I've seen a lot of f’ked up pardons, but Biden's pardon for the "Kids for Cash" Judge, might just top the list.
In case you didn't follow this story, A Judge named Michael Conahan took 2.8 million dollars in kickbacks to send kids to a for profit detention center.
Biden's excuse for the pardon is that the guy was already on Home Arrest thanks to stupid ass covid rule changes. In other words this scumbag got breaks due to COVID that he shouldn't have gotten and therefore he should get another break he doesn't deserve.
The only thing that makes any sense to me is that Biden decided to pardon all these random people just to take the heat off of himself after his decision to pardon Hunter. And if the press is talking about these pardons they talk about Hunter a little less I suppose.
What bothered me the most about the media coverage of this pardon, which included all the people on home arrest after covid, is that the left wing media all repeated the "NON-VIOLENT" line as a mantra.
Non-Violent does not mean that there were no victims and personally I'd say it's violent to force kids into a for profit detention center, did these kids go there voluntarily or was force needed to do it? How many of them would have been given "home arrest" instead or just some form of probation. This judge used the police to commit his violence for him and it is a violent act to kidnap someone and toss them in detention, if they don't belong there isn't it? And don't we consider the threat of violence, especially when it's backed up with guns to be an act of violence or at least it's equivalent most of the time?
Let me put it to you this way. If you hired people who had guns and those people took kids and forced them at gunpoint to be detained in a work house owned by your buddies, would that be "non-violent"? Of course not, kidnapping is clearly an act of violence because it requires the use of force or the threat of force. These children had force used against them due to this judge's actions and he profited to the tune of millions.
By the way, Kamala did something similar in California. Five years ago when Kamala was in the primaries, Tulsi Gabbard brought it up in the debates and crushed her hopes of winning, Kamala dropped out not long after that.
Brad Smith – Guest Columnist
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Brad, Did the judge have to at least give up the kickback money?