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Re: “Unsealing Nothing”

The deep state’s media hacks are telling us there was a “national security risk” in letting President Trump retain his papers at Mar-a-Lago. This fails the giggle test. First, since it was converted into the Trump family’s residence away from the White House during his time in office, Mar-a-Lago has top-of-the-line security, complete with the Secret Service augmenting Trump’s personal security staff. Second, Trump worked closely with the FBI back in June to examine the papers, and at its request, immediately upgraded the lock on the door of the room where the papers in question were stored. If the security was so inadequate as to be a “national security risk,” this was the time for the FBI to ask for more measures. —Minnesota

This article reveals the terrible abuse of the American concept of equal protection under the law. Our Founders were universally against the idea of bills of attainder that deny citizens (even a president) of his/her individual rights. This anti-American concept and its practitioners need to be severely punished. —Rhode Island

I can appreciate that secret documents must remain secret, but DJT had the power to unclassify them. However, the warrant itself should not be secret.That smacks of malfeasance, and now that the papers are in Democrat hands, can they reclassify them and make it look like they were never unclassified? —Ontario, Canada

It is said that Obama took over 33 million pages of documents with him when he left office. Have these received the same scrutiny as President Trump’s? Probably not. Does the FBI even know where Obama’s papers are? Probably not. The double standards that have evolved since Trump announced he was running for office over seven years ago is appalling. —Colorado

This is absurd. If the sitting president of the United States can’t handle, sequester, borrow, or declassify any document he chooses, then exactly what authority does he have? Should the guy at the top have to ask permission of a non-elected clerk before handling a document? Ridiculous. Should Trump have returned those documents when he left the White House? Yeah, probably. Does his failure to do so rise to the level of a crime? I don’t see how. This seems like non-news to me. —Florida

Re: “The FBI’s Clinton-Trump Double Standard”

I can just imagine — an FBI team in a locker room, suiting up for the Mar-a-Lago raid: 
Let’s see, the fashionable but altogether ineffective white gloves with the lace trim, or the sturdy, blunt-force-trauma-inducing brass knuckles? Which to choose? Oh! The subject is Trump, NOT Clinton? Well, brass knuckles it is then! Mustn’t forget to include tasers and flash-bangs just in case. Let’s saddle up and move out! Tally-ho! —Virginia

In the military, I was assigned as Classified Material Custodian at the base I was stationed at and had to inventory thousands of classified training documents monthly. During my first weeks as the custodian, I accidentally locked my keys in the vault. You would think that’s a big problem, but one of my more “creative” students was able to break in with a credit card on the door jamb! My next job was to demo this to my CO and see about getting a better vault and moving the documents to a more secure location (which was done ASAP). Trump’s documents were more secure on private property, surrounded by hi tech and federal agents. I had a room with a bad door in the middle of a training base and was glad there was no investigation. —Illinois

Re: “It’s Not an ‘FBI Problem’”

How many agents have resigned rather than carry out investigations that assault constitutional protections? How many have resigned rather than carry out entrapment plots? How many resigned when normal Americans were targeted as “domestic terrorists” for protesting decisions by local school boards? How many refused to use national security tactics against American citizens — like President Trump? —Illinois

Mark Alexander responds: I do not know the answer, but I do know that the vast majority of agents are focussed on their day-to-day law enforcement tasks, which are in keeping with their oaths and their obligations to the public. I also know that painting all FBI agents with a broad brush because of the corruption of a few is tantamount to the Left’s painting all cops as corrupt because of a few in order to prop up their “systemic racism” lie.

If the “vast majority” of agents abide by their oaths, then they should have refused the order to seize documents from Trump. If they had any commitment to their oath of office, they would have refused to carry out such unconstitutional orders and resigned. —Pennsylvania

Alexander responds: However politically compromised the DOJ and other federal agencies are, the federal court-ordered search for classified documents at Mar-a-Lago was both legal and likely justified, which is not to say Trump should be treated differently than Clinton. Calls for “FBI agent resignations” implies that when bad leaders come into power, good people under them should flee. This is equivalent to suggesting that because Biden is our military commander-in-chief, all our good military folks should tuck tail and run. I want our best people to remain on the frontlines, regardless of the political stench at the top of the ranks.

Re: “Country Music Wrestles With Rainbow Mafia”

Thank you, Brittany, for your great comment. I especially liked the “tomboy phase” reference because I, too, was a tomboy. I grew up around four boys in my neighborhood, so I spent my time doing what they liked to do: play baseball, build forts in the woods, ride bikes, watch sports on TV, swim a lot, and do similar chores for my parents as they did. I also did similar “girly” chores for my parents such as cook, wash dishes, clean the house, and study. In looking back, I realize those years were the best a young girl could have been exposed to. Why? I learned how boys tick! To this day, I do NOT fear them or misunderstand them. —South Carolina

I happen to agree with Brittany — the world has gone MAD with this obsession with gender/sex (and race). Growing up, sex, politics, and religion were taboo subjects. We didn’t have this focus, and the world seemed to be a happier place — at least where sex/gender mattered. If these so-called transgenders just wait a little bit, they will grow out of their confusion — just like the rest of us who went through our tomboy stages and emerged on the other side as happy, well-adjusted people. —Michigan

When I was young, I was a tomboy and, in some respects, still am. I played “cowboys and Indians” instead of playing with barbies. I am very happy being a woman, and the only time I ever wanted to be a boy/man was on long road trips or when hunting — so much easier to take care of business while standing! —Alaska

The tomboy phase is natural while the desire to transition is a result of child abuse. Children would never have any idea to transition if it weren’t for the adult abusers and perverts in our world who are presenting that option to them and coaxing them to do it. Parents who deny and defy the natural vagaries of puberty and push their kids to transition will suffer the guilt of the misery they created for them. —Illinois

Re: “Jesus and Student Loans”

This whole episode of student loan forgiveness makes me think more of the parable of the unrighteous steward in Luke 16:1-13. In a nutshell, take verse 7: “Then said he to another, And how much owest thou? And he said, An hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill, and write fourscore.” The servant knows he is guilty of mishandling his master’s affairs, so he has no moral problem further defrauding his master to benefit himself by being welcomed by the debtors. This is the section of Scripture where we are warned that “Ye cannot serve God and mammon.” So much for noble purposes behind forgiving these students’ debts using someone else’s money. —Idaho

Re: “Monday: Below the Fold”

The Colorado agencies that protested the high school video were correct that it presented “negative perceptions of law enforcement,” but elided the fact that it also presents negative perceptions of a majority of Americans strictly on the basis of their race. Claiming that “in our current political moment, White supremacists and White nationalists have been emboldened, and as a result, public attacks are on the rise,” the video parroted the leftist credo that so-called “hate crimes” against gays and racial minorities are committed disproportionately by whites. Actual crime statistics do not bear this out, but a simple acknowledgement of reality is itself considered “white supremacy” these days. —Georgia