Topic: Newsmax
Right-wing columnist Michael Letts is currently under indictment on charges of incest and sexual misconduct, yet the ConWeb continues to publish his work. We've doucmented how CNSNews.com was an enthusiastic publisher of Letts' column before it was shut down in April, but Newsmax and WorldNetDaily have published him as well. Letts ranted in a May 4 column published at Newsmax:
Democrats see no difference between law-abiding Americans who were shown into the U.S. Capitol (on Jan. 6, 2021) wandering around like sightseers, and those who forced their way in and causing damage and stealing property.
They want both thrown into prison for years. Some of them have been incarcerated for doing nothing more than obeying a police officer who waved them into the Capitol.
But for Democrats, there is no excuse for people being in the Capitol. Period.
As the they see things, they are no varying levels of crime, and the maximum penalty must be imposed, beyond misdemeanor or infraction levels.
That's an interesting statement for someone currently awaiting trial to make (not that he mentioned that relevant fact, of course). It's also highly dishonest for Letts to claim that Captiol rioters were nothing but sightseers, but that's part of a right-wing narrative to whitewash the riot.
In a May 31 column published at WND, Letts complained that the IRS has weapons and ammunition:
And I'm wondering … why? We're talking about a tax agency here. If someone breaks the law, agents usually don't come banging on the door demanding collection. But it appears something has changed – aggressively – over the past couple of years.
While the IRS hasn't commented back yet, OpentheBooks broke down the numbers further, indicating that 4,500 guns and over 5 million rounds of ammunition have already been stockpiled by over 2,000 of its agents.
Oh, but that isn't all. With these reported numbers, there are "now more federal agents with arrest and firearm authority (200,000) than U.S. Marines (186,000)." That's simply insane.
Once again, it's a tax agency – one that works in an entirely different range than the FBI or the Department of Justice. And here they are, arming themselves like crazy and potentially banging down the doors of U.S. citizens who are struggling to make ends meet as it is.
In fact, the IRS' criminal division has been armed for more than a century, and only about 2,100 IRS employees actually carry firearms.
In a June 28 column published at WND, Letts demanded the release of an alleged manifesto by the shooter in a gun massacre in Nashville, for no other apparent reason than that the shooter was allegedly transgender:
These are documents that should have already been released. The assumption is that because Audrey was transgender, it has become a political hot potato, and the writings will be harmful to the transgender cause.
It's hard to believe that their release could do more damage than the people who are trying to suppress it have already done to their cause.
In the wake of the shooting, many media pundits and people on social media either tried to downplay the fact that Hale was transsexual or that Hale's actions were somehow justified. In doing so, the victims were sometimes made to look as if they were partially to blame.
Letts did not disclose his own alleged criminality in any of these columns. and both WND and Newsmax have yet to report on the criminal charges against Letts.
