Whether it’s J6 protesters or pro-Palestinian activists, their prosecutors’ eagerness to put them in some “other” category that goes well beyond their alleged crimes is an effort to diminish due process laws and undermine their basic constitutional rights.
Even before the J6 controversy, it wasn’t long ago that the Department of Homeland Security, Vice President Joe Biden, and Democrats in general were labeling Tea Party leaders and activists as “terrorists.”
The impulse to do this is bipartisan. In 2023, the FBI under Biden reportedly released a memo from its Richmond office targeting Catholics as “terrorists.” The Catholic News Agency reported:
“[The memo] asserted that ‘radical-traditionalist’ Catholics were domestic-terrorism threats and suggested infiltrating Catholic churches as ‘threat mitigation,’ the executive order states. ‘This later-retracted FBI memorandum cited as support evidence propaganda from highly partisan sources.”
Partisan is right. That’s exactly what all of these examples are: Weaponizing the government against one’s political opponents in defiance of the Constitution.
I guess the prior administration wasn’t doing anything that the current administration is doing, was it? Stifling free speech is a bad habit of every administration that I can remember because they were all doing it, without regard to what the Constitution says about it. Biden’s gang did it with the J6ers and Trumps gang is doing it with Khalil Mahmoud, so it seems it is only the difference is between quantity of the persecuted, not the quality of the adherence to the First Amendment.