Dear ,

My column this week, which I've included
below, is about the threat Americans face as we race toward a
totalitarian state.

As the trials get underway for those who
entered the Capitol building on January 6, we're seeing unjust
political verdicts by unjust political courts.

Since that day, hundreds of people who were
there have been imprisoned without trial, and some have even been
held in solitary confinement.

Those who committed criminal acts should be
held to account, but the punishment should fit the crime.

Sadly, as you'll see below, sentencing in one
of the first cases to make it to trial is an affront to any
notion of justice.

And Speaker Nancy Pelosi's (D-CA) 9/11-Style
Commission also promises to exploit what happened that day.

While the proceedings of the commission will
be largely ceremonial, the dangerous H.R. 350, the Domestic
Enemies Bill, looms large as a possible byproduct. It would turn
the Surveillance State completely inward onto average Americans
like you and me, labeling us as potential "domestic terrorists."


I hope you will join my Campaign for Liberty
in fighting that terrible bill.

There is no end to the madness of
Surveillance State until you and I put an end to it.

Thank you for all you do.

For liberty,

Ron

P.S. Please consider a generous donation to
keep Campaign for Liberty on the front lines in the fight to
Restore the Republic.

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The Jan. 6th Show Trials Threaten All of Us

The recent felony conviction and eight month
prison sentence of January 6th protester Paul Hodgkins is an
affront to any notion of justice. It is a political charge and a
political verdict by a political court. Every American regardless
of political persuasion should be terrified of a court system so
beholden to politics instead of justice.

We've seen this movie before and it does not
end well.

Worse than this miscarriage of justice is the
despicable attempt by the prosecutor in the case to label
Hodgkins - who has no criminal record and was accused of no
violent crime - a "terrorist."

As journalist Michael Tracey recently wrote,
Special Assistant US Attorney Mona Sedky declared Hodgkins a
"terrorist" in the court proceedings not for committing any
terrorist act, not for any act of violence, not even for
imagining a terrorist act.

Sedky wrote in her sentencing memo, "The
Government … recognizes that Hodgkins did not personally
engage in or espouse violence or property destruction." She
added, "we concede that Mr. Hodgkins is not under the legal
definition a domestic terrorist."

Yet Hodgkins should be considered a terrorist
because the actions he took - entering the Senate to take a photo
of himself - occurred during an event that the court is
"framing…in the context of terrorism."

That goes beyond a slippery slope. He is not
a terrorist because he committed a terrorist act, but because
somehow the "context" of his actions was, in her words,
"imperiling democracy."

In other words, Hodgkins deserved enhanced
punishment because he committed a thought crime. The judge on the
case, Randolph D. Moss, admitted as much. In carrying a Trump
flag into the Senate, he said, Hodgkins was, "declaring his
loyalty to a single individual over the nation."

As Tracey pointed out, while eight months in
prison is a ridiculously long sentence for standing on the floor
of the "People's House" and taking a photograph, it is also a
ridiculously short sentence for a terrorist. If Hodgkins is
really a terrorist, shouldn't he be sent away for longer than
eight months?

The purpose of the Soviet show trials was to
create an enemy that the public could collectively join in hating
and blaming for all the failures of the system. The purpose was
to turn one part of the population against the other part of the
population and demand they be "cancelled." And it worked very
well…for awhile.

In a recent article, libertarian author Jim
Bovard quoted from Solzhenitsyn's Gulag Archipelago about how
average people turned out to demand "justice" for the state's
designated "political" enemies: "There were universal meetings
and demonstrations (including even school-children). It was the
newspaper march of millions, and the roar rose outside the
windows of the courtroom: 'Death! Death! Death!'"

While we are not quite there yet, we are
moving in that direction. Americans being sent to prison not for
what they did, but for what they believe? Does that sound like
the kind of America we really want to live in?

While many Biden backers are enjoying seeing
the hammer come down on pro-Trump, non-violent protesters, they
should take note: the kind of totalitarian "justice" system they
are cheering on will soon be coming for them. It always does.

For Liberty,

Ron Paul
Chairman



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