Dennis Prager Show - America Inching Closer to a Police State
Aired: 2021-02-08
Duration: 07:11


=== Judge Zia Faruqi's Decisions (07:11) ===

[00:00:00]  The first time in my life that I am saying that America is devolving into a police state, I never exaggerate.
[00:00:07]  One of the reasons I've been on for 35 years.
[00:00:11]  I don't lie and I don't exaggerate.
[00:00:14]  That's why I never said anything about the fire extinguisher.
[00:00:18]  I didn't know it to be true.
[00:00:20]  There are right-wing things that I don't know to be true, and I don't say them.
[00:00:26]  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.
[00:00:48]  This is a very sick society that the left is creating.
[00:00:52]  Julie Kelly's article is about Coy Griffin.
[00:00:56]  Who is in prison.
[00:00:58]  How long has he been in prison?
[00:01:00]  I believe he was arrested or turned himself in around January 8th or 10th, so we're going on almost four weeks.
[00:01:11]  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?
[00:01:28]  Sure.
[00:01:29]  Yes, they could.
[00:01:30]  So it's a phony excuse to keep him in prison.
[00:01:36]  That's right.
[00:01:38]  Now, these are federal judges who are overturning local judges who have said, okay, well, this person could be on home detention or release.
[00:01:50]  By the way, even that, home detention on a misdemeanor?
[00:01:54]  Yes, misdemeanor.
[00:01:55]  A serious percentage of this country would be in home detention.
[00:02:01]  Correct.
[00:02:03]  I mean, you kind of have to laugh because it's so terrifying.
[00:02:08]  Is there a movement to defend this man?
[00:02:14]  I've gotten that question quite a bit, Donna.
[00:02:16]  I don't know.
[00:02:17]  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.
[00:02:30]  But what they're doing is using these misdemeanors.
[00:02:34]  I think it's important for people to know to build sedition cases against Americans.
[00:02:38]  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.
[00:02:46]  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.
[00:02:59]  And it's not an exaggeration.
[00:03:03]  You are correct.
[00:03:06]  Do you know anything about this Zia Faruqi?
[00:03:11]  See you.
[00:03:12]  The judge?
[00:03:13]  Zia Faruqi is the one who handed down, is handing down quite a few of these sentences and keeping people in jail throughout trial.
[00:03:24]  This is a swamp at work.
[00:03:25]  He was a member, he was a prosecutor in the D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office for 12 years.
[00:03:31]  He was appointed a magistrate, so he wasn't even appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate.
[00:03:36]  He was appointed a magistrate by the D.C. I
[00:04:07]  know, but first of all, Since when are there trials for misdemeanors, let alone federal trials?
[00:04:15]  No, I'm asking.
[00:04:17]  I wasn't making a point.
[00:04:20]  I'm truly asking.
[00:04:22]  I mean, is this uncommon?
[00:04:25]  I would have to think that it's uncommon for a trial for someone trespassing near the Capitol grounds one charge.
[00:04:32]  I would think that that would be hard to prove.
[00:04:35]  And who makes the decision?
[00:04:38]  I assume there's no jury.
[00:04:40]  I don't think so.
[00:04:42]  I believe it's just that this judge will oversee it.
[00:04:47]  What's the maximum punishment for a misdemeanor?
[00:04:52]  I would assume, I'm not an attorney, but I would assume a year at most for this kind of a charge.
[00:05:01]  And they're almost all misdemeanor.
[00:05:05]  Meanwhile, Dennis, keep in mind, we still don't know the quote-unquote murderer of Officer Brian Sickness.
[00:05:12]  They can't figure out who that is because that story's falling apart as well.
[00:05:16]  But they can round up people who entered the Capitol and broke a few windows.
[00:05:23]  Not to minimize that, they should be charged for those crimes, but not built into sedition crimes against Americans.
[00:05:30]  So six, seven months of...
[00:05:33]  Staggering damage to humans and property, basically uncharged with anything.
[00:05:39]  A guy is on the lawn of the Capitol and is imprisoned already for a month with no possibility of bail.
[00:05:48]  I just want people to understand what the left does to everything it touches, including the judiciary and everything else that ruins it.
[00:05:56]  So who are these other two dozen people?
[00:06:00]  So, you will recall the man who was sitting behind Nancy Pelosi's desk.
[00:06:05]  Now, obviously, he should not have been there.
[00:06:08]  He has been charged by a grand jury with eight counts.
[00:06:11]  Only one is a felony, which was carrying a deadly weapon onto Capitol grounds, which turned out to be a walking stick.
[00:06:18]  That's also a stun gun that anyone can buy on Amazon.
[00:06:21]  That's the only federal felony charge against him.
[00:06:25]  He also is being held in jail without bond.
[00:06:28]  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.
[00:06:39]  He defiled the U.S. Constitution by daring to sit behind Nancy Pelosi's desk.
[00:06:46]  Again, you will remember the climate activist brought into Nancy Pelosi's office in 2018 by AOC, who occupied her office the entire day.
[00:06:54]  They weren't charged with anything.
[00:06:57]  I believe his name is Robert Sanford.
[00:06:59]  No, I'm sorry.
[00:07:00]  He's the fireman, Griffin.
[00:07:04]  The man behind Pelosi's desk is now sits in jail.
[00:07:08]  Also awaiting trial.
[00:07:10]  Okay, hold on there.