned them a rare censure resolution from the Republican National Committee. See Marketwatch:
The J6 Committee is supposed to be conducting an investigation into the January 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, however, it and its members engaged in some questionable conduct in their effort to build a narrative against President Trump surrounding the events of January 6, 2021. (Several chapters of in my book Fake News Exposed about Trump, Volume One cover some of the J6 Committee dubious tactics. You can pick up an ebook, softcover or hardcover copy of the book at Amazon.)
From falsely claiming a GOP Representative took J6ers on a reconnaissance walk through of the Capitol, to misrepresenting irregularities surrounding the 2020 Presidential Election, to targeting GOP campaign donors, to falsely claiming U.S. Senator Ron Johnson provided lists of alternate electors on the Vice President, to falsely claiming Ex-NYPD Commissioner Bernie Kerik was in Washington, D.C. on January 5, 2021, and falsely claiming President Trump incited the riot, to name a few of its more noteworthy misrepresentations, the J6 Committee has been on a mission to push false narratives about what happened. The J6 Committee’s misconduct caused some commentators to label the committee as a Stalinist farce or Stalinist propaganda (after the notorious, totalitarian Russian leader Joseph Stalin). The misconduct and abuse of power by the J6 Committee are bad enough, but the hiring of a TV Executive to produce the hearings confirms the effort is all about political theater.
Further exposing the J6 Committee as a pure propaganda ploy is the person the Democrats selected to chair it, namely, Mississippi Democrat Congressman Bennie Thompson. As John Solomon with Just the News reports, Congressman Thompson is a long-time sympathizer of the Republic of New Afrika and some of its membership:
For the uninitiated, the Republic of New Afrika (RNA) is a revolutionary, militant black organization formed in 1968. One of the goals of this revolutionary organization is the establishment of an independent “New Afrika” nation consisting of the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. Various leaders and members of the organization were involved in shootouts with police and the FBI over the years. Some of these episodes are outlined in the article by John Solomon cited above.
Take the time to read the Just the News article and get an idea of how radical and violent the RNA was and how often Bennie Thompson, then a city Alderman in Bolton, Mississippi came publicly to their defense. After two violent shootouts with police and the FBI in Jackson, Mississippi in 1971, Bennie Thompson came to the groups defense (including joining a group to defend the RNA members, according to news reports of the time). All of that apparently happened in 1971, however, as recently as 2013, when the former Vice President of the Republic of New Afrika, Chokwe Lumumba, ran for Mayor of the City of Jackson, Mississippi, Congressman Thompson supported him:
In fact, Rep. Thompson participated in campaign ads for Lumumba. When the former revolutionary black militant won the Jackson Mayor’s race, Rep. Thompson officiated at his induction ceremony. See Just the News. Just in case you wondered, the late Mayor Lumumba apparently did not renounce his radical past and, according to The Nation remained a revolutionary to the end:
(The Nation article states Chokwe Lumumba was a member of the RNA and moved with the group from Detroit, Michigan to Jackson, Mississippi in 1971. The article claims Lumumba was a member of the group when one of the violent confrontations occurred with police, but Lumumba “not present” during the gun battle.)
To summarize, Congressman Thompson (then a city Alderman in Mississippi) defended this group. According to contemporary news reports, in 1971 he joined another group formed to defend the RNA. Later he publicly supported the former Vice President of the RNA, Chokwe Lumumba, when Lumumba ran for Mayor of Jackson, Mississippi. While there do not appear to be any indications Thompson was an actual member of the RNA, one might consider him a defender or apologist for the group.
This is the guy the Democrats put in charge of investigating an alleged “insurrection?” A man linked to a radical, revolutionary, black militant group which aims to declare a new homeland in five U.S. states? A group with a history of violent shootouts with law enforcement? A group, three members of which, shot and killed a police officer in New Mexico in 1971 (the same year Bennie Thompson publicly defended the group), while in route from California to the South in a vehicle loaded with guns, ammunition and bomb making materials, according to police. After shooting and killing the police officer, the RNA men carjacked a wrecker truck, then hijacked an airplane and escaped to communist Cuba where they were granted asylum by Cuba’s communist dictator Fidel Castro. See Albuquerque Journal and CNN. (Those three violent revolutionaries were never brought to justice.)
The fact the Democrats put this guy in charge of the J6 Committee tells the world just how serious the Democrats are about the so-called “insurrection” on January 6, 2021. Could you imagine the caterwauling from the media if a Republican with these kinds of past affiliations was put in charge of anything? Yet, the Democrat leadership in Washington puts Rep. Bennie Thompson in charge of a committee investigating what the Dems and Media breathlessly (and incorrectly) label an “insurrection,” and we get crickets from the legacy media.
You honestly could not make this up if you tried. Think about this the next time you see or hear a media report about the J6 Committee. At least, now you know the whole story.
*This post expounds on background provided in one of the chapters of my book, Fake News Exposed about Trump, Volume One, available at Amazon.