Will Trump Pardon Those January 6th Terrorists?

Okay, so maybe Trump is, and maybe Trump isn’t a Fascist. But can’t we at least say that by promising to pardon all those schmucks who ran around like a bunch of hooligans in the Capitol on January 6th, that he’s certainly encouraging terrorism?

The Fake News loves to throw around words like ‘Fascist’ and ‘terrorist,’ because those kinds of words to generate more clicks. And more clicks mean more people looking at the ads, and more eyes on the ads means … well, you get what it means, right?

Okay, back to terrorism.

I’ll bet you that of the 500 people or so who will read this column today, maybe two have heard of Boko Haram. Most of my readers will think that Boko Haram is some kind of food specialty on the menu of a restaurant specializing in exotic, ethnic foods.

In fact, the Nigerian government, which somehow continued to operate during seven coups which occurred between 1966 and 2007, but is now a constitutional republic, decided yesterday to free more than 300 members of the Boko Haram organization who have been in jail since at least 2014, if not before.

Boko Haram, which was designated by the State Department as a foreign terrorist organization in 2013, launched an insurgency against the Nigerian government in 2002 which resulted in somewhere around 50,000…