Re: “Assault on Justice,” Jan. 26 commentary<\/p>\n
The “Assault on Justice” piece ignores compelling rationales for President Donald Trump’s pardons of the Jan. 6 defendants. One man’s “insurrectionists” are another man’s “fighters for civil justice.”<\/p>\n
Of the thousands of rioters that seized blocks of major cities, firebombed federal courthouses, attacked cops, torched police stations, and burned and looted blocks of Minneapolis, relatively few were federally prosecuted (about 120) and\/or imprisoned because the Biden\/Harris administration supported the political motives for those crimes.<\/p>\n
On the other hand, Trump supporters were prosecuted with unparalleled vigor and given the harshest of possible sentences exactly because they were Trump supporters. This is not “equal justice under the law.” It is misusing federal prosecutions to punish political adversaries.<\/p>\n
Anybody wonder why Biden pardoned the entire Jan. 6 congressional inquiry panel on his way out the door?\u00a0 Further, the Jan. 6 defendants have served enough time for their offenses, and most would not have been jailed or would be out already were they not Trump supporters.\u00a0 \u00a0Most Americans know all this, which is why they elected Trump in a landslide, knowing his promise to issue these pardons.<\/p>\n
Kevin Amatuzio, Englewood<\/em><\/p>\n In his successful campaign for U.S. Congress, Gabe Evans repeatedly ran advertisements touting his law enforcement experience and a law and order philosophy. Earlier this week, President Trump pardoned 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters who had besieged our nation\u2019s capitol. These insurrectionists were pumped up on Trump\u2019s false claims of a stolen election. Many of them violently attacked Capitol and D.C. police, injuring more than 150 police officers.<\/p>\n When asked whether he supported the president\u2019s pardons, Evan\u2019s response was that the American people wanted him \u201cto look forward.\u201d\u00a0 The Congressman was good at\u00a0following instructions and reciting those vacuous Republican talking points, but in doing so, he demonstrated no respect for his brothers and sisters in blue.\u00a0So much for his support for law enforcement and the rule of law.<\/p>\n But Congressman, I am looking forward — looking forward to working to elect a more honest and responsive representative from CD8.<\/p>\n Eileen McCarron, Denver<\/em><\/p>\n Re: “Bear witness to suffering: Americans must heed Martin Luther King Jr.’s call for ‘creative altruism’<\/a>,” Jan. 19 commentary “Pastor tried to show flat-Earthers the light<\/a>,” Jan. 19 news story<\/p>\n I read two related articles last Sunday in The Post, both about the importance of bearing witness and the potential to not be believed.<\/p>\n Terrance Carroll tells the story of Jan Karski coming to the “United States to bear witness to the gruesome details of Hitler’s “final solution of the Jewish question,” and Noelle Phillips’ article about pastor Will Duffy attempt to demonstrate to people who believe the world is flat that they are wrong. Duffy and Karski were not believed.<\/p>\nRep. Gabe Evans pardon stance<\/h4>\n
A call to bearing witness<\/h4>\n