Select Committee Vacancies

Dear BENNIE G. THOMPSON “Chairman” and LIZ CHENEY “Vice Chair”, along with, ZOE LOFGREN, ELAINE LURIA, ADAM SCHIFF, PETE AGUILAR, STEPHANIE MURPHY, JAMIE RASKIN, ADAM KINZINGER as “Rank & File Members” on the Select Committee Investigating the January 6^th “Domestic Terrorist Attack” on the United States Capitol, along with the missing-in-action members in vacancy status;

There must be a hi-tech glitch with the “Select Committee’s” web-site “Home” page, as under the subject heading “hot-key” for “Funding Payments” the link is misguided, there are no entries and instead it goes to a dissipation on some dissertation about the subject matter of “part and parcel guilty”? “But you know, if you say you haven't done anything wrong, but on the other hand, you want to assert the Fifth Amendment in terms of self-prosecution, it says that you have something to hide. So we're going to give him an opportunity to do it. He can do it and it will be under oath and he is still subject to certain penalties should he decide to not tell us anything. If he is saying, 'I'll come but I'll plead the Fifth,' in some instances that says you are part and parcel guilty to what occurred - Moreover, Mr. Chairman, your recent comments in regard to witness that his assertion of 5th Amendment rights before the Select Committee is ‘tantamount to an admission of guilt’ calls into question for us what we had hoped would be the Select Committee’s commitment to fundamental fairness in dealing with witnesses - Finally, you reference news accounts regarding another witness’s ‘assertion of 5th Amendment rights before the Select Committee’ and claim that my comments suggest that a witness’s assertion of 5th Amendment rights is “tantamount to an admission of guilt.” That is not an accurate characterization of my position on the 5th Amendment.” When at the same time Dylan was playing in the background: “There must be some way out of here said the joker to the thief”. I mean, it makes sense this “partly cloudy and chance of meatballs”, like in that “part and parcel guilty” but still confused the joker to the thief? What if there was issued a search warrant for that “parcel”? Sounds like a drug raid and of course that could prove a recipient of illegal contraband in “parcel guilty”, so why the back-tracking Mr. Chairman? But whatever, it sounds serious as well as intimidating! Looking for $numbers$, not some 1st semester law school undertaking argument. You said it was “part and parcel guilty”, so in what “in some instances” were you talking about Mr. Chairman? Hope it was not in the context of “please check your biases, implicit and explicit wave of guilt”. Please fix so “We the People Proletariats” can see wherein our hard-earned income in taxation is going with this investigation into the “Domestic Terrorist Attack” on the U.S. Capitol. OK, that “hot-key” to “Funding” still refuses to show up, so please for the sake of Transparency in Democracy update by posting “all” to-date “vouchers signed by the chair of the Select Committee” in accordance with H.Res.503 as in:

(f) Funding; Payments.—There shall be paid out of the applicable accounts of the House of Representatives such sums as may be necessary for the expenses of the Select Committee. Such payments shall be made on vouchers signed by the chair of the Select Committee and approved in the manner directed by the Committee on House Administration. Amounts made available under this subsection shall be expended in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Committee on House Administration.

This is important to “We the People”, so please no hesitation in this request, as no doubt the evidence that this “Committee” retrieves courtesy the funding by the U.S. Taxpayers will be used against you in the court of law, with “respect to the institution” the Thompson v. Trump lawsuit seeking a jury award in unspecified $punitive$ and $compensatory damages$ for harm of “emotional distress” caused from the January 6^th “Domestic Terrorist Attack” on the U.S. Capitol. Too bad “We the People” could not have joined in with that $money$ grabbing complaint, like the members of Congress were allowed to do so. What preferential treatment? It should have meant a class-action opportunity. And the way this “Committee’s” wherewithal is on the slide, like with Meadows and Eastman and Trump lawsuits now into mid-March more time extensions on the horizon, it is cause for even more “Emotional Distress” as did not the original schedule of events call for “Public Hearing” already started? Our tax dollars at work, while bridges in dire-straits of repair falling down. The best medicine for “Emotional Distress” is venting, sorry, but just like in that “part and parcel” outburst it works. One last thing, when you post the “vouchers”, maybe a little insight into how many “outside” lawyers this “Committee” retains and are now making a lucrative living on the Taxpayers’ dime this “investigation” and its numerous relative lawsuits. At last “part and parcel” count it was at least 8 just on the Eastman case alone! Look, not that we are against this “investigation” in its merit, would find not a more “Oh Happy Day” then to see Donald John Trump in an orange jump-suit and cuff-links missing the links, it just seems like the “Committee” in haste makes waste has engaged prematurely and it is back-firing in that “time is of the essence”.

And may we Patriotic Proletariats suggest that if Justice Nichols of the DC District Court finds in favor of Mark Meadows, in Meadows v. Pelosi and the Members of the Select Committee(1:21-cv-03217), that this “Committee” should be prepared to inform “We the People” why it failed to address such a concern early on, so that such a lawsuit could never be of consideration. It means the Chairman had close to 5-months to make sure this kind of legal challenge could not pose a threat that a Trump appointed judge could derail this “Committee’s” efforts, or at least slow it down considerably to the point it may be impossible to gain favor with “We the People” it is worth it still. That there could come a lower court decision based on the fact the “Committee” has not officially convened because it falls short of the language of House Resolution 503 - that which is specific in “The Speaker shall appoint 13 Members to the Select Committee, 5 of whom shall be appointed after consultation with the minority leader.” Shall, shall may be the Meadows’ winning ticket! As to date there are only 9 members. And there is no legal excuse that could amuse any reputable judge as “Any vacancy in the Select Committee shall be filled in the same manner as the original appointment.” Mr. Chairman, there’s Mr. Shall again! Vacancies are supposed to be filled accordingly and the original resolution was not amended to accommodate the existing “Committee’s” status of the “fewer”, as “No Markup Of Legislation Permitted.—The Select Committee may not hold a markup of legislation.” But by convening without a full posse, it rests its case as a “Mark Up” mark my word Mark Meadows is finding his way around this “part and parcel guilty” as it appears an abandonment of the principles of how “Committee’s” are supposed to perform. Even the RNC in its “legitimate political discourse” is calling out the Select Committee, that it is in violation “through disregard of minority rights”. OK, maybe they meant a different kind of minority rights! But just because the minority leader’s pick and choose of candidates, as was allowed in that “shall” obligation, so unbecoming that it found for a bad hair day for Nancy Pelosi, it is still not the way for the adults in the nursery in how they are supposed to act! Good faith? Pelosi made an agreement, it past the House with flying colors of blue then she reneged on it and here we find this “Committee” today, a sitting duck in a Mark Meadows’ lawsuit. And thus the subpoena served on Mr. Meadows and the referral of “Congressional Contempt” is then a moot point if Judge Nichols rules on the merits of a “Select Committee” in diapers. When to date that obligation has not yet been fulfilled, in honesty moving forward that Mr. Thompson make that mess-up known about now, as it would be a sad day for Democracy if this be the case and Mr. Meadows is successful in his litigation. And the real sad fact of the matter, if Meadows prevails “We the People” will end up paying his legal costs then some! Maybe the “Chairman” should start passing around the hat! By the way, is it that Mark Meadows’ lawsuit you think may be why the DOJ has not acted on this “Committee’s” referral holding this individual-of-interest in “criminal contempt”? Just asking for a friend. And another thing, please don’t waste the Taxpayers’ hard-earned income through unnecessary non-obligation kumbaya “hearings” just to make this “Committee” look good, as there exists no allowances for “Hearings” in H.Res.503. It merely allows an investigation and a report turned over to the House. Any “Public Hearings” would have to come after the report is issued, and with only 30-days before the “Committee” must dismantle when that report is delivered, it would be up to the House Speaker to schedule any “Public Hearings”, not this “Select Committee”.

G.I. Crow & Beat Crow - Lousy Hat Solidarity Party of Proletariats