January 6 "National Evil Insurrection Day"

Opinion echo published in Lancaster online: 

Echo opinion: This letter request is an appeal to representative, U.S. Rep. Lloyd Smucker (a Republican  politician from Pennsylvania currently serving in the U.S. House of Representatives for Pennsylvania's 11th congressional district since 2017). 

January 6th is evil "insurrection day!"

I request that Smucker propose a bill in Congress recognizing Jan. 6, 2021, as “Insurrection Day.”  (Maine Writer- "Mucker Smuker!")

It was a very day as dark and infamous as Dec. 7, 1941, or Sept. 11, 2001. On both of those days, our democracy and country were attacked by treacherous cowards.

As the bleak one-year anniversary of Jan. 6, approaches, we can’t let our people forget the traitorous actions of the sitting president at the time, Donald J. Trump. Nor can we allow our Republican leaders who assisted and put into motion the insurrection to be forgotten.

This date needs to be added to our calendars, and the history of those whose actions fueled Trump’s insurrection must be taught in our schools. It has to be made clear that certain Republicans — and only Republicans — were the main actors in leading the insurrection against our country.

Now, we all know that Smucker was a part of the despicable events surrounding that day. He wasn’t in the crowd trying to storm our U.S. Capitol, but he was the cancer from inside that tried to invalidate our votes and enable Trump’s attempt to upend our democracy.

I doubt very much that Smucker will try to put forth such a bill to the Congress, because he seems more interested in his own well-being, and not interested in the people who elected him.

John J. Alcorn  Mount Joy, Pennsylvania