{"id":11650,"date":"2019-02-05T23:02:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T07:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=11650"},"modified":"2019-02-05T23:02:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T07:02:20","slug":"angry-reader-02-05-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-02-05-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Angry Reader 02-05-2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From An Angry Reader:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You, sir, are a\ntraitor,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To call the FBI and\nthe representatives of the United States “Bolsheviks” when the POTUS\nyou seek to defend consistently lies about contacts with GRU officials; whose\nchief strategist Stephen Bannon claimed to be a Leninist because he was\nadvocating the destruction of the establishment, you are a hypocrite and a\nliar. You are enabling the dissolution of American institutions. You are a\ntraitor to the cause of liberty. Go fuck yourself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ken Rabe<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dear Unhinged Angry Reader Ken Rabe,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

You score a 9 on the\nunhinged Angry Reader scale: ad hominem invective\u2014check; personal slurs\u2014check;\nobligatory profanity\u2014check; rants without facts\u2014check.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I did not call the FBI\nand Congressional Representatives \u201cBolsheviks”; what I did say was the\nprocedure and protocols of any government officials who assume that a person is\nguilty first, and then hunt for crimes second, to prove the deductive assumption\nwas Bolshevik like\u2014in the fashion of Stalin\u2019s NKVD head Lavrentiy Beria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And it is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Robert Mueller was\ntasked to find Russian collusion, not to convict Donald Trump or his\nsubordinates of process crimes or violations of statutes going back decades.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unfortunately what we\nare witnessing is the leveraging of a vast array of characters on the premise\nthat Mueller will find the crime to prove his targeting was right, threaten to\nlock them up for ages or bankrupt them, and then offer them exemptions of\nvarious sorts if they can claim wrongdoing on Trump\u2019s part\u2014any sort of\nwrongdoing, given that he has no evidence of his original mandate to find\nwhether Trump or anyone else engaged in collusion with the Russians to warp the\n2016 Election.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If Mueller was\nempirical, he would have long ago discovered that Hillary Clinton, behind 2\nfirewalls, used campaign funds to hire a foreign national agent to cobble\ntogether Russian sources, mostly unfounded and unverified hearsay, to create a\nsmear dossier to be circulated among Obama-officials and thus leaked to the\nmedia in time to erode Trump\u2019s campaign before the election\u2014and after to stall\nhis presidency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am trying to alert\nthe public that institutions like the IRS, DOJ, FBI, CIA, NSA, and NSC have all\nbeen weaponized, and in part discredited and eroded due to politicization\nduring 2015-16.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hiring a foreign\nnational to influence an election is a crime; leaking classified documents is a\ncrime; lying under oath to Congress is a crime; deluding a FISA court is a crime;\nunmasking surveilled names and leaking them to the media is a crime; destroying\nsubpoenaed evidence is a crime; lying to federal investigators is a crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet many of our top\nofficials with impunity engaged in all that and more on the theory that their\nend of stopping Trump justified any means necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reading your letter is\npredictable because it confirms that you have no sane argument and are left\nonly with the refuge of four-letter words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You, sir, are sad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Vic Hanson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

From An Angry Reader: You, sir, are a traitor, To call the FBI and the representatives of the United States “Bolsheviks” when the POTUS you seek to defend consistently lies about contacts with GRU officials; whose chief strategist Stephen Bannon claimed to be a Leninist because he was advocating the destruction of the establishment, you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p466Sb-31U","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12130,"url":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/angry-reader-01-09-2020\/","url_meta":{"origin":11650,"position":0},"title":"Angry Reader 01-09-2020","author":"victorhanson","date":"January 9, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"From An Angry Reader: Subject: The Dangers of\u2026YOU Mr. Hanson, It appears that they let just about anyone submit an opinion even a Stanford grad. 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