Please Follow us on Gab, Minds, Telegram, Rumble, Gettr, Truth Social, Twitter
The Independent Party of Connecticut is getting some attention on social media today over the "Candidate Pledge Statement" found on the Party's website.
The pledge requires Independent Party-endorsed candidates to "reject the actions on January 6th, 2021 that attempted to prevent the peaceful transfer of power for the first time in the history of the United States."
Stewart “Chip” Beckett, a former Glastonbury Town Council member and candidate for Lt. Governor, was elected chair of the Independent Party of Connecticut on April 28, 2024.
A press release about Beckett's appointment on the party's website on May 6, 2024, revealed that the Independent Party had "drawn a line in the sand on insurrectionists":
Beckett and the party have also decided on making another stand, especially when it comes to nominating or cross-endorsing candidates for office, by asking candidates to sign a pledge that they will accept the results of all elections past and future and rejecting the actions of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the nation’s Capitol.
“We all were unanimous in the decision that we don’t have a democracy – or Democratic Republic or whatever you want to call our form of government – if you don’t respect elections and obviously January 6th 2021 was an attempt to overturn an election that was free, fair, and disappointing, obviously to half the country,” Beckett said. “But it was the results of the election that occurred and it needs to be respected. And I think our country has been stable for 250 years and we can have policy disagreements and we can live through bad policies and we have lived through bad policies. But if we destroy our democracy then we won’t have anything.”
“I’m sure you’ve seen some of the things about Hitler being freely elected to overturn the Weimar Republic in the 1920s and early 30s. And I see January 6th, 2021, is very much in that vein. It’s history rhyming with the same populism power grab of I don’t like the results, so I’m going to destroy everybody else,” Beckett concluded.
So there you have it, Hitler comparison and all.
By the way, Beckett doesn't think the kind of candidate who would want an endorsement from the Independent Party would ever object to the pledge, either.
Of course, most Connecticut Centinal readers recognize that J6 was not an insurrection, but rather a "fed-surrection" provoked by undercover government agents, so signing a pledge like this seems pretty "weird" and entirely un-American.
Plansurrection....so sick
Why should we expect anything less from the obviously effete Chip Beckett and his merry band of eunuchs.
“Let’s just all get along“, while the U.S. (and CT) is ravaged from within.
Another imbecile who knows little truth about liberty, virtue, justice, responsibility, history, the Constitution, the human condition, or, political ambition, collectivism, tyranny, slavery, war, …
Facts about Jan 6 are irrelevant.
Just peace at all costs.
Apparently, no one has heard of independent (REAL) journalist Julie Kelly and what she has exposed about J6 on X and other social media including the War Room with (PRISONER OF BANKER'S WARS) Steven Bannon.