Merrick Garland: We Have Brought Charges Against 34 People For Allegedly Blocking Access to Abortion Clinics and Only Two People for Attacking Pro-Life Counseling Centers Because "We Equally Apply the Law."

He literally excuses this glaring disparity in prioritization of resources by saying, it's harder to catch the people attacking pro-life counseling centers because they do their crimes at night.

Note that in at least one case the Jane's Revenge vandals signed their names to their vandalization.

But they signed their names at night, so the FBI couldn't read them. It's hard to read in the dark!

Oh, and by the way, the FBI has "one standard of justice," you know. Which of these things is not like the others, which of these things just doesn't belong...

Before getting to that, Deb Heine underlines this interesting question:

Deb Heine, Dissident @NiceDeb

Grassley to AG at Senate Oversight hearing: "Has the Del. US Attorney sought permission from another US Attorney's office such as in the District of Columbia or in Calif. to bring charges (against Hunter Biden)? If so was it denied?"

Garland: "I don't know the answer to that."

Why did Grassley ask that? I assume it wasn't a complete flier.

Garland had trouble explaining why Mexican drug cartels aren't being classified as terrorist organizations, as they previously had. He claimed he wouldn't oppose reclassify them as such, but said there would be "diplomatic problems" if we did.

A woman who lost two sons to fentanyl, almost certainly smuggled across the deliberately thrown-open southern border by Mexican drug cartels, had offered heartbreaking testimony the day before.

Merrick Garland also refused to say that male prisoners pretending to be women might pose a threat to female prisoners, even if those male prisoners have a history of violence against women. He just would not admit the obvious truth of this premise. He just kept mumbling that we must treat everyone with "dignity."

Your daily reminder that NeverTrump fought to get Merrick Garland appointed to the Supreme Court -- they wanted Hillary Clinton to win in 2016, and she promised to appoint him. In addition, NeverTrump routinely defends Merrick Garland, and in addition, has come out in favor of transgenderism and teaching kids gay/gender ideology in grade school. At least, they all shout when governors like DeSantis say that teachers can't teach kids that they should be gay or transgender.

But these were always the True Conservatives. Still are. Just ask 'em.

On to Merrick Garland's indefensible weaponization of government against conservatives, traditionalists, Christians, and other normies:

Kyle Shideler @ShidelerK

Amazingly Garland doesn't even bother to cite the two Antifa linked alleged vandals who the DOJ is ACTIVELY prosecuting for their action against a Florida pregnancy resource center.

Kyle is referring to the antifa criminals known to be behind the vandalization of pregnancy resource center.

Dozens of pro-life pregnancy centers have been terrorized for months by a radical pro-choice outfit calling itself Jane's Revenge, but now it looks as if the previously unknown group is entwined with a more significant threat: Antifa.

Antifa trackers and conservative media outlets linked two Miami residents charged with conspiracy in attacks on crisis pregnancy centers in Florida to the shadowy anarchist movement after the Justice Department unsealed the federal indictment last week.

One of the suspects, 23-year-old Amber Smith-Stewart, has made no secret of her Antifa sympathies. She has identified herself as "Antifa, anti-capitalist" on her Facebook page, which includes images of pro-Antifa posters and flags from a screenshot posted on the AntifaWatch website.

The second suspect, 27-year-old Caleb Freestone, is listed on AntifaWatch and has been active with Whatever It Takes, a left-wing pro-choice group with no love for "fascists" that advocates for "sustained civil resistance" and "direct action."

He was arrested in July at a heated Miami-Dade County school board meeting and charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest without violence and trespassing after a warning. A woman at the meeting publicly accused him of being with Antifa, which he appeared to deny.

"People who are accused of being the boogeyman Antifa are met with a significant police response," Mr. Freestone told WLRN public radio.

The two are accused in June attacks on a trio of pregnancy resource centers in Hialeah, Hollywood and Winter Haven. Vandals left behind spray-painted messages such as "Jane," "Jane was here" and "Jane's Revenge," as well as the anarchist "A" symbol favored by Antifa.

That doesn't mean Antifa and Jane's Revenge are the same, but they likely share much of the same personnel, said Kyle Shideler, senior analyst for homeland security and counterterrorism for the Center for Security Policy.

Has Merrick Garland not even been briefed about antifa's role in the attacks on pro-life counseling centers? Or is he just covering up for the Democrat's street enforcers and paramilitary, antifa, like they always do?

Merrick Garland defended sending 20-30 SWAT-equivalent agents to make a "show of force" arrest of the pro-life protester later acquitted for the trumped-up FACE charge. The man offered to turn himself in voluntarily; the DOJ said, "No, we're gonna Branch Davidian this bitch!"

The full exchange is here. Hawley grilled him about the FBI flooding the Catholic church with informers and entrappers based on its latest paranoid delusion -- once again, fueled by hard leftwing "online researchers" -- that "radical traditionalists" are in the church and plotting terrorism.

Cruz blasted this c***sucker for failing to bring a single prosecution for illegally protesting outside Supreme Court Justices' homes:

Let me make a quick point about that law: Merrick Garland and other leftists say it can't be enforced because you can't criminalize someone's right to protest. First of all, that's not true: it has long been constitutional to make certain kinds of protests illegal so long as those restrictions are based on Time, Manner, and Place limitations. When they happen -- you can't play the tuba late at night to deprive people of sleep, and by the way, we saw that happening during the BLM riots.

Where they happen -- you can't protest people's personal residences, unless they're Republican, and you can't block the streets or highways, unless you're antifa or BLM.

And in what manner they happen. That is, if they're orderly or disorderly.

The government cannot block speech based on the government's sympathy for the speaker. But they can regulate it based on neutral Time, Place, and Manner restrictions.

But they keep saying "We can't just arrest people for protesting in front of the justices' homes! They think that protesting outside these homes is the most effective place to do it, so they have an absolute First Amendment right to do so!"

Meanwhile, they're prosecuting people all over the place for FACE Act violations-- saying that people are protesting too close to an abortion clinic, and that's illegal.

Wait, didn't they just make the argument that if a protester thought that protesting in a specific place was the best place to do so, we must absolutely respect his choice?

Shut up, transphobe. Your logic is racist and your demand for consistency is anti-woman.

Abortion clinics -- inviolable Holy ground. Conservative Supreme Court Justices' homes-- feel free to menace their children.

posted by Ace at 12:12 PM

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