Don’t forget the insurrection
We must not allow the insurrection of Jan 6 to be forgotten, revised, or whitewashed in history. It was the most despicable attack on America ever. It was worse than Dec. 7 or 9-11 because it was by our president and his minions. This attack on American democracy, our Constitution and the rule of law continues today.
American citizens are easily rallied when a foreign enemy attacks us. We are not as easily or quickly rallied when the attack is from within our own country. That makes the attack even more dangerous. The domination of dictators usually happens step by step. That makes it all to easy to ignore or justify. As German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemoller wrote in 1946, “When the Nazis came for the communists, I kept quiet. I wasn’t a communist. . . . When they came for me, there was no one left to protest.” (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_They_Came).
The drip by drip violent oppression of all opposition by authoritarian leaders must be resisted as soon as possible. That means now. When ruthless, narcissistic people justify unlimited power, it very quickly becomes too late to defy. American democracy is very strong but not invulnerable.
Memorialize the calamity of Jan. 6 in whatever way you can. Our American democracy depends on it.
Dr. Bob Stewart, Greeley
Is this what you voted for?
There is much we do not yet know about the Minneapolis shooting of a young mother by federal immigration agents.
Statements by the Department of Homeland Security secretary and Vice President Vance blamed rioters and described the mother as a domestic terrorist who attempted to run over ICE agents.
However, videos of the incident show neither a riot nor rioters. The vehicle appears to be driving away from the agents, not toward them, and no one was run over. No evidence of terrorism, domestic or otherwise, is apparent.
The Trump administration’s indifference to the facts, due process and to basic human decency is remarkable. They made dishonest statements that they must have known would be contradicted by video evidence available to anyone with eyes to see it.
This is the ninth shooting by an ICE officer in the past four months. All were called self-defense by this administration, often contrary to publicly available evidence.
These blatant lies and abuses of power should remind us that what the government can do to the most vulnerable among us, it can also do to you. Is this what you voted for?
Andrew Morehead, Greeley
The pleasure of drug ingestion
Legislators ignore the pleasure principle and display their ignorance of why people poison themselves with chemicals of mass destruction. A simple model of supply and demand rules the market of illicit drugs.
What started out as a peer experiment evolved into a complicated distortion of recreation into global warfare. It is not the source of drug use that has led to American blockades and murder of foreign seafarers. It is the political will of a mentally unstable president of a country eager to be recognized as a savior.
America has always had the power to repel the foolish behavior of a man gone mad but chooses to remain silent. The refusal to use common sense to abort self-destruction will haunt America long after the candle of freedom is snuffed out.
Name any country today that is fighting to keep democracy from disappearing? Ukraine? Blessings.
Bob Grimes, Windsor
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