Did Either Chauvin or Floyd Get Justice?

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After just a few hours of deliberation, a jury on Wednesday found Derek Chauvin guilty on every count in the death of George Floyd. It’s understandable that the former Minneapolis police officer was found guilty of second-degree manslaughter, but it also reeks of political pressure and mob rule that the jurors so quickly convicted him on the more serious but questionable charges of third-degree murder and even second-degree murder.

As everyone in America knows, last Memorial Day, then-Officer Chauvin used his knee to pin Floyd to the ground by the neck for nine minutes. Everyone also knows that Floyd was protesting that he couldn’t breathe.

What many folks still don’t know, however, thanks to a Leftmedia that is a dishonest subsidiary of the Democratic National Committee, is that Floyd was high on drugs, fought with police, and begged to be put on the ground instead of the squad car.

So, what are the takeaways from this quick conviction?

As we already implied, it’s questionable whether Chauvin murdered Floyd. Second-degree murder involves felony assault, which means the jury had to conclude that Chauvin’s technique in subduing a belligerent Floyd crossed that line. Chauvin did continue to pin Floyd to the ground after Floyd had passed out and even persisted for a minute after the ambulance arrived, but there were key comorbidities involved in Floyd’s death, including fentanyl and meth in his system, along with underlying health issues.

(The indispensable Andrew McCarthy, himself a former federal prosecutor, has a must-read column delving into these questions regarding the verdict.)

We noted shortly after Floyd’s death that Minnesota Attorney General scumbag-Keith Ellison was strategically overcharging Chauvin. For scumbag-Ellison, it was a win-win — either nail the “racist” cop, or “prove” the system was hopelessly racist when the officer was acquitted or convicted only of the lesser charges.

That said, the jury almost certainly felt pressured to reach this verdict. On top of scumbag-Ellison’s charges and pronouncements, the city of Minneapolis settled with Floyd’s family for an eye-popping $27 million. Minnesota Governor Tim Walz, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey, Minnesota Congresswoman scumbag/worthless-Ilhan Omar, California Congresswoman scumbag/worthless-Maxine Waters, Vice President lowlife/liar-Kamala Harris, President socialist/ scumbag/liar-Joe Biden, and a host of other Democrats all to some degree pronounced Chauvin guilty even before the trial began — or in some cases during it. The judge in the trial specifically rebuked  scumbag/worthless-Waters, saying her incitement of violence for anything less than a full guilty verdict could taint the trial and provide fodder for an appeal.

At least socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden waited until the jury was sequestered for deliberations to say he was “praying” for the “right verdict,” the evidence for which he saw as “overwhelming.” scumbag/worthless-Waters made her disgraceful comments while jurors were at home over the weekend. Part of the blame for that falls on the judge, who inexplicably declined to sequester jurors for the trial’s duration.

On top of the political influence was the death of Daunte Wright in a Minneapolis suburb — a suburb where at least one juror resides and others have connections.

Chauvin clearly has reason to appeal on grounds that the trial was not fair.

Leftists will conclude, and not without reason, that they were right to say what they said, and that such a pressure campaign — including the Burn, Loot, and Murder riots — are the only way “justice” can be achieved in a nation rife with “systemic racism.” They got the verdict they wanted, after all, and many literally cheered in the streets.

Yet systemic racism wasn’t on trial here; Chauvin was, and not for racism at that. In fact, racism was not a focal point in the trial. That won’t stop leftists from claiming vindication for their bogus claims of “systemic racism.” Indeed, socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden and Harris used those words five times in discussing the verdict.

“Systemic racism is a stain on our nation’s soul,” Biden declared. lowlife/liar-Harris added, “America has a long history of systemic racism.” Worse, she said, “Black Americans, and black men in particular, have been treated throughout the course of our history as less than human.”

Then there was the grotesque statement from House Speaker scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi. “Thank you, George Floyd,” she said, “for sacrificing your life for justice.” It was “heartbreaking” to hear Floyd “call out for your mom, ‘I can’t breathe,’” she added. “But because of you and because of thousands, millions of people around the world who came out for justice, your name will always be synonymous with justice.”

Apparently, Floyd’s life was a sacrifice Pelosi was willing to make. Her political charade included infamously kneeling while wearing the garb of African slave traders.

Pelosi’s nemesis, the radical commie/liar-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, was no less reprehensible. “This verdict is not justice,” she declared. “I also don’t want this moment to be framed as this system working.”

The real shame of this trial is that no one will ever really know if the system worked. If there’s anything “systemic,” it’s the dishonest corruption of Democrats who foment urban violence among their black constituents in response to perceived injustice. They sow discord and racism everywhere while blaming the other side. Thus, this case will always be tainted by the distinct whiff of mob justice.

Footnote: Stay tuned this afternoon as Mark Alexander provides more in-depth coverage of this trial.   

~The Patriot Post

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Fake Jim Crow Gets a Hearing
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What a difference a couple of blown Georgia Senate seats make.

When you’re in the majority, you get to not only call and chair your Senate hearings, you get to name them as well — even if the name you choose is itself a lie from the pits of hell.

Thus, due to the Senate-flipping election of Democrats Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock in Georgia on January 5, we’re now treated to the likes of the taxpayer-funded farce that was Tuesday’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Jim Crow 2021: The Latest Assault on the Right to Vote.”

Jim Crow 2021 — you know, because asking for a picture ID in Atlanta in 2021 is just as racist as trotting out the poll taxes, the nightsticks, the firehoses, and the German shepherds in the Deep South of 60 years ago.

“That title alone,” writes Fred Lucas at The Daily Signal, “prompted some lawmakers, black and white, to take umbrage at trivializing a violent and bigoted era of American history. The focus of the Senate hearing was Georgia’s new election integrity law, which requires voters to present identification in submitting absentee ballots, such as a driver’s license number; codifies ballot drop boxes; and expands weekend voting.”

Utah Representative and former NFLer Burgess Owens, himself a black man whose dad was victimized by real Jim Crow laws, had this charade sussed all along: “True racism is this,” he said, “the projection of the Democratic Party on my proud race. It’s called the soft bigotry of low expectations.”

Not quite content, however, Owens added, “President socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden said of the Georgia law, ‘This is Jim Crow on steroids.’ With all due respect, Mr. socialist/scumbag/liar-President, you know better. It is disgusting and offensive to compare actual voter suppression and the violence of that era that we grew up in with a state law that only asks people to show their ID.”

There were other truth-tellers, too, such as Utah Senator Mike Lee, who noted, “[Jim Crow] was a system of laws designed to hold black Americans back, hold them back in part because white Democrats in the South didn’t want them to vote and didn’t like the fact that they were voting as and being elected as Republicans. Let’s not compare a voter registration law — one that makes sure dead people can’t vote — to that.”

Republican Senator Lindsey Graham even got Georgia’s race-baiting scumbag/worthless-Stacey Abrams to admit that she supported voter ID laws and that voting should be restricted to American citizens. Quite a feat, that.

All in all, it was a good day for the Senate’s Republican minority and a good day for what former Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis might’ve dubbed the disinfecting power of sunlight.

In his landmark civil rights book The Strange Career of Jim Crow, Yale University history professor C. Vann Woodward said the pre-Civil Rights South’s Jim Crow statutes “lent the sanction of law to a racial ostracism that extended to churches and schools, to housing and jobs, to eating and drinking.” He added, “Whether by law or by custom, that ostracism extended to virtually all forms of public transportation, to sports and recreations, to hospitals, orphanages, prisons, and asylums, and ultimately to funeral homes, morgues, and cemeteries.”

We would do well — all of us — to remember that the real Jim Crow is long dead and buried, and we should deride at every turn the Left’s attempt to tie today’s modest voting reform efforts to that dark period of the distant past.

Finally, when President socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden calls legitimate voting reform efforts “Jim Crow on steroids,” we should denounce him for doing violence to language and meaning. Further, we should denounce him for cheapening the currency of the term “Jim Crow” itself.

Whether socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden knows it or not, he’s rendering that term meaningless — just as his party has done to terms such as “racist” and “racism.”  ~The Patriot Post

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For Black America: Patriotism, or Self-Imposed Exile?
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It is a cruel and hateful thing the Left does to black Americans, working relentlessly to convince them that America hates and oppresses them, when in reality there is no place on Earth where someone of African descent is more blessed to live — including Africa.

Is America’s past regarding race unblemished? Of course not! America was founded in 1776 (not 1619), and it took nearly another 100 years, and a war costing 600,000 lives, to force Democrats to free their slaves.

And it took another 100 years after that before enough moral pressure was brought to bear on Democrats to the point where they finally relented and accepted the idea of civil rights and social equality for black Americans.

So, America’s past is not stainless. What makes America unique is not that we tolerated slavery but that, embracing the Western ideals of the Enlightenment, we broke with thousands of years of human history and declared the forced bondage of one man to another to be a moral evil.

Today, America’s race-baiting social arsonists declare that America’s past sins make her irredeemable. If so, where should black Americans go to escape such evil?

To Africa, where slavery is still practiced today, civil wars rage, and tribal warlords murder their fellow Africans by the tens of thousands? Where poverty is rampant, and individual and property rights are often nonexistent?

How about communist China, which America’s Left adores? It’s hard to imagine a country that not only casually produces overtly racist commercials but that imprisons, rapes, castrates, forces abortions on, and murders more than a million of Uyghur minorities would be a more hospitable locale for black Americans.

And for blacks, Europe seems no better.

Maybe that’s why Glenn Loury, professor of economics at the prestigious (and liberal) Brown University, argues there is no better place in the world for blacks than America.

In his recent article, “The Case for Black Patriotism,” Loury argues, “There is a fashionable standoffishness characteristic of much elite thinking about blacks’ relationship to America. … Does this posture serve the interests, rightly understood, of black Americans? I think that it does not.”

Loury continues, “Indeed, a case can be made that the correct narrative to adopt today is one of unabashed black patriotism — a forthright embrace of American nationalism by black people. Black Americans’ birthright citizenship in what is arguably history’s greatest republic is an inheritance of immense value.”

Acknowledging America’s initial participation in the evil of slavery, he notes it was hardly unique in that regard. Slavery has been practiced among all cultures and races nearly as long as man has been on Earth.

Yet after the aforementioned war, and the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments, as well as the Civil Rights Act of 1866 (which Republicans passed and Democrats overturned), and later the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, black Americans became full citizens, integrated into the national fabric.

If the consequences were not so dire; it would be hilarious to hear the racial grievance-mongering Left act as if blacks have never had it so bad as they do in modern America.

Of course, no sane person would accept the idea that black slaves of 1860s America, or segregated blacks of 1950s America, were somehow better off than blacks in America today, where not only do they have every right enjoyed by white Americans, but they often enjoy preferential treatment by politicians and woke CEOs tripping over themselves to prove how not racist they are.

The race hucksters would have us believe that a nation where Oprah Winfrey, Kanye West, Michael Jordan, Jay-Z, and Tyler Perry are billionaires, where the overwhelming majority of multimillionaire athletes in the NBA and the NFL are black, and where black artists dominate music charts and grow extravagantly wealthy selling their music to white kids is a nation where blacks are still oppressed and second-class citizens.

But race-hustling is lucrative, and a few blacks are getting quite rich by coercing guilt-ridden white liberals and corporations into ponying up hundreds of millions of dollars to their racial extortion scheme.

For example, Black Lives Matter cofounder and self-proclaimed Marxist Patrice Khan-Cullors has been exposed for acquiring millions of dollars of real estate in predominately white, affluent areas of Los Angeles and Atlanta. This type of personal enrichment on their backs isn’t sitting well with many blacks, including the families of blacks killed by police who are the focus of BLM’s hustling.

And therein lies the problem. If you are a black American living in Democrat-run major cities and states, where crime is rampant, poverty is high, murder is common, and educational choice is denied to poor black children, it’s understandable that you would see America as racist and oppressive.

The rest of America is not these Democrat-run poverty plantations.

Professor Loury notes there are five times as many Nigerians as there are black Americans, yet black Americans have twice the accumulated wealth.

In closing, Loury states, “The central issue, then, is a question of narrative. Are we going to look through the dark lens of the U.S. as a racist, genocidal, white supremacist, illegitimate force? Or are we going to see it for what it has become over the course of the last three centuries: the greatest force for human liberty on the planet?”

For black Americans, the answer will determine which ones partake of America’s bounty and opportunity, and which ones remain in self-imposed exile.  ~The Patriot Post

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Leftists Cancel Another of Their Own
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The American Humanist Association, a leftist group of ardent atheists, issued an announcement Monday  officially rescinding its “Humanist of the Year Award” presented in 1996 to that most strident of atheists, Richard Dawkins. So, what happened? Did Dawkins suddenly become a theist? Nope.

The AHA explains, “Regrettably, Richard Dawkins has over the past several years accumulated a history of making statements that use the guise of scientific discourse to demean marginalized groups, an approach antithetical to humanist values. His latest statement implies that the identities of transgender individuals are fraudulent, while also simultaneously attacking Black identity as one that can be assumed when convenient. His subsequent attempts at clarification are inadequate and convey neither sensitivity nor sincerity.”

While this couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy (sarcasm alert), the fact of the matter is that Dawkins is being excommunicated as a heretic from the Church of Woke over his failure to adhere to the Rainbow Mafia’s “transgender” dogma.

You see, recently Dawkins stated on social media, “In 2015, Rachel Dolezal, a white chapter president of the NAACP, was vilified for identifying as Black. Some men choose to identify as women, and some women choose to identify as men. You will be vilified if you deny that they literally are what they identify as. Discuss.”

The irony is thick. The AHA, which literally declares itself the champion of “freethinkers,” will not tolerate views that don’t align with the Church of Woke. The “science” absolutists will not follow the science when it runs counter to their “progressivism.” This exposes the fact that the humanism of AHA adherents is just as religious as the theistic faith-based religions they love to ridicule as backwards, unenlightened, and subjective.

Much the same can be said of Dawkins. All his attacks against the major monotheistic religions of Christianity, Judaism, and Islam stem from his own fervent “faith” in humanism, that secular religion whose current leadership can’t abide his commitment to the “old” and ironically Judeo-Christian concept of truth being absolute or unchanging. Since Dawkins has failed to see the “light” on “transgenderism,” he must be canceled. This is the inevitable end of the Left’s commitment to woke victimology — eventually it will destroy itself because all it does and can do is tear down.   ~The Patriot Post

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MSM Exposes Its Pro-Dem Bias Yet Again
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An American media tradition that “temporarily” died as soon as Donald Trump won the 2016 election is the 100-day “honeymoon” period, during which the mainstream media generally grants a new president time to set up shop, as it were, before engaging in more critical and negative coverage. As we observed at the time, Trump enjoyed no such deferent treatment from the MSM.

From the get-go, the MSM treated Trump as a usurper, parroting without any evidence the “Russian collusion” hoax as being the “real” reason for his “illegitimate” victory. Using this unfounded and later throughly debunked conspiracy as justification to drop any pretense of objectivity, the MSM became the “resistance.”

This media resistance to Trump was documented in its overwhelmingly negative coverage of his administration. Over Trump’s first 100 days, coverage by ABC, CBS, and NBC was 89% negative, and they dedicated a whopping 1,900 minutes of broadcast time to this relentless drumbeat.

Compare this to coverage socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden has received over this same time period in his presidency. socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden has enjoyed the traditional media honeymoon, with 59% of the networks’ news coverage being positive, even as they have allotted 726 minutes of broadcast time — less than half of what Trump received.

Yet, objectively speaking, it is socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden who has earned negative press with his ill-conceived and radical open-borders agenda that has directly led to the largest illegal immigration crisis the nation as seen in decades. The Deep State, MSM, and Democrats manufactured the Russian collusion “scandal” to justify the highly negative coverage of Trump. Beyond his sometimes caustic rhetoric, there was nothing in Trump’s policy decisions that warranted the over-the-top negative and biased coverage.

NewsBusters reports, “Roughly 90% of network news coverage of the socialist/scumbag/liar-Biden administration (650 minutes out of 726) was spent on policy issues; that compares to just 45% of Trump administration coverage during those early weeks. Long before Robert Mueller’s appointment as special counsel, Trump’s media profile was already being smothered by the Russia collusion story (222 minutes), and the networks delighted in finding controversy in the non-politician President’s colorful comments.”

Furthermore, the MSM has essentially ignored socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden’s controversial and inflammatory statements, like when he accused Republicans of “Neanderthal thinking” with masks or his demonstrably false claims that Georgia’s election law was “Jim Crow on steroids.”

Clearly, MSM journalists/activists root for Team socialist/ scumbag/liar-Biden, as they have proven themselves yet again to be nothing more than the propaganda wing of the Democrat Party.   ~The Patriot Post

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GARY BAUER 
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An Officer Died and the Left Lied

Late Monday, and without any fanfare, the Washington, D.C., medical examiner’s office announced that Capitol Hill Police Officer Brian Sicknick died of natural causes on January 7th after suffering two strokes.

Officer Sicknick was a U.S. military veteran, and he did his job protecting the Capitol. His family deserves our full support and prayers. Yet, in spite of his family’s pleas not to politicize his death, that’s exactly what the left did for its own political gain.

It would have been better if the breach of the Capitol Building had never happened on January 6th. But it is absolutely clear that there was an intentional effort by the left to label those events as an “insurrection,” and to smear the entire conservative movement as illegitimate, violent and a danger to the country.

For weeks, virtually every media outlet referred to January 6th as a “deadly insurrection.” Many outlets also said that Officer Sicknick had been bludgeoned to death by Trump supporters. All of that was a lie, and we knew it very early on.

But the New York Times didn’t correct its inaccurate reporting until well after the false narrative had taken root all over the country, and, most tellingly, only after the president’s impeachment trial had concluded.

So, now we know that the only person who suffered the consequences of deadly force on January 6th was Ashli Babbitt, a former U.S. military veteran who served in Afghanistan and Iraq. To this day, we still do not know the name of the Capitol Hill security officer who shot her.

The Left’s Propaganda

Let’s review what happened over the past year.

  • Throughout 2020, there were many “insurrections” across America in which federal courthouses, ICE offices, police departments and historic monuments all came under attack from radical leftists. Dozens of people were killed, including law enforcement personnel.

  • Not only did socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden and lowlife/liar-Kamala Harris rarely condemn the violence, their staff did their best to bail out the rioters as quickly as they were arrested.

  • Before COVID hit, there were many Trump rallies all over the country. Conservatives leaving the events were often attacked by violent leftists.

  • Those of us who attended the last night of the 2020 Republican National Convention at the White House had to run a gauntlet of crazed radicals to get back to our cars.

  • The White House itself was under siege for days. More than 60 Secret Service agents were injured.

None of this was labeled an “insurrection” by congressional Democrats.

None of this was taken by the media as evidence of an extremism problem on the left that needed to be subdued and dealt with.

But after just one event on Capitol Hill, in which no one died other than Trump supporters, the entire federal law enforcement apparatus and the media have established a false narrative that conservatives are violent and the left is just seeking social justice.

That is the very definition of propaganda.

scumbag/worthless-Waters Is Out Of Order

Yesterday, we reported on the outrageous comments by Rep. scumbag/worthless-Maxine Waters, urging protesters in Minneapolis to “get more confrontational.”

Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz said scumbag/worthless-Waters “borrowed precisely from the Ku Klux Klan” by trying to intimidate the jury, which is now deliberating the fate of Police Office Derek Chauvin, who is facing charges of second-degree unintentional murder, third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter in the death of George Floyd.

Not surprisingly, Chauvin’s defense team seized on the congresswoman’s remarks to demand a mistrial. Judge Peter Cahill denied the request, but then said this:

“Congresswoman Waters may have given you something on appeal that may result in this whole trial being overturned…

"I wish elected officials would stop talking about this case, especially in a manner that is disrespectful to the rule of law and to the judicial branch… if they want to give their opinions they should do so in a respectful [manner] … consistent with their oath to the Constitution, to respect the co-equal branch of government. Their failure to do so is abhorrent!”

When Donald Trump encouraged his supporters to go Capitol Hill and peacefully let members of Congress know how they felt, every Democrat and virtually every media outlet said that was an “incitement to insurrection.”

Yet, when a Democrat committee chairwoman goes to a city where there is a violent insurrection taking place night after night and urges people to be “more confrontational,” that’s just free speech.

Speaker scumbag/liar-Nancy Pelosi said scumbag/ worthless-Maxine Waters had nothing to apologize for. And as Professor Jonathan Turley noted, Waters just undermined her own lawsuit against President Donald Trump’s alleged “incitement.”

Some reports suggest that other congressional Democrats are seething at Waters. I’m not reassured at all. I haven’t heard one House Democrat publicly speak out against her, proving yet again that the radical left is in full control of the Democrat Party.

Bush Is Back

After staying relatively silent for the past twelve years, former President George W. Bush has reemerged on the national scene with a big new project.

I know the former president fairly well. I competed against him in the 2000 Republican presidential primaries, and was in a number of presidential debates with him.

But I am sorry to say that George W. Bush is a globalist. He’s all in for virtually unregulated international trade. To this day, he seems clueless about the damage so-called “free trade policies” inflicted on working and middle-class Americans in the heartland.

In one of the most heated exchanges we had in the debates, Bush dug his heels in on more trade with communist China. Bush said I would be shocked at how quickly trade would change communist China if only we engaged with their entrepreneurs.

Well, as we know, trade with China didn’t change communist China. It changed us. It turned American capitalists into lobbyists for communist China. It made American businessmen apologists for the regime’s repeated atrocities.

Sadly, Bush is proving once again that he is tone deaf about the mood of America. His new project is promoting more immigration.

Obviously, the public opposes illegal immigration. But Bush might be shocked to find that the public doesn’t want more legal immigration either.

Recent polling shows that 60% of swing voters want legal immigration cut in half. That’s understandable given that we’re still recovering from the pandemic. Twenty million Americans are still unemployed or underemployed.

Why President Bush thinks this is the time to go all in on sending more of our jobs overseas while being more of the world into America beats me. I am begging him to find something else to do in his retirement.

Trump’s Plans

Former President Donald Trump was interviewed Monday night by Sean Hannity on his Fox News show. Asked about running again in 2024, Trump gave the strongest signal yet that he’s planning a comeback bid. He told Hannity, “I am looking at it very seriously. Beyond seriously.”

President Trump also said he was “all in” on helping Republicans retake Congress in 2022, saying, “It’s very important that we get the right people. That means in the Senate, that means in the House.”

I couldn’t agree more that we need the right people, not just more “Republicans.” And that’s exactly why I formed Campaign for Working Families!

We need committed conservatives who will proudly defend our Constitution, and fight for President Trump’s America First agenda.   ~The Patriot Post

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BETSY MCCAUGHEY 
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Beware of Dems’ Proposed Domestic Terrorism Law

Top congressional Democrats including Senate Majority Leader Chuck scumbag/liar-Schumer are pushing new laws to stamp out “domestic terrorism.” But they’re targeting only right-wing organizations. If rioters are looting and setting fires for a leftist cause, that’s OK.

President socialist/scumbag/liar-Joe Biden’s newly appointed attorney general, Merrick Garland, labels the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol invasion as “domestic terror,” but refuses to apply the same term to the left-wing rioters who attacked the Portland federal courthouse last summer.

The Democrats’ efforts to label only right-leaning groups as domestic terrorists is un-American. The First Amendment guarantees that we can join any political group we like, as long as we don’t commit a crime.

If protesters attack a courthouse, assault cops or loot stores, there are enough laws on the books to punish them. And offenders should get the same treatment, whether they identify with antifa or the Proud Boys.

Tell that to scumbag/liar-Schumer. He introduced a Senate resolution calling on the FBI and intelligence community to examine the leadership and membership of right-wing groups and “prioritize the investigation and prosecution of such groups.”

scumbag/liar-Schumer’s proposal is dangerous. Belonging to an ideological group — far left or far right — isn’t a crime in the U.S. You can be a Nazi, a Marxist, a member of the Proud Boys or any other despicable movement. The FBI’s job is to investigate violent crimes, not ideology. It doesn’t designate certain groups as domestic terrorists, though scumbag/liar-Schumer’s resolution is suggesting they do that.

scumbag/liar-Schumer also promises to fast-track the proposed Domestic Terrorism Prevention Act of 2021, a bill that calls for law enforcement “monitoring” of right-wing groups. You could become a target by interacting with such a group, even if you don’t commit a crime.

The same bill would stiffen penalties for lawbreakers motivated by political beliefs the authorities don’t approve of. Picture jails filled with right-wing protesters serving long sentences when Democrats are in power and vice-versa. Welcome to Putin-ville.

In the past, the U.S. has dealt effectively with extremist violence. In the 1970s, lefties from the Animal Liberation Front attacked animal testing facilities. The Symbionese Liberation Army committed murders and robbed banks. The individuals who committed the crimes were punished, but the federal government didn’t designate the groups as terrorists or criminalize belonging to them.

Now, Democrats claim a right-wing threat justifies drastic action. The Washington Post says “domestic terrorism incidents have soared to new highs in the United States, driven chiefly by white supremacist, anti-Muslim and anti-government extremists on the far right.”

That’s untrue. The Washington Post cites a report from the highly woke Center for Strategic and International Studies, which recorded 73 “far-right” violent incidents with two resulting deaths in 2020, compared with 25 leftist incidents with one resulting death. The numbers are minuscule, and the comparison between left and right incidents is meaningless because CSIS didn’t count many of the violent events during last year’s nationwide unrest after George Floyd’s death.

During that riots, as many as 700 law enforcement officials were injured and property damage reached $2 billion. That shows leftist protesters, often acting with impunity, are a major threat.

Tell that to Garland.

In May 2020, as rioters were attacking public buildings in Portland and Minneapolis, Garland’s predecessor, William Barr, deplored the attacks as “domestic terrorism” and named left-wing groups such as antifa.

But in a Senate hearing this February, Garland refused to call burning the Portland courthouse domestic terrorism. People are more likely to call something terrorism when they disagree with the ideology of the perpetrators.

Therein lies the danger. Even the ACLU and some Democratic lawmakers oppose a domestic terrorism law.

It’s not needed to keep the peace. What’s needed is a clear message that if protesters resort to looting, assaulting police or destroying public buildings, then they’ll be punished, no matter how just their cause.

That’s the opposite of California Democratic Rep. scumbag/worthless-Maxine Waters’ message to Minneapolis protesters early Sunday, when she urged them to be “more confrontational.” Yet, in Congress, she’s exhorting federal investigators to shut down right-wing protesters.

scumbag/worthless-Waters’ hypocrisy shows how dangerous a domestic terrorism law would be.   

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/79304?mailing_id=5789&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.5789&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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