Jack Cashill started his Jan. 6 WorldNetDaily column this way:
“January 6 didn’t end when the sun went down,” wrote January 6 protestor Tommy Tatum in an X post last month. “For many of us, it never ended at all. It followed us home. It sat with us in courtrooms, hospitals, quiet rooms, and sleepless nights. And for some – like Rosanne Boyland – it ended everything.”
Boyland was one of four protestors who died on January 6. As Tatum notes, “Rosanne didn’t get a redemption arc. She didn’t get media sympathy. She didn’t get justice. What she got was erased.” As with the other protesters who died on January 6 or afterwards, Boyland’s family never even got an objective account of how she died.
Cashill didn’t mention that Tatum played a role in the Capitol riot, in addition to harassing police officers who testified in riot-related cases.
After rehashing the list of people who died during the riot, Cashill got to those who committed suicide afterwards:
What happened to 37-year-old Pennsylvanian Matthew Lawrence Perna happened to many of the 1,600 other protesters arrested that day. Perna’s lovingly crafted obituary spells it out:
“He attended the rally on January 6, 2021 to peacefully stand up for his beliefs. After learning that the FBI was looking for him, he immediately turned himself in. He entered the Capitol through a previously opened door (he did not break in as was reported) where he was ushered in by police. He didn’t break, touch, or steal anything. He did not harm anyone, as he stayed within the velvet ropes taking pictures. For this act he has been persecuted by many members of his community, friends, relatives, and people who had never met him. Many people were quietly supportive, and Matt was truly grateful for them. The constant delays in hearings, and postponements dragged out for over a year. Because of this, Matt’s heart broke and his spirit died, and many people are responsible for the pain he endured.”
As we documented, Perna was a QAnon conspiracy believe who did violate the law by entering the Capitol, and videotaped himself while there. If all he did was “peacefully stand up for his beliefs,” there would be no need for him to kill himself.
Cashill then discounted the law enforcement personnel who died as a result of the riot:
These seven, and there may be more, are the real martyrs of January 6. They died for a cause they believed in, a cause that with each new revelation seems more and more self-evident. To offset the protesters’ valor and to deny the righteousness of their cause, leftists conspirators and their media allies created martyrs of their own.
The first was USCP officer Brian Sicknick whose death on Jan. 7 of a stroke, the Times reported on Jan. 8 as a murder by fire-extinguisher wielding pro-Trump mobs. Not content with lying about Sicknick’s death, Team Biden launched into a grotesque inflation of the day’s body count.
Cashill didn’t mention that Sicknick was sprayed with a chemical irritant on the day of the riot, which may have contributed to his death, and the assailant was sentenced to prison. Instead, Cashill continued to denigrate the memory of the officers:
It was unfortunate that the officers died, but it was opportunistic in the extreme to exalt the men as martyrs. The ample video footage shows that, with only a few exceptions, most of the officers faced less peril that day than did the thousands of urban police officers injured in the George Floyd riots by Molotov cocktails, bricks, guns, and frozen water bottles.
The media made no effort to find a common thread in the officers’ suicides. For the protesters the thread was obvious. Matthew Perna’s obituary spells it out: “Matthew Lawrence Perna died on February 25, 2022 of a broken heart. His community (which he loved), his country, and the justice system killed his spirit and his zest for life.”
If we cannot restore the dead to life, we can at least revive their memories. In the years to come, God willing, theirs will be the face of the Great American Awakening, an awakening commemorated every year on the anniversary of the day the nation’s patriots risked their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to rouse their fellow citizens to action, the Feast of the Epiphany, January 6, 2021.
Again, Cashill failed to disclose that Perna himself is solely responsible for his own death, and he was not killed by “his country, and the justice system.” His crime is on video, and it’s nobody’s fault but his own if he couldn’t emotionally handle that fact.
Then again, Cashil loves to engage in revisionist history about the Capitol riot.