Overnight News: The 1/6 rioters are political prisoners – and America is just another thug-state.

I haven’t written much about the 1/6 riot in Washington. It was obvious to me at the time that it was a set-up – piss off hot-headed Ants, then call them racists when they complain about it. The fact that Trump did not see this coming and that he abandoned his supporters as soon as the racism lies started are two strikes against his future ambitions.

But: The riot was not an “insurrection.” It wasn’t even much of a riot. It is being treated as a Reichstag Fire event by the Democrats because that’s what Marxists do – as was easily foreseeable. But that reaction is a contradiction of everything America has ever stood for, and that matters.

Everyone being imprisoned over 1/6 is a political prisoner – representing a complete betrayal of everything the United States has ever said on the subject of political prisoners.

No one deserves this treatment, but they are being persecuted precisely because they are true patriots, steady wage-earners, proud tax-payers and reliable supporters of the military, the police and of civil order as such.

Actual criminals deserve and get better treatment. The 1/6 martyrs are being persecuted for being the best Americans – by the worst.

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