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The Biden DOJ Comes for the Pro-Lifers
Some people cheered when people who protested at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, were rounded up by the FBI, thrown into jail, kept for months without charges, denied bail and access to counsel, and sentenced to long prison terms from trespassing charges of the type routinely dismissed for left-wing protesters. These same people will be delighted to learn that the Biden/Garland DOJ is now extending this treatment to people who protest in front of abortion clinics.
Last week, the FBI sent a SWAT team in a dawn raid to arrest a pro-life protester, even though his lawyer had already negotiated an agreement for him to turn himself in peacefully. Eleven more were arrested this week as the radical left Biden DOJ continues its crackdown on political opponents.
Worth noting: The FBI has yet to make a single arrest for acts of arson, vandalism, and violence against crisis pregnancy centers. Indeed, the FBI confiscated security camera footage of a crisis pregnancy center firebombing and refused to return it on the basis that it might inspire “right-wing” violence.
There are two standards of justice in this country; one for supporters of the ruling party, and another for its opponents.
There comes a point where choosing not to stand is to make a stand. FBI field agents stood by while the Biden DOJ dropped cases against criminals who rioted, set fires, looted, and assaulted officers during the nationwide tantrum after the death of St. George Floyd. They remain silent as the administration takes no action to find members of Jane’s Revenge, the group claiming to attack pregnancy centers, or the criminals destroying churches.
Yet they don their gear and roll up to the houses of nonviolent pro-life activists with guns drawn. Field agents are no longer passive actors simply taking orders. They are active participants in helping the Biden DOJ enforce two standards of justice. When Republicans take control of Congress next year, both agencies need radical reforms from the leadership suite in D.C. to the offices in the field.
Perhaps, should the Republican Party win a congressional majority next year, they can hold hearings into these matters. Remember the Republican-led hearings into Fast and Furious, Benghazi, IRS Harassment of Conservative Political Groups, and the Veterans Administration Scandal that let 300,000 veterans die waiting for health care while VA bureaucrats awarded bonuses to each other? Remember how those hearings punished those responsible and led to massive reforms at those respective agencies?
Yeah, neither do I.
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We aren’t mind-readers, so we don’t know why McConnell stopped Garland. Maybe he did think it the right thing to do, or maybe, as you suggest, it suited him for some other reason. The fact remains that he kept the vacancy open despite the howling on the Left, and for that I’m grateful. That doesn’t seem an exceptional or notable response on my part.
Or it could be said that Biden was the reason, having come up with the “Biden Rule” for SCOTUS nominations back in 1992.
We dodged a bullet . . .
I carried the bodies of too many men who were killed or maimed in service of our country to have any tolerance for someone not doing the right thing merely because they are afraid to lose their job.
Yes, maybe we should give old Joe a smidgeon of credit!
But of course he never meant it to be used against THEM!
Yeah, just like Harry Reid ending the filibuster for non-SCOTUS nominees. Way to go, Harry!
He did his part, and he did it for Justice Scalia and his family, rather than his own motives, or for the party or country. He felt that he owed Scalia that respect.
I’m not advocating, it’s just a fact.
Of course, I was critical of them, not you.
I think the rank and file start out ok, if they stay long, they will end up getting jaded or getting indoctornated. If they move up the chain, they will have to swallow the FBI company line. If they are jaded, they will not be in a leadership position
This is the fate of the elected representatives as well absent term limits.
A better solution than term limits is to make the House at least ten times larger (even better twenty times) so that they can actually represent a people that might know them.
Twenty would bring it fairly close to where they started, ~35k.
I don’t want to think about how long it would take and how much it would cost to construct a new House of Representatives building large enough to hold them.
Mike Flynn says that everyone on the SSCI is coopted by the CIA, and the CIA more or less calls the shots and it’s own funding.
Certainly someone no better.
And if you have more than ten years in, you’re close to retirement and feel a strong pull to make it to retirement, and they call this the “golden handcuffs”.
A better solution to entrenched bureaucrats is to not offer retirement after 20 years, but for whatever years you put in when you reach 65 (or 67, or whatever).