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I don’t like riots, and I don’t like rioters getting away with rioting. 

But c’mon, man, the January 6th prosecutions are totally ridiculous, and the literal federal cases being pursued in the most vengeful fashion possible are totally disgusting. 

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Julie Kelly has been following the cases as they have wound through the “justice” system and doing yeoman’s work publicizing the injustices being perpetrated. 

It’s hard to argue against the proposition that there were some really bad actors who did things worth prosecuting on January 6th, 2021. Few of them committed acts of similar magnitude to what happens at any given BLM riot, but I would like to see those people prosecuted, too. 

The fact that they are not is symptomatic of just how politicized our criminal justice system has become. We now have good rioters and bad rioters, and even people associated with the “bad” rioters are treated as dangers to humanity when all they did was commit misdemeanor trespass. 

The farcical claim that January 6th was an “insurrection” is absurd on its face, and these prosecutions have everything to do with the rage of the establishment against Trumpism and the fact that the people who were intimidated by the rioters were the elite, not the hoi polloi whose lives were ruined by leftist riots. 

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Now, as the Biden administration is winding down and the prospect of pardons for all but the most violent January 6th protesters looms, the “justice” system is working overtime to get in its final licks against Trump’s supporters. 

I can’t help being anything but appalled at the injustices being perpetrated and the dedication to a ridiculous narrative that people whose crime was merely wandering around the Capitol building deserve to be treated like this. 

Vast swathes of American cities were burned down in 2020, and almost nobody was held accountable. Yet there are January 6th rioters who spent months or more in solitary confinement. 

All this storm and strife is not about what the rioters did but who they frightened while doing it. Lawmakers who routinely justify murder and mayhem, riots and “occupations,” are suddenly aghast at a grandma who walked inside the Capitol without permission. 

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I don’t identify with the rioters. I don’t approve of what they did. 

But I also have a sense of perspective, and this is unjust and vindictive. 

Everybody who is rushing to take one last pound of flesh is proving the biggest point of the people who rioted: that the system is politically stacked against ordinary Americans. If you support the approved Narrative™ you get hailed as ushering the “Summer of Love;” if you don’t, the blob will come after you and crush you until you are pulp.