I beg you, please tell me you are not including Confederates. If so, and I hope not, given you say "protecting freedom" then I have another question.
I want to thank you personally for all the years you have been protecting the public and the eloquent way you describe your story.
Eleven years ago, I toured a lot of Europe. On one part of the trip, I visited the Normandy beaches. Up on a small hillside is the American Cemetery. Visualizing the men who stormed those beaches was overwhelming. The first men off the boats and onto the shore knew that their odds of surviving the Germans’ onslaught was slim as the Germans laid in their bunkers while shooting those first men was like shooting ducks on a pond. Then, we visited the American Cemetery not far from the shoreline. Looking at all of those white crosses, it again overwhelmed me and tears formed in my eyes. I thanked them all and said a prayer.
Then, later in the trip, we visited Auschwitz. My wife and I stood looking at the buildings. I could smell decomposition. I know the smell. We were told that even then (2009) that small fragments of bones were still being found. Again, my eyes teased.
Now, right now, as I look on TV and watch uneducated radicals start with legal, calm protests, which I agree they were right to do so. But, then ANTIFA comes in and gets the crowds all excited and into egregious mode. Hate and destroy everything. If they couldn’t tear it down, they burned it down. Shoot the cops, throw Molotov cocktails, rocks, whatever. Burn churches and then step it up to tearing down monuments and statues. Our history. Yes, it’s not all good, but it’s our history. If you believe it should be moved to maybe inside a museum, gave a conversation about it.
Finally, now they have mayors and governors in their hip pockets. Setting up their own communes inside cities. Defunding the police and now even getting rid of the police.
I’m telling everyone, if things don’t change and I don’t mean back to the way it was, but if these anarchist’s actions don’t stop, this will not end well.