Editor, Gazette-Journal:
Please watch this 10-minute report from PBS (www.pbs.org/newshour/show/how-citizen-investigators-are-helping-the-fbi-track-down-jan-6-rioters). It details how private citizens have taken it upon themselves to hunt down Americans who attended the January 6th riots.
These tactics of having Americans spy on Americans is right out of the Communist playbook. PBS excitedly reports on this activity as if it is heroic, when it is actually unconstitutional, undemocratic, and destructive of trust and the fabric of our great nation.
Ignorant zealots—like the fanatical Salem witch hunters of the 1690s—are informing on their neighbors and the FBI is acting on this information. Note that according to the report, it is the so-called “sedition hunters” who are defining this as a crime, not the legitimate authorities. No one has been charged with sedition, insurrection, or rebellion. The folks there were not armed, they had no plans developed or persons selected for replacing t...