I really was just going to leave this alone… but it just keeps weighing on my Sunday afternoon:
There is zero equivalency between a January 6 storming of the capital rotunda where three people died, including law-enforcement officers, as violent protesters tried to prevent the peaceful transfer of power voted by the people — and the protests in Los Angeles against what have been almost uniformly kidnapping of people in the street without a warrant, without judicial intervention, and without any due process of any kind. In many cases to be swept away to offshore black-site private prisons where torture occurs.

Protesting egregious violations of the 14th amendment, and the eighth amendment, is very different than trying to literally overthrow the government. Moreover, every single J6 violent defendant received full due process, including a judicial arrest warrant, an indictment, a presentment in front of a federal District Court Judge, and a full right to a trial (with competent defense counsel, at US expense if they were of limited means) — on the merits — before their fate was decided.

And so, Hinderaker should take a seat — and let the adults in the room handle this.

Of course, there shouldn’t ever be violence at any protest.

But if Hinderaker can’t understand that people get very frustrated (Dr. King said riots are “the language of the unheard”) when their rights are not just abridged, but intentionally and lawlessly ignored… and that that is in no manner like Trump telling the Proud Boys to “fight like hell” to overthrow the government…

I really have no more time for his flatulence.

Out.