{"id":160890,"date":"2026-01-05T15:00:04","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=160890"},"modified":"2026-01-05T15:00:04","modified_gmt":"2026-01-05T22:00:04","slug":"like-it-never-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/05\/like-it-never-happened.html","title":{"rendered":"Like It Never Happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2022, Congress passed a law, mandating a bronze plaque be put in the Capitol in honor of the Capitol Police who were attacked by and fought with the rioters during the January 6, 2021 Trumpist mob violence there.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video Of Capitol Riot Shown During First Jan. 6 Committee Hearing\" width=\"840\" height=\"473\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DXnHIJkZZAs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Five years after the attack, four years after the law was passed, nobody (officially) knows what&#8217;s happened to the plaque &#8212; only that it&#8217;s not actually on display, and there&#8217;s been no official unveiling by Speaker Mike Johnson &#8212; who, lest we forget, was one of the challengers of the 2020 election results.<\/p>\n<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-dave1\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/capitol-riot-jan-6-anniversary-police-plaque-f6fd39b437c339fa9ff477318a7d36e2\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"This Jan. 6 plaque was made to honor law enforcement. It\u2019s nowhere to be found at the Capitol\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dims.apnews.com\/dims4\/default\/ddb1261\/2147483647\/strip\/true\/crop\/5774x3248+0+301\/resize\/1440x810!\/quality\/90\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fassets.apnews.com%2F73%2F8a%2Fa83b423f17f78315689f08d7cf71%2F0a80add943db4801b52a77cd87633e69\" style=\"max-width: 150px; max-height: 150px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-title\">This Jan. 6 plaque was made to honor law enforcement. It\u2019s nowhere to be found at the Capitol<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-summary\">Approaching the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the official plaque honoring the police who defended democracy is nowhere to be found.<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-url\">apnews.com\/article\/capitol-riot-jan-6-anniversary-police-plaque-f6fd39b437c339fa9ff477318a7d36e2<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<p>Such a plaque would (presumably) be seen as an indirect slap at the Dear Leader, and thus would run the risk of offending him, which GOP congresscritters seem to fear more than anything.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"font-weight: bold; background-color: transparent; text-align: inherit;\" href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jan-6-plaque.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-160893\" src=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jan-6-plaque-650x433.webp\" alt=\"Legally mandated plaque, expressing thanks to Capitol Police\" width=\"650\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jan-6-plaque-650x433.webp 650w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jan-6-plaque-300x200.webp 300w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jan-6-plaque-150x100.webp 150w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jan-6-plaque-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jan-6-plaque.webp 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #686868; font-size: 13px; font-style: italic; background-color: transparent; text-align: inherit;\">Legally mandated plaque, expressing thanks to Capitol Police<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The plaque reads:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On behalf of a grateful Congress, this plaque honors the extraordinary individuals who bravely protected and defended this symbol of democracy on January 6, 2021. Their heroism will never be forgotten.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There are in fact folk who would very much like it to be forgotten. And are seeing to it that it is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Those who forget history can blame the people who try to erase it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160893,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[133,715,1142,108,358,1071],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-censorship","category-crime-punishment","category-elections-2020","category-history","category-poor-citizenship","category-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jan-6-plaque.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":988,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2001\/10\/28\/freedom_that_is.html","url_meta":{"origin":160890,"position":0},"title":"&#8220;Freedom?  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The six-year old had been staring at the plaque for some time, so the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Jokes&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Jokes","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/jokes"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":160913,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2026\/01\/07\/blaming-the-victim.html","url_meta":{"origin":160890,"position":5},"title":"Blaming the Victim for January 6","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 7-Jan-26 9:55am","format":false,"excerpt":"Winston Smith has a new corner office in the West Wing.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Elections 2020&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Elections 2020","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/politics-law\/elections-2020"},"img":{"alt_text":"Jan 6 riots","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jan-6.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jan-6.webp?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jan-6.webp?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Jan-6.webp?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160890"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160890\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":160894,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160890\/revisions\/160894"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}