Urooj Rahman, a lawyer sworn to uphold the law, launched a molotov cocktail at a police cruiser in 2020. She texted “I hope they burn everything down … all police stations and probably the courts too.” She received 15 months, despite what could be described as domestic terrorism. Democrats and the Biden DOJ plead for leniency and intervened on her behalf. Similarly, almost half of the cases involving the Portland riots of 2020, including attacks on a Federal Courthouse (it was set on fire) and the police, have been dropped. Is setting a Federal courthouse on fire and attacking police an act of domestic terrorism? If not, as the Biden DOJ appears to believe, why is “parading on restricted grounds” domestic terrorism?
The media presented Jan 6. with hyperbolic exaggeration (claiming falsely, to this day, that police officers were killed). Their motive has been to send a message to Trump and his movement, rather than mete out even-handed justice. There are stories we hear of protestors being detained without trial for years; of being jailed under excessive sentences for the crime of “parading” — of being inside a building they were not supposed to be in, despite some claiming they were invited in; of grandmothers being hunted down by the FBI for attending a political rally. The Biden Administration has insisted that this is the number one threat the FBI should focus on, marshaling all of its immense resources to capture every protestor or rioter involved in this insurrection, despite no such insurrection charges being officially levied. We see, in New Orleans and Las Vegas, how Americans are mowed down by real violent extremists, and yet the FBI is helpless in preventing these attacks beforehand. Are their priorities wrong?
In such a biased and toxic millieu, it is impossible for the Jan 6 detainees to receive a fair trial, and the legal process has been tainted with the most undemocratic, un-American thing of all- unequal treatment before the law. Protesting is not a crime. Attacking the police is a crime, and must be punished.
During the Kavanaugh confirmation hearings, the “official proceedings” were also interrupted by protestors, who paraded into the courthouse, yet these protestors were not accused of insurrection. We look forward to the Trump Administration reviewing the cases and correcting the hysteria where appropriate with many pardons. During the Salem Witch trials, those too close to the trials and too emotionally invested, had to be removed from the decision-making, and those outside Salem had to step in to bring order and correct obvious wrongs.
– SFYR President