by Rick Manning
You could almost hear the Washington establishment gasp when the former Florida Republican found out Rep. Matt Gaetz was to be appointed attorney general by President Donald Trump. To be sincere, my first reaction wasn’t positive either.
But sometimes first reactions are wrong.
Three years ago, when reports from a Washington prison about mistreatment of inmates on Jan. 6 appeared in conservative media, Gaetz was one of several Members of the House of Representatives, led by Rep. Louie Gohmert, who went to the prison and demanded to see the prisoners. These members were turned away by prison authorities, even though the Washington prison was directly under their financial authority. But Gaetz didn’t forget.
Now, three years later, the Department of Justice continues to ruin the lives of grandmothers and grandfathers across the country who were allowed into the Capitol by Capitol Police by prosecuting them for taking photos in the Rotunda.
Gaetz will put an end to this and hold accountable those who have disregarded any semblance of civil liberties, bringing trumped-up prosecutions, putting people in prison for crimes recognized by the Supreme Court finally declared for the unconstitutional application of an unrelated act.
If justice becomes possible, Gaetz will also settle the massive civil liability case that will surely arise, as will former Attorney General Jeff Sessions settled the matter brought by Tea Party groups that were harassed by the Internal Revenue Service during the Obama administration.
Gaetz will end the FBI’s program of exploiting its agents encourage companies from social media censor conservative thought on their platforms. Let’s hope he also fires all the Justice Department employees who gleefully participated in this direct attack on free speech rights.
Gaetz will likely shift the focus of the department’s Civil Rights Division to identify and prosecute people who encouraged non-citizens to vote in elections, and hopefully bring attention to the public sector workers involved in the process so they can be fired. Of course, the names of those who voted illegally will be turned over to Immigration and Customs Enforcement for immediate removal from the country, as required by law.
Gaetz will stop the Department of Justice from prosecuting and imprisoning people who pray from abortion clinics or who defend their babies from attack by psychotic abortion workers, which will end the abuse of the FACE Act by radical federal prosecutors.
Gaetz will fire Justice Department officials who refuse to declassify documents the president has authorized to declassify. Instead of kowtowing to bureaucrats who consider themselves superior to the president from whom they have been given power, Gaetz has the courage to either fire them or move them to an office in Fargo, North Dakota, which has no furniture or computers and would be lucky if it got toasty .
The bottom line is that former Attorney General Sessions was and is a gentleman. A genuinely nice guy whose nature was used against him by those enduring power holders in the Department of Justice. Residents of the Justice Department’s deep state will have no illusions that the man who took down the Speaker of the House will fail to destroy their fiefdoms.
Perhaps some of them will even retire instead of jeopardizing their pensions due to “resistance”.
I don’t know if Gaetz even knows who the ’70s rocker was Alice Cooper is, but America needs a recent attorney general who will implement his 1973 anthem, “No more Mr. Nice Guy” because Trump’s first presidency has proven that trying to play nice with the deep state only emboldens those who assume their power extends beyond elections. Trump needs a bullet to end the weaponization of our legal system and the corruption in the Justice Department.
Gaetz is the man who gets the job done.
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Rick Manning is the President of America’s Limited Government.
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