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DENOUNCING POLITICAL PERSECUTION, ESPECIALLY THAT OF DR. SIMONE GOLD
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HON. PAUL A. GOSAR
of arizona
in the house of representatives
Friday, August 19, 2022
Mr. GOSAR. Madam Speaker, I rise today to denounce political persecution.
As of Tuesday, August 16, 2022, 860 people have been charged with crimes for actions on January 6, 2022. A large percentage of these people were peaceful protestors who did not even know they were violating the law.
As long as defendants groveled to the judges by renouncing their support of Donald Trump and insisting that he made them do it, they received plea deals of little or no jail time. If not, you might find yourself in jail for seven years, as happened with Guy Reffit, whose son the Department of Justice encouraged to turn against his father. Another man, activist Brandon Straka, who did not even enter the Capitol on January 6th, was given the choice by the FBI to either admit to saying an incendiary remark he in fact did not say, or go to trial.
Perhaps the person most hated by the Deep State was Dr. Simone Gold. Not only did she have a problem with massive electoral fraud, she also was a leader in combatting COVID-19 misinformation. That is a bad twofer. Anyone who dares to speak out against a dangerous, deadly, and useless vaccine or abusive and illegal lockdowns that led to countless deaths and immeasurable suffering deserves maximum cancellation.
A judge sentenced her to prison for two months just for trespassing. She remained completely peaceful throughout her brief time in the Capitol. And now she fears for her safety and has complained of terrible treatment by prison officials, as have so many January 6 defendants--whose constitutional rights to due process and a speedy trial have been shredded and annihilated.
The left gets on its high horse about human rights abuses by the likes of Putin and deservedly so. But what about our own secret police and rotten justice system who pick and choose who to prosecute based on political beliefs? Hillary, Hunter, Peter Strozk, Lisa Page, Andrew McCabe, Black Lives Matter and antifa rioters, and those who destroy pregnancy care centers are free to egregiously break the law however they please. But innocent people like Michael Flynn, Steve Bannon, Roger Stone, Donald Trump, and the majority of January 6 defendants must go to jail.
If all protestors who trespassed in D.C. were thrown in a D.C. gulag for six months or several years, that would be one thing. Democrat activists have invaded the Senate floor and halted official business. No one went to jail. Democrat activists illegally stalked and harassed conservative Supreme Court justices, and no one went to jail. Indeed, the halls of the Capitol have been subjected to leftist sit-ins, demonstrations, and other misbehavior for decades, and no one was sentenced to months or years in prison. Further, just recently, members of a film crew for the left-wing activist Stephen Colbert were caught vandalizing a house office and trespassing. They then lied to Capitol Police. All charges were dropped and they spent no time in a D.C. gulag. But conservative or Trump-supporting protestors who also trespassed on federal property have faced the full force of the law. This bifurcated treatment is a sign of corruption.
Our judicial system is broken. The FBI must be abolished. Irresponsible and corrupt DOJ officials must be purged, starting with Merrick Garland.
The United States is in an existential crisis between the forces of persecution, thuggery, and violence--administered and enforced by an unholy alliance of the long arm of the State and left-wing terrorists--
and everyday Americans who want to live their life, raise a family, and worship their God. The only question is who will win. And time is running out.
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SOURCE: Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 137(1), Congressional Record Vol. 168, No. 137(2)
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