by Julie Kelly
FBI agents last week arrested a man from Maine for his involvement in the events of January 6. According to a Department of Justice press release, Lincoln Deming spent about 30 minutes inside the building after entering through an open door with Capitol Police standing by. Deming faces numerous charges including civil disorder and the dreaded “parading” in the Capitol misdemeanor.
The DOJ bragged in the press release about the government’s scalp count for its unprecedented prosecution of Jan 6 protesters. “More than 1,424 individuals have been charged in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol,” Matthew Graves, the Joe Biden-appointed U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, boasted. The investigation into the four-hour disturbance, Graves warned, is “ongoing.”
Indeed. The DOJ, astonishingly, is on pace to arrest one J6 protester a day this year; Graves has stated his intention to bring the total caseload to at least 2,000 defendants before the statute of limitations expires.
If DOJ Didn’t Have Double Standards, It Would Have No Standards at All…Oh Wait
At the same time, the DOJ refuses to bring federal charges against pro-Palestinian demonstrators who in many instances engaged in similar if not worse conduct inside Congressional buildings over the past six months.
Graves’ spokeswoman recently confirmed to me via email that all cases stemming from arrests of pro-Palestinian protesters are being handled by the local D.C. prosecutor.
In other words, no federal obstruction of an official proceeding indictments against those who repeatedly interrupted Senate and House hearings to protest against the Israel-Gaza war. No federal “parading” charges for demonstrators who unlawfully occupied government buildings in Washington on multiple occasions. Even demonstrators who assaulted Capitol police outside the DNC headquarters last November do not face federal charges–a shocking double-standard since hundreds of J6ers have been federally charged with assault on police, even for minor confrontations, often resulting in lengthy prison sentences and pretrial detention in several cases.
Which makes recent comments by Attorney General Merrick Garland all the more outrageous–and demonstrably false. Before two House committees voted Thursday to advance contempt of Congress against Garland for defying a congressional subpoena demanding the audio recording of Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur last year, Garland mustered his most sanctimonious self to explain how House Republicans, not him, threaten the legitimacy of the DOJ—a “fundamental institution of our democracy,” Garland claimed. (Garland advised Biden to invoke executive privilege to prevent producing the tapes to Congress; Biden only too happily accepted his counsel.)
Garland audaciously claimed politics plays no role in determining what investigations his department pursues.
Watch and try not to laugh or throw things:
Without political influence?
If the country had a real news media instead of boot-lickers who ask Garland about his hurt feelings when people criticize the DOJ, at least one reporter would have confronted Garland about the ongoing prosecution of J6ers while letting Hamasurrectionists off the hook.
Now, if you are implying there are two justice systems, one for the right and one that protects the violent thug-soldiers of the left, then you better stop it. Just stop it.
Garland needs totally removed from the job and retired to Prison with Biden Clinton(Bill)Soros and Bragg as well as Gates
How can Robin Ware/Robert L. Peters/JRB Ware/Pedo Peter/idiot Biden claim executive privilege over answering questions about a crime he committed as a Senator or VP? This does not concern official Presidential duties and, as the left loves to point out, even the President isn’t immune from being held accountable for committing crimes, especially before he was even President.
Beyond any possible dispute, Herr Obergruppenfuhrer Garland pursues Republicans and Republican supporters with a fascist vigor while letting true violent terrorists off the hook, as long as they are rioting, looting and assaulting for leftist causes. This is EXACTLY why the notion that there IS no law in the US under Democrats gains such traction.