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 ...
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Nancy Pelosi said, as they burned buildings and beat down people, I don’t know why there’s not more people in the Street.
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What? They are waiting to Confirm him.
Lindsey Graham already said he would confirm.
Exactly.....regardless of how radical this lefty is....Linda and Rs are happy to confirm him.
Sickening.
Yes, it was intimidation. You stayed in line or you were
singled out. It was terroristic in nature.
This is the first time we have seen MERRICK GARLAND to be questioned by members of Congress...
He is very old looking for his 68 years...won’t be 69 until this November...and he sounds as scrambled as Joe Biden...so maybe he needs to under go testing for dementia as well..
AGE DOES MATTER...
Black Skies Matter
Right. It’s not stupidity. It’s a very calculated response that lets the leftists off the hook while still being able to condemn the January 6th “rioters.” The fact that the line he’s drawing doesn’t come naturally out of logical thought doesn’t make it or him stupid. His people will eat it right up. And he darn well knows it.
Lots of logical twists and turns to attempt to justify obviously illegal, terroristic acts.
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Garland said he wants to turn down the Volume at the DoJ, while pursuing the Dems favorite targets.
What DoJ is he talking about?
It’s where Investigations went to die repeatedly, when they weren’t setting up Trump Admin and allies.
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Hey, does that apply to any crime?
If I want to break into someone’s house, can I get away with it if they are not home?
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Excellent point
WHAT; you didn’t know that in order to be DOMESTIC TERRORISM it has to take place DURING REGULAR BUSINESS HOURS!
Plain old ORDINARY TERRORISM can happen just any old time.
I thought this article was under “sarcasm/humor” with a title like that. It’s not, and it’s not funny either.
I was going to post ONG, but yours is good.
One of the first LEOs to be killed in those riots was a Federal Protective Service officer, defending a federal building in California “after business hours”. I’m sure the news reports have been scrubbed now, or changed to suggest “death by misadventure”.
Yup he’s grasping at straws, and straws are outlawed!
so our next AG is a stoopid mookabooker?
You betcha
stupid idea considering that reusable, dishwasher safe straws are a thing and those won’t get thrown out, but get reused.
The bomb at the 1996 Olympics along with other bombs by serial bomber Eric Rudolph exploded at night. Are they trying to say that he wasn’t a terrorist for nighttime Bombs?
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