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Posted on 02/28/2021 5:29:01 AM PST by Kaslin
If you’ve a memory longer than a nanosecond you might recall that in 2016 when he was nominated by then-President Obama to the Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by Justice Antonin Scalia’s death, Merrick Garland was widely touted as a “moderate.” President Biden has now nominated him for the slot of Attorney General, and the confirmation vote is scheduled for this coming week.
How do you define moderate? His confirmation hearings reveal to me that Garland is certainly not one:
Last summer, 220 cities were besieged by gangs that attacked homes, businesses, federal buildings, and local law enforcement. In his confirmation hearing, Garland testified that the people who did this could not be considered “domestic terrorists” because they did this only at night and apparently terrorist acts can only be committed in the daytime in his view. Is that preposterous? Of course, it is. Did the KKK (Known during their heyday as “night riders”) burn crosses in mid-afternoon? Most people would find the acts committed, not the hours in which they were, the key. And most of us would find explosions, fires, marauding at nighttime when visibility is diminished and help hard to come by at the very least as threatening, if not more so, than the same rampages committed in daytime. Indeed, there’s a history here of nighttime terrorism.
Why would someone supposedly seeking to establish a reputation for law enforcement and order make such a stupid distinction? David Horowitz explains:
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
I’d bet my last nickel that *everyone* that Feels Up/Heels Up nominates for a government position is every bit as filthy...depraved...amoral...as they are.
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Garlick Merrland is no moderate, nor is he a particularly deep thinker. Certain categorical imperatives rule his every conscious thought, and probably a lot of the unconscious thinking as well.
He was indoctrinated well at an early age. He could not easily leave that indoctrination behind at this stage of his life.
vacancy created by Justice Antonin Scalia’s murder
Breitbart got this one right. Garland's slight of mouth was saying 1) my definition of domestic terrorism hinges on attacks of property disrupting the democratic process, 2) there was not active democratic process during those night time attacks, 3) ergo, that wasn't domestic terrorism.
Sen. Josh Hawley questioned Garland :
Let me ask you about assaults on federal property in places other than Washington, DC — Portland, for instance, Seattle. Do you regard assaults on federal courthouses or other federal property as acts of domestic terrorism?
Garland: My own definition, which is about the same as the statutory definition, is the use of violence or threats of violence in attempt to disrupt the democratic processes. So an attack on a courthouse, while in operation, trying to prevent judges from actually deciding cases, that plainly is domestic terrorism. An attack simply on a government property at night is a clear crime and a serious one, and should be punished. I don’t know enough about the facts of the example you’re talking about. But that’s where I draw the line. One is — both are criminal, but one is a core attack on our democratic institutions.
Garland cited the domestic terrorism statute, which defines “domestic terrorism” as follows (18 USC § 2331):
(5) the term “domestic terrorism” means activities that— (A) involve acts dangerous to human life that are a violation of the criminal laws of the United States or of any State; (B) appear to be intended— (i) to intimidate or coerce a civilian population; (ii) to influence the policy of a government by intimidation or coercion; or (iii) to affect the conduct of a government by mass destruction, assassination, or kidnapping; and (C) occur primarily within the territorial jurisdiction of the United States
Notably, the statute does not confine acts of domestic terrorism to working hours.
I beg your pardon?
Gee, Charlie Brown, maybe this time...
—and appaently, his claim to fame is the “successful” prosecution of the Oklahoma City bombers—who could have been successfully prosecuted by my cat—
Lynn Anderson would be proud of you.
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I think that honest people can get fooled and hire immoral/amoral people but I do not think that immoral/amoral people can have honest people around themselves.
Are you suggesting that “Birds of a feather stick together?”
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