From: ahk@chinet.com   
      
   David Carson  wrote:   
   >Fri, 12 Sep 2025 23:12:08 -0000 (UTC), Louis Epstein  wrote:   
      
   >>I certainly do not condone the pardon of the January 6th insurrectionists.   
      
   >Because that's what matters right now. Because Trump.   
      
   It's a change of topic in a discussion of Kirk's murder, but of course   
   it matters right now, and not because Trump. Trump pardoned more than   
   those who did little more than trespass and, yes, may have been   
   overcharged. He pardoned the handful of people who were convicted of   
   violent crimes, including the one who had very seriously injured the   
   Capitol Hill police officer.   
      
   If you can't see that Trump, with all his pro-police rhetoric, is a   
   hypocrite and you can't come down on the need to punish those who committed   
   violent acts regardless of whether you agree with their politics, then   
   that's a lack of conviction on your part. Your position is outrageous.   
      
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