Posted on 02/22/2021 6:11:39 PM PST by RandFan
Merrick Garland took questions in the Senate today in support of his nomination by President Joe Biden for US Attorney General.
Senator Josh Hawley asked Garland his thoughts on "assaults on federal property in places other than Washington, DC, Portland, for instance, Seattle." Garland said, in essence, that while the attack on the Capitol was domestic terrorism, the attacks on federal buildings over the summer likely were not.
"Do you regard assaults on federal courthouses or other federal property as acts of domestic extremism, domestic terrorism?"
"Well Senator, my own definition, which is about the same as the statutory definition, is the use of violence or threats of violence in an attempt to disrupt democratic processes. So an attack on a courthouse while in operation, trying to prevent judges from actually deciding cases, that plainly is domestic extremism, domestic terrorism.
"An attack simply on a government property, at night, or any other kind of circumstances 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.
"Both are criminal, but one is a core attack on our Democratic institutions," Garland said.
As regards the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, Garland intends to deal harshly with those who participated.
(Excerpt) Read more at thepostmillennial.com ...
WTF?
I may have been BORN at night, but it wasn’t LAST night.
Of course, because court proceedings may resume the day after the courthouse is reduced to a heap of smoldering rubble.
I can’t wait to start night time raping and stealing.
what if they attacked during lunch break?
I had forgotten. Terrorist attacks can’t take place at
night. Good call... /s
Earlier I read he stated that it wasn’t terrorism if the
court house (perhaps federal building) was closed.
I thought of the times an attack on the Super-Bowl was
bandied about, but now I realize that wouldn’t be an
act of terrorism. Silly me...
This is the guy the lefties wanted on SCOTUS?
So far, I’ve found the Liberals’ “God Of Justice” a friggin’ retarded moron. The boy is a pure idiot. He’s a racist bigot that hates Caucasians too. Now I can see why the ‘RATS were so upset when Trump wouldn’t let the maggot anywhere near SCOTUS. Good move by our President.
What a friggin idiot!!
Reminds me of Bill Clinton and his quote, “It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”
Terrorism keeps certain hours as well as Covid. Who’d a thunk it?
The MORE that I learn about the FASCIST DIMocRAT EXTREMISTS of the “Cracker Joe & da HO” misadministration, the BETTER that I regard poisonous snakes, venomous lizards, roaches, spiders & other “CREEPY CRAWLIES”.
Just SEEING/HEARING Joe Biden or Kamala Harris makes me GAG.
Yours, ex-cadet
So if they’d blown up the Workd Trade Center at night it wouldn’t have been terrorism.
Roflol!!!
His definition would make peaceful civil disobedience defined as terrorism.
I remember the advice to not go full retard. And it just got disregarded.
This stupidity is SO not going to end well.
Merry needs to go after the BLM cop killers/Walmart destroyers the way he intends to go after Conservative Americans. We have too many Nazis in the current administration. We need to start filing lawsuits against the far left bastards the way they went after everyone in the Trump administration.
Was Benghazi at night?
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