re: Garland does not think attacking fed buildings is terrorism as long as it is done at night

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It's exactly what you're arguing in this thread. Did you read the OP correctly?

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Yes, I know. I'm simply clearing it up that while labeling a group or movement as a terrorist organization can impact investigations, it does not impact what they are ultimately charged with.

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I mean...he testified today that he would prosecute crimes like what occurred in Portland.

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Oh, well if he said it, then it must be true.

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If you riot, loot, destroy property, kill, etc. you should be arrested and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

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You shouldn't be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law unless everybody who does so is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. Since most rioters got fines and/or probation, then that's what we should see for whoever broke the law in a similar fashion on Jan 6.

Right?

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You're missing my entire point.

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I'm not missing anything. Team Blue overnight went from "ACAB! Defund the police!" to "Sic the feds on anyone associated with Trump! Draft new domestic terror bills to snare our political opponents and expand DHS! Force Fox News off the air!" Yet anyone who questions this staggering hypocrisy in light of four years of ceaseless protesting and months of rioting is fed some bullshite equivocation and expected to accept it without question.

Based on Garland's own words, the people pounding on the SCOTUS doors in an attempt to stop the seating of a duly confirmed justice were engaged in terrorist activity. Yet they were met with light (if any) charges, hailed with "YASS QUEEN" on social media instead of being booted from it, and somehow weren't targeted by Congress for PATRIOT ACT: Part 2.

And now these same people, who tried for half a decade to convince the population that we were living under a fascist government led by LITERALLY HITLER, are all aboard the "domestic terror" train, demanding new legislation to allow the executive even broader authority to investigate, harass, and charge any person or entity merely associated with the previous administration. Calling for the government to take Fox News, OAN, etc. off the airwaves. Pressuring tech giants to purge anything unfavorable to the Party.

You:

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Calling someone a domestic terrorist does nothing from a legal standpoint.

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all I am talking about are the ramifications IN COURT

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Also you:

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while labeling a group or movement as a terrorist organization can impact investigations,

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Are you suggesting that the investigation has zero impact on what happens in the courtroom? Really?

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what the Dept's priorities are

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That is exactly what everyone in this thread besides you and hank are talking about. We understand that he's revealing his priorities. The two of you apparently don't.

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Can't a guy make a simple point around here?

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There's a fine line between coy and dishonest. You cross it regularly, which is why you get the responses you get. Hank also occasionally professes to be mystified at the tone people take with him.

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There's a fine line between coy and dishonest. You cross it regularly, which is why you get the responses you get. Hank also occasionally professes to be mystified at the tone people take with him.

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Well some think we are the same person so that makes sense

Apologies for not making myself more clear early on in the thread.