Law and Order It Isn't

 

by Pa Rock

Citizen Journalist

The law and order President who continually boasts about his administration rounding up and deporting  gang members and criminals appears to have a blind spot when it comes to dealing with one very notorious criminal gang - the gang of 2,000 or so who smashed and forced their way into the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021.  In fact, Donald Trump pardoned those criminals, even the ones whose actions led to the injuries of more that 140 members of the Capitol Police and the subsequent deaths of five Capitol Police officers.

Unbelievable but true!  The thugs and miscreants who broke windows and stormed doors to gain entry to the Capitol and then ran amuck once they were inside - destroying property (to the tune of a million-and-a-half-dollars), occupying offices, terrorizing and physically assaulting people who worked in the building, and even defecating on the floor -  those full-fledged domestic terrorists were pardoned for their crimes almost as soon as Donald Trump got back into office.

(But anyone who keys a Tesla is headed straight for El. Salvador!)

In an interview with the right-wing news organization, Newsmax, earlier this week, Trump had the audacity to say that those individuals who were in the Capitol on January 6th,  were there"peacefully and patriotically."  (The injured and dead police officers would probably beg to differ.)

But even after his outrageous pardons of the January 6th criminals, Trump was still not content.  In that Newsmax interview last Tuesday he said that the Capitol invaders could also wind up receiving compensation for their time in jail - the government would give them monetary payments (our tax dollars!) for the indignity they suffered by being locked up.  Trump told the interviewer that there is a lot of talk among people in government right now (his people) about compensating those individuals, and he added that is because they "really like that group of people."

One of the people who stands to be compensated for being locked away as a reesult of his involvement in the January 6th riots at the Capitol is a young man from North Carolina who was found to have child pornography in his home, pornography which he had produced himself involving two young girls, one pre-pubescent an the other under the age of twelve.  That pornography was discovered while police searched his home looking for materials connecting him to the January 6th riots.  A news story this week indicated that since the discovery of the pornography was linked to the January 6th investigation, the man's lawyer plans to use the presidential pardon in an effort to get his client free of the pornography charge.

Meanwhile there is another young man who is in a hellhole prison in El Salvador whose only two crimes were:   1.) being Hispanic, and 2.) having a tattoo supporting autism awareness which the ICE agents who snatched him were too damned dumb to understand.

And the person responsible for all of this "law and order" is an elderly politician who less than a year ago was convicted by a New York state Supreme Court jury on 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to cover-up hush money payments to a porn star.

Maybe we should compensate him, too!

The hypocrisy is stunning - and outrageous!