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"These acts and threats of violence are not associated with any one set of partisan or ideological views" regarding threats against Congresspeople, judges, and school boards?
You just lost me dude. One step forward, ten steps back. Every example he gave was specifically of the aberrant behavior in which Republicans/white nationalists/conservo-terrorists have felt emboldened to engage. He can't talk about getting to the root of the problem by denying the problem has a root. This guy is rudderless.
PTWB
(4,131 posts)50 Shades Of Blue
(10,789 posts)XanaDUer2
(13,330 posts)Some guy on CNN called that out
leftstreet
(36,219 posts)both sides do it!!!!1111
BlackSkimmer
(51,308 posts)Sorry, I watched part of it, and he just looked out of it.
WhiskeyGrinder
(23,618 posts)Tickle
(2,927 posts)insurrection! Why didnt he call it that
BaronChocula
(2,434 posts)when you can engage in a fruitless attempt to "win them back."
TheRealNorth
(9,628 posts)I thought that it was pointless pandering to appear "neutral"
DENVERPOPS
(9,814 posts)and not a number of agitated DUers posting.
He must have the appearance of being un-biased in his search for the truth. There is much time later for direct attacks on individuals with massive evidence of their crimes. It serves no purpose to put the Republicans on defense from the start.........
TimeToGo
(1,376 posts)He isn't the enforcer for the party. Now, that said, there's still no reason to even suggest both sides.
The proof will be in what happens next. Are they being methodical, or are they dragging their feet.
DENVERPOPS
(9,814 posts)The proof is in the pudding, as the old adage says.........
I really enjoyed his bringing up the supreme court 2013 decision, and all the chipping away that they have done to voting rights since then...........
No wonder Moscow Mitch was frightened about Obama appointing him to the Supreme Court.
I just hope that we don't get yet another milk toast and white washed like with Mueller.........
It has now already dragged on a full year, and the 2022 election is now down to 10 months and closing fast........
There are still 70 million who are confident they won't make the same mistakes they made on 1/6 the next time...............
and regretfully will probably also target state capitols as well this time around..........
FakeNoose
(35,227 posts)...
BaronChocula
(2,434 posts)Hell! Vice President Harris should have been appointed AG!
BComplex
(8,973 posts)She would have kicked some serious ass on these insurrectionists. AND their leaders!
FakeNoose
(35,227 posts)What a waste of excellent prosecutorial skills.
Rebl2
(14,448 posts)She would have been a better ag than garland
PunkinPi
(4,996 posts)She's exactly where she needs to be and I'm grateful that she is.
ShazamIam
(2,673 posts)and acts of violence will be prosecuted.
Why did that lose you?
BaronChocula
(2,434 posts)What bothers me is that the trend of political violence is NOT emerging on both sides. The same anger, resentment and hostility that backed the Trump presidency is the same anger, resentment, and hostility fueling the threats of political violence and ACTUAL political violence. There is no progressive equivalent of Qanon, Proud Boys, anti-government militia and on and on. Those are the facts. To whitewash the relationship between "conservative" anger and heightened states of alert bothers the shit out of me.
Grasswire2
(13,684 posts)You can try to interpret it.
But someone should have stopped him from making that statement about "political violence on both sides"
ShazamIam
(2,673 posts)agingdem
(8,503 posts)I suppose that derails any exploding heads screaming "what about blah blah blah..." I take comfort in the fact that the DOJ is, in fact, investigating 1/6...
Pacifist Patriot
(24,853 posts)It's the DOJ. I know he doesn't believe it for a minute.
crickets
(26,146 posts)agingdem
(8,503 posts)he's letting the loathsome Jordan/Gosar/McCarthy et al know his DOJ is not "working" for Biden..so they can STFU about left wing bias...
BaronChocula
(2,434 posts)Instead of lying and saying there was no ideological association with the violence and threats of violence. He lied. You don't have to lie to appear unbiased.
ShazamIam
(2,673 posts)his announcement to punish those who threaten public officials was a violation of their free speech.
He covered both the free speech lie and the partisan witch hunt claim.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,853 posts)BaronChocula
(2,434 posts)His job is to uphold the Constitution of the United States.
ShazamIam
(2,673 posts)perfectly clear they are on the hunt for the Jan 6ers and those who threaten public officials.
He has to address the existing set of beliefs, now it is up to the news people to parse that statement,
He didn't give them the chance to claim it is a partisan witch hunt targeting only conservatives.
ShazamIam
(2,673 posts)the decision about the Constitutional status of the laws the DOJ enforces.
lindysalsagal
(22,268 posts)It was an attempt to get these morons to remember that they are not allowed to follow nutjobs without consequences.
budkin
(6,849 posts)Terrible
crickets
(26,146 posts)It was aimed at quelling shouts of partisanship aimed at him and the DOJ, but it's a shame he felt he had to say it that way. The threats and violence were from one partisan group only, and he knows it. We all do.
Grasswire2
(13,684 posts)Good solid Dems are not receiving this well.
LymphocyteLover
(6,464 posts)spot of bipartisanship.
Pantagruel
(2,580 posts)the threats come from various groups, "Republicans/white nationalists/conservo-terrorists "and more, and MG is correct and fair in his account. Our impatience here at DU was not pandered to , MG simply gave an update on a huge, ONGOING legal undertaking. I think his hand on the rudder is quite steady, veering off in partisan pursuits will not serve justice.
BaronChocula
(2,434 posts)Those examples of upticks in threats of violence ARE COMPLETELY associated with one "ideology." He didn't have to mention an ideological association at all. That would have been better than lying.
fwvinson
(488 posts)call from the FBI.
Grasswire2
(13,684 posts)What the hell?
Is he equating BLM protests with the violent attack on the Capitol?
BaronChocula
(2,434 posts)Emile
(28,490 posts)Grasswire2
(13,684 posts)Link to tweet
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Hortensis
(58,785 posts)That's classic.
He spoke the simple truth about the domestic extremists being investigated by the thousands across the nation. They are NOT all trumpists or Republicans. A large majority are RW, but not all. Some are LW extremists.
Did Hartmann mention that? Straight to the trash.
Grasswire2
(13,684 posts)These old DU feuds are dead and gone.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)traitors, LW subversives, useful idiots and agents of all types who could still destroy our democracy.
Not at least questioning Hartmann's agenda over all these years, and examining the crowd drawn to his messaging, is...failing in due diligence.
Why not read what's been learned about those spoken of?
Ferrets are Cool
(21,712 posts)Unbelievable. Thom has done MORE for democracy than 99.9% of ALL Americans. Shame on you. It has earned you a mute. Goodbye.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)while pretending the choice wasn't between Democrats and Republicans during a critical national election. The different reasons they had don't even particularly matter, from the highest ideals to the wickedest plotting, when discussing them as a group, only that they did it and who they knowingly did it with.
Including RT agent Hartmann, who claimed to be progressive while knowing that Russia was using the progressive movement to destroy America by destroying liberal progressive government.
Everyone knew it. Not cool at all.
durablend
(7,786 posts)GQP: "SEE? Even Garland says Antifa was at the Capitol!!!!!"
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)but we are fully responsible for our own choices, however.
Spreading deceits is really, really, REALLY bad. Not exactly the kind of behavior meant when Biden talks about bringing the left and right together on common ground.
JustAnotherGen
(33,253 posts)Searched the one word *one* and *party*
These acts and threats of violence are not associated with any one set of partisan or ideological views.
The central norm is that, in our criminal investigations, there cannot be different rules depending on ones political party or affiliation. There cannot be different rules for friends and foes. And there cannot be different rules for the powerful and the powerless.
There is only one rule: we follow the facts and enforce the law in a way that respects the Constitution and protects civil liberties.
We conduct every investigation guided by the same norms. And we adhere to those norms even when, and especially when, the circumstances we face are not normal.
I guess I didn't hear or read the same thing Hartmann did?
And Garland is right - just look at the number of groups involved in 1/6.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)progressoid
(50,602 posts)Oneironaut
(5,755 posts)The Holocaust wasnt related to either side, and there are bad people on both sides!
Grasswire2
(13,684 posts)This is a "bad people on both sides" comment.
BaronChocula
(2,434 posts)"Some very fine people, on both sides."
Oneironaut
(5,755 posts)What frustrates me the most about these people is that theyre purposely acting as if the US Capitol attack, the school boards chaos, etc. are / were either not politically motivated, or, the fault of Democrats as well because of the toxic atmosphere in politics now. Theyre trying to extend an olive branch to Conservatives by pretending that Liberals do it too! which is incredibly frustrating and spineless.
Good Lord. Just say it as it is - Pro-Trump protestors attacked the US Capitol with the intent of stopping the certification of a candidate they didnt like, and they were told to do so by Trump and his cronies. The school board stuff and threats are coming straight from right wing hate speech, or encouragement from people like Tucker Carlson. I cant believe the amount of mental hoops people are jumping through when making statements like Garlands. It annoys the absolute shit out of me.
IbogaProject
(3,465 posts)One of the Reich Wing's 'what abouts?' was in relation to the protestors who attacked the federal courthouse in portland summer of 2020, but that was at night when most of the staff weren't there, so some of those who plead to that got comparably light sentences as opposed to the consodial, prison time some of the Jan 6 have gotten so far. He's just saying it isn't about their politics that day it's that they invaded the capitol, did violence and destruction. He is saying he prosecute violent leftists too, if it came to that.
Grasswire2
(13,684 posts)haele
(13,352 posts)Or a Dominionist. Or an anti-government radical. Or a Trump voter. The root cause to participate can be based off several different political, racist, or religious stances depending on the individual participant. After all, how many people "held their noses" to vote for a specific candidate based on a left/right, religious, or radical/pragmatic reason?
I think he's talking very carefully so as not to muddy his investigation politically
Haele
BaronChocula
(2,434 posts)That's why Republicans defend white nationalists as "patriots," "very fine people," or "Real Americans." The only Republicans disliked by white nationalists are those who aren't white nationalist enough.
Texaswitchy
(2,962 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)Effete Snob
(8,387 posts)The passage starts at 13:50:
LISTEN THIS TIME:
He refers to this case in particular:
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/new-jersey-man-arrested-threatening-kill-federal-judge-2021-11-04/
Nov 4 (Reuters) - A New Jersey man has been arrested and charged with threatening to assault and murder a federal judge who was overseeing a lawsuit he had filed, including by telling one of his clerks that he would "put a bullet in the judge's brain."
Federal prosecutors announced the charges against Jonathan Williams, 46, late Wednesday at a time of heightened concern for judges' safety after a disgruntled attorney last year shot and killed the son of U.S. District Judge Esther Salas in New Jersey and wounded her husband.
That had nothing to do with political orientation.
3825-87867
(1,039 posts)"someone" wanting Pence hung or Pelosi killed or police killed or...!
Shows how bad "both sides are" even if one side does nothing.
bucolic_frolic
(46,412 posts)I have no problem with what AG Garland said. It's unfair and counterproductive to misrepresent his words and the facts.
Hekate
(94,107 posts)I didn't hear bothsiderism. I heard: "If you think terrorists are all brown & black & non-Christian...
I have news for you.
Why can't other people hear that, too?
peggysue2
(11,417 posts)I believe it's referred to as confirmation bias.
I did not hear anything remotely similar to 'bothsiderism.' What I did hear was a man committed to following the facts and the law, someone who (along with his large legal team) will relentlessly pursue responsible parties at all levels involved in the January 6th insurrection/sedition, present or not.
He was never going to tip his hand in an ongoing investigation. I was happy he expanded his comments to include serious voter suppression efforts.
It was a good presentation.
question everything
(48,623 posts)to be viewed as "Democratic action" but as a Constitutional one.
kairos12
(13,198 posts)jmowreader
(51,292 posts)Although the usual subjects will say otherwise, claiming you are going to prosecute all the Democrats who tried to turn America into a totalitarian dictatorship a year ago keeps this from looking like a witch hunt.
The list of Democrats that worked to do this is shorter than Trumps penis, but were gonna haul them all in, just wait and see!
Beastly Boy
(10,973 posts)Did these threats begin a year ago? Or with Trump's inauguration? Or even with the founding of the Republican Party?
Unless you take a ridiculously narrow view of history, violence against law enforcement, or the lawmakers, or judges, or school board members have never been the exclusive domain of one party or one ideology. From the Klan, to Abolitionists, to Weather Underground, to sovereign militia, to religious zealots of all sorts; from Southern Democrats, to Anarchists, to Independents, to Libertarians, to Republicans, violence has been a thing.
I can't imagine a halfass responsible AG taking a different stance. And as far as administration of justice is concerned, I pity those Americans who are looking forward to ideology or politics to be a consideration in prosecuting crimes.
NoMoreRepugs
(10,402 posts)I thought AG Garland was clear that justice will be served and that no one is above the law. Thats good enough for me.
ChazInAz
(2,759 posts)Garland was perfectly clear in what he said.
Why are there so many twisting his words to give them such a meaning? This is DU, where we tend to be better at this!
FeelingBlue
(748 posts)the ONE. There are multiple partisan views: white supremacists, pro-life, libertarians, Evangelicals, etc.
yaesu
(8,082 posts)just trying hard to act unbiased
progressoid
(50,602 posts)Fuck that shit.