On Monday, in yet another affront to America's justice system, the Department of Justice sentenced a 72-year-old woman to a half year house arrest, with restrictions on her internet use, 12 month probation, and a $103,000 fine.  Rebecca Lavrenz, who is known as the "J6 praying grandma," never committed a violent crime, let alone a felony.  Before January 6th, 2021, she had a squeaky-clean record without so much as a speeding ticket.  Now, she is, in the blistering words of the government, "a threat to future acts of political violence like that which engulfed the nation on January 6."

Despite that ominous rhetoric, it's unclear – even with having read the Government's recently issued Sentencing Memo several times over thoroughly – just, what, precisely, she did. All told, her nightmarish ordeal and story represents just the latest in a series of never-ending assaults on innocent Americans by an increasingly weaponized and corrupted system of justice, which has ruthlessly targeted those overwhelmingly peaceful demonstrators who appeared at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, making a mockery of the rule of law and due process ever since.

The Lavrenz conviction is noteworthy for not only exemplifying the cruel and unusual aspects of the January 6th show trials that have been ravaging this country's justice system effectively without pause over the last four years.  But it furthermore offers yet another look into the vindictive and petty nature of how today's Department of Justice operates.  It is quite plausible that but for Lavrenz' incredible courage, remaining steadfast in her convictions and belief in God through tremendous evil, the DOJ might in all likelihood have given her a lighter sentence.