How the Left Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Domestic Terrorism

…Recall Garland's breathless declaration, during his confirmation hearings, that "150 years after the Department's founding, battling extremist attacks on our democratic institutions also remains central to its mission."

Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman were arrested in the "mostly peaceful" protests following George Floyd's murder. The two lawyers handed out Molotov cocktails to the crowd, and Rahman tossed one into a police car before fleeing the scene in Mattis's van. They reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors in October 2020 that wiped out six of the seven charges against them. Those prosecutors, nonetheless, sought a maximum 10-year sentence and argued that the incident qualified for a so-called terrorism enhancement that would turbocharge sentencing—a determination with which the U.S. Probation Office concurred.

Ginning herself up to distribute explosives to the crowd, Rahman gave a video interview in which she declared, "This **** won't ever stop until we ****in' take it all down," adding that "the only way [the police] hear us is through violence."

Then, Garland and the U.S. attorney for New York's Eastern District, Breon Peace, who's handling the prosecution, took office, and you won't believe what happened next!

In mid-May, the same career DOJ prosecutors who argued for that 10-year sentence were back in court withdrawing their plea deal and entering a new one that allowed the defendants to cop to the lesser charge of conspiracy. It tosses out the terrorism enhancement entirely.

The new charge carries a five-year maximum sentence, but the prosecutors are urging the judge to go below that, asking for just 18 to 24 months on account of the "history and personal characteristics of the defendants" and the "aberrational nature of the defendants' conduct." Because, you know, Mattis graduated from Princeton and New York University Law School and was an attorney at the white-shoe law firm Pryor Cashman, and Rahman was a public-interest lawyer whose "best friend," Obama administration intelligence official Salmah Rizvi, guaranteed the $250,000 required to release her on bail….











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Thanks go out to Real Clear Politics for carrying this great editorial. The author is exactly right. There is a total and complete double standard between how peace protesters are treated when they are not peaceful. A total special deal for these progressive left lawyers while working class people doing far less on a different day at a different place are political prisoners in a DC jail to this day.

 

The double standards of treatment people on the left get and the targeting of those on the right shows how precarious our legal and justice system swings in the balance.

 

I’m almost 100% sure I said this was going to happen when I saw these leftist scumbags were charged.

 

Sounds like justice was served! You know what they say, fafo.

 

So this one incident means the entire Left “loves” terrorism? That’s as asinine as anyone claiming white supremacists represents the entire Right. Both would be wrong. Sweeping generalizations are lazy and dumb.

 

That's what you chose to focus on? How about the fact that they're basically getting a slap on a wrist for fire bombing a police car?

 

Psst…did you not see the thread title? Pretty clear what the focus is of the thread. Need me to spell it out for you? “Left loves domestic terrorism”. So it wasn’t MY focus. I was responding to the focus of the OP. Funny how you didn’t call the OP out for focusing on the left loving domestic terrorism!
And again, that claim is just as asinine as when the Left makes a55hole sweeping generalizations about the Right.
The original sentence for these two a55holes should have stuck and we’ll never know the real reason why it was changed. There’s many times I’ve shaken my head at the legal system.

 

We know why it was changed they're prominent lefties in the system is obviously rigged with lefties or they wouldn't have gotten away with it so casually

 

There are too many laws. This is an example of charge stacking. These people should only have faced maybe two criminal charges.

The "terrorism" enhancement was originally meant for crimes that were indisputably and obviously terrorism. Now it is just one more piece of ammunition for prosecutors, one more arrow in the quiver to use. It's another example of a law that is now being used in a way it was not originally intended.

And this is an example of flagrant double standards. If the criminal had been a Trump supporter, do you think they would have taken it so easy on them?

 

Let's also remember those two police cars they attacked had not even done anything to provoke them. Their only offense was showing up to a protest where they were not wanted.

Maybe they just didn't want any additional police showing up who could stop the mob from looting and vandalism.

These people weren't fighting for anything. The attack was totally pointless. All based on emotion.

And an irony is the Left accuses the Right of tribalism, but that is exactly what happened here. These police officers were "of the wrong tribe".

 

Right of course. So this is occurring all over the country now right? All Lefties are getting reduced sentences, right? Care to show the proof of this?

 

People and the msm claim white supremacy represents the entire right.

 

yeah I’m sure the DA in San Fran just got recalled by liberals because he made a bad decision or two. Lol

Who’s next to the chopping block? LA’s DA? He just made a few bad decisions too…so why do liberals keep recalling their DA’s?

Or is your post just total abject BS?

 

MSM does not. But individual idiots do. Just like individual idiots claim the Left “loves” domestic terrorism because of the case mentioned in the OP. In both cases it’s wrong and idiotic.

 

How many have been recalled?

 

It’s not one thing. The left has totally dismissed all of the May 2020 going forward riots, looting, vandalism, assaults, etc. as mostly peaceful and treats 1-6 as if it was somehow worse than all the rest combined. Deal with it. We will openly mock and ridicule the proceedings tonight and those engaged in them.

 

They are elite NYC lawyers while the 1-6 protesters are working and middle class people from middle America.

 

All those Soros backed DA’s being soft on crime letting all the lefty criminals off the hook or just the most minor slap on the wrist. Fortunately, one was recalled and another soon will be

 

Funny the things you’ve convince yourself to believe. Meh whatever

 

many from 1-6 got similar sentences

terrorism should be a felony with long sentences, regardless of what side you think the criminals are

the war on drugs has filled our prisons, time to end the war and give real criminals more time

 

Meh, whatever is our response to the illegitimate committee propaganda show this evening. Both sides will talk past and over each other and it will be all over accomplishing absolutely nothing whatsoever, except to further divide America.

 

Which you seem on board with based on the threads you start. Just sayin

 

NEW CIVILITY WATCH BIDEN DOG WHISTLES FOR VIOLENCE AND ASSASSINATION: Hours After Kavanaugh Threat, Biden 'Predicts' ‘Mini Revolution’ If Roe Overturned.

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Is Chuck Schumer Culpable for the Death Threat Against Justice Kavanaugh? Warns Gorsuch and Kavanaugh that if they do not decide the way that Chuck and the Left wants that "They'll never know what hit them."

 

CHUCK SCHUMER DOG WHISTLES THE CRAZIES: Threats against judges and courts surge 387%, to 4,511.

"Despite the surge, House Democrats withheld consideration of legislation to increase security spending for courts and court officers, drawing a heated retort from House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy. BREAKING: House Democrats just BLOCKED a bill to provide more security for Supreme Court justices and their families."

“This passed unanimously in the Senate, yet Speaker Pelosi refuses to bring it up for a vote — despite today's foiled plot to kill Justice Kavanaugh. Shameful.”

Seems like Pelosi and too much of the Left is pro murdering judges.

 

Simply ridiculous and inaccurate.