I will take this time to note that while I have no love for the united states government, nor the capitol police, nor the american law enforcement community in general, I object to and oppose any attempt to overthrow this crumbling husk of failed neoliberal economics and capitalist excess with an overtly fascist one. Our elected officials may be inept, corrupt and criminal but they do not deserve to be torn apart like fresh bread by a seething mass of antisemitic conspiracy theorists who would install actual monsters in their place. Monsters who believe a network of tunnels underneath this city ferry children and fetuses into food processors to turn into narcotics for shapeshifting lizard aliens. Monsters who believe evangelical churches should institute morality police. Monsters who believe females are mindless birth-machines. No, wait, I take that back; they do not “believe” these things– they *know* them to be true. Beliefs are subjective and exist in the vagaries of perception. The coup enablers therefore do not “believe” any of the lies they traffick, but they “know them to be true,” which provides them a foolproof and impregnable shield from criticism. Or so they think. As their mental faculties and capacity for critical thought are occupied with the increasing complexities of irrational conspiracy theories, so degrades their ability to see the obvious lines of control from a motley assortment of authoritarians who see these adherents as pawns, cannon fodder, useful idiots, and means to their own ends.
I object to the characterization that “we all want the same thing”, by which the presumptive questioner assumes that we “must” be allies because we both want the government replaced, overthrown or otherwise obviated; their lust for this would see them install a wholly unaccountable private tyranny of corporate monopolies and theocrats. I object to the characterization that a single ejaculation of fascist violence resulting in the temporary seizure of one government building carries greater legitimacy than years of resistance against police and fascist gangs. I object to the presumption that reactive, reactionary violence in the form of authoritarian fetishists and evangelical nativism has any legitimacy. Such things do not and can not; they serve and amplify the authoritarian notions of the state and its reactionary supporters.
There is no effort and no impetus for the state to expend even a tenth of the energy to fundamentally deconstruct the entire reactionary – militia movement in a similar manner by which it has persecuted any form of progressive organization because these reactionary and authoritarian currents ultimately serve and perpetuate the state. I have no faith that any lasting, net-positive effect will come from any of the investigations into January 6, if they are even allowed to proceed by the same right-wing elements that both enabled the putsch and are poised to seize control of the legislative branches of government in the 2022 elections.
January 6 did not happen in a vaccum, by which I mean the city in which it happened has people who live in it, who work in it, who are of the city; and this attack was as much an attack on them as it was on the capitol. Real people, working people, unhoused people, it is us who had our parks turned into staging areas for right wing death squads, it was our streets where fascists planted bombs, it was in our city where fascists desecrated a historically Black church, it was our city that was terrorized and it is us who bear the weight of having to immediately prepare for the unthinkable. For us, “Justice For J6” means to crush the reactionaries in this country and eviscerate their movements. That is all.