If Joe Biden is supposedly the last redoubt of Democracy’s defense, why does he have a nasty habit of trampling so many civil rights?
Trump and J6 are a whole category of abuses all on their own, but even beyond that, what about his treatment of journalists, of concerned parents protesting school boards, of Catholics attending Latin Mass and so forth?
The Dems are in what looks very much like a consolidation of power step on the march to one-party government, but everyone ELSE is a threat to democracy?
Meet Steve Baker.
Steve is a Blaze journalist who was on the scene on January 6, 2021 to cover the Stop the Steal rally and attend lawfully scheduled events at both the ellipse AND the Captiol pivoted his coverage to include the chaos unfolding before him that day.
On Friday, this sixty-some-odd year old journalist, who had never in his life committed a crime, was slapped in leg irons by the FBI, and faced charges. Three of the four had literally nothing to do with the facts of the case — for which he has every second of relevant video.
The four charges are described in here, along with a mention of someone was NOT of interest to the Feds:
The FBI has ARRESTED Blaze Media investigative journalist @TPC4USA on 4 misdemeanor charges:
– Knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority (So, will they arrest the NYT journalist who entered BEFORE Steve through a broken… pic.twitter.com/iQme8cNGg1
— Glenn Beck (@glennbeck) March 1, 2024
The NYTimes reporter that entered the Capitol by way of a broken window (Steve used an open door) was not the only other reporter on the scene. By his count, there were sixty reporters in the Capitol.
Why was HE singled out?
Maybe it had something to do with his reporting.
Baker broke the story about David Lazarus in an Oath Keepers trial where he appears to have perjured himself. He broke the story about inconsistances in Harry Dunn’s J6 testimony, some stories about the press, the police and Raskin, and most recently he has been kicking a hornet’s nest over things that don’t add up with the pipe bombs, the cameras, and the location of Kamala Harris that day.
The feds actually invoked a reference to him calling Pelosi a b*tch… as if that’s some kind of violation of law.
The feds will now arrest journalists if they say mean things about other feds https://t.co/WAehCQYj7k
— Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) March 2, 2024
Imagine the public reaction if someone was arrested for calling Mike Johnson an a**hole? There would be riots in the streets.
Why did the feds suddenly choose NOW to drop the hammer on THIS reporter and not the other 59, including one NYTimes reporter that entered through a broken window? Is he getting too close to the truth about something?
Blaze has been good enough to make his stories all available in one place: (link).
A month ago, a story was written about the possibility of the Feds retaliating against him for his reporting.
The left — including many gutless media types — have cheered this as the rounding up of another of those MAGA deplorables who had it coming. He wasn’t there as a demonstrator. He wore not political identifiers. He just showed up to report on what happened.
Leaving aside all the other facts, will the left insist that all 59 other journalists and media types should ALSO be arrested and charged? Will they insist that he go free like the other journalists?
Or… will they embrace a world in which your guilt or innocence is to be determined by the whims of government and the armed men they send to enforce them?
One key indicator of the difference between tyranny and freedom is whether or not citizens have a “Government of Laws, Not Men”, as John Adams explained in the correspondence from which that phrase was taken:
The British government is still less entitled to the style of an empire. It is a limited monarchy. If Aristotle, Livy, and Harrington knew what a republic was, the British constitution is much more like a republic than an empire. They define a republic to be a government of laws, and not of men. If this definition be just, the British constitution is nothing more nor less than a republic, in which the king is first magistrate. This office being hereditary, and being possessed of such ample and splendid prerogatives, is no objection to the government’s being a republic, as long as it is bound by fixed laws, which the people have a voice in making, and a right to defend. An empire is a despotism, and an emperor a despot, bound by no law or limitation but his own will; it is a stretch of tyranny beyond absolute monarchy.
