We have to compare the George Floyd riots and similar incidents to the riot at the Capitol.
Set the Example
There were clearly people on January 6 who crossed the line and deserved to be prosecuted, but when you send a grandmother to jail for walking in the Capitol and praying, well, I think we can all agree that it is a little over the top.
Garland clearly issued an edict that he wanted the book thrown at everyone arrested related to the J6 rioting.
“A quibble about whether we have 1,500 or slightly less than 1,500 — but we have way more than 1400 now — prosecutions.
“We have a substantial number of convictions.
“I think that’s shown to everybody how seriously we take an effort to interfere with the peaceful transfer of power the last January 6, the coming January 6, and every January 6 after that.
“I want to make clear to anybody who is thinking about interfering with that: They can see what we’ve done with respect to the January 6 prosecutions, and [the] Justice Department will continue to protect our democracy.”
This is a clear crackdown on conservatives, period.
Let’s be honest here… how often in this country have we seen conservatives push back against the government?
Democrats were terrified by what they saw.
They know liberals riot for the sake of rioting, but conservatives were just fed up and finally snapped, and it terrified Democrats right to their core.
So, Garland issued this edict to throw the book at everyone in the hopes that it would deter conservatives from ever daring to question the government again.
Something tells me it had the complete opposite effect.
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