I will say this again… It is no longer safe to raise your children in California. Children are not old enough to drive,drink, vote,smoke,get a tattoo, but the Democrats in California think children (who are naive and easily manipulated) are old enough to make decisions that… https://t.co/8ZiW6ZeVC7
“I will say this again…
It is no longer safe to raise your children in California.
Children are not old enough to drive,drink, vote,smoke,get a tattoo, but the Democrats in California think children (who are naive and easily manipulated) are old enough to make decisions that permanently remove sexual organs and take castration drugs and risk becoming infertile FOR LIFE!
This is pure evil and the American people will not let this stand.”
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Well….. 40% will let it stand, the Dem, groomer, pedo crowd who are behind it….
This isn’t hard. Be on the side that’s against sterilizing and mutating children.
BIDEN: "Never Forget! – Ground Zero in New York. I remember standing there the next day – Felt like I was looking through the gates of hell." pic.twitter.com/YBAmEodZSp
School choice wouldn't be a hot button issue if so many schools weren't failing students. Baltimore is a perfect example. It spends $21k, up from $16k, per student and yet 23 schools didn't have a single student proficient in math. Every American should find this unacceptable.
No. Public schools are destroying children’s minds with indoctrination. Dismantle public schools. School choice is the answer if you want your children to use their minds productively and thrive in a safe environment
On the anniversary of worst terrorist attack in US history, Biden is making deals with terrorists, and aiding them in bankrolling their continued terrorism.
““The White House commending the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the anniversary of 9/11 while the Kingdom is still actively fighting the 9/11 families & survivors in federal court is something….””
“While Joe Biden observed the 22nd anniversary of 9/11 in Alaska, as physically far away from New York and Washington, DC as possible, his administration marked the day by celebrating a deal with Saudi Arabia and giving $6 million to terrorism sponsor, Iran.
Optics are really not their strong point.
FOX News reports:
Biden admin strikes deal with Iran to swap prisoners, release $6 billion in frozen funds
The Biden administration has struck a deal with Iran to swap prisoners and release $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds.
Per the deal, Iran will release five American citizens detained in Iran and the U.S. release five Iranian citizens being held in the U.S.
The deal creates a blanket waiver to transfer $6 billion in frozen Iranian money from South Korea to Qatar without fear of violating U.S. sanctions. No money is going directly to Iran and no U.S. taxpayer funds are being used.
The United States classifies Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken signed off on the deal late last week, but Congress was not notified of the decision until Monday, the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, according to the notification, which was obtained by The Associated Press.
White House National Security Council Spokesperson Adrienne Watson tweeted about the Saudi Arabia news.”
We welcome this weekend’s announcement by Saudi Arabia committing $20 billion to support President Biden’s signature initiative, the Partnership for Global Infrastructure (PGI).
“This article in Newsweek makes a good point about the Saudi Arabia news:
This year, Biden became the first president to bow out of participating in any 9/11 memorial events. The president did deliver remarks honoring the lives lost in the 2001 attacks from Anchorage, Alaska, later in the afternoon and made posts to social media accounts remembering the 2,977 deaths.
“On 9/11. During the first presidency to not commemorate this day at a 9/11 site. I cannot even understand this,” Democrat Lindsey Bolan wrote in response to Watson’s tweet.
Some users on the social media platform called the spokeswoman a “disgrace,” while others called the timing “tasteless,” “unbelievably tone deaf” and “politically inept.”
“The White House commending the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the anniversary of 9/11 while the Kingdom is still actively fighting the 9/11 families & survivors in federal court is something….” political strategist Brian Walsh tweeted.
Survivors and the families of 9/11 victims are still fighting a long-running federal lawsuit in New York to hold the Saudi government responsible for the attacks. For 15 years, the lawsuit had been blocked because of the “sovereign immunity” protection for foreign governments in court. Congress cleared the way for the lawsuit in 2016.
“Shannon Brandt, of Glenfield, ND, received five years in prison for running over and killing Cayler Ellingson, 18, last year.
Brandt pleaded guilty to manslaughter in May. He faced up to 10 years.
Brandt claimed he perceived the teenager as a “Republican extremist” who threatened him:
Brandt, 42, ran over Ellingson with his 2003 Ford Explorer on Sept. 18, 2022, in McHenry, North Dakota after an argument, prosecutors said. An arrest affidavit filed by a North Dakota State Patrol officer states that Brandt told a 911 operator that Ellingson “wouldn’t let me leave.” According to the affidavit, Brandt also told the 911 operator that Ellingson was calling other people to “get him.”
“He got on my vehicle and I couldn’t get him away from me,” Brandt said of Ellingson. “He was threatening me. He was saying something about some Republican extremist group, saying, ‘I thought he was part of us.’”
Ellingson was taken to a local hospital with severe injuries and later died. Brandt initially left the scene of the incident but returned and called 911.
However, no evidence showed connections between any extremist group and Ellingson. The police also didn’t think the “incident was politically driven.””
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The police are idiots if they think this wasn’t politically driven.
Even the so-called “educators” know the system is broken and useless.
Hypocrisy abounds!
Chicago Teachers Union President Stacy Davis Gates has called school choice racist and made it her mission to kill an Illinois scholarship program for low-income children. So how did Ms. Gates explain enrolling her son in Catholic school? . https://t.co/N4gSrrQ1cM via @WSJopinion
*School choice* was actually the choice of racists. It was created to avoid integrating schools with Black children. Now it’s the civil rights struggle of our generation? #BoyByehttps://t.co/jYbiKV48aJ
— ⭐️ SDG ⭐️AKA Muse of Chicago Trib Editorial Board (@stacydavisgates) August 27, 2022
She doesn’t mind sacrificing other people’s children to the indoctrination centers, but not her own.
“I have written many times about Canada’s rush to embrace medical murder. As appalling as Canada’s practices are, with the state prodding people to consider suicide as a form of medical treatment, as far as I know, Canadian doctors don’t take patients to court in order to force them to die against their wishes.
There have been occasional cases in which doctors in Western countries have euthanized patients without their consent, including at least one that required the restraint of a patient with dementia who decided at the last moment that they wanted to live. There are numerous cases where the family members of unconscious or incompetent patients fought to extend the lives of relatives.
But this is the first case I have ever heard of where a patient has gone to court begging to be allowed to live while her doctors demand that she expire without fighting.
It’s gruesome.
An NHS hospital is asking the Court of Protection to authorise removal of life-saving medical treatment from a 19-year-old girl, effectively condemning her to death.
Unlike in similar cases such as Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans and Archie Battersbee, the girl – anonymised by the court as ‘ST’ – is conscious, able to speak, and has instructed her own lawyers to argue that she should be kept alive and allowed to go to Canada for experimental treatment which would give her a chance of survival.
ST is suffering from a rare genetic mitochondrial disease similar to that of Charlie Gard, the baby whose life support was withdrawn as a result of a bitterly fought high-profile legal case in 2017. ST’s condition causes chronic muscle weakness, loss of hearing and damage to her kidneys. She is dependent on regular dialysis and other intensive care, but the condition does not affect the functioning of her brain.
The hospital argues that while ST’s prognosis is uncertain and she may survive for some months, her condition is deteriorating and she is therefore “actively dying”. The NHS trust has asked the court to approve a “palliative care plan” for ST which would mean she is no longer given dialysis and would die from kidney failure within a few days.
Two psychiatric experts instructed by the hospital have examined ST and have told the court that she is not suffering from any mental health illness and has the mental capacity to make decisions about her own medical treatment.”
A hospital is actively fighting against a mentally competent patient–as judged by their own psychiatrists–in order to hasten her death.
And in order to do so they have arrived at a novel theory, and one the judge they argued before accepted: she cannot be considered mentally competent because, according to their own judgment, her desire to live distorts her capacity for reason.
Any reasonable person would agree with them. That is their argument. The will to live is in other words proof positive that one is irrational.”
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Cost is more important to socialist govt and medical facilities than who lives.
Buck is an uniformed, clueless clown, so perfect for DC.
“Why Ken Buck is Wrong About J6 Defendants
Buck’s uninformed endorsement of the DOJ’s selective, abusive prosecution of January 6 defendants earned swift–and justified–condemnation as the matter becomes a top election issue for GOP voters.”
“U.S. Representative Ken Buck’s big wet sloppy kiss to Attorney General Merrick Garland last week could not have come at worse time for the Colorado Republican.
Judge Timothy J. Kelly of the federal court in Washington, D.C. was in the process of ordering prison time typically applied to murderers, drug traffickers, and serial child pornographers for five members of the Proud Boys convicted of no serious crime related to January 6. A well-known gun storage company faced backlash for assisting the FBI in yet another armed raid against a January 6 trespasser. And a young man from Utah took his own life just weeks after his arrest on four misdemeanors for his participation in January 6, at least the fourth known suicide of a Capitol protester.
The political Right fumed with rage on social media. Some Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates also cried foul. “This is wrong & it’s sad that I’m the only candidate with the spine to say it,” Vivek Ramaswamy posted on X on September 5. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has attempted to downplay January 6 as a political concern, also denounced the unequal treatment of January 6 protesters. “They may have been violent, but to say it’s an act of terrorism when it was basically a protest that devolved into a riot, to do excessive sentences—you can look at, OK, maybe they were guilty, but 22 years if other people that did other things got six months?” DeSantis said during a Newsmax interview on September 6.
But the brazen double standard is of no worry to Rep. Buck, who happens to sit on the House Judiciary Committee. At the same time the J6-related maelstrom gained steam last week, Buck authored a scornful and mostly fact-free response to a letter signed by more than 200 members of the Colorado Republican Party demanding that elected officials in their state address the plight of January 6 defendants.”
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“Passing the Buck
Buck began his reply by clarifying the misconception that hundreds are detained awaiting trial or charges but then pivoted to a full-throated endorsement of what’s happening to January 6 defendants. His Pollyannaish view of the D.C. legal and judicial system is animated by ignorance, to put it kindly. Buck, like so many former federal prosecutors, continues to defend the DOJ despite the institution’s cratering credibility and well-documented partisanship.
And contrary to Buck’s accusation that the GOP’s letter “overstate[d] the threat to the Republic,” the ongoing criminal prosecution of thousands of American citizens is establishing dangerous precedent to criminalize political activity and designate a long list of bogus charges as new federal crimes of terrorism.
So, what specifically did Buck get wrong? From pooh-poohing the creation of a political prison in the nation’s capital to peddling the notion that Trump supporters are getting a fair shake in a city that voted 93 percent for Biden, Buck misrepresents the reality of the situation:
Buck: “Your letter claims that January 6 defendants have suffered physical abuse and injury and further suggests that they are being singled out for their political beliefs.” Isn’t the mere existence of a section of the D.C. jail system reserved only for January 6 defendants enough proof that those individuals have been “singled out?” Numerous inmates have been subjected to physical and emotional abuse, prompting the transfer of a handful of detainees to other facilities; two of Buck’s colleagues visited the DC Gulag on numerous occasions and wrote a report describing the appalling conditions. Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, the most vocal advocate in Congress for January 6 defendants, called out Buck on X for not visiting the jail when given the chance.
Perhaps the jail’s use of solitary confinement for January 6 defendants is acceptable to Buck. Or the fact that the deputy warden posted racist, anti-Trump screeds on social media. Or how defendants were denied access to in-person attorney visits if they refused the COVID jab. Or how jail guards distributed a Nation of Islam newspaper as the only reading material. Or how some mocked the J6 defendants when they sang the national anthem each night. But in Buck’s view, none of this represents a “singling out” of inmates based on their political beliefs. LOL.
Buck: “There have been no substantial allegations that the government violated the 4th, 5th, or 6th Amendments in prosecuting January 6 defendants.” One must wonder from where Buck is getting his information—certainly not from defendants or their attorneys who have argued in hearings and court motions that those rights are being systematically defiled.
Does Buck believe armed FBI raids with rooftop snipers, military-style vehicles, and battering rams is appropriate for individuals accused of obstruction of an official proceeding or even assaulting law enforcement? Does Buck approve of the use of geofence warrants to scoop up data from Americans who traveled to Washington in January 2021 including those who did not participate in the Capitol protest? Does Buck agree that banking institutions, Big Tech, and other major corporations should work hand in glove with the FBI to identify misdemeanants, or worse, those accused of no crime at all?
Perhaps Buck trusts that an impartial jury can be seated in a nearly 100 percent Democratic city where jury pool surveys indicate higher levels of contempt for Trump and his supporters than comparable jurisdictions. Certainly, DOJ’s almost perfect conviction rate for January 6 defendants is not indicative of a rigged system that favors the government, right Ken Buck?
Buck must be blissfully ignorant as to how DOJ dragged out trial proceedings for high-profile cases such as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers while keeping some behind bars for nearly two years on nonviolent offenses before jury selection began. Or how every judge has denied every change of venue motion despite overwhelming conflicts posed by wall-to-wall news coverage in Washington and televised hearings of the January 6 Select Committee, which also convened in Washington; in just one example, a September 2022 motion filed on behalf of the Oath Keepers argued the defendants’ Fifth and Sixth amendment rights were at risk if the trial was not moved out of Washington, D.C.
What does Buck think about the profligate use of FBI informants before and on January 6? Judges, at the behest of DOJ, have helped conceal the extensive role of FBI informants from jurors. Does constitutional expert Ken Buck believe that represents a violation of the Sixth Amendment? What about the hours of security footage kept from defendants and their attorneys? Or missing records from former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi or Capitol Police or the Secret Service? Does any of that rise to the level of potential Brady material, Mr. Former Prosecutor?
I must have missed Buck’s vocal demands to make all the surveillance footage and government files related to January 6 available to the accused, you know, to defend the Constitution and whatnot.”
January 6er Jake Lang has now spent 975 days in DC jail without trial and no signs of it any time soon. Lang has no prior criminal history and was pictured saving a man's life on the day pic.twitter.com/HsI8jUSSYE
New testimony from a highly credible whistleblower alleges @CIA rewarded six analysts with significant financial incentives to change their COVID-19 origins conclusion from a lab-leak to zoonosis. pic.twitter.com/KIemfi2Wgl
— Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic (@COVIDSelect) September 12, 2023
Nothing to see here
Just our CIA trying to pay people to Cover up the Wuhan lab leak
It’s almost as if the CIA was in on the 2020 rigging
Wandering Views 
Yep.
“I will say this again…
It is no longer safe to raise your children in California.
Children are not old enough to drive,drink, vote,smoke,get a tattoo, but the Democrats in California think children (who are naive and easily manipulated) are old enough to make decisions that permanently remove sexual organs and take castration drugs and risk becoming infertile FOR LIFE!
This is pure evil and the American people will not let this stand.”
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Well….. 40% will let it stand, the Dem, groomer, pedo crowd who are behind it….
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Liar.
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Speaking of liars….
Bill Kristol ladies and gentlemen…
Mistake? No, lying intentionally. It’s what he does now, for that sweet grifter cash from rich, progressive donors.
And again, intentionally deceiving… aka… lying.
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Sure, blame school choice instead of the failing propaganda/indoctrination centers known as public education.
He left out the groomers and pedos.
Reality.
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Of course.
On the anniversary of worst terrorist attack in US history, Biden is making deals with terrorists, and aiding them in bankrolling their continued terrorism.
““The White House commending the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the anniversary of 9/11 while the Kingdom is still actively fighting the 9/11 families & survivors in federal court is something….””
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/09/the-biden-administration-marked-9-11-by-celebrating-a-deal-with-saudi-arabia-and-giving-iran-6-billion/
“While Joe Biden observed the 22nd anniversary of 9/11 in Alaska, as physically far away from New York and Washington, DC as possible, his administration marked the day by celebrating a deal with Saudi Arabia and giving $6 million to terrorism sponsor, Iran.
Optics are really not their strong point.
FOX News reports:
Biden admin strikes deal with Iran to swap prisoners, release $6 billion in frozen funds
The Biden administration has struck a deal with Iran to swap prisoners and release $6 billion in frozen Iranian funds.
Per the deal, Iran will release five American citizens detained in Iran and the U.S. release five Iranian citizens being held in the U.S.
The deal creates a blanket waiver to transfer $6 billion in frozen Iranian money from South Korea to Qatar without fear of violating U.S. sanctions. No money is going directly to Iran and no U.S. taxpayer funds are being used.
The United States classifies Iran as a state sponsor of terrorism.
Secretary of State Antony Blinken signed off on the deal late last week, but Congress was not notified of the decision until Monday, the 22nd anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, according to the notification, which was obtained by The Associated Press.
White House National Security Council Spokesperson Adrienne Watson tweeted about the Saudi Arabia news.”
“This article in Newsweek makes a good point about the Saudi Arabia news:
This year, Biden became the first president to bow out of participating in any 9/11 memorial events. The president did deliver remarks honoring the lives lost in the 2001 attacks from Anchorage, Alaska, later in the afternoon and made posts to social media accounts remembering the 2,977 deaths.
“On 9/11. During the first presidency to not commemorate this day at a 9/11 site. I cannot even understand this,” Democrat Lindsey Bolan wrote in response to Watson’s tweet.
Some users on the social media platform called the spokeswoman a “disgrace,” while others called the timing “tasteless,” “unbelievably tone deaf” and “politically inept.”
“The White House commending the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on the anniversary of 9/11 while the Kingdom is still actively fighting the 9/11 families & survivors in federal court is something….” political strategist Brian Walsh tweeted.
Survivors and the families of 9/11 victims are still fighting a long-running federal lawsuit in New York to hold the Saudi government responsible for the attacks. For 15 years, the lawsuit had been blocked because of the “sovereign immunity” protection for foreign governments in court. Congress cleared the way for the lawsuit in 2016.
Could they possibly be any more tone deaf?”
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But Jan 6ers who weren’t even in DC on Jan 6 got 10-20 years.
Our system is broken.
“North Dakota Man Gets 5 Years for Killing Teenager He Claimed was a ‘Republican Extremist’
The police found no evidence Cayler had connections to any extremist group or the argument between the men was politically.”
https://legalinsurrection.com/2023/09/north-dakota-man-gets-5-years-for-killing-teenager-he-claimed-was-a-republican-extremist/
“Shannon Brandt, of Glenfield, ND, received five years in prison for running over and killing Cayler Ellingson, 18, last year.
Brandt pleaded guilty to manslaughter in May. He faced up to 10 years.
Brandt claimed he perceived the teenager as a “Republican extremist” who threatened him:
Brandt, 42, ran over Ellingson with his 2003 Ford Explorer on Sept. 18, 2022, in McHenry, North Dakota after an argument, prosecutors said. An arrest affidavit filed by a North Dakota State Patrol officer states that Brandt told a 911 operator that Ellingson “wouldn’t let me leave.” According to the affidavit, Brandt also told the 911 operator that Ellingson was calling other people to “get him.”
“He got on my vehicle and I couldn’t get him away from me,” Brandt said of Ellingson. “He was threatening me. He was saying something about some Republican extremist group, saying, ‘I thought he was part of us.’”
Ellingson was taken to a local hospital with severe injuries and later died. Brandt initially left the scene of the incident but returned and called 911.
However, no evidence showed connections between any extremist group and Ellingson. The police also didn’t think the “incident was politically driven.””
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The police are idiots if they think this wasn’t politically driven.
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Even the so-called “educators” know the system is broken and useless.
Hypocrisy abounds!
She doesn’t mind sacrificing other people’s children to the indoctrination centers, but not her own.
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The inevitable outcome of such stupidity.
“NHS plans to kill a girl who desperately wants to live”
https://hotair.com/david-strom/2023/09/12/nhs-plans-to-kill-a-girl-who-desperately-wants-to-live-n577290
“I have written many times about Canada’s rush to embrace medical murder. As appalling as Canada’s practices are, with the state prodding people to consider suicide as a form of medical treatment, as far as I know, Canadian doctors don’t take patients to court in order to force them to die against their wishes.
There have been occasional cases in which doctors in Western countries have euthanized patients without their consent, including at least one that required the restraint of a patient with dementia who decided at the last moment that they wanted to live. There are numerous cases where the family members of unconscious or incompetent patients fought to extend the lives of relatives.
But this is the first case I have ever heard of where a patient has gone to court begging to be allowed to live while her doctors demand that she expire without fighting.
It’s gruesome.
An NHS hospital is asking the Court of Protection to authorise removal of life-saving medical treatment from a 19-year-old girl, effectively condemning her to death.
Unlike in similar cases such as Charlie Gard, Alfie Evans and Archie Battersbee, the girl – anonymised by the court as ‘ST’ – is conscious, able to speak, and has instructed her own lawyers to argue that she should be kept alive and allowed to go to Canada for experimental treatment which would give her a chance of survival.
ST is suffering from a rare genetic mitochondrial disease similar to that of Charlie Gard, the baby whose life support was withdrawn as a result of a bitterly fought high-profile legal case in 2017. ST’s condition causes chronic muscle weakness, loss of hearing and damage to her kidneys. She is dependent on regular dialysis and other intensive care, but the condition does not affect the functioning of her brain.
The hospital argues that while ST’s prognosis is uncertain and she may survive for some months, her condition is deteriorating and she is therefore “actively dying”. The NHS trust has asked the court to approve a “palliative care plan” for ST which would mean she is no longer given dialysis and would die from kidney failure within a few days.
Two psychiatric experts instructed by the hospital have examined ST and have told the court that she is not suffering from any mental health illness and has the mental capacity to make decisions about her own medical treatment.”
A hospital is actively fighting against a mentally competent patient–as judged by their own psychiatrists–in order to hasten her death.
And in order to do so they have arrived at a novel theory, and one the judge they argued before accepted: she cannot be considered mentally competent because, according to their own judgment, her desire to live distorts her capacity for reason.
Any reasonable person would agree with them. That is their argument. The will to live is in other words proof positive that one is irrational.”
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Cost is more important to socialist govt and medical facilities than who lives.
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Buck is an uniformed, clueless clown, so perfect for DC.
“Why Ken Buck is Wrong About J6 Defendants
Buck’s uninformed endorsement of the DOJ’s selective, abusive prosecution of January 6 defendants earned swift–and justified–condemnation as the matter becomes a top election issue for GOP voters.”
https://www.declassified.live/p/why-ken-buck-is-wrong-about-j6-defendants
“U.S. Representative Ken Buck’s big wet sloppy kiss to Attorney General Merrick Garland last week could not have come at worse time for the Colorado Republican.
Judge Timothy J. Kelly of the federal court in Washington, D.C. was in the process of ordering prison time typically applied to murderers, drug traffickers, and serial child pornographers for five members of the Proud Boys convicted of no serious crime related to January 6. A well-known gun storage company faced backlash for assisting the FBI in yet another armed raid against a January 6 trespasser. And a young man from Utah took his own life just weeks after his arrest on four misdemeanors for his participation in January 6, at least the fourth known suicide of a Capitol protester.
The political Right fumed with rage on social media. Some Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates also cried foul. “This is wrong & it’s sad that I’m the only candidate with the spine to say it,” Vivek Ramaswamy posted on X on September 5. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has attempted to downplay January 6 as a political concern, also denounced the unequal treatment of January 6 protesters. “They may have been violent, but to say it’s an act of terrorism when it was basically a protest that devolved into a riot, to do excessive sentences—you can look at, OK, maybe they were guilty, but 22 years if other people that did other things got six months?” DeSantis said during a Newsmax interview on September 6.
But the brazen double standard is of no worry to Rep. Buck, who happens to sit on the House Judiciary Committee. At the same time the J6-related maelstrom gained steam last week, Buck authored a scornful and mostly fact-free response to a letter signed by more than 200 members of the Colorado Republican Party demanding that elected officials in their state address the plight of January 6 defendants.”
—
“Passing the Buck
Buck began his reply by clarifying the misconception that hundreds are detained awaiting trial or charges but then pivoted to a full-throated endorsement of what’s happening to January 6 defendants. His Pollyannaish view of the D.C. legal and judicial system is animated by ignorance, to put it kindly. Buck, like so many former federal prosecutors, continues to defend the DOJ despite the institution’s cratering credibility and well-documented partisanship.
And contrary to Buck’s accusation that the GOP’s letter “overstate[d] the threat to the Republic,” the ongoing criminal prosecution of thousands of American citizens is establishing dangerous precedent to criminalize political activity and designate a long list of bogus charges as new federal crimes of terrorism.
So, what specifically did Buck get wrong? From pooh-poohing the creation of a political prison in the nation’s capital to peddling the notion that Trump supporters are getting a fair shake in a city that voted 93 percent for Biden, Buck misrepresents the reality of the situation:
Buck: “Your letter claims that January 6 defendants have suffered physical abuse and injury and further suggests that they are being singled out for their political beliefs.” Isn’t the mere existence of a section of the D.C. jail system reserved only for January 6 defendants enough proof that those individuals have been “singled out?” Numerous inmates have been subjected to physical and emotional abuse, prompting the transfer of a handful of detainees to other facilities; two of Buck’s colleagues visited the DC Gulag on numerous occasions and wrote a report describing the appalling conditions. Rep. Marjorie Taylor-Greene, the most vocal advocate in Congress for January 6 defendants, called out Buck on X for not visiting the jail when given the chance.
Perhaps the jail’s use of solitary confinement for January 6 defendants is acceptable to Buck. Or the fact that the deputy warden posted racist, anti-Trump screeds on social media. Or how defendants were denied access to in-person attorney visits if they refused the COVID jab. Or how jail guards distributed a Nation of Islam newspaper as the only reading material. Or how some mocked the J6 defendants when they sang the national anthem each night. But in Buck’s view, none of this represents a “singling out” of inmates based on their political beliefs. LOL.
Buck: “There have been no substantial allegations that the government violated the 4th, 5th, or 6th Amendments in prosecuting January 6 defendants.” One must wonder from where Buck is getting his information—certainly not from defendants or their attorneys who have argued in hearings and court motions that those rights are being systematically defiled.
Does Buck believe armed FBI raids with rooftop snipers, military-style vehicles, and battering rams is appropriate for individuals accused of obstruction of an official proceeding or even assaulting law enforcement? Does Buck approve of the use of geofence warrants to scoop up data from Americans who traveled to Washington in January 2021 including those who did not participate in the Capitol protest? Does Buck agree that banking institutions, Big Tech, and other major corporations should work hand in glove with the FBI to identify misdemeanants, or worse, those accused of no crime at all?
Perhaps Buck trusts that an impartial jury can be seated in a nearly 100 percent Democratic city where jury pool surveys indicate higher levels of contempt for Trump and his supporters than comparable jurisdictions. Certainly, DOJ’s almost perfect conviction rate for January 6 defendants is not indicative of a rigged system that favors the government, right Ken Buck?
Buck must be blissfully ignorant as to how DOJ dragged out trial proceedings for high-profile cases such as the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers while keeping some behind bars for nearly two years on nonviolent offenses before jury selection began. Or how every judge has denied every change of venue motion despite overwhelming conflicts posed by wall-to-wall news coverage in Washington and televised hearings of the January 6 Select Committee, which also convened in Washington; in just one example, a September 2022 motion filed on behalf of the Oath Keepers argued the defendants’ Fifth and Sixth amendment rights were at risk if the trial was not moved out of Washington, D.C.
What does Buck think about the profligate use of FBI informants before and on January 6? Judges, at the behest of DOJ, have helped conceal the extensive role of FBI informants from jurors. Does constitutional expert Ken Buck believe that represents a violation of the Sixth Amendment? What about the hours of security footage kept from defendants and their attorneys? Or missing records from former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi or Capitol Police or the Secret Service? Does any of that rise to the level of potential Brady material, Mr. Former Prosecutor?
I must have missed Buck’s vocal demands to make all the surveillance footage and government files related to January 6 available to the accused, you know, to defend the Constitution and whatnot.”
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Someone needs to show this to the idiot above….
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Nothing to see….
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A testimony from NO Saints linebacker Demario Davis, about his four-yr-old daughter:
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