To the editor:

In his letter in the Jan. 30 Journal,“Do you now see the clear threat to democracy?”, Tom Kuster writes: “What can you do? Stay up-to-date with a variety of reliable news sources.” But his comments on Trump’s J6 pardons leave me wondering how much variety there is in his sources.

Is he familiar with Julie Kelly’s book, January 6-How the Democrats used the Capitol Protest to Launch a War of Terror Against the Political Right? Does he know what the investigations of Steve Baker have revealed, as explained, for example, in #305 of Kibbe on Liberty, or in the quarter-hour video,“Trump pardon gives Steve Baker his life back”? Have his sources made him aware of all the perjury of which J6ers were victims, or of Jason Rink’s documentary, J6: a true timeline?

Two pertinent articles appeared on Lew Rockwell’s website on Jan. 13, 2025: 1) ‘Police officers were injured and killed’: Klobuchar repeats common false claim about January 6th, by Jonathan Turley; 2) Was January 6th an Insurrection?, by Lew Rockwell.

These are a few of the items leading one to conclude that it’s not a good idea to buy into the mainstream media’s J6 narrative.

Anyone interested in condemning and combating lawlessness could single out: Those (including Trump) who were responsible to one degree or another for the response to the so-called pandemic, which brought totalitarianism to America, and which has been called “a fiasco for the ages;” or the president who recently declared the ERA to be part of the Constitution; or the Minnesota governor who did what he did during the 2020 riots (see the documentary, The Fall of Minneapolis);or law-makers who don’t show up for work. The list could fill pages. But the J6 pardons should not be on it. Though Mr. Kuster professes to champion the rule of law, one fears that, misled as he apparently is by his sources, he unintentionally ends up on the side of the rule of lawlessness.

R.E. Wehrwein

New Ulm