Last Thursday Attorney General (AG) Merrick Garland delivered an address to the workforce titled “An Independent Justice Department.” The speech drew howls of derision from the right, and for good reason.
In a completely unaware manner, Garland stated emphatically that his Department of Justice (DOJ) operates based on norms that “treat like cases alike.” He pronounced “there is not one rule for friends and another for foes…one rule for Democrats and another for Republicans…” All of red state America waited for the laugh track to queue, but it never did. Garland made these shocking statements with complete conviction. The degree of self-deception or outright arrogance is breathtaking in this bureaucratic screed.
During the summer of 2020, Black Lives Matter mobs and ANTIFA thugs ravaged cities and towns all across the country. Both BLM and ANTIFA are political action arms of the Democrat party. During that summer, I was still employed as an FBI agent, and witnessed the destruction both groups perpetrated in our nation’s capital firsthand. Across the country, billions of dollars in damages were sustained because of the rioting and lawlessness. Lives were lost during the broad sweep of anarchy endorsed by every major Democrat leader. Democrats loudly attacked the efforts of law enforcement when they attempted to restore order and save lives. Federal buildings were attacked, “autonomous zones” were established wherein women were raped by savages. Democrats presided over the mayhem gleefully. We all remember.
At no point during this nationwide campaign of domestic terrorism did the FBI or DOJ ever mobilize on a national scale. At the Washington field office, investigative priorities weren’t abandoned, nor were new squads created to handle increased investigative efforts designed to thwart the terroristic behavior of the Democrat sponsored goon squads dressed in black. It was, for the most part, business as usual at the FBI and DOJ.
Anyone paying attention recognized the BLM and ANTIFA riot and murder machine as a fully owned and operated subsidiary of Nancy Pelosi’s Democrat party.
Nor will anyone forget the events that developed on Capitol Hill during the grey afternoon of January 6, 2021 (J6th). Certainly, no one can forget how Democrats have caterwauled about the protest gone awry. J6th has been compared to the Civil War by Kamala Harris, and as the greatest threat to liberty since Adolph Hitler’s march into Paris. While still on stage in front of the White House, Trump urged his constituents to move peaceably to the Capitol to peacefully protest the results of what many considered a stolen election. The vast majority of the people there that day did just that.
A small element—in my view ANTIFA false-flag operatives—engaged in acts of violence, vandalism, and made forceable entry into the Capitol building. Some protestors were carried away by the mayhem, while others were welcomed in by uniformed Capitol Police officers. It’s all there on video. Contrary to Democrat propaganda, only one person lost her life that day—Ashli Babbitt. Ashli is the veteran who was gunned down in cold blood by Capitol Police Lieutenant Michael Byrd. A handful of arrests and prosecutions have been warranted by documented attacks on law enforcement. But, DOJ made the prosecution of individuals guilty of nothing more than “federal trespassing” a department priority. To this day, J6th defendants still linger in D.C. jails awaiting trial. It is simply unconscionable and a blatant violation of due process.
The FBI’s response to J6th was out of all proportion in comparison to its response to the carnage unleashed by the wave of terroristic violence perpetrated by BLM and ANTIFA. Every FBI field office was tasked with assisting in the J6th investigations. I personally witnessed the reallocation of resources to stand up three new squads at WFO to deal with the massive investigation.
J6th was laid at the feet of Republicans, and prosecuted by DOJ with exceeding vigor. The 2020 summer of media described “mostly peaceful protests” was happily embraced by leading Democrat policy makers, as DOJ lazily picked through a smattering of possible prosecutions.
What was it Garland said? “Treat like cases alike…there is not…one rule for Democrats and another for Republicans.” I know, it strains credulity. It’d be laughable if the lie weren’t so obviously grotesque and tragically damaging to our republic. But, Garland is only part of the diabolical equation. The Democrat controlled media plays its part, gleefully gaslighting the public and propagating the most horrendous narratives about Republican politicians.
Garland pays lip service to the notion that “our norms are a promise that we will not allow this nation to become a country where law enforcement is treated as an apparatus of politics,” while ignoring the most vile threats of Democrat propagandists in the media as they blatantly violate 18 U.S. Code, Section 871 which makes it a felony to threaten “to take the life of, to kidnap, or to inflict bodily harm upon the President of the United States…” Or, alternatively 18 U.S. Code, Section 373 which covers incitement to violence.
Garland’s perverse brand of justice, with its partisan prosecutorial priorities, has led us to the brink of disaster as Trump narrowly escaped a second assassination attempt on Sunday. The law and order vacuum represented by Garland’s DOJ has emboldened the dangerous rhetoric which places Trump’s life in danger. By allowing reckless politicians to continue to incite violence without bringing the DOJ’s prosecutorial resources to bear on a clear violation of federal law, Garland provides tacit approval, and shares in the responsibility for enabling criminally disturbed individuals to carry out their murderous plans.
The DOJ and FBI are broken institutions. However, as Attorney General Harlan Stone proved in the 1920’s, both institutions can be reformed by powerful leaders with mandates to root out the multitudinous elements of corruption which have come to plague once great bulwarks of civil liberty. It can be done. It must be done. And, Trump is the man for the job.