Feb. 8, 2021 - Dennis Prager Show
07:11
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| The first time in my life that I am saying that America is devolving into a police state, I never exaggerate. | |
| One of the reasons I've been on for 35 years. | |
| I don't lie and I don't exaggerate. | |
| That's why I never said anything about the fire extinguisher. | |
| I didn't know it to be true. | |
| There are right-wing things that I don't know to be true, and I don't say them. | |
| So when I tell you that we're devolving into a police state, it's a literal, indisputable fact that a man who was on the lawn of the Capitol is in prison without the possibility of bail while accused rapists and murderers and sex offenders are let out. | |
| This is a very sick society that the left is creating. | |
| Julie Kelly's article is about Coy Griffin. | |
| Who is in prison. | |
| How long has he been in prison? | |
| I believe he was arrested or turned himself in around January 8th or 10th, so we're going on almost four weeks. | |
| And the argument of the judge, I want to talk about the judge in a moment, the argument is that there's a risk of flight, but They could just take away his passport, correct? | |
| Sure. | |
| Yes, they could. | |
| So it's a phony excuse to keep him in prison. | |
| That's right. | |
| Now, these are federal judges who are overturning local judges who have said, okay, well, this person could be on home detention or release. | |
| By the way, even that, home detention on a misdemeanor? | |
| Yes, misdemeanor. | |
| A serious percentage of this country would be in home detention. | |
| Correct. | |
| I mean, you kind of have to laugh because it's so terrifying. | |
| Is there a movement to defend this man? | |
| I've gotten that question quite a bit, Donna. | |
| I don't know. | |
| I know that some of the reporting says that these defendants are having a really hard time finding and keeping counsel, which is something you kind of talked about on your show last Friday also. | |
| But what they're doing is using these misdemeanors. | |
| I think it's important for people to know to build sedition cases against Americans. | |
| This came out of the mouth of the acting attorney general of the United States, who, by the way, was not appointed by any president or confirmed by the Senate. | |
| I believe just the CEO, Jay Leifer, bragging openly that they are targeting and building basically never used edition cases against Americans for supporting Donald Trump. | |
| And it's not an exaggeration. | |
| You are correct. | |
| Do you know anything about this Zia Faruqi? | |
| See you. | |
| The judge? | |
| Zia Faruqi is the one who handed down, is handing down quite a few of these sentences and keeping people in jail throughout trial. | |
| This is a swamp at work. | |
| He was a member, he was a prosecutor in the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office for 12 years. | |
| He was appointed a magistrate, so he wasn't even appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. | |
| He was appointed a magistrate by the D.C. I | |
| know, but first of all, Since when are there trials for misdemeanors, let alone federal trials? | |
| No, I'm asking. | |
| I wasn't making a point. | |
| I'm truly asking. | |
| I mean, is this uncommon? | |
| I would have to think that it's uncommon for a trial for someone trespassing near the Capitol grounds one charge. | |
| I would think that that would be hard to prove. | |
| And who makes the decision? | |
| I assume there's no jury. | |
| I don't think so. | |
| I believe it's just that this judge will oversee it. | |
| What's the maximum punishment for a misdemeanor? | |
| I would assume, I'm not an attorney, but I would assume a year at most for this kind of a charge. | |
| And they're almost all misdemeanor. | |
| Meanwhile, Dennis, keep in mind, we still don't know the quote-unquote murderer of Officer Brian Sickness. | |
| They can't figure out who that is because that story's falling apart as well. | |
| But they can round up people who entered the Capitol and broke a few windows. | |
| Not to minimize that, they should be charged for those crimes, but not built into sedition crimes against Americans. | |
| So six, seven months of... | |
| Staggering damage to humans and property, basically uncharged with anything. | |
| A guy is on the lawn of the Capitol and is imprisoned already for a month with no possibility of bail. | |
| I just want people to understand what the left does to everything it touches, including the judiciary and everything else that ruins it. | |
| So who are these other two dozen people? | |
| So, you will recall the man who was sitting behind Nancy Pelosi's desk. | |
| Now, obviously, he should not have been there. | |
| He has been charged by a grand jury with eight counts. | |
| Only one is a felony, which was carrying a deadly weapon onto Capitol grounds, which turned out to be a walking stick. | |
| That's also a stun gun that anyone can buy on Amazon. | |
| That's the only federal felony charge against him. | |
| He also is being held in jail without bond. | |
| And this judge, Beryl Howell, who's the chief district judge in D.C., condemned him, scolded him, said he was a danger to democracy. | |
| He defiled the U.S. Constitution by daring to sit behind Nancy Pelosi's desk. | |
| Again, you will remember the climate activist brought into Nancy Pelosi's office in 2018 by AOC, who occupied her office the entire day. | |
| They weren't charged with anything. | |
| I believe his name is Robert Sanford. | |
| No, I'm sorry. | |
| He's the fireman, Griffin. | |
| The man behind Pelosi's desk is now sits in jail. | |
| Also awaiting trial. | |
| Okay, hold on there. |
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