"Unequal Justice" Indeed
The GOP is crying about the dispensation of justice. They're right and wrong.
Five Republican senators, namely Ron Johnson, Tommy Tuberville, Mike Lee, Rick Scott, and the ubiquitous Ted Cruz, wrote Attorney General Merrick Garland complaining of “unequal justice” being administered to the January 6 rioters as opposed to protesters who participated in social demonstrations last year.
They are absolutely correct that unequal justice has been administered.
Unfortunately, they have it backwards.
While over 500 people have been arrested for the Capitol riot, it remains to be seen if they will be punished in a manner equivalent to their heinous crimes.
Meanwhile, we know that other protesters were arrested during mostly or completely peacefully protests.
We know that anonymous, helmeted jack-boots showed up at protests and physically assaulted protesters.
We know that the elderly were knocked to the ground and suffered brain damage.
We know that Kyle Rittenhouse killed two protesters and maimed a third, and was bailed out.
We know that BLM and Antifa were accused of everything imaginable.
We know that the January 6 rioters actually did the imaginable.
We now know that Capitol police had intelligence that there would be a violent protest.
But somehow, someway, they were unprepared for what happened on January 6.
Perhaps they did not imagine that the sitting President of the United States would encourage sedition.
Maybe they didn’t realize that the same crowd that had been so pro-police would chant “F—- The Blue” and one police officer was killed and 140 officers were injured.
It could be that they imagined that they were overly excitable tourists, as the GOP has tried to characterize them.
What we know is that the same five senators who wrote AG Garland voted against forming a commission to investigate January 6.
We know that, and we know that White racist thugs are getting a free pass from the Republican Party.
The question is: will the rest of Congress, the Justice Department, and other law enforcement agencies do the same?