AG Garland’s Remarks About Jan. 6 and ‘One Rule’ of Law Defy Belief – Opinion

Sometimes it’s just a matter of sheer brilliance at what the Biden administration thinks they are able to do for the American people.

Consider the comments made by Attorney General Merrick Garland today about January 6,

Garland said that he had “no higher priority” than to go after people who were involved in the three-hour Jan. 6 riot. More than 725 individuals were charged with involvement in the Jan. 6 riot, Garland said.

AG Merrick Garland takes down 1/3 of the DOJ Investigation:
• 140 prosecutors
• 5,000+ subpoenas and search warrants
• 2,000 devices seized
• 20,000 hours of video footage and 15 terabytes of data searched
• 300,000 citizen tips pic.twitter.com/QIwvRJzrWJ

— The Recount (@therecount) January 5, 2022

Garland was then completely lost in fantasyland.

“Over 40 years ago, in the wake of Watergate Scandal, the Justice Department concluded that the best way to ensure the department’s independence, integrity, and fair application of our laws, and the best way to ensure the health of our democracy is to have a set of norms to govern our work,” Garland said.

“The central norm is that in our criminal investigations there cannot be different rules depending on one’s political party or affiliation,” he added. “There cannot be different rules for friends and foes and there cannot be different rules for the powerful and the powerless. There is only one rule.”

Astonishingly, his tongue didn’t go up in flames immediately for this lie.

First of all, there is a lot of other things I believe are more important than the riot of a year ago. There are no further violent incidents. Meanwhile, BLM/Antifa violence may have lessened from last year, but it’s organized and continues. But the DOJ does not seem to be concerned. They claim “one rule” with no difference in the application of the law depending on political party or affiliation.

So, where’s the deep investigation of the organizers of the targeted leftist rioting near the White House over three days that injured more than 60 law enforcement officers that, had rioters setting multiple fires including at St. John’s church, and so concerned the Secret Service they allegedly raced President Donald Trump to a bunker? Where’s all the concern from the media and the DOJ about this – where’s the attention to the organized effort behind it? The media wasn’t concerned in the slightest, they mocked Trump for the Secret Service allegedly insisting he go to a bunker.

Where’s the investigation of constant attacks for more than 100 days in a row on the Portland federal courthouse, with dozens of federal agents and local police injured? Media and Democrats’ response? They claimed the federal agents being attacked were “stormtroopers.”

This riot was one of hundreds that were organized in the United States. They targeted federal and local government buildings as well as police officers. Hundreds were injured, and many people died. Where is the FBI page dedicated to identifying the organizers of those attacks — like the Jan. 6 riot page the FBI has?

Another way to look at it is the different approach in which such incidents are investigated and prosecuted. While anyone within striking distance of Jan. 6’s Capitol appears to be charged, people have actively attacked Portland Federal Courthouse over many months without being charged.

In addition to Garland’s lie about “one rule” of law, he did something else that was very troublesome when he spoke about “five officers who responded selflessly to the attack that day who have since lost their lives.”

Attorney General Merrick Grland offers a moment of silence to honor the fallen officers in police departments following the Jan. 6 Capitol Riot. pic.twitter.com/v7pHbfod0d

— Breaking911 (@Breaking911) January 5, 2022

Officers’ deaths are tragic and should be recognized for their services. The way he stated it implied that the officers had died due to the riot. They actually died of stroke or suicide. Americans will find this comment misleading. So yes, let’s talk again about how non-political and “one rule” that he is? Not.

While I have only done a comparison of one-to-1 riots, I could write more about the four-year-old collusion investigation that was based partly on lies promoted and paid for Clinton Democratic operatives. The DOJ then effectively did their dirty work in smearing their opponent. Any action against Hillary Clinton seemed like it was just going to the wind. Did anyone ever take action against John Brennan, the former head of the CIA for spying on Congress? And then lying about it. Nope, that magical “D” got the Obama-era scandal a pass. You could go on.

You can’t just lie to the public, when they’ve been wide awake and have seen what’s happened over the past several years.