The other day someone asked me, “Do you think that the Justice Department is evil?”
Initially, I thought the question was rhetorical, but she pressed on, “I’m serious. Do you think that the Justice Department is evil?”
As I had not previously thought about the Justice Department in those terms, I put the question right back to her. “Do you?”
She had apparently given that question some thought, as she replied, “Absolutely! Think about the following.”
She then proceeded to tell me about the following from the Daily Wire:
“A group of Christian pro-life activists, including an 89-year-old survivor of a communist prison camp in Eastern Europe, face over a decade in prison after they were convicted on Tuesday in a federal trial in Michigan. A jury found Chester Gallagher, Heather Idoni, Joel Curry, Justin Phillips, Cal Zastrow, his daughter Eva Zastrow, and 89-year-old Eva Edl guilty of engaging in a conspiracy against rights and violations of the FACE Act. Edl was forced into a camp as a young child by Yugoslavian communist dictator Josip Broz Tito before fleeing to the United States. The seven were prosecuted by the Biden administration, which has been using the conspiracy against rights charge, originally designed for the Klu Klux Klan, to go after pro-life activists. They face over 10 years in prison and hundreds of thousands in fines upon sentencing. The charges stemmed from a peaceful demonstration, which the defendants called a “Rescue,” where the group sat and stood outside of the Northland Family Planning Clinic in Sterling Heights, Michigan, alongside a group of other pro-life activists.”
She then continued, “Who other than the devil would prosecute an 89 year old concentration camp survivor for standing quietly outside a Family Planning Clinic? When Eva Edl dies in prison, do those prosecuting lawyers, U.S. Attorney Frances Carlson, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sunita Doddamani, and trial lawyer Laura-Kate Bernstein, get extra kudos on their Justice Department scorecard?
“I get that there are different opinions about abortion. But, come on, using the conspiracy against rights charge, which was passed in 1870 to deal with groups like the Klu Klux Klan, not peaceful protesters, seems like a bit much to me … unless the Justice Department is evil! … I rest my case!”
When she finished, I briefly thought about what she had just said, and responded, “Yes. It does seem to me that the Justice Department is indeed evil!”
8/21/24
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