A poll from last year found that 4 in 5 Americans believe there is a two-tiered system of justice. The 12 months following the survey proved their suspicions correct.
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The only rule is that leftist power is moral and everyone else’s power is immoral. Everything needed to rectify a leftist imbalance of power, from violence to election theft, is justified.

For activists perhaps no better example of the double standards in law imposed by the Democrat Party wherever they controlled the process of law and order, is as blatant as the treatment dished out to abortion protestors and the J6 protestors compared to what BLM and Antifa received in 2020.

  1. Anti-Abortion and J6 Protests
    1. Anti-Abortion Protestors
    2. January 6 Protestors
  2. BLM and Antifa Protests
Anti-Abortion and J6 Protests
Anti-Abortion Protestors

Back in the 1990’s Bill Clinton signed into law something called the FACE Act, Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act, designed to prohibit violent efforts to prevent people getting into abortion clinics.

I recall agreeing with this law, given some of the anti-abortion tactics of the day. But…

By the time President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, the federal government had brought fewer than 100 prosecutions since the unconstitutional Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act’s inception in 1994. That’s fewer than four targetings a year under a law that, as Republican Rep. Chip Roy noted in a 2023 letter, “had never been used to indict individuals related to an attack on a pro-life pregnancy center or house of worship.”

In 2022 alone, however, more than two dozen pro-lifers were persecuted by the Biden-led Department of Justice with FACE Act charges. Over the last two years, that number has only grown.

By 2023 the Biden regime had also become very keen on snitching about this:

DHS is developing “an online ‘Choose Your Own Adventure’-style video series to ‘deradicalize’ friends and family.”…The videos contain a series of profiles of these allegedly “radicalized” Americans. One of them is “Ann,” a “suburban Mom” who “has become increasingly more concerned about the welfare of other children” and has become a “middle-aged pro-life advocate.”…Bystanders are given three choices: calling the sheriff on Ann, talking about Ann to coworkers, or researching the groups Ann talked about.”

Full Stasi. And so…

With all this it should be no surprise that by the end of 2022 the stats showed that Violence Against Pro-Lifers Was Over 22 Times That Against Pro-Choicers.

Not that it worried Roman Catholic President Biden as his DHC and FBI went after his own religion (admittedly this was likely his staff):

CatholicVote has tracked 345 attacks on Catholic churches since the George Floyd incident in 2020, including acts of arson that damaged or destroyed historic churches; spray-painting and graffiti of satanic messages; rocks and bricks thrown through windows; and statues destroyed
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[In 2023] Biden’s Department of Justice recommended no jail time for Maeve Nota, a 31-year-old self-identified transgender individual who vandalized the St. Louise Catholic Church in Bellevue, Washington, last June in response to the Dobbs decision

TBF a lot of Catholics simply ignored all this as good little Democrats, treating it much the same way as their abortion-promoting-Mass-attending President – who was allowed to continue to take Communion in violation of Catholic practice.

January 6 Protestors

I’ve already dealt fairly extensively with the outrageous bullshit applied to the J6 protestors by a Department of Justice and FBI who might as well just have been arms of the Democrat Party in serving the Narrative about The Great Insurrection, especially here (The fate the Left would love for all Trump supporters) and here (Political Prisoners & Criminalising Dissent) But there are always more stories about this appalling episode in American history:

A Missouri man walked into the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, dressed as George Washington. He caused no damage, engaged in no violence, and was even recorded peacefully speaking with police before leaving. For daring to dress as America’s pre-eminent Founding Father and symbolically rebuking our corrupt ruling class, Isaac Yoder was surveilled for seven months, eventually arrested, fined, and sentenced to a year in prison.

Federal prosecutors used terrorist enhancements to extend the convicts’ sentences over a riot where the only fatal victims were pro-Trump demonstrators. Biggs’ 17-year stay was enhanced over the defendant’s destruction of a fence on Capitol grounds.

[Lang] has been incarcerated for three and a half years as a pre-trial detainee, has spent 800 days in solitary confinement for ridiculous infractions, such as accepting an interview with the media.

Rasha Abual-Ragheb was an immigrant from Lebanon who became a US citizen in 2009, a solo Mum with three kids. Like hundreds of other J6rs she walked unhindered into the Capitol Building, committed no violence and caused no damage – but she did take a selfie outside, with a message on Twitter. And so…

On January 19, 2021 at about 4:30am, the FBI raid Rasha’s house. They will go on to use a “flash bang” type of device into her bedroom & guns drawn on Rasha and her children. All over 1 picture.
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Not knowing the Justice System, Rasha is quickly coerced into signing a plea deal. Rasha again explains how she is the sole provider of her 3 children & how no family of her lives in the U.S. They are quick explain to her how her children will become wards of the state and be separated, if she’s sent to jail. At this point, Rasha had already lost her job, her bank account, her home, & her health insurance.

You can see the charges at the link, in the finest tradition of throwing multiple charges at the wall and then getting her to plead down to one, something mild like the much-used “Parade, demonstrate, or picket in any of the Capitol Buildings”, then screwing her anyway.

The judges were often worse than the prosecutors:

U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan has overseen more than three dozen cases of individuals charged with crimes over the Jan. 6 riot. According to the Associated Press, Chutkan often issued sentences that went far beyond prosecutors’ recommendations.

“Other judges typically have handed down sentences that are more lenient than those requested by prosecutors,” the AP reported. “Chutkan, however, has matched or exceeded prosecutors’ recommendations in 19 of her 38 sentences. In four of those cases, prosecutors weren’t seeking any jail time at all.”

All these people have since been pardoned of course, but those memories will stay, as the Feds intended but probably not in the way they imagined, which will show up when and if the likes of Matthew Graves, Amit Mehta and Jack Smith start getting investigated, arrested and prosecuted – and perhaps even convicted for corruption.

BLM and Antifa Protests

The contrast with the treatment of the BLM-Antifa crowd in 2020 could not be clearer: in most cases they suffered not even from the process, let alone convictions, as even a Nationwide Law Enforcement report acknowledged in late 2020:

According to the MCC report, the 2020 rioters appeared to engage in detailed and comprehensive national coordination, as evidenced by a similar pattern emerging in city after city. The pattern involved peaceful protestors timing their activities in the late afternoon, thereby allowing rioters the opportunity to engage in looting, violence, and arson when the sun went down.

Yet despite all this the 2020 rioters were not similarly hunted down and charged for their crimes. Even worse, the few who that far were let go with no penalties or mere wrist slaps (notably Kamala Harris and her Hollywood friends raised funds to cover their bail). No judge ordered the 2020 rioters to endlessly rot in jail.

Contrast the 17 year sentence of Proud Boy Biggs with the DOJ’s treatment of a BLM guy who appeared on video proclaiming that he was going to “burn this shit down” and did so, setting fire to a pawn shop after looting it in May 2020 which fire ended up killing Oscar Stewart, who found himself trapped in the blaze, dying smoke inhalation and leaving behind five children. The following is from the DOJ’s sentencing recommendation:

Mr. Lee credibly states that he was in the streets to protest unlawful police violence against black men, and there is no basis to disbelieve this statement. Mr. Lee, appropriately, acknowledges that he “could have demonstrated in a different way,” but that he was “caught up in the fury of the mob after living as a black man watching his peers suffer at the hands of police….And even the great American advocate for non-violence and social justice, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stated in an interview with CBS’s Mike Wallace in 1966 that “we’ve got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard.”

That isn’t from his defence lawyers. That’s from the DOJ prosecutors. It is purely political. Mr Lee was a potential or even actual ally of the Left and Far Left, and likely a Democrat voter.

Or how about lawyers Colinford Mattis and Urooj Rahman, whom I’ve written about before:

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.
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Ginning herself up to distribute explosives to the crowd, Rahman gave a video interview in which she declared, “This shit won’t ever stop until we fuckin’ take it all down,” adding that “the only way [the police] hear us is through violence.”
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They reached a plea deal with federal prosecutors in October 2020 that wiped out six of the seven charges against them.

The DOJ kept after ten year convictions on those charges with a terrorism enhancement (like the J6rs) – but by then Biden was President and Merrick Garland was the Federal Attorney General, and so…

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 charges were pled them down to 18-24 months due to their “history and personal characteristics”, like the fact that 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.

There are lot like that, as this 2020 article, Tired, Hungry, and Poor, which started with the self-image and a lack of self-awareness:

On October 6, some Antifa sock puppet addressed the Portland city council.  Somewhere near the beginning of his insipid rant, he claims, “I represent a mass of humanity, we’re tired, hungry, poor, and huddling.”

The article lists a number of Antifas arrested for rioting who perfectly match Mattis and Rahman (they’re listed there) in coming from wealthy backgrounds and cos-play at being Working Class and Poor. They’re not Fighting The Man, they are The Man!:

Where does Antifa thrive?  In rich, segregated, progressive cities.  The average household income in the United States is $68,400 per household.  The average household income in Antifa-friendly cities all exceed this number: $73,097 in Portland, $73,231 in Minneapolis, $78,612 in Seattle, $95,843 in Washington D.C., $96,677 in San Francisco, and $123,710 in Manhattan’s Upper East Side.

They’re Children of the Privileged Revolution and five years later the rich kids are still in the vanguard.

Antifa is strongest in Whiter-Then-White Portland, Oregon, and their privilege provides specific cases contrasting the treatment of violent Antifa with violent J6rs.

Two other January 6 participants, Robert Palmer and Scott Fairlamb, were sentenced to 63 and 41 months respectively for assaulting police officers during the rioting outside the US Capitol.

You hit a cop? Fair enough. Except if you’re Antifa:

Dakotah Ray Norton got 24 months. Dakota K. Means got time and probation (well hey, it was only a paintball gun).

In Washington state Ellen Brennan Reiche put a device on train tracks that would interfere with the signal system that stops trains crashing into each other or into cars, about as terrorist as it gets. Convicted she was looking at 20 years (like the ProudBoys) – she got 12 months.

According to reports, over 92% of the Portland rioters arrested and charged have been released without bail – like these guys..

Given that J6 was focused on the capital of the US the evidence of double standards can be drawn even more starkly, as the riots around the White House in 2020 showed. Democrat rioters set fire to Lafayette Park in front of the White House, chanting “George Floyd”, set fire to public restrooms, set on fire the Historic St. John’s Church across from the White House, set more fires around the White House and attacked Secret Service agents protecting the ground.

Nancy Pelosi didn’t invite those officers to testify in front of Congress, and of course when rioters breached the White House fence and set fire to a Secret Service guard tower, this was surely obstructing and disrupting the government? You might even call it… an insurrection.

But then the same people had got away with this years earlier…

Bugger all arrests then and slaps-on-the-wrist for the few who were arrested, in keeping with a long-held norm that protests in the capital should be treated leniently – until January 6, 2021.

The MSM is, as always, part of the structure. Their reaction to the 2020 White House riots and arson attacks was to call Trump a coward for “hiding” in the bunker…

.. the Huffington Post giggled about the left’s favourite meme of that time: Trump the “Bunker Bitch.”, and of course pre-Elon Twwiter orgasmed daily in calling Trump a “bunker baby.”.

Hyuck, hyuck, hyuck. No impassioned speeches about “insurrectionists.” No worries about the pillars of our precious democracy being shaken.

That’s because they were The Regime’s approved violent insurrectionists and paramilitaries, and protecting them is important, as even this Capitol police officer realised:

Harry Dunn, the teary-eyed U.S. Capitol police officer who testified in Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi’s politicized January 6 committee, previously defended the violent riots that shook the nation last summer and caused billions of dollars in damage. In a tweet directed at Fox News’s Tucker Carlson last August, Dunn asked “why is murder an appropriate response to property damage but property damage isn’t an appropriate response to murder?”

A Police officer? He’s a BLM militant who spreads BLM propaganda, this despite being Black and the target of this shite…

Plus the higher ups…

By mid 2021 Criminal defense lawyer Leslie Gordon (also a former Special Agent for the Department of Defense, Defense Investigative Service) was prepared to call it:

It is difficult to see the disparity in the treatment of comparable non-violent misdemeanor cases with similar facts as anything other than a gross abuse of prosecutorial power.  The public, the media, and Republican lawmakers should demand that the flagrant disparity in the treatment of these January 6 protestors cease immediately.  Scores of lives will be seriously and unnecessarily damaged if this abusive process is allowed to continue, to say nothing of the destruction of the public’s faith in the neutrality of the criminal justice system.

Want to see what real power looks like…

The only rule is that leftist power is moral and everyone else’s power is immoral. Everything needed to rectify a leftist imbalance of power, from violence to election theft, is justified.