Representative Sheila Jackson Lee grouses that only about 300 people have been imprisoned for alleged participation in the Capitol Riot; she thinks it should be more like 40,000. Meanwhile, regarding the far more destructive riots that occurred literally every night for months on end in Portland,

As the Biden administration has taken the reins of the Department of Justice, the feds have dismissed dozens of charges against violent rioters in Portland, Oregon. They have dropped charges such as assault on a law enforcement officer, arson, and other violent crimes. Many have been dropped with prejudice, meaning they can’t be re-litigated in the future. According to a local news outlet, federal prosecutors have dismissed more than one-third of the pending charges from last summer’s violent protests in Portland.

More dismissals are expected. It looks like few if any Antifa or Black Lives Matter thugs will still be imprisoned a year from now for crimes committed during the riots in Portland.

The Department of Justice stepped in as riots terrorized Portland throughout the summer of 2020, and Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt announced he would not prosecute most riot crimes committed in Portland. … Attorney General William Barr instructed federal prosecutors to aggressively pursue rioters across the country…

But with the ascension of Biden’s handlers to power, the same type of left-wing extremists who run Portland run the federal government.

As noted at Hot Air,

This looks less like an evidentiary problem and more like a political decision by the incoming administration. One has to wonder whether the Biden administration will treat the January 6 rioters with the same charity… [A]ttempts to pick and choose enforcement like this will only bring on more violence from the fringes on both sides.

This is not a bug but a feature. Political violence is all good, from the viewpoint of Biden’s handlers.

Violence by the Right will be inflated out of proportion and hyped by the media/Democrat Party. For example, only one person died violently in the Capitol Riot, and that was the unarmed Ashli Babbitt, who was shot by the police. Yet the liberal establishment continues to exploit it aggressively.

Violence by the Left intimidates people into silence and compliance, as radicals remake America into a very different country, in which the fundamental principle of equality before the law no longer exists.

On a tip from TCS III.

Not to be outdone by the extravagant theatrics of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (who in reality was not even in the Capitol building), aspiring drama queen Dean Phillips (D-MN) has milked the Capitol Riot for every drop of pathos and political advantage.

As per the official Democrat narrative, he pretends that the mob was racially motivated and ignores that it was hostile to Republicans like Mike Pence and Mitch McConnell. His voice wobbles with a repulsively sheeplike bleat as he begs us to forgive him for his “white privilege.”

To be ruled by people of this caliber is the ultimate insult:

Phillips represents the suburbs west of Minneapolis, a city that has sustained massive and still largely unrepaired damage from repeated Black Lives Matter rioting, during which a police station was actually set ablaze. Whereas he implies that all Republicans and all white people share blame for the Capitol Riot, he refuses to hold left-wing rioters accountable for the havoc they wreak:

A Minnesota congressman asserted that Black Lives Matter and other leftist groups are not responsible for violence and rioting that plagued U.S. cities for months.

That congressman was Phillips.

On a tip from Henry.

Don’t be too hard on Kamala Harris for raising funds to bail out rioters so that they can go back to trashing their city. She’s not the only one:

Three prominent Democrats in North Dakota donated to the legal defense fund of a man arrested for attacking the office of Republican Senator John Hoeven with an axe.

Video shows a presumably mostly peaceful protester smashing windows and an intercom at Hoeven’s office building in downtown Fargo last December 21, causing an estimated $3,800 worth of damage.

The suspect was identified as 30-year-old Thomas “Tas” Starks.

According to police, one of Starks’ co-workers called him “‘politically open and motivated,’ left-leaning, and ‘very active in protests.’”

Few are likely to be surprised that Starks is a moonbat. The Capitol Riot was an exception proving the rule that virtually all political violence in this country comes from the Left.

Starks’ wife, Laura Starks, organized a Gofundme fundraiser to cover his legal expenses. …

Three prominent North Dakota Democrats have contributed to this defense fund. They are: Ellen Chaffee, the Democrat Party’s nominee for lieutenant governor in 2012, Party Executive Committee Representative and left-wing columnist Ellie Shockley, and Democratic-NPL Party Chairwoman Kylie Oversen.

What, no mention of Kamala Harris? Put your money where your mouth is, Kamala!

Shockley was the first contributor, bestowing $500.

In addition, Shockley evidently had a large hand in promoting the fundraiser. According to the Post Millennial, she promoted the fund several times on social media and has a personal relationship with the Starks family through “unions and activism.”

“Please, please, please” pleaded Shockley, as she exhorted fellow moonbats to give to Starks on her Fakebook page. She doesn’t seem to doubt Starks’s guilt, proclaiming that she believes “in rehabilitation, not retribution.” I doubt this would apply to the rioters at the Capitol.

On a tip from Dragon’s Lair.

If the Senate finds it worthwhile to “impeach” a former president for inciting violence by explicitly calling for supporters to protest peacefully, why not impeach any number of Democrats from offices they still hold? A much easier case for incitement could be made for any number of them, as Rand Paul demonstrates:

Not only did Kamala Harris raise funds to bail rioters out of jail, she actually said of the Black Lives Matter/Antifa events that hundreds of times were designated as riots,

“They’re not going to stop before election day in November and they’re not going to stop after election day. … They are not going to let up. And they should not.”

This is closer to incitement than anything said by Trump.

Hat tip: Not the Bee.