Politico lays the groundwork for a rather embarrassing turn for the Biden Democrats (if they were capable of feeling shame): The reasons they cited to justify turning the nation’s capital into a militarized zone were false.
Democrats deployed thousands of National Guard — and mistreated them — over this?
A POLITICO analysis of the Capitol riot-related cases shows that almost a quarter of the more than 230 defendants formally and publicly charged so far face only misdemeanors. Dozens of those arrested are awaiting formal charges, even as new cases are being unsealed nearly every day.
In recent days, judges, prosecutors and defense attorneys have all indicated that they expect few of these “MAGA tourists” to face harsh sentences.
There are two main reasons: Although prosecutors have loaded up their charging documents with language about the existential threat of the insurrection to the republic, the actions of many of the individual rioters often boiled down to trespassing. And judges have wrestled with how aggressively to lump those cases in with those of the more sinister suspects.
“My bet is a lot of these cases will get resolved and probably without prison time or jail time,” said Erica Hashimoto, a former federal public defender who is now a law professor at Georgetown. “One of the core values of this country is that we can protest if we disagree with our government. Of course, some protests involve criminal acts, but as long as the people who are trying to express their view do not engage in violence, misdemeanors may be more appropriate than felonies.”
This justifies standing down and politicizing the military?
No.
Protests should never progress over into criminal acts. This should be obvious, but remember CNN’s Chris Cuomo forgetting that the First Amendment actually says protests should be peaceful?
The media instigated and encouraged violent riots. The healthcare establishment even approved protests/riots while closing schools, businesses, and churches. Democrats took advantage. Many Americans aren’t stupid. We noticed all of this.
Allowing antifa and their allies who openly despise and want to overthrow this country to engage in minor illegal acts such as blocking roads, which can and often has escalated quickly into serious and fatal violence, has blurred the lines. Pretending the BLM riots didn’t destroy lives and property all over the country encouraged more political violence. Allowing antifa to riot night after night after night in Portland and other cities for months on end blurred lines further still. There’s either one set of laws for everyone, or there’s unfair and unequal application of the law, which leads to breakdowns. The Democrats and their lapdog media prefer to crush conservatives using any smear at hand — while encouraging actual insurrectionists to engage in actual acts of insurrection.
None of this justifies any criminal act, at least not in reasonable minds. But Democrat district attorneys from Portland to Austin, from Los Angeles to the east coast have intentionally freed rioters if they agree with said rioters’ politics. That’s not how it’s supposed to work. But it’s where we are. Democrat DAs are still doing this. In Austin — central Texas — the county and district attorney are freeing criminals and prosecuting police officers as their stated purpose.
The Democrats, especially Speaker Nancy Pelosi, have used the riot as an excuse for militarizing the capital and for the silencing of dissent across the entire country. Pelosi has painted all conservatives and Republicans as complicit, and called House Republicans the “enemy within.” Pelosi has turned the ideological leadership of her party over to its most hate-filled, ignorant, extremist members such as Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York.
But here we are:
The prospect of dozens of Jan. 6 rioters cutting deals for minor sentences could be hard to explain for the Biden administration, which has characterized the Capitol Hill mob as a uniquely dangerous threat. Before assuming office, Biden said the rioters’ attempt to overturn the election results by force “borders on sedition”; Attorney General Merrick Garland has called the prosecutions his top early priority, describing the storming of Congress as “a heinous attack that sought to disrupt a cornerstone of our democracy, the peaceful transfer of power to a newly elected government.”
Will the media force any Democrat to answer for their extreme actions — militarizing the capital like some Marxist dictatorship, crushing dissent, and politicizing the military?
Stop laughing, it’s really not funny.
Four of the five who died in the riot were protesters; one was shot and killed by an officer who still remains unidentified. Will that officer’s name ever be revealed? Will he ever face any investigation or consequences for shooting an unarmed woman? Officer Brian Sicknick’s death was originally reported to have resulted from a vicious, violent attack by the rioters. That New York Times report turned out to be disinformation. We still don’t know how he died, but it wasn’t from rioters smashing him with a fire extinguisher as the self-proclaimed paper of record reported it. That. Was. False.
But even questioning any of this at all brought the wrath of Facebook and Twitter down on your head, for months. They would deplatform you for it. Big Tech colluded and shut down entire businesses over this. They probably would still do this if the Biden White House asks them to.
The riot has always had a curious element that the mainstream disinformation media never bothered themselves to examine. An “armed insurrection” originating in MAGA country would have actually been armed. MAGA country is awash in firearms of all kinds and people who know how to use them. Yet not a single gun has ever been verified to have been in the hands of any of the rioters. The armed insurrection was not armed, and going by the charges Politico outlines, was not an insurrection. The charges do not fit that accusation, according to Politico’s report. Judges are noticing and trying to get the cases expedited.
(It also wasn’t supported by the vast majority of Republicans.)
But the Democrats have moved to shred the Constitution over January 6, while allowing — encouraging, in Kamala Harris’s case — more truly insurrectionist rioting from the left.
A fair media would point all of this out, not months later and after the Democrats have done enormous damage to the country, but as events are happening.
But everything is political now. Everything.
And prosecutors are facing pressure from judges to either back up their tough talk about sedition or put a lid on it. Michael Sherwin, the former lead Jan. 6 prosecutor, found himself rebuked by other senior prosecutors and Judge Amit Mehta last week for publicly flirting with the possibility of sedition charges when none had actually been leveled.
Watch Biden and Pelosi find new ways to lie about this. That’s what they do. They haven’t done one single thing to bring any unity to this country. They’ve used their power to distract, distort, and provoke. They’ll double and triple down on that.
Democrats, or communists, whichever term applies, always accuse others of that which they themselves do in subversive actions.
It continuously amazes me how this publication turns a blind eye to “the big LIE” and doesn’t see a trump inspired insurrection (actually treason) nor extreme guilt on the part of the perpetrators. You don’t have to listen to the mainstream media,…just look at the videos and pictures.
I guess you endorsed the arson, looting and attacks on the police and others by Antifa and BLM as peaceful demonstrations. As was stated where were the weapons if this was an armed insurrection? I saw no shields, masks, clubs, uniform outfits by all, no rocks, lasers, frozen water bottles, and etc. Oops, I forgot raising voices is enough for a conservative to be called violent in your world, snd yes they did more than raise voices; but far less than attempt to burn down Federal Buildings.
Arthur – you are likely wasting you time trying to reason with a ‘true believer’ (aka someone with a sever case of TDS). I still haven’t seen a valid count – likely several hundred thousand (at least) – attendees, and the authorities have only managed to arrest/charge a few hundred – and nearly all of them well after the fact. How many blm/antifa types were arrested in flat out riots – not too many and most of those got released by sympathetic judges. If the ‘insurrection’ was so disastrous, where were all of the fire bombed police cars, looted and vandalized businesses?
you obviously have an extreme case of TDS and are therefore incapable of understanding either TRUTH or FACTS
Richard, It appears that you are lost as far as facts go. 1. timeline of events found it started 15 minutes before Pres Trump ended his speech. 2. The crowd that was listening to Pres Trump had to walk almost a mile to get to the “riot”. 3. The FBI and Poolosy (the person responsible for the security) were notified by Capitol Police 6 days before that there was a planned attack planned and turned down National Guard assistance. 4. Poolosy also delayed asking for support for more than an hour after the “rioting” occurred. 5. Capital Police let the protesters in the back entrance and gave them an escort and then led in, protesters the stayed in-between the cones laid out in the Rotunda peacefully, just like a tour, according to the films I saw. The man standing next to the woman that was shot was an ANTIFA coordinator.
TREASON is the acts on our border committed by your lovable leader (Demoncrat temp president) and his cohorts and releasing all the ILLEGAL ALIENS into our country and giving them transportation to spread all over the country (with rights the rest of us do not have) and punishing the country by locking them down and requiring Covid shots and then giving a Standing Ovation for passing an infanticide bill like the New York assembly did. Who is turning a blind eye to “THE BIG LIE” that is going on under your nose.
You want us to go watch the video’s?
I’ll tell you what, go look at the video’s of when Muammar Gaddafi and government in Libya was overthrown as that’s what an “insurrection” looks like not that nonsense you saw on January 6, 2021.
My guess is you have never steeped outside your safe zone called hometown America and are clueless to what it looks like when citizens of a country try to overthrow it.
Me, 25 years in service to my country going around the world cleaning up the mess left behind when citizens try to overthrow their government.
why dont you read a dictionary dumbass and learn the meaning of insurrection. that crap at the capital wasnt an insurrection. if it was it was the most pitiful insurrection ever recorded. the only armed people there was the police.ill agree it was an out of control protest. ill even agree to calling it a riot. but an insurrection, dude learn what that is. if you are going to sieze control of the capital you will need a better plan of attack and precision execution of the plan and plenty of weapons, guns ammo all sorts of weapons. but just running around a building screaming like an idiot isnt insurrection no matter what those idiot demoncraps like nancy pelosi and aoc call it. turn cnn off and pick up a dictionary and learn the meaning of words so you can at least sound like you have an iq over 50.
Actually, the big lie is coming from the bulk of the Democrats, and biden administration. I live in Oregon.
I watched hours of actual taped footage of the rioter, (oops! I mean ‘mostly peaceful’), protesters destroying Portland’s property. They came out in the dark after the true protesters went home. I watched them throw ignited items, ice water bottles, rocks, and other item at the courthouse. I saw the fires they started trying to burn the building down with officers inside. I saw them dismantling the fencing/barricades around the building. I saw the law enforcement inside the building until the rioters breached the fence. That attack on a Federal Building was skipped over by mainstream media, with their own agendas. I was sickened by the Governor/Portland mayor & city council# who catered to, and encouraged the whole thing until it was their own property, or self attacked. They invaded, and destroyed businesses, and residential areas, when they were dispersed from the courthouse area. That my friend was treason, and insurrection. The BIG LIE, is you believing something without doing the research. It’s there! A few clicks, or touches, on your phone, tablet, or computer will give you the FACTS, but you have to (1) do the research, and (2) be willing to accept that you have been the one lied to.
Tell me Richard; is ignorance really bliss? Your comment shows a disturbing disconnect from reality. I’m betting you were never at a Trump rally, for if you had been you would have seen that even when protesters “sneaked” in and started trouble, there was no violence perpetuated against them by Trump followers. Violence is the hallmark of the left; which is exactly what was visible to those who attended the Capital on Jan. 6th; and to every clear minded person since.
James he doesn’t want to acknowledge tings Like the video of now Congress woman Radhida Talib acting up prior to taking office at a Trump rally. But we remember!
Richard . Simply your an idiot ! If you don’t like what is published here, why do you continue to read it. Insurrection would imply they actually intended to forcefully overthrow the Government of the United State’s that day. That would have meant the video of said day would show hundreds or thousands or “Armed” men and women. By armed I mean with Guns . I’m a big boy I’ll admit it it did turn into a riot at the Capitol that day. But by far, it was way less in severity then any of the George Floyd protests/ riots in any major Democratic city. Truly the only thing that have in common is to many good men and women in uniform were caught in the middle again and were hurt. I’m afraid our darkest days are I front of us. History is not kind to any empire in that they all eventually fall.
Yes…dumbass…please look at the videos. Especially the ones that show Capital police opening gates and doors allowing entrance with no force at all! Cheaters never win.
“The media instigated and encouraged violent riots. The healthcare establishment even approved protests/riots while closing schools, businesses, and churches. Democrats took advantage. Many Americans aren’t stupid. We noticed all of this.”
The problem is there are just as many Americans that are stupid. All you have to do is go to some leftist site and you will see for yourself.
“The problem is there are just as many Americans that are stupid. All you have to do is go to some leftist site and you will see for yourself.”
That’s right! Just look at Richards post and that proves the point about Hypocrat morons!!!
One of the problems is that our mainstream media no longer used journalists. They all have become wannabe analysts. They don’t care about the truth, just the headlines, and their own agenda.
“Watch Biden and Pelosi find new ways to lie about this. That’s what they do.”
Ahh, yes, the “most transparent administration ever.” Well, yes, they _are_ transparent: Are their lips moving?
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Texans
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Wait wait … Politico, one of the nastiest, most vile anti-conservative, pro-democrat groups out there, is now saying the LEFT is wrong?
Have we entered Bizarro World?
What next, TheAtlantic saying Trump was right about how to handle the border?
There is no doubt that violence on Jan 6, was a coordinated effort by the Dems, with Peloosy and Schmuckface the organizers. They care nothing about the Constitution, America or it’s people, only winning. They couldn’t stand the fact that Trump was winning at everything he did. They HAD to bring him down, no matter the cost. The question now is, how much more are we going to let them get away with?
COMPARE THE JANUARY 6th RIOT @ THE CAPITOL to the “Real November 7, 1983 BOMBING in the Capitol” ?? Why are we not talking about this? Please share the article with everyone.
“Just before 11 p.m. on November 7, 1983, they called the U.S. Capitol switchboard and warned them to evacuate the building.
Ten minutes later, a bomb detonated in the building’s north wing, harming no one but blasting a 15-foot gash in a wall and causing $1 million in damage.”
In the 1980s, a Far-Left, Female-Led Domestic Terrorism Group Bombed the U.S. Capitol
Historian William Rosenau investigates the May 19th Communist Organization in a new book about the little-known militant group.
Susan Rosenberg, left, was one of M19’s most central members in its early years. Starting in high school, Rosenberg spent time with members of the Black Panthers and Young Lords, and her politics remained leftist through her brief time at Barnard. Linda Sue Evans, right, hailed from the Midwest. Both women’s prison sentences were commuted by President Bill Clinton in 2001
Google this the Smithsonian Magazine has an excellent article on this on their website.
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