Hey, Justice Department, it’s time for the J6 treatment at Harvard.
It is not enough merely to note the obvious, namely, that this is a disgusting display. If this student were black and being physically intimidated and prevented by racist activists from walking the Harvard campus, those racist activists would already be under arrest, and rightly so.
In connection with the Capitol riot investigation, the federal authorities collected every bit of video available and tracked even nonviolent pro-Trump demonstrators across the country to prosecute them, apprehending them and dragging them back to Washington for trial. There was no requirement of their having committed assaults, property destruction, or other felonies in order to be prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced.
What is happening at American universities, such as Harvard, is at least as un-American as participating in an uprising at the seat of government. What’s more, it’s against the law.
As I’ve previously observed, federal penal law harshly punishes civil-rights violations. For example, Section 241 makes it a felony, punishable by up to ten years’ imprisonment, for two or more people to conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person in the exercise of rights and privileges secured by the Constitution and laws of the United States. It is not just disgusting, it is unlawful, to menace a Jewish student so that he is physically impeded from walking from place to place, as all other students are free to do on campus.
The FBI should be identifying these antisemites and the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division should be prosecuting them. Now. And other antisemites must be put on notice that prosecution is what’s in store for them if they engage in this kind of unacceptable behavior.
So what do you say, Attorney General Garland? Does this get the J6 scorched-earth treatment, or are Jewish students akin to Supreme Court justices for whom the “rule of law” is no sanctuary?