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Finally the questions about the death of Officer Sicknick are getting a wider audience — 16 Comments

  1. Fully as grotesque as the politicization of Sicknick’s very unfortunate death is the elevation of Eugene Goodman into some kind of “savior of the republic” who prevented Romney from coming to harm at the hands of the evil “insurrectionists.” There is certainly no reason to doubt that this Capitol Police Officer is a decent man, but there is also no reason to believe (aside from the hysterical and lachrymose fabrications of AOC, Tlaib and others) that the life of any politician was ever in danger from unarmed members of a shambolic and unruly mob mostly intent on acting stupidly and taking selfies. Goodman, like the tragically-deceased Sicknick, is being used only as ideological manipulation, as insincere propaganda, and as political theater.

  2. The reactions to Greenwald’s tweet storm are worth a read (not in a good way). Basically, “what does it matter how he died? They murdered him”. I guess you could say “what does it matter that the media lied for years about the ‘many fine people’ quote, we still know Trump’s a racist”. And so on.

  3. The democrat’s tactics once again demonstrate that there is no depth of deceit that they will not engage in, no greater proof of unfitness for the office they hold need be given. That those who elected them rationalize and justify the deceit demonstrates that they are those who are no longer our countrymen.

  4. I see that Andrew McCarthy is walking back his charge of murder on Trump’s hands. From:
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    [Pleading the case this way] would have made Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who was murdered, the face of impeachment. An impeachment manager opening the presentation to the Senate could have declared without hesitation: “When Officer Sicknick needed a president, Donald Trump was missing in action. When America needed a commander-in-chief to protect the seat of its democracy, Donald Trump wouldn’t be disturbed — he was busy watching television.”

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/01/the-trump-impeachment-is-deeply-flawed-but-he-deserves-conviction/
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    To:
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    Many reports and commentators, myself included, relied on the Times’ reporting in describing the gravity of then-President Trump’s misconduct. But it must be acknowledged that this reporting suggested that the details of Sicknick’s death and what led up to it were murky. As is too often the case, the “newspaper of record” depended on anonymous sources for its weightiest allegation…

    https://www.nationalreview.com/2021/02/what-happened-to-officer-sicknick/
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    Which doesn’t let McCarthy off from jumping the gun at this crucial moment in US history. McCarthy, if he were intellectually honest, had every reason to doubt the immediate, self-serving NYT narrative, rather than jump on their never-failing “by any means necessary” anti-Trump bandwagon.

    Currently there is a full-on blacklist to hunt down any lawyer who has provided any aid to Trump. I can’t help but wonder if McCarthy, consciously or no, was weighing such retribution when it came to expressing this public opinion. I’m sorry to see it.
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    It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.

    –Upton Sinclair

  5. huxley:

    I think McCarthy has long had a couple of problems. The first is that he’s somewhat naive and trusting (for example, of Comey, against whom he finally turned but it took a long time). The second is that he has an aversion to Trump. That doesn’t mean he won’t defend him at times – he will, but he has to overcome his natural aversion to the man in order to do so, and he’s often willing to think the worst of him. It’s almost a relief to him to think the worst of him, I think, so in this case he jumped right back into it for a while. But his basic honesty led him out of it again.

  6. neo:

    I give McCarthy half-credit. Accusing someone of murder flat, then later admitting that the story was “murky,” isn’t quite full moral responsibility in my book.

  7. Indeed. McCarthy appears to have spelled “WRONG” incorrectly. There is absolutely zero evidence that the fire extinguisher episode happened and plenty of evidence suggesting it did not. That isn’t “murky”, it’s flat out wrong

  8. That McCarthy took credence in the “reporting” by the NYT is quite a shock. I now know where to send my Nigerian princes and Brooklyn bridge salesmen. Sad how far and total has been his fall. TDS led to self-defenestration.

  9. I understand that Officer Sicknick’s body was cremated shortly after the autopsy was performed. I don’t know if that was in response to his prior wishes or that of his family. And of course some religions demand burial very quickly after death, so a parallel viewpoint might have been operating here.

    But given the large amount of (at least public) uncertainty about what had happened, and that we now have modern refrigerated morgues, I found the move towards cremation to be rather rushed. Are we sure that all relevant physical and medical and forensic evidence has now been obtained and is available for law enforcement use and / or public explanation? I can’t say just how long of a delay might have been wise in this circumstance, but I would not have felt a three week to three month “time out” was unjustified, to help ensure any later developing information was integrated properly into this very complicated event.

  10. I also noted that Sicknick’s funeral took place only a day or two after his passing. I wondered if he was Jewish, Sicknick being a sorta-could-be-possibly-maybe Jewish name, and in Jewish tradition the funeral takes place very soon after death. However cremation is not sanctioned by Jewish law.

  11. Also regarding the whole fire extinguisher charge, I heard early on that there was video of an officer being struck with a fire extinguisher but it was not Sicknick. Did not further investigate.

  12. In other news, that notorious power-crazed shape-shifting grifter Nimrata Randhawa AKA (to CivNats) Nikki Haley just done gone stabbed the Donald in the back. A Girl’s gotta do what she can to get by, you know.

  13. I am also very curious about the suicides of two officers involved in the event; one was several days later, and the other several weeks. Are we to assume that these were unrelated to their experience on Jan. 6 or what? At one point it seemed that they were being officially treated as being related, but now they are not included by media in the death toll of five. It seems extremely odd that two police officers who happened to be on duty would have had underlying suicidal tendencies that were triggered. But no explanation seems to be forthcoming.

  14. I am also very curious about the suicides of two officers involved in the event; one was several days later, and the other several weeks. Are we to assume that these were unrelated to their experience on Jan. 6 or what?

    Yes. People have problems in living, including police officers. Trouble with wives, girlfriends, kids, finances, health. And sometimes its just baffling despair.

  15. I also noted that Sicknick’s funeral took place only a day or two after his passing. I wondered if he was Jewish, Sicknick being a sorta-could-be-possibly-maybe Jewish name, and in Jewish tradition the funeral takes place very soon after death. However cremation is not sanctioned by Jewish law.

    The name is evidently Danish / Norwegian. There’s been for some generations quite a concentration of Sicknicks in Middlesex County, NJ. In fact, every person named Sicknick recorded by state and federal census enumerators during the period running from 1905 to 1940 lived in that one county, so it appears to be one family. Presumably Lutheran.

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