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Sky Palma
May 14, 2021
Speaking on the House floor this Friday, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said that most of the people arrested for participating in the riot at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 "face non-violent trespassing and disorderly conduct charges."
"Joe Biden's Justice Department is criminalizing political protest, but only political protest by Republicans or conservatives," Gohmert said. "They're destroying the lives of American families, they're weaponizing the events of January 6 to silence Trump-supporting Americans."
According to Gohmert, the Biden administration is accusing "these folks" of being a danger to society "because they doubted the outcome of the 2020 presidential election." He also accused a judge presiding over the case of Capitol rioters of being an "advocate" for Democrats.
"We have in this city political prisoners held hostage by their own government," he continued. "Victims of an unequal system of justice in a country where rioters and looters on the left are let off the hook, even considered heroes while those on the right are considered hardened criminals without any record before a trial can even begin."
(Here's the full, rambling BS-filled nonsense if you can stomach it. I couldn't.)
https://www.rawstory.com/capitol-riot-2652987672/
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Boy, they really decided to double, triple, and quadruple down on The Big Lie and fuck democracy. They should all be brought up on charges, although I know that none of them will.
Whoopsie: I forgot to add the article link. My bad!
underpants
(182,273 posts)Thats a good first step.
Justice matters.
(6,874 posts)SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)I'd say it's time to 14th amendment this guy out the door.
Botany
(70,291 posts)He is such a Gohmert.
Those good "Trump-supporting Americans," killed 5 people, injured over 100 police officers,
caused 130 million $s of damage to the US Capitol and its grounds, tried violently overthrow
our government from doing its duty under the US Constitution, smeared feces on the walls
of the Capitol building, and were a mob of racist thugs who broke a shit load of laws too.
Here they are either killing a Capitol Hill policeman or trying to do just that. Sorry Louie you can't unring that bell.
Ohioboy
(3,222 posts)If you panned out and showed the whole crowd back to the Washington Monument you would see that most of them weren't trying to kill a policeman.
Botany
(70,291 posts)n/t
Lovie777
(11,987 posts)Comfortably_Numb
(3,777 posts)cant metabolize it all.....
Botany
(70,291 posts)It is hard to believe that man was admitted to, graduated law school, and was a sitting judge @ one time.
RVN VET71
(2,686 posts)I wont watch the video because Ive had enough of this low-brow dip-shit's squawking and lying to last me the rest of my life. The people who vote for this rectal parasite, every one of them, are beyond shame and beneath contempt.
America has been wounded by the GOP since Reagan, and the wound grew more severe and more gangrenous in the intervening years until it is near death thanks to Flubbo-45, and the support the Party now openly gives to white-supremacists and Neo-nazis. It needs time to recover and can no longer simply absorb the foolishness and narrow-minded hatred of people like Louie and his Party without growing weaker.
Prof. Toru Tanaka
(1,921 posts)so it's time to change tactics.
Now these poor rioters and insurrectionists are political prisoners!
Justice matters.
(6,874 posts)Ohioboy
(3,222 posts)Members of Congress, whether House or Senate, have to be working on current problems that concern America, not wasting time trying to rewrite history giving speeches making it sound like Jan 6th was something benign. January 6th was a wake up call that our democracy is in serious danger, and idiots like Gomert are the ones that will ruin the republic.
infullview
(978 posts)These are all insurrectionist lies that hurt our democracy,
They_Live
(3,222 posts)dang y'all.