Commentary
If Americans needed any more evidence that justice is no longer blind in the United States, they need not look any further than the horrific treatment of the Jan. 6 protesters—with dozens having been subjected to cruel and unusual punishment and alleged torture for doing what most of the House Democrats did in June 2016: obstructing an official session of Congress. In fact, some of the Jan. 6 defendants are the very definition of political prisoners.
We would expect civil rights leaders to join together to condemn these disgraceful injustices, especially Democrats who went unpunished for their obstructing an official session of Congress for a far longer length of time than the Jan. 6 participants. Instead, there’s a deafening silence from a civil rights movement that has now morphed into nothing more than a race-baiting organ of the Democratic Party that summons others to not only further oppress the political prisoners, but also to go after their families and anyone who supported President Donald Trump….