A few weeks ago, we mentioned that these Tangerine 2.0 sycophants/jamokes are a-holes -- and liars. Now one of them, who happens to be a political appointee in the DoJ, is trying to charge this protest -- as some crime -- all while admitting that the Mayor of Newark has the absolute right to serve a notice of concompliant business use on any facility in the city. So that cannot ever be any crime.
The idiot Alina Habba tells us that the entirely unarmed foursome of elected leaders "attacked a federal facility". Flatly false.
The "facility" is a private, for profit contract prison, run by a NY businessman controlling the GEO Group, a New Jersey company.
It recently greatly expanded this previously-acquired private property, inside Newark city limits. As such, it is required to get re-certified by the city -- AS A BUSINESS, before re-opening lawfully.
It is NOT a federal prison. At all. It is a for-profit / graft / Trumpian donor's BUSINESS operation.
For at least four days, lower level local authorities tried to serve papers telling the biz it was out of compliance with local ordinances and laws. The lower level city officers were refused entrance, and left the papers hanging on the concertina wire barriers at the gates.
Then, the Mayor arrived -- seeking to inspect the business, along with various members of the US Congress. They are plainly allowed to observe any federal / state dispute on the public sidewalks.
When refused entrance, a small scuffle ensued. No one stormed the Capitol. No one beat officers unconscious. No one shot anyone. No one ransacked the Speaker's office, or stole the gavel. Or defecated on the marble floors.
In sum -- this is fish v. bicycles, compared to J6. [Four people -- as opposed to over 4,000 violent insurrectionists, trying to prevent a peaceful transfer of national power.]
And as for the garage lawyer, Alina Habba? She will never win on this charge -- it will be dismissed immediately, in the federal courts of New Jersey -- the only place she can bring it. This was lawful Amendment One activity. So, do sit this one out -- all you morons, on the frothy hard right.
Onward.
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And though it may only give oxygen to Habba's preposterous abuse of the criminal charging process -- for the record, here is what the Congresswoman had to say about it all:
ReplyDelete. . .“Earlier this month, I joined my colleagues to inspect the treatment of ICE detainees at Delaney Hall in my district,” McIver said in a statement. “We were fulfilling our lawful oversight responsibilities, as members of Congress have done many times before, and our visit should have been peaceful and short.
“Instead, ICE agents created an unnecessary and unsafe confrontation when they chose to arrest Mayor Baraka. The charges against me are purely political -- they mischaracterize and distort my actions, and are meant to criminalize and deter legislative oversight. . . .”
Damnation.