WAITING WITH “BATED BREATH”
Like many other Americans I am waiting with “Bated Breath” for the Justice Department under Attorney General Merrick Garland to spring into action against the “Insurrection” we witnessed in Washington D.C. in the last couple of days by “Demonstrators” who at one point invaded Congress, burned American Flags and damaged/desecrated National Monuments and public buildings.
This morning I saw on the news that less than a dozen were briefly arrested and later released on minor infractions. Huh!
During the famous January 6th incident unarmed but rowdy demonstrators who did similar things were arrested, charged with “Insurrection”, put into “Dungeons Deep” on Rikers Island and left to “rot” for months, many in solitary confinement, then subjected to “Kangaroo” Court proceedings and given long prison terms. Many of these unarmed demonstrators burned no Flags and damaged no national monuments but are still in prison to this date. Despite discredited claims in the public media the only life lost was an unarmed protester who was shot by a Capitol Police Officer. The Police Officer who was falsely reported as killed in the “Riots” died later of something unrelated to the January 6 Demonstrations.
At this point I can only conclude that it is okay to burn the American Flag and damage monuments and public property if you do it under a Pro-Hamas flag. That won’t even raise an eyebrow over at the U.S. Department of Justice under the command of Merrick Garland. If you want to get his attention and get locked away for years, separated from your family and all you hold dear, you need to do a noisy demonstration while unarmed and wearing one of those forbidden “MAGA” hats.
What ever happened to the concept of Equal Application of the Law? Is that just another of those “outmoded” and out of date old “Fogey” readings of the Constitution?
Sad and angry.
Bob Bandy July 2024
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