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\"\"<\/a>My oped in \u00a0yesterday’s Hill, “Yes, the FBI is America’s Secret Police<\/a>,”\u00a0 <\/strong>spurred accolades including kook, lunatic, Russian agent, sick, delusional, shill, complete idiot, propagandist, and \u201clonely in his bunker\u201d with his Unabomber beard. Even worse, I’m guilty of “normalizing authoritarianism.” Here’s some screenshots of comments from people who at least glanced at the article headline –<\/p>\n

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And here’s a few friendly comments…..<\/p>\n

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Thanks to Pixabay<\/a> for the royalty-free image at the top.<\/p>\n

Update: We’re having fun with this post on Facebook today.\u00a0 Click here<\/a> to see….<\/p>\n

And ‘s a jpeg from yesterday’s piece (thanks Canva<\/a>)\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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My oped in \u00a0yesterday’s Hill, “Yes, the FBI is America’s Secret Police,”\u00a0 spurred accolades including kook, lunatic, Russian agent, sick, delusional, shill, complete idiot, propagandist, and \u201clonely in his bunker\u201d with his Unabomber beard. Even worse, I’m guilty of “normalizing authoritarianism.” Here’s some screenshots of comments from people who at least glanced at the article […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11109,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1270,47,1277,1208,1273,1275,1272,1274,1269,1276,1271],"class_list":["post-11071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-bunker","tag-fbi","tag-kook","tag-liberals","tag-paid-off","tag-putin","tag-russian-propaganda","tag-secret-olice","tag-the-hill","tag-twisted","tag-unabomber-beard"],"yoast_head":"\nFBI Article Enrages Hill Readers - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Hill readers respond to my FBI Secret Police oped: kook, lunatic, Russian agent, sick, delusional, shill, complete idiot, propagandist, Unabomber beard\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/12\/fbi-article-enrages-hill-readers\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"FBI Article Enrages Hill Readers - 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