American investigative reporter Julie Kelly has done sterling work reporting on the aftermath of the January 6, 2021 “Insurrection” and the reaction of America’s security state to the rioters.
But even her reports of the lengths the US State has gone to in destroying these people has not been exceeded by this latest:
Matthew Perna did nothing wrong on January 6, 2021. The Pennsylvania man walked through an open door on the Senate side of the building shortly before 3 p.m. that afternoon. Capitol police, shown in surveillance video, stood by as hundreds of Americans entered the Capitol. Wearing a “Make America Great Again” sweatshirt, Perna, 37, left after about 20 minutes.
Less than two weeks later, Perna was ensnared in what the former top U.S. prosecutor called a “shock and awe” campaign to round up Trump supporters and deter them from demonstrating at Joe Biden’s inauguration on January 20, 2021. After he discovered his image on the FBI’s most wanted list for January 6, Perna immediately contacted his local FBI office and voluntarily submitted to questioning; on January 18, six FBI agents arrested Perna at his home.
His life from that point turned into a nightmare. Perna was indicted by a grand jury in February 2021 on four counts including obstruction of an official proceeding and trespassing misdemeanors. Despite his nonviolent participation in the events of that day — he did not assault anyone, carry a weapon, or vandalize property — Biden’s Justice Department and local news media nonetheless made his life pure hell. Whenever his hometown paper, the Sharon Herald, published an article on its social media account about Perna, the majority of replies were “horrible and brutal,” his aunt, Geri Perna, told me on the phone Sunday. After more than a year of legal and public torture, Perna saw no way out.
On Friday night, Matthew Perna hung himself in his garage.
“They broke him, they mentally broke him,” Geri said through racking sobs as she explained why her loved one ended his life. “He had run out of hope. I know he couldn’t take it any more.”
Who needs Putin when you’ve got the FBI and the Department of “Justice” in your own country.
I’d forgotten this but here it is, courtesy of Liberal law professor Ann Althouse’s US blog post on the subject:
“As a nation, we began by declaring that ‘all men are created equal.’ We now practically read it ‘all men are created equal, except negroes.’ When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read ‘all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.’
When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.”
Abraham Lincoln
No Minister 
Who else feels we are on the cusp of something similar happening in NZ.?
Politicised police and compliant media on standby.
That’s so sad & awful.
I hope that in the near future the pieces of shit in the DOJ who decided to go scorched earth on people like this will themselves be identified to the public and have their lives shredded. I don’t see any other way to stop “Justice” officials pulling these stunts on behalf of the Democrat Party.
You’re spot on Kevn.
Ardern will be on a witch hunt to root out the individual protesters who made her look bad. Just like those hypocrite Dems.
Nah. Kiwis are not built like that and besides, Ardern is confident that the anti-mandate crowd is no more than 30% at best, that this will be behind her soon in time for the 2023 election. She and the rest of Parliament were also never frightened of the protestors.
None of those things apply to Pelosi and the Washington bureaucracy and so they have to make it clear what happens when they are threatened and from the POV a few suicides will help the cause and they know the MSM won’t cover this the way they did George Floyd; unlike him, Perna is a politically incorrect person.