Heritage Foundation’s Overnight Project says Bowman should be charged the same as J6 folks

Conservative watchdog group, The Heritage Foundation’s Overnight Project, has pointed out that Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY) should be charged with obstruction of the business of government the same as the January 6th “rioters,” some of whom have received long prison sentences. 

Bowman was caught red-alarm-pulling-handed on camera pulling a fire alarm in the House of Representatives building during tense talks to avoid a government shutdown last weekend. He gave a lame excuse that only a gullible person or a Democrat [but I repeat myself] would believe, saying that he didn’t realize it was a fire alarm and thought it was a thing one pulled to open a door [that had a sign in front stating that it was for emergency exit only].

Regarding the bill that was to be signed to avoid the shutdown, the Democrats claimed they didn’t have time to read it, but back when it come to Obamacare, Nancy Pelosi told lawmakers to sign it so they could know what’s in it.

In a letter seen by Fox News Digital, Heritage stated that Bowman’s criminal violations includes a federal obstruction statute, the same one used by the Biden DOJ to prosecute alleged rioters who entered into the Capitol Jan. 6, 2021, and in Bowman’s case calls for up to a five-year prison sentence.

Of course, the chances that a Democrat politician of African-American heritage would be sent to prison for allegedly supporting his fellow Democrats is as probable as getting run over at Times Square by a boat.

Better to leave the jacket unbuttoned than to have this look

"Rep. Bowman’s actions violated federal law in addition to D.C. criminal law. The Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigations have made ample use of similar legal theories recently to investigate and prosecute individuals across the country," the letter states. 

It was sent Thursday to Democrat U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, corrupt FBI Director Christopher Wray and the leaders of the U.S. Capitol Police and D.C. Metropolitan Police departments, some of whose staff held the doors open for the Jan. 6 protesters.

The federal statute states:

"Whoever corruptly, or by threats or force, or by any threatening letter or communication influences, obstructs, or impedes or endeavors to influence, obstruct, or impede the due and proper administration of the law under which any pending proceeding is being had before any department or agency of the United States, or the due and proper exercise of the power of inquiry under which any inquiry or investigation is being had by either House, or any committee of either House or any joint committee of the Congress…shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 5 years," the federal statute states.

The D.C. codes Heritage suggests Bowman violated say it’s a misdemeanor "for any person or persons to willfully or knowingly give a false alarm of fire within the District of Columbia," and that anyone who "corruptly, or by threats of force, any way obstructs or impedes or endeavors to obstruct or impede the due administration of justice in any official proceeding," can be sentenced to prison for at least 3 years. 

The New York Post's, [not to be confused with the Bezos-owned rag, The Washington Post] editorial board criticized Bowman’s fire alarm stunt saying it was "moronically irresponsible and wrong.” 

Mike Howell, president of the Oversight Project, scolded the relevant government organizations for having "come under significant scrutiny from the American public in recent years due to politicization and weaponization against your political adversaries."

Howell noted that, in an interview aired on CBS' "60 Minutes" Oct. 1, Garland stated, "We do not have one rule for Republicans and another rule for Democrats. We don’t have one rule for foes and another for friends. … We have only one rule; and that one rule is that we follow the facts and the law, and we reach the decisions required by the Constitution, and we protect civil liberties.” 

But of course they do.

"Similarly, at a recent Congressional hearing, Director Wray denied a double standard at the FBI stating, ‘The idea that I’m biased against conservatives seems somewhat insane to me, given my own personal background,’" Howell noted in the letter.

"This case presents an opportunity for course correction. The law should be enforced equally and without regard to political party," he concluded. 

Better watch out for that boat in Times Square folks.

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