Posted on 09/12/2023 4:15:33 AM PDT by RandFan
U.S. Representative Ken Buck’s big wet sloppy kiss to Attorney General Merrick Garland last week could not have come at worse time for the Colorado Republican.
Judge Timothy J. Kelly of the federal court in Washington, D.C. was in the process of ordering prison time typically applied to murderers, drug traffickers, and serial child pornographers for five members of the Proud Boys convicted of no serious crime related to January 6. A well-known gun storage company faced backlash for assisting the FBI in yet another armed raid against a January 6 trespasser. And a young man from Utah took his own life just weeks after his arrest on four misdemeanors for his participation in January 6, at least the fourth known suicide of a Capitol protester.
The political Right fumed with rage on social media. Some Republican lawmakers and presidential candidates also cried foul. “This is wrong & it’s sad that I’m the only candidate with the spine to say it,” Vivek Ramaswamy posted on X on September 5. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has attempted to downplay January 6 as a political concern, also denounced the unequal treatment of January 6 protesters. “They may have been violent, but to say it’s an act of terrorism when it was basically a protest that devolved into a riot, to do excessive sentences—you can look at, OK, maybe they were guilty, but 22 years if other people that did other things got six months?” DeSantis said during a Newsmax interview on September 6.
But the brazen double standard is of no worry to Rep. Buck, who happens to sit on the House Judiciary Committee. At the same time the J6-related maelstrom gained steam last week, Buck authored a scornful and mostly fact-free response to a letter....
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Ashamed? Ken Buck should be slow-boiled in oil, along with all of his fellow traitors on that sham of a committee.
A pro abortion Lefty shot an 85 year old pro life canvasser in the back and received no jail time.
American against government crime (mostly minor no one died except a protester) — severe punishment.
Good to know. He is out of office next election. I don’t care, traitors are worse than the evil Democrats.
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