Absolutely astonishing. And infuriating.

Here’s what the government’s sentencing memo says, in part.

Mr. Lee credibly states that he was in the streets to protest unlawful police violence against black men, and there is no basis to disbelieve this statement. Mr. Lee, appropriately, acknowledges that he “could have demonstrated in a different way,” but that he was “caught up in the fury of the mob after living as a black man watching his peers suffer at the hands of police.” As anyone watching the news world-wide knows, many other people in Minnesota were similarly caught up. There appear to have been many people in those days looking only to exploit the chaos and disorder in the interest of personal gain or random violence. There appear also to have been many people who felt angry, frustrated, and disenfranchised, and who were attempting, in many cases in an unacceptably reckless and dangerous manner, to give voice to those feelings. Mr. Lee appears to be squarely in this latter category. And even the great American advocate for non-violence and social justice, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., stated in an interview with CBS’s Mike Wallace in 1966 that “we’ve got to see that a riot is the language of the unheard.”

He was just caught up in the “fury after living as a black man,” you guys! He was just “giving voice” to his feelings, cuz!

Hey, I think those J6 protestors were just caught up in the moment after living as conservatives watching their country suffer at the hands of anarchists, Marxists and Democrats. The J6 protest was just “the language of the unheard.”

But noooOOOOOooo!

Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was sentenced to 22 years in prison for his role in the unrest on January 6th. Convicted of seditious conspiracy, Tarrio, who was not present at the Capitol, pleaded for leniency but received none.

Tarrio wasn’t even at the Captiol where the government killed at least two protestors. He gets 22 years, but a violent rioter who killed a man with five children gets ten years because he’s a black man just letting off steam and besides, didn’t you hear what Martin Luther King, Jr. said?

The DOJ is a partisan political organization with the force of law and guns behind it and this memo just underscores the fact that we no longer have equal application of the law. Federal courts need to vacate all J6 sentences produced by these show trials. The victims need to be pardoned and their records expunged.

And the DOJ needs to be shut down. Merrick Garland needs to be impeached for leading a Gestapo-like gang of enforcers for his political clients. We are barreling down a path that will not end well for anybody.

Have a good weekend.