In one of his recent monologues, Fox News Host Tucker Carlson said “The hallmark of any authoritarian regime is politicized justice . . . the state exists not to serve the people who live in it, but to preserve itself and to crush all dissent.”[i] Of course, the American Left would never confess to this as their modus operandi. However, under Joe Biden we’ve gotten to see what happens when criminals rule the roost.
For Democrats it wasn’t enough to gain control of the Presidency and both houses of Congress, albeit with the help of highly irregular voting procedures (fraud?). Once installed, they made it a priority to suppress all opposition to their Progressive policies and ensure that Donald Trump never returns to power.
A Single-Tiered System of Injustice
What began as a two-tiered system of justice under Barack Obama rapidly morphed into a single-tiered system of injustice. Under Biden, the Left’s political opponents go to jail while their supporters can pretty much do whatever they please without legal consequences – particularly if they fit into one of the Left’s favored victim groups.
The rest of this blog is an attempt highlight just some of the injustice directed by Leftists against their fellow Americans in recent years. While this happened, those on the Right have endured being systematically cancelled by Lefties and their sycophants in the media, academia and woke corporate America.
The Legacy of the Obama Administration
In 2010, the Obama administration – aggravated by the rise of what it considered a racist Tea Party movement – weaponized the IRS to suppress conservative speech and any opposition to its Progressive policies. We subsequently saw how Deep State activists like Lois Lerner can be found in contempt of Congress[ii] but never held accountable for their misconduct. Fortunately, the majority of Americans were not fooled, and they gave Obama and his party a “real shellacking” at the polls that year.[iii]
During the balance of Obama’s time in office, he used his hatchet man, Attorney General Eric Holder, to punish dissidents through the selective enforcement of federal laws while letting Black Panthers and other supporters skate free[iv]. This happened during what the pundits called a “scandal-free administration”[v]. Like Lerner, Holder was also held in contempt of Congress for refusing to testify about the DOJ’s illegal gunrunning operations in Mexico. But he too was never held accountable.
The Russia Collusion Hoax
In 2016, the Obama administration upped its game and used the DOJ, FBI and CIA to spy on Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and accuse him of colluding with the Russians. Obviously, this was intended to help Hillary Clinton and Democrats in general, but once again the voters outsmarted the autocrats. To the surprise of nearly everyone, the American people gave control of the Presidency and both houses of Congress to the GOP.
Unfortunately, the Russian collusion myth persisted throughout most of Trump’s presidency and hobbled his generally successful term in office. Even after the Mueller’s two-year-long investigation failed to find any evidence of Russian collusion, and despite Durham’s continuing efforts to punish Deep State conspirators, no one except one minor player[vi] has ever been held accountable.
COVID Shenanigans
In the fall of 2020, in the midst of the greatest public health failure in history, the FBI led an entrapment scheme to lure Trump supporters into plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer. Although the plot failed, it was engineered solely for the political gain of Democrats during another election cycle. But again, no one in the FBI was ever held accountable despite extensive evidence of government misconduct.
The J6 Inquisition
Fast-forward to today. According to GOP turncoat Adam Kinzinger, we are only in the “early phases”[vii] of a probe into the events of January 6, 2021 that could extend past the mid-terms. Emboldened by their success in driving Donald Trump from office, members of the UniParty have decided to weaponize the entire federal government against anyone who supported the 45th president.
Using the unlimited resources of the DOJ and FBI, Washington’s tyrannical regime has rounded up, held in solitary confinement and prosecuted numerous Trump supporters. Some of these people voluntarily (or with the urging of provocateurs) entered the Capitol. Most of them did not. Ignoring the multiple failures of Congressional leadership, the Capitol Hill Police and other law enforcement agencies to secure the building, an illegitimate “select” committee has taken on Executive Branch functions to punish anyone who questioned the results of the 2020 election. Denying even the most minimal elements of due process, this tribunal appears determined to punish all political enemies who refuse to comply with the same kind of subpoenas scoffed at by Lois Lerner and Eric Holder.
How do we know that the J6 committee has no interest in getting to the truth of what happened on January 6, 2021?
- The Capitol Hill officer who shot and killed an unarmed Air Force veteran named Ashli Babbitt has never been called to testify before the committee. If January 6th really was an insurrection wouldn’t the Congress want to know what caused this man to take the life of Ms. Babbitt?
- Members of the Secret Service have publicly contradicted the hearsay-riddled testimony of underlings like Cassidy Hutchinson but have never been called before the committee.
- Thousands of hours of security camera footage have never been released, much less entered into evidence.
- On the other hand, outspoken critics of the Biden administration like Steve Bannon who left the Trump White House three years earlier and refused to testify are now paraded before the D.C Courts and the American public as a warning to others.
Abandoning All Semblance of Due Process
At his trial last week before a highly partisan judge and a jury of D.C. residents (who are definitely not his peers), Steve Bannon was barred from saying his attorneys had advised him not to comply with the Congressional subpoena on account of Presidential Executive Privilege. Nor was he allowed to confront any of his accusers on the J6 Committee.[viii] Just like every other witness who testified before the select committee, Bannon was never had a chance to cross-examine anyone who testified against him.
This is precisely the way “justice” is done in tinpot dictatorships.
Disparate Treatment Under Law
As a coda to this ongoing travesty, a pro-Trump grandmother suffering from cancer is now serving time in a federal prison for “parading in the Capitol” on January 6, 2021. Yet, just last week, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia dropped all charges against Stephen Colbert’s production crew for doing exactly what the grandma had done. Do you think the politics of the accused had anything to do with the disparity in treatment?
What’s happening on Capitol Hill is not a hearing in any recognizable sense, but a highly orchestrated, blatantly partisan show trial. Determined to rid the country of the last vestiges of the Rule of Law, the DOJ no longer works for the American people. It has become a Department of Injustice which only listens to those in power or those like the teacher’s unions who support them. Simply put, if you offend those in charge, you get punished. If you support them, you can do whatever you wish.
As this is being written, Attorney General Merrick Garland is seriously contemplating indicting Donald Trump for doing what Democrats did in 2000, 2004, and 2016 – the last three times they lost a presidential election. That is questioning the validity of the results. If Garland does this, not only would it be unprecedented in American history, it would catapult the US into the same league with totalitarian countries that routinely imprison their political adversaries.
A Choice of Futures
If that’s the United States you want to live in, all you need to do is keep voting for Democrats. You’ll be able to witness firsthand the country disintegrate into a factious, poorer, crime-ridden hellhole. You’ll be able to rant and rave about the abortion “rights” you claim were stolen from you. You’ll also be able to tell your kids and grandkids how they wisely traded the American Dream for a Socialist Utopia. But, in any case, you’ll be able to sleep better at night knowing your political enemies are being punished for their beliefs.
[i]https://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2022/07/23/tucker_carlson_conviction_of_steve_bannon_is_an_escalation_this_is_about_sending_political_enemies_to_prison.html
[ii] E.g., slow-walking tax-exemptions and targeting conservatives for IRS audits.
[iii] Liz Halloran, “Obama Humbled by Election Shellacking”, National Public Radio, November 3, 2010.
[iv]H. von Spakovsky, “Voter Intimidation New Black Panther Style, Commentary, April 27, 2010.
[v] H. von Spakovsky, “Obama’s Scandal-Free Administration is a Myth”, Commentary, January 17, 2017.
[vi] Kevin Clinesmith, Ex-FBI lawyer pleads guilty to falsifying documents in Russia probe (nypost.com)
[vii] V. Chamblee, “Rep. Adam Kinzinger Says Jan. 6 Hearings ‘Not Winding Down,’ People, July 18, 2022
[viii] In any Western system of justice, particularly one based upon the principles of the U.S. Bill of Rights, an accused person is always permitted to confront his accusers. But in this case, how could he when the J6 Committee doesn’t even allow the identification of many of its witnesses?
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