Commentary
Ever since Socrates pestered his interlocutors with questions they couldn’t answer, all the best people have told us that questions are more important than answers.
So I thought I would try a column consisting mostly of questions.
Socrates wanted to know things like “What is Virtue?” “What is knowledge?” “What is love?”
My questions are more pedestrian but no less miscellaneous.
And unlike the showstoppers Socrates proffered, they are, most of them, more easily answerable—which is not to say that we should expect the answers anytime soon.
For example, I would like to know who shot
Ashli Babbitt, the unarmed vet and Trump supporter who was shot during the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
We know that it was a Capitol Hill police officer, but the authorities won’t release his name. Why?
Why was it OK for a police officer to kill an unarmed woman who posed no danger to anyone?
What if Ashli Babbitt had been a violent, drug-sodden black man who was resisting arrest instead of a white woman protesting at the Capitol?
Would we then know the name of the policeman who pulled the trigger?
Are they trying to hide something?
As we get further from the big day, the narrative that Jan. 6 was a “riot” or an “insurrection” by “domestic terrorists” bent on destroying “our democracy”
has crumbled.
Why, then, does the establishment keep beating that broken drum? Why, just a few days ago, did Joe Biden repeat the lie that Brian Sicknick, the Capitol Hill police officer who died following the Jan. 6 event, was
“killed” by “criminals” at the Capitol?
That canard was
circulated if not invented by The New York Times, which reported that he was beaten to death with a fire extinguisher by a crazed Trump supporter.
That story was quickly picked up and amplified by an irresponsible media driven mad by Donald Trump.
Once the damage was done, the NY Times
corrected the record, sort of. But why was the original calumny seized upon and circulated by the Democrats, the FBI, and the media?
And why were hundreds of people who had participated in the Capitol jamboree arrested?
Damage by Black Lives Matter and Antifa rioters—er, “
mostly peaceful protestors”—last summer has been pegged at somewhere north of
$2 billion.
Why were those rioters given
kid-glove treatment, either not arrested at all or arrested and released?
Why, by contrast, are dozens of Capitol Hill protesters, most of them without criminal records,
languishing in jail, many in solitary confinement?
Why are the buyers being kept “confidential”?
Are the anonymous people who are buying “art” from Hunter paying for access to or favors from Joe?
What do the Chinese expect in return?
OK, that one is easy to answer.
One more softball question: Will the media report honestly on the
skyrocketing inflation that Biden’s incontinent fiscal policies have created?
Slightly harder: will rising inflation derail the Biden presidency?
Will the Marxist-inspired, racist teachings of
Critical Race Theory be accepted by the American people?
Biden’s approval rating has
plummeted by some 6 points in the aftermath of his G-7 junket. Will it continue to fall as more people learn that he’s senile and incompetent?
Yet Biden is actively seeking to overturn Trump’s sanctions on Iran and restart the
nuclear deal with the terrorist state. Will Biden allow Iran to acquire nuclear weapons?
Will Joe Biden’s deepening mental twilight force him from office before his term ends in 2024?
If so, will Kamala Harris become president?
Is the United States headed off a political cliff?
Can it survive the insanity of “wokeness”?
When will common sense reassert itself?
What is Joe Biden’s favorite flavor of ice cream?
Views expressed in this article are opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Epoch Times.
