The original draft of this email was sent to Washington Post reporter Spencer Hsu and copied to fellow reporters Jacob Bogage and Matt Zapotosky, whose same-day front page story related at least tangentially to Hsu’s metro section story. Also copied were several of their senior Post colleagues, including new executive editor Sally Buzbee, some fellow progressive partisans at NPR, and D.C.’s mayor, attorney general and police chief.
Dear Spence,
Leftists in Congress and at The Post insist that a taxpayer-funded commission is needed to investigate the “causes” of the January 6 Capitol “siege” or “insurrection,” as you like to call it. But I’d politely argue a leading cause is already obvious and well understood, and your B1 story today [“Rioters may pay for siege damage,” June 4], as well as the A1 story by your colleagues Jacob Bogage and Matt Zapotosky [“FBI investigating DeJoy about past fundraising,” June 4], help make my case .
Since last summer’s BLM and antifa rioting, arsons and looting here in D.C., I’ve only read stories about most of those rioters having charges against them dropped or significantly reduced. And while I may have missed a story, I don’t believe there’s been any news of those leftist rioters being obligated by prosecutors to pay any restitution to property owners or insurers for the considerable damage they did, even as you report that some right-leaning Capitol rioters will be so obligated.
Meanwhile, the Chewbaca Guy is still being held without bail for nonviolent trespassing at the Capitol, as are scores of others like him. And as with George Papadopoulus, Mike Flynn and Roger Stone previously, Trump-appointed Postmaster General Lou DeJoy is now getting his own taste of the Stalinist left’s corrupting misuse of law enforcement and the justice system to punish its political opponents.
All of this while Brennan, Clapper, Comey, McCabe, Fauci and others caught on videotape criminally lying to Congress to cover their own political skulduggery remain free to sign book deals, give paid speeches and make regular cable TV appearances.
Such a two-tiered justice system ultimately provides no justice at all. And when the political left, with spirited support and even active cooperation from our First Amendment-protected media, turns the state’s awesome police powers against fellow Americans who it insists are “enemies,” even “terrorists,” insurrection seems to be a rather predictable result, does it not?
So the Post can either help to stop this perversion of prosecutorial power by calling it out, or it can continue to aid and abet it. But let’s be clear: if new executive editor Sally Buzbee embraces the Post’s heretofore shameful if shameless alliance with leftist pols and prosecutors, neither she, Nancy Pelosi nor anyone else will be credibly able to claim surprise or confusion about the causes of the next insurrection.
Darren McKinney, Washington, D.C.