{"id":20758,"date":"2022-06-09T11:36:55","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T16:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/?p=20758"},"modified":"2022-06-09T11:36:55","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T16:36:55","slug":"live-hearings-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/2022\/06\/09\/live-hearings-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Live! Hearings! Live!"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p>So, I\u2019ve been thinking about this quite a lot, and there are a few things that I think I want the \u201cJanuary 6 hearings\u201d to answer, or at least address. There are presumably questions I don\u2019t know I have yet, that it\u2019s the job of the Committee to both provoke and address, and there\u2019s also a lot of stuff that presumably other people want to know that I don\u2019t care about or feel that I already know. But I think I can break it down to five basic topics:\r\n<ul><li>What actually happened on that day and the days before it? Specifically, how many of the thousands of people involved were there to engage in legitimate (if perhaps criminal) protest, and how many were there to overthrow the government? And, if any, how many were there to instigate a riot that they could exploit for any other reason? <\/li>\r\n<li>What could have been done by the various security\/enforcement\/oversight groups to prevent the legitimate protest from becoming violent and destructive, and when, and was anything deliberately not done that ought to have been done in order to aid the goal of overthrow? <\/li>\r\n<li>The evidence appears to indicate that there was a criminal conspiracy before January 6th; were there any government officials or elected legislators who were involved in that conspiracy? What evidence is there of that involvement?<\/li>\r\n<li>Given that what happened once can happen again and worse, how should the Congress revise its ritual or legal \u201ccertification\u201d of the election? How can future such events be prevented or defused? <\/li>\r\n<li>How can any losing candidate\u2019s supporters be convinced that the election\u2019s winner is legitimate, at the Presidential level or any other? What is the best role for the Congress in legitimizing election outcomes? What is the correct role for losing candidates and their supporters in a representative democracy?<\/li><\/ul>\r\n<p>I don\u2019t expect to get answers to all of that stuff, but I can hope.\r\n<p><I>Tolerabimus quod tolerare debemus,<\/I><br>-Vardibidian.\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In which Your Humble Blogger is actually going to a lecture on Scripture Study tonight, but will probably read the whole transcript tomorrow.","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20758"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20758\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20759,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20758\/revisions\/20759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/vardibidian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}