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A century later, AG Merrick Garland revives the spirit of the Palmer Raids
American Thinker ^ | 10 Jan, 2022 | David Zukerman

Posted on 01/10/2022 4:13:11 AM PST by MtnClimber

Garland, in the manner of A. Mitchell Palmer, Woodrow Wilson's attorney general, won't be satisfied until he gathers up thousands more innocent people in a bald attempt to intimidate the Republican party.

History will record, once the storm clouds of leftist propaganda are dispelled by the winds of truth, that President Trump's remarks on January 6, 2021, were a defense of the Constitution, American democracy -- and criticism of weak-kneed Republicans, addressed to tens of thousands of his patriotic supporters. Here is the text of those remarks.

President Trump was equally on target when, a year and a day after "Jan. 6" he called his successor to account for "doing the most divisive thing possible-- slandering his political opponents as domestic terrorists, just like insecure dictators do in communist countries." In his January 7 response to the tawdry comments of the incumbent, Mr. Trump was on target in remarking, "The American People also see that January 6 has become the Democrats' excuse and pretext for the most chilling assault on the civil liberties of American citizens in generations." Here are Mr. Trump's January 7 incisive remarks as made available by the Trending Politics site, via Newsmax,

More than 700 people have been caught up in the "Jan. 6" net put out by Attorney General Garland's Justice Department. This report by NPR suggests that Garland, in the manner of A. Mitchell Palmer, Woodrow Wilson's attorney general, won't be satisfied until he gathers up thousands more innocent people in a bald attempt to intimidate the Republican party in advance of this year's congressional elections, and the presidential election, November 2024. Indeed, it seems to this observer that we have just cause in referring to this attorney general as A. Merrick Garland (with the "" Standing for "Authoritarian."

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: bananarepublic; communism; dissent; doj; freespeech; garland; historicalilliteracy; policestate; politicalopposition

1 posted on 01/10/2022 4:13:11 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

The left wants their “god” to bee all powerful.


2 posted on 01/10/2022 4:13:22 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

3 posted on 01/10/2022 4:25:46 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: MtnClimber

Garland only has one direction to go. Down.

And he , like so many of his Martxist colleagues think they can transform AMERICA BY SUBVERTING THE 1ST AMENDMENT RIGHTS AND CIVIL RIGHTS OF AMERICANS UNDER COLOR OF LAW.

As an appointee of the President, Garland can be impeached.
but he also can be ignored by America.

Let him try to put the Resistance into Gulags. Garland will fall like a rotten hearted tree in a swamp, simply because Americans will revile and ridicule his very name and the air he breathes.


4 posted on 01/10/2022 4:28:25 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: MtnClimber

If anyone even watched youtube videos, they will be rounded up also - do they have heated gulags?


5 posted on 01/10/2022 4:31:46 AM PST by PIF (They came for me and mine ... now its your turn)
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Kamala Harris and the Dem hit squads have spent the last 30 years attacking the United States as racist, oppressive, homophobic, etc.......decrying it’s creation by “evil religious white men” solely to oppress anyone who was unwhite.

But on Jan 6, she, and the Party of Never Miss a Political Opportunity, suddenly “saw the light.”

The knee-jerkers crassly played the “give a damn card.”

Harris: “What the extremists who roamed these halls sought to degrade and destroy was not only a building, hallowed as it is,......they were assaulting the institutions, the values, the ideals that generations of Americans have shed blood to establish and defend.”

Too bad they don’t govern as if they believed all that.


6 posted on 01/10/2022 4:43:12 AM PST by Liz (Our side has 8 trillion bullets; the other side doesn't know which bathroom to use. )
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To: PIF
...do they have heated gulags?

I hear the showers are warm.

7 posted on 01/10/2022 4:46:25 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump WON!!!)
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To: Candor7

because Americans will revile and ridicule his very name and the air he breathes.


Will we? There are Jan. 6 prisoners in the jail, right now, who have been rotting there without due process, and I don’t see anyone doing anything but talk about it. Someone smarter or braver than I should put a stop to it, but no one has. If thousands of us marched on D.C., would they then call out the National Guard and put more Americans under lock and key, then throw away the key? I wouldn’t put it past the evil powers that be.


8 posted on 01/10/2022 5:50:15 AM PST by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing))
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Agreed.
Garland: DOJ will hold those responsible for Jan. 6 riot accountable, whether they were present or committed other crimes
Pretty much means the TLAs can get a warrant and destroy to your property on a whim. The Homer Alaska couple who were raided by the FBI in a mistaken identity incident is a good example.


9 posted on 01/10/2022 6:37:33 AM PST by griswold3 (When chaos serves the State, the State will encourage chaos)
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To: MtnClimber

How do we stand together in opposition to tyranny?


10 posted on 01/10/2022 7:59:30 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Hatred is the essential tool of the tyrant.)
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To: Louis Foxwell
Ridicule is a powerful weapon. Make people ashamed and embarrassed to be associated with them. Make people ashamed that they voted for them. That is where I am at this point in time.
11 posted on 01/10/2022 8:04:38 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

The Palmer Raids allegedly kicked off the “Red Scare”.

Yet another example of Woodrow Wilson’s authoritarianism.


12 posted on 01/10/2022 8:08:50 AM PST by Bratch
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To: MtnClimber

Democrats think innocent people are a risk to their party’s plans must be rounded up.


13 posted on 01/10/2022 8:48:07 AM PST by Vaduz ( )
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To: Vaduz
Democrats think innocent people are a risk to their party’s plans must be rounded up.

Or terrify them into being quiet about what they see happening. Let's Go Brandon, I am not playing their game!

14 posted on 01/10/2022 9:15:56 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

I am not playing their game!

FJB and his crew of stooges


15 posted on 01/10/2022 9:23:06 AM PST by Vaduz ( )
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To: MtnClimber
NBD!
Our communist masters know that the Aamerican sheeple will just roll over and spread their collective cheeks...

Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
Get used to it or do something significant about it...

16 posted on 01/10/2022 10:21:43 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another Sam Adams now that we desperately need him?)
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To: MtnClimber

Agreed. Anyone voting for Biden should be embarrassed to tears for their utter stupidity.


17 posted on 01/10/2022 11:18:05 AM PST by Louis Foxwell (Hatred is the essential tool of the tyrant.)
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To: MtnClimber; Impy; BillyBoy; GOPsterinMA; NFHale; LS; campaignPete R-CT; AuH2ORepublican; ...

Terrible analogy. Palmer was right. Garland isn’t.


18 posted on 01/10/2022 2:41:42 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (Plugs the Pedo - The Shart Heard 'Round The World)
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