The Biden Record, and The Democrats Who Supported It, Part 3: Garland's DoJ and FBI Seek Domestic Threats, While Ignoring Crime and the Crisis on the Southern Border

   I started to examine the DoJ's efforts to classify angry parents at school board meetings as domestic terror threats in my last post, but AG Garland has much more to answer for, as does his boss, Pres. Biden. We're going to start with a touchy subject, the mob that broke into the Capitol on Jan. 6th, 2021. There is no doubt that what happened there was an outrage, and a sometimes violent attempt to influence a political agenda. However, there were also people that just walked in, without violent intent. This is an event that deserves a fair examination, and release of all video and audio correspondence from that day. It would also be helpful for the FBI to release all info they received prior to that day about the potential threat, and what assets they had on the ground that day. None of this is forthcoming, and the Democratic Jan. 6th Comittee is not asking for any of it. 

   It appears that there were many FBI assets in the crowd, including the head of the Proud Boys. There is also the mystery surrounding Ray Epps. Now, the NY Times, and all of the left-wing media is lamenting Mr. Epps as an innocent whose life has been destroyed by these false allegations. The video is there, in the link, so I'd like to know why the DoJ isn't prosecuting him. In any case, the DoJ seems to be doing their best to upend the American principle of "innocent, until proven guilty" in all of these cases of Jan. 6th defendants. I'm not making any excuses for anyone who broke the law, that day. They should be punished. I don't think that the political intent was as serious as, say, the Sept. 11th terrorists, which some Democrats have compared them to, and Pres. GW Bush did last year, with his usual ham-handedness.

   Byron York points out the numbers, and the statutory basis for these prosecutions, here. It's quite astonishing to look at the numbers. Seven hundred and fifty one people are charged with trespassing. The cases that the DoJ are pursuing are not neccessarily solid, although quite a few defendants have already pled guilty. That is actually a function of our justice system, which offers reduced penalties for lesser pleas. What is more worrisome is that the DoJ is seizing phones and records of Trump supporters. This is starting to look like a political vendetta, more than an actual investigation into a crime.

   Merrick Garland has shown himself to be a puppet of the Biden administration in a much worse fashion than the Dems accused AG Barr of being for Pres. Trump. FBI director Chris Wray is only slightly less of a tool than James Comey was. One has to wonder, why do these leaders spend so much time and effort focusing on "domestic threats" that purportedly come from Americans who oppose Pres. Biden, but seem blind to the actual threats that are killing more Americans than any "White supremacist" group?

   The biggest factor in African American deaths in the US is local gun violence, by gangs. The biggest reason these deaths go unaddressed is that local DA's refuse to enforce the laws for gun violence against minority defendants, in the name of "social justice" and "criminal justice reform." There is also a growing problem of crime in Latino communities, fed by the Biden administration's "open borders" policy. MS-13 gangsters are decimating existing Latino communities, on Long Island and around the country. For some reason, the Democrats, and the Biden administration think that all Latinos must support this "open borders" policy, because they have traditionally been Democrats. In reality, it is a reason that Latinos are leaving the Democrats. 

   There is a crisis at the Southern border, and the Biden administration continues to deny it, with VP Harris saying the border is secure. Fentanyl, other drugs, migrants, and even terrorists are crossing into our country, freely. Even as the DEA warns about it, the President doesn't mention it, preferring to bask in false achievements. The perverse outcome of Biden's open border is that the Customs and Border Patrol is too busy processing the huge influx of illegal immigrants to devote the manpower towards intercepting the flood of fentanyl and other drugs coming across the southern border. Drug deaths are at record levels, much higher than gun violence deaths, and yet the Democrats have no policy proposals to address it, either. They pay lip service, but when it comes to supporting laws that will punish criminals, they always vote no.

   A corollary to the border situation, as compared to the focus on Pres. Trump's supposed crimes, and those of his supporters: I'm not passing judgement, because everyone is considered innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. The rhetoric about the action of the above-mentioned people as being an "attack on democracy" rings hollow, coming from Pres. Biden. Why? Because apparently democracy is not as important as a bad news story on the southern border. When there were thousands of Hatian immigrants massed at the Texas-Mexico border, Pres. Biden wasted no time flying them back to Haiti. Now, the Biden administration's special envoy to Haiti accuses them of looking the other way, as the acting Prime Minister consolidates power, after the assasination of Haiti's president in 2021. They did so because the Prime Minister agreed to accept back all the planeloads of Haitians that were causing such a big political problem for the Biden team. So much for supporting democracy.

   It is becoming a pattern: Instead of focusing on actual crime and real threats to national security, the Biden-Garland DoJ is focust on domestic political opponents. The latest example is the open question of whether the DoJ will investigate, and try to prosecute Republican governors that are busing and flying illegal immigrants to "sanctuary cities" and jurisdictions. If they do, it will be at the expense of exposing their own boss, Pres. Biden, to the same charge, because his administration has been busing illegal immigrants around the nation since its early days. If so, they will be giving in to the most absurd elements in their party, which is actually par for the course. Jonathan Turley gets it right, in his recent column: 

The governors’ critics are correct: These trips are politically motivated. That is precisely why the proper response is also political, not criminal. Using the criminal code to amplify political points is a dangerous precedent. Frustrating though it may be for sanctuary cities to face an influx of undocumented migrants, criminal irony still is not an offense under the federal code.

   In summation, while border security/illegal immigration and crime are not at the top of everybody's list of "most important issues," they are important, because of the trajectory that the rising levels of both are having on the country. I certainly think they are more important than investigating the former president and his supporters for anything beyond clear and easily provable crimes. Focusing the national security apparatus on them, when there are real, and much more pressing threats to national security rearing their head almost every other day is yet another reason to vote for the opposition Republicans in the midterms, to put some checks and balances on this rogue administration.