by Monica Showalter
What kind of a person takes one look at nuns peacefully protesting at a rally and calls for first dibs on imprisoning them?
Only a Marxist commissar -- or a Biden administration official from the Jack Smith-side of that hate-filled administration.
According to LifeSite News:
Senior Justice Department prosecutors in the Biden administration privately discussed targeting Catholic nuns for prosecution. It’s the latest in a long line of ways Biden attorneys went after pro-life and Christian Americans just because of their faith and views.
That particular targeting came after viewing a New York Times photograph of the sisters at the Jan. 6, 2021, “Stop the Steal” rally, text messages show.
In February 2021, prosecutor Molly Gaston texted colleague Joseph Cooney about the image showing religious sisters in traditional habits, veils and large Trump scarves: “I would like to take a special assignment of finding and prosecuting them.”
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Cooney replied: “I’m with you. Although I’d like to prosecute any nun who still wears the head habit.”
Gaston responded: “Hahaha.”
The messages, obtained by Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, as part of his investigation into the Biden Justice Department’s “Arctic Frost” probe, have drawn sharp criticism from pro-life and religious liberty advocates who say they reveal deep anti-Catholic bias within the DOJ.
Notice that Cooney was "triggered" by what he called 'the headress habit,' meaning, coif, wimple, and veil, (or sometimes cornet) worn by the nuns in traditional attire. It's bizarre that he could not stand the sight of them, and probably indicates a longtime anti-Catholic bias, or hatred for traditional Catholics, who are growing in numbers throughout the Church, and who were latter targeted in Virginia as potential terrorists by Biden's FBI.
The Senate Judiciary Committee put out this Facebook post showing the pair's texts:
He and his pal Gaston just wanted to prosecute them for their visibly Catholic appearance, which all by itself is a rather naked violation of the First Amendment, and pretty unprofessional for a prosecutor -- picking targets based on appearance rather than actual acts. The nuns had been doing nothing wrong at the Jan. 6 rally nor were they ever accused or charged with crimes in the Biden Jan. 6 prosecutions. The pair just didn't like their religious visibility so they wanted them jailed, sounding in their texts as though they'd pin anything on them.
It's valuable that Grassley released this information from his investigation, for at least two reasons.
One, Democrats have lately been trying to claim the mantle of offended Roman Catholic stalwarts in the wake of President Trump's and Pope Leo's disagreement over the Iran military action. This just proves that they are the same-old Catholic haters dating back from the Klan days.
Two, the little toad Cooney along with his sidekick Gaston (I think they are just pals, not lovers like Peter Strzok and Lisa Page) is now running for Congress in Virginia's newly gerrymandered 7th district, running on a partisan impeachment platform (obviously, no matter what the merits of the charges given his legal 'thinking'), and hypocritically touting what a law-and-order family man he is. His website reads:
Throughout his career as a prosecutor, Cooney fought to make citizens safer and government more fair and honest. Starting in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., Cooney prosecuted murders and other violent crime. In 2012, he transferred to the Justice Department’s Public Integrity Section, where he held corrupt politicians of both parties accountable. Ultimately, Cooney returned to the D.C. United States Attorney’s Office to build its corruption and civil rights practice, and from there he took on Roger Stone and, in connection with the January 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol and its aftermath, supervised prosecutions of the Proud Boys, the Oath Keepers, Steve Bannon, and Peter Navarro. Cooney won hard-fought convictions and Talking Points Memo reported how Cooney distinguished himself as “a veteran federal prosecutor with a deep distaste for corruption.”
Which kind of leaves a funny taste in the mouth, given his enthusiasm for imprisoning nuns for their appearance. Has anyone asked him about this? Something tells me he'd be an unusually unfit candidate for a congressional seat representing a district that has seen some impressive anti-Catholic persecution in the last ten years.
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