Remember January 6? You Should Thomas E. Caldwell’s new book,”The Mouths of the Wicked,” brings it all back where it belongs Diana West
There was something nearly miraculous about the sweeping grant of clemency President Trump enacted on his first day back in office on January 20, 2025, to over 1, 500 Americans known as “the J6ers.” Rounded up largely for exercising their freedom of speech, ruined, and imprisoned following an assembly-line-series of American show trials staged throughout the illegitimate Biden regime, these men and women were now, almost all of them, fully pardoned; 14 of them, including Thomas E. Caldwell, author the new book, The Mouths of the Wicked, had their sentences commuted. Tom-I call him Tom since I got to know him, as I’ll explain-received a full pardon two months later. Quite suddenly, by proclamation, the J6ers were free-free from prison, free from pending trials, free from legal jeopardy. Some, such as Jeremy Brown, had to grind away another month or more in the hole. Others, tragically, didn’t make it through the ordeal. According to StopHate. com, as many as 31 deaths and suicides may now be connected to events at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. Many have yet to “resume” their lives or even find employment. But think of that historic moment: Like POWs released at war’s end or Soviet political prisoners, “zeks,” freed from the Gulag on the ascension of a more benevolent power (or a new gang trying to spite the old gang), the J6ers fanned back out across the country. If the similes sound jarring, that is testament to how far outside of the American tradition a reign of terror and mass show trials really are. But I know of no better terms to describe this era-the Biden-Garland-Monaco-Wray-Graves-District Court Era of unjust federal police and prosecutorial thuggery. For historical precedent, there are the fearful histories of political persecution in autocracies and Marxist totalitarian systems, infamous for the English Star Chamber, for example, and, of course, the Soviet Purge Trial. This is not to suggest that the J6 operation popped right out of a functioning American Republic. More recently-and so close to home it is home-we may trace an unmistakable continuity with the mission and tactics of the rolling coup d’etat known as the Russia Hoax, waged by the same Marxist Deep State, or counter-state, through Donald Trump against the American people.[1] It is important to realize that such counter-state operations are always attacks on We, the People. While it’s true that the “fed-surrection” of January 6-that multi-tentacled, coordinated, military and intelligence mechanism of incitement and entrapment-ensnared and brought to ruin “only” the tiniest percentage of our population, the terror it fomented, the propaganda that perpetuated it, and the excessively, even ludicrously harsh, sentencing which manifested its cruelty, were always aimed at demoralizing and controlling the rest of us. This, then, was not the America we thought we grew up in and would pass on to our children. It is, however, the America in which a Marxian counter-state has arisen, “boring from within” for well over a century. On January 6, 2021, the time seems to have been right-or dictated by desperation-for that counter-state to act, first and foremost, to quash the constitutional process unfolding inside Congress where challenges to the 2020 election results were beginning to be mounted by elected officials.