• Right-Wing Lie of the Day 0002

    From Jeff Thiele@1:387/26 to All on Thursday, December 16, 2021 07:48:03
    “Jan. 6 is being used as a pretext to strip millions of Americans,
    disfavored Americans, of their core constitutional rights.” -- Tucker
    Carlson

    No, the January 6 insurrectionists are not being denied their "core constitutional rights." The DOJ's prosecution of their crimes is not
    depriving them of their right to due process, and the conditions of their imprisonment (for those who are imprisoned; most have been released from custody pending trial) are significantly better than that afforded terrorists in the wake of 9/11.

    It's really interesting how the law-and-order types who think that prisoners should be kept in the starkest conditions possible because "if you can't do
    the time, don't do the crime" suddenly change their tune when it's their own comrades who are imprisoned.

    https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2021/nov/02/tucker-carlson/tucker-carlson -film-falsely-claims-jan-6-pretext-s/

    Jeff.

    "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." -- H. L. Mencken, who indeed was a racist thereby proving himself right.

    --- Mystic BBS v1.12 A46 2020/08/26 (Raspberry Pi/32)
    * Origin: Cold War Computing BBS (1:387/26)