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American Conservative, July 22, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n

The Coming \u2018January 6\u2019 Train Wreck<\/span><\/a><\/h1>\n
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With the DOJ’s first sentencing, the legal realities are disappointing the left’s lust for blood.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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by\u00a0 James Bovard <\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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The January 6 Capitol clash may be the gift that keeps on giving to cynics everywhere. In the coming months, Americans will likely see jaw-dropping bureaucratic debacles, stunning abuses by federal prosecutors, and appalling bloodlust by angry Biden supporters. Perhaps the least likely outcome is that the coming train wreck will restore faith in American democracy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Justice Department declared last week<\/a>, \u201cThe investigation and prosecution of the Capitol Breach will be the largest in American history, both in terms of the number of defendants prosecuted and the nature and volume of the evidence.\u201d The feds are sorting through \u201c237,000 digital tips, 1 million Parler videos and images comprising 40 terabytes of data scraped from the Internet \u2014 roughly equivalent to 10 million photos, 20,000 hours of video, or 50,000 filing cabinets of paper documents,\u201d theWashington Post <\/i>reported<\/a>. Investigators are also sorting through \u201ccell tower data for thousands of electronic devices that connected to the Capitol\u2019s interior distributed antenna system,\u201d information provided by phone companies, Google, and other data aggregation companies. The problem will be compounded because many government employees are slow readers.<\/p>\n

More than 500 protestors have already been charged in federal court, but their trials will likely be delayed at least until next year. Federal judge John Bates recently warned that evidence snafus could result in judges \u201cgoing on the warpath.\u201d If judges conclude that the Justice Department is unreasonably keeping January 6 defendants locked up (often in solitary confinement) too long, judicial edicts could unravel prosecutors\u2019 long-term plans.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

Federal cases against January 6 protestors are being built on what one savvy electronic evidence consultant called a \u201cTower of Babel nightmare<\/a>.\u201d<\/strong> While federal agents gloated at the 300,000 plus tips that poured into the FBI with regards to January 6 protestors, prosecutors are obliged to sift the hairballs and provide each defendant and their lawyers with potentially exculpatory evidence.\u00a0 The biggest data dump on record will likely spur a deluge of inadvertent or intentional withholding of evidence. The Justice Department recently notified defense lawyers that they would have to \u201cbuild a system to receive the data<\/a>\u201d the feds delivered. The prosecution is also whining because a federal judge prevented them from relying on a private contractor to organize secret grand jury evidence.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department may be delaying release of the bulk of the more than 14,000 hours of video surveillance from inside the Capitol on January 6 in an attempt to preserve Biden\u2019s \u201cdomestic terrorism\u201d storyline of that day\u2019s events. Even before Trump supporters poured into the Capitol that day, Democrats were accusing them of sedition for filing legal challenges to the 2020 election results, including popular Twitter hashtags such as\u00a0 #GOPSeditiousTraitors<\/a> and #TreasonAgainstAmerica<\/a>. After the mob delayed congressional proceedings for six hours, congressional leaders compared the interruption to the 9\/11 attacks, Pearl Harbor, and the War of 1812. The Justice Department may also be foot-dragging on releasing evidence because it is reluctant to disclose what role, if any, federal informants or undercover agents had in instigating or propagating violence that day.<\/p>\n

For January 6 defendants, federal prosecutors are using a simple formula: Trespassing plus thought crimes equals terrorism<\/i>.<\/strong> On Monday, Paul Hodgkins was sentenced to 8 months in prison, though the feds admitted<\/a> he was guilty simply of taking selfies, wearing a Trump T-shirt, and carrying a Trump flag into the Senate chamber and \u201cdid not personally engage in or espouse violence or property destruction.\u201d Though Hodgkins pled guilty only to one count of obstructing an official proceeding, Biden\u2019s Justice Department demanded a lengthy prison sentence for Hodgkins to \u201cdeter\u2026domestic terrorism.\u201d This is akin to prosecutors seeking harsh punishment for a confessed jaywalker because his negligent behavior could have caused a school bus to crash.<\/p>\n

At the same time the Justice Department is bumbling towards paralysis, many Americans are howling for the heads of January 6 defendants.<\/strong> In his Gulag Archipelago<\/i>, Alexander Solzhenitsyn described the vast public outrage<\/a> that went along with a prominent Soviet show trial of accused wreckers: \u201cThere were universal meetings and demonstrations (including even school-children). It was the newspaper march of millions, and the roar rose outside the windows of the courtroom: \u2018Death! Death! Death!\u2019\u201d\u00a0 The same spectacle has been stark on Twitter and in the comment section of the Washington Post<\/i>, among other places.<\/p>\n

One Washington Post<\/i>commenter declared<\/a> that \u201cthe only effective way for the government to respond to an act of war by domestic terrorists is to be prepared to meet them with machine guns and flamethrowers and mow them down. Not one of those terrorists who broke through police lines [on January 6] should have escaped alive.\u201d\u00a0 Hodgkins\u2019s sentence terrified and enraged Post<\/i> readers. One wrote<\/a>, \u201cThe pitiful 8 month sentence scares me badly\u2026 I\u2019m afraid the government is losing its ability to protect us from madmen (consider the mentally ill and tweakers roaming our streets untreated) and right wing Q inspired terrorists.\u201d Another commented<\/a>, \u201cHe should have been given the death penalty for sedition.\u201d As always, one commenter<\/a> even reached back to the Nazis for an analogy, writing, \u201cIt is comparable to the 9 months that Adolf Hitler served after his participation in an attempted 1923 putsch against the German government. Remember how that turned out?\u201d<\/p>\n

Federal judge Randolph Moss, when he sentenced Hodgkins, declared that his action<\/a> will make it \u201charder for all of us to tell our children and grandchildren that democracy stands as the immutable foundation of our nation.\u201d Unfortunately, judges seem nonchalant when American democracy is subverted instead by federal agencies. After FBI Assistant General Counsel Kevin Clinesmith admitted falsifying key evidence to get a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump presidential campaign, federal judge James Boasberg gushed with sympathy<\/a> at the sentencing hearing: \u201cMr. Clinesmith has lost his job in government service\u2014what has given his life much of its meaning.\u201d Scorning the recommendation of the federal prosecutor (who said the \u201cresulting harm is immeasurable recommendation\u201d from Clinesmith\u2019s action), Boasberg gave Clinesmith a wrist slap\u2014400 hours of community service and 12 months of probation. The Justice Department Inspector General documented many other abuses of power and deceit by FBI officials in the Hillary Clinton or Trump investigations<\/a>, but not a single FBI official has spent a day behind bars.<\/p>\n

Will Justice Department prosecutors be caught in a Catch-22, pressured by the White House to harvest as many scalps as possible but crippled by the lack of proof that most of the accused were guilty of anything besides trespassing or \u201cwillfully and knowingly parading<\/a>\u201d in the Capitol? Political pressure for high-profile convictions resulted in disastrous courtroom defeats for federal attorneys prosecuting Ruby Ridge, the Branch Davidian standoff at Waco, and other cases. If juries rebuff prosecutors on more than a few January 6 cases, then the entire political storyline could quickly collapse.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Federal prosecutor Mona Sedky is calling for harsh punishment<\/a> for January 6 defendants because of \u201cthe need to preserve respect for the law.\u201d But at this point, \u201crespect for the law\u201d is a loss leader in this process. That won\u2019t be remedied when people realize that taking selfies can result in a federal sentencing enhancement.<\/strong><\/p>\n

James Bovard<\/i><\/b>\u00a0is the author of\u00a0<\/i>Lost Rights<\/a>,\u00a0<\/i>Attention Deficit Democracy<\/a>, and\u00a0<\/i>Public Policy Hooligan<\/a>. He is also a\u00a0<\/i>USA Today\u00a0columnist. Follow him on Twitter\u00a0<\/i>@JimBovard<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Bovard\u2019s writings have been publicly denounced by FBI director Louis Freeh, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, the Postmaster General, and the chiefs of the U.S. International Trade Commission, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and the Federal Emergency Management Agency, as well as by many congressmen and other malcontents.","sameAs":["http:\/\/www.jimbovard.com","https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jim.bovard","https:\/\/x.com\/jimbovard"],"url":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/author\/admin\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16250"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17019,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16250\/revisions\/17019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}