Half agree: Jan. 6 suspects are ‘political prisoners’

 

According to the latest Rasmussen Reports survey, 49% said that those jailed for violence and other charges are being held as “political prisoners.” Some 30% “strongly” agree.

Just 42% disagree, said the survey.

Notably, 45% of Democrats agree that the more than 500 arrested are political prisoners.

Rasmussen also found more agree that the FBI’s Jan. 6 dragnet is targeting “patriots.”

Well.

It certainly doesn’t look to Insanity Wrap like that fake “insurrection” narrative carries much weight with the American public.

But there is something very scary and very real going on.

The term “political prisoners” used to be something of an unfunny joke in this country, applied by the Left to some justly convicted killer and/or terrorist.

Insanity Wrap is thinking now of Mumia Abu-Jamal, celebrated by the Left precisely because he’s a cop killer who said all the right things and joined all the right fringe groups before murdering — in the first degree — Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner.

Abu-Jamal is not a political prisoner. He’s a killer doing life. Period.

The flip side is what happened on and after January 6, 2021.

There were two events that day. One was a peaceful protest by a great number of people outside the Capitol. The other was a riot, at least partly instigated by the FBI, by a small number of loons, well-meaning fools, and hangers-on inside the Capitol.

The only person killed on January 6 was an unarmed woman, Ashli Babbitt, shot dead by a police officer who was allowed to skate.

Many arrests were made. Many people still languish in jail awaiting trial, some in solitary confinement.

Not one has been charged with insurrection or anything like it.

Yet they languish still. It’s not at all far-fetched to conclude that they are being held for political reasons, to add some small luster to the tarnished “insurrection” narrative.

So the term “political prisoner” has taken on a very real meaning for tens of millions of Americans.

We’ve reached a point where it’s also not at all far-fetched to conclude that if it can happen to them, it can happen to us.

To anyone. For almost any reason.

That’s a very dangerous place for a supposedly liberty-based constitutional republic to be, and the Left brought us here.