What In God's Name Is Going On With Merrick Garland? Part 2

So, here we are, picking back up on our very heavy subject. In Part 1, we did a bit of a tour de force while addressing some of Merrick Garland's history, and a bit of my own. I tend to deep dive into my chosen subjects rather than go for the "quick and easy". My intent is not to exhaust or torture anybody, even if you feel like my articles should be listed on "Book of the Month Club" at Guantanamo. (That would be another argument for shutting that place down immediately)

You may have noticed that my last paragraph in Part I was provocative and been left pondering it or steaming mad by it. For that I am truly not sorry, as it was intentional. Just to refresh:

["That is why McVeigh bombed the Alfred B. Murrah Federal Building, where the FBI Office was located. His attack was launched immediately after his stay at the nearby compound of the Christian Identity Movement, on the Anniversary of the US Government siege of the David Koresh led Branch Davidians in Waco Texas, April 19, 1995. This, the Day before Adolf Hitler's Birthday. If I saw this growing threat as something uniquely dangerous to National security, I'm certain that Garland was as frightened or more by it than I, because he went into the prosecution with his hands tied by the careerists in the Department of Justice. Much like he is today."].

Uh oh, some folks out there hated my last sentence. I know. "Much like he is today," I said. You are thinking of calling me out: "Bullshit, he's the f**king Attorney General of the United States, he runs the Justice Department Lance, you idiot! He can do anything the f**k he wants." "There's no excuse for him to leave Trump or any of them off the hook, dammit"!

Did I leave anything out?

Yes, Merrick Garland's hands are tied in a way. Not by bureaucratic inertia, tradition, or Trump holdovers. He is bound by two things. A political dynamic which becomes more twisted and perverse by the day with the degeneration of our second largest political party, the GOP. It is a full blown fascist party which is now the leading enabler of Domestic Terrorism, which Garland is nominally in charge of cleaning up.

This is not your old style group of yahoos out at Ruby Ridge, having a shoot 'em up with the Revenooers. This is a terrorist movement led by the former President of the United States, who happens to be every bit the cult leader as David Koresh, or the Hale Bopp Comet crew which was the first group to attempt Space Tourism without a man made Rocket. So, that's a thing.

And secondly (remember, you asked) we suffer from the adaptive/passive state of the majority of Americans to this new perverse dynamic. We, the people are tying Garland's hands, though we like to think we aren't. I'll elaborate more later, but suffice it to say that the greatest of tragedies which befall a people are mostly driven by what we are not doing, our omissions, rather than what we are doing wrong. This is because we see and hear what we want to, or feel psychologically able to, and can be myopic in a galactically stupid way in times such as these. This is called "The Comfort Zone" and guess what. We all have one, and try to live there for the most part. At least we keep adding on to it and renovating.

So, to back up a bit, let's look at the outcome of the McVeigh case again. Going into it, Garland had very specific guidelines for the investigation and prosecutions of Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols. They were instructed by Attorney General Janet Reno and Garland's Deputy AG Jamie Gorelick to not pursue Sedition charges against either. The school of thought was not so much that it was difficult to prove in court that such a conspiracy was agreed to, discussed, planned or carried out. The difficulty for prosecutors was to sell a jury the idea that the criminal actions themselves rose to the level of a serious attempt at Sedition,to overthrow the US Government. This on the grounds that it couldn't possibly have succeeded, and in fact that the very idea was so ludicrous as to be rejected at the start. Imagine yourself empaneled on a Jury to hear a case of five brothers, cousins, and gun club members who rode in their old Ford pickup into town, and organized a hostage takeover at a local IRS office, then announced their plans to overthrow the US Government, before killing a hostage and an FBI agent. What they did, and their expressed intention WAS Sedition, yet in the mind of a Juror, the idea that these schlubbas with their beer bellies and Elmer Fudd hats actually were a real threat to overthrow the government was a non- starter, and a conviction thought to be impossible.

So, as a matter of policy, the DOJ decided to deal with the 1980's upsurge in Militia activity and violent incidents not as Sedition, but as individual cases of criminal actions to be prosecuted in their own right as stand alones, rather than conspiracies to attack the government. Based on DOJ policy, Garland, who was not in court to prosecute McVeigh and Nichols but overseeing their prosecutions from DC, was operating under guidelines which determined he should prosecute both for their individual crimes. Since they knew that McVeigh was the perpetrator and Nichols the accomplice, the goal going in was to divide the defense team, offer Nichols a life term, and get him to rat out McVeigh to get the Death Penalty. That was uneeded, since McVeigh wanted martyrdom, and was getting executed regardless. And no attempt was made to investigate or roll up the terrorist cult which drove and enabled both to take their actions, because that would have necessitated conspiracy for Sedition charges. The DOJ figured, let's convict McVeigh and smoke him and hope that's enough of a deterrent to others who might consider following in his footsteps.

That policy is still the operational guidelines for the Department of Justice to this day. It is likely why the Biden administration is so hesitant to investigate the full scope of the conspiracy behind January 6th. They are limiting their scope to the individual crimes of the participants, except for handfuls of Oathkeepers who organized certain plans through their networking beforehand. The idea of trying to craft a Seditious Conspiracy charge against the former US President and his inner circle is for them a total non-starter for numerous reasons.

Now, I can't and won't defend Garland on this, because Sedition is what it was, and it was set into motion by Trump, and the Law is the law for everyone, so they say. However, there is no prospect of this happening without a thorough going shift in the American population which forces it to happen. In reality, it is in the hands of the American people alone to force this into existence, and untie Merrick Garland's hands.

And there is another consideration. Which is the reality that prosecuting Trump and his inner Circle is the likely trigger for them to launch a Civil War, which will certainly be a shooting War. You already are seeing states like Texas threatening to leave the Union, while their policies are geared to gradual Secession itself. Are there any among us who actually doubt that this would be the result of actions by Garland's DOJ to indict and prosecute Trump on anything? Not just January 6th, but everything.

So, you can vent about Biden and Garland being Centrists, or "being able to do anything they want but not for their corrupt deals", or Trump holdovers and careerists at DOJ holding them back, or any of the bullshit media narratives you may have run across in the "Mother Jones" harpie attacks on the administration from Progressive meatheads with an axe to grind, (for whom "the honeymoon was over" on January 30th after the Inaugural speech) or, you can face reality.

Biden and Garland are not going to provoke Civil War over Trump. They are terrified by the prospect. And who is even ready to think about it. Most people here are afraid of going to Facebook jail, do you really think we are ready to fight 70 million gun owners?

So, get serious. Donald Trump will not see a minute in jail, in any jurisdiction. He may get hit with Civil penalties, and be dragged through the courts for years on low level stuff, and Steve Bannon will have his "Munich Putsch" Landesberg Prison stint and write his fascist manifesto. ("Mein Steal"?)

But we have to get past the infantile desire that some "Big people" up there are going to swoop in like Marvel Comic Universe Superheroes and fix this mess for us, because you want to believe "it's really that simple", or that "it's not that complicated." That's what our little tiny identities will allow us to accept so we can stay warm and fuzzy in our comfort zones.

Last week, Joe Biden showed signs of shifting into combat mode. That is the change I referred to from last week to this one.. He is visibly frustrated and angry at the obstructionism from the GOP and from within his own Party. He is this close to coming down big time on Manchin and Sinema, and blurted out that he wanted to see everyone associated with obstructing the January 6th Committee prosecuted. He is back and forth right now, being pulled in different directions by his own advisers and Cabinet.

President Biden is in roughly the same predicament as Lincoln, trying to avoid a Civil conflict which becomes more inevitable by the day. What he ultimately does is a function of how he reads us, and sees our activity. If we truly believe in democracy, why would anyone wish for some powerful people to jump in and fix this instead of looking at the power that lies within ourselves as the answer? That is an actual question.

You all saw what was involved in overcoming the Jim Crow Laws in the South by the Civil Rights Movement. Likewise, the world watched in the 80's and 90's what it took in the way of mass actions in the streets to tear down the authoritarian regimes along with their police state apparatus in Eastern Europe. Why do you think it will require less today? We need a Revolution, which starts with a revolution of the mind. They. Don't Make. An. App. For. That. It is up to us, acting in the non-virtual universe to do this. You aren't going to defeat tyranny with your phones, but if we succeed, you can use them to order Pizza and Beer for your backyard celebrations.

Don't put our destinies in the hands of an algorithm. Get out there and organize. And I mean out there. I used to do this. I can help you do it. If you want to, that is.

(Photo, Selma USA, ACTUAL Revolution)