Inquire Me Not

So, the Republicans, for reasons even their mindless followers can understand, have voted to prevent an inquiry into the January 6 insurrection. Of course, they did that. Wouldn’t you if you were them? Would you want an investigation into atrocious violence that stands for everything our country doesn’t if you knew that you were to blame for it? These people couldn’t investigate the Great Benghazi Burger often enough. They still insist on finding out whether the 2020 Arizona ballots have bamboo in them. And yet, these same people see no need to determine why January 6 happened.

Wouldn’t it be great if we all could do that? Suppose we all could block any inquiry into anything criminal that we may have had something to do with. Suppose we could send the same kind of messages to those who would investigate us as the Republicans have been able to send to those who would like to investigate them. Here is an example of what we might be able to do:

Dear Director Wray:

I understand that you are curious about what you think is a money laundering scheme being utilized by my business. I received a phone call today from one of your Agents who asked me some questions about it. C’mon man.

I’m sure you know that our country has a lot of other things going on. The events your Agent asked me about happened almost six months ago. My goodness, six months is a very long time. Even before the end of four months, a fetus is a fully developed person. Ask Mississippi.

Let’s move on. We have to look ahead, not behind. Shouldn’t you be using your limited resources to look into more serious stuff, like, for example, the Facebook posts of Joe Biden’s grandchildren?

Thank you for your anticipated cooperation.

                                                                                                Sincerely,

                                                                                                Mitch McCorrupt

Dear Mr. McCorrupt:

You’re right. Forget my Agency ever heard of you.

                                                                                                Sincerely,

                                                                                                Christopher Wray

Wouldn’t that be nice? As Mel Brooks said in “History of the World, Part 1, “It’s good to be the King.” The problem, of course, is that when you are not the King, when you are just one of the rest of us, and when the powerful have the ability to manipulate how the law is enforced against them, our very rule of law is broken.

Surely, this is nothing new. The rich and powerful have always lived by a separate set of rules. But, in this year of George Floyd and BLM; in this time of the defeat of Czar Donald; in this reawakening of the realization that our increasing economic disparity is catastrophic. In this time, it is time to call the Republican votes on the January 6 Commission for what they are – vile.