I agree protestors, no matter their cause, have a right to peacefully protest in a designated area. When the protestors leave an appropriate area, such as Miller Park or Coolidge Park, and go to a neighborhood all bets are off. It’s time for the police to move in and arrest all of the protestors.
Most of us have quarantined in our home for almost three months. Some yahoo with a bullhorn shouting whatever, with other protestors chanting in unison, is uncalled for on any occasion.
Anyone’s home is his/her castle. It serves as sanctuary, a place where anyone can go and unwind. If protestors ruin this, the police should “lock ‘em up!”
Alan Syler
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Do you know what else shouldn’t be done in neighborhoods? The killing of unarmed black people. Ask Breonna Taylor if her home was her castle. Oh, wait that’s right, you can’t because she was gunned down in her apartment while she was sleeping.
Jennifer Bethwell
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Some obsessed with revenge have difficulty in the dark finding the target of their wrath.
The yay-hoo with the bull horn actually terrorized the elderly neighbor of Councilman Henderson and others with an attempt at protesting. Those neighbors did nothing to deserve what happened. I’m sure I’ll be told Ms. Taylor did nothing to deserve what happened to her either and she didn’t. But two, three of 50 wrongs have never made a right. Most learn that lesson in kindergarten, but some never do.
Actions like that only escalates the disorder now going on across our country. All the screaming and frightening elderly people won’t fix anything except a strong determination and will to vote the progressive crowd out of office.
In Boston the idiot squad vandalized a statue of The Great Emancipator Abraham Lincoln and a freed man with spray paint. Others spray painted the revered Lincoln Memorial in DC in another mindless act of vandalism.
Ironically in the violent progressive city of Chicago stands a 10 foot statue to Democrat Stephen A Douglas. Had this advocate for slavery won in 1860 instead of Lincoln, it’s possible there would be no Juneteenth, January Jubilee or Emancipation anything. Yet his statue and memorial stand untouched by those waging war on statues.
All of this behavior reveals that the people committing these deeds are at the intersection of arrogance and ignorance. They are not alone at that intersection, however. Progressives in Congress and the subjective media have joined them as they frantically ramp up the chaos before the elections in November. Unchecked it will only get worse.
Ask yourselves before the election, when does protesting cross the line to harassment and intimidation? Does Joe Biden have the fortitude and skill to make America safe?
Or will we all become like Seattle or Chicago with the progressives in charge?
Ralph Miller
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Mr. Henderson and his neighbors had zero to do with the Breonna Taylor, George Floyd or any other current issue in other states. When did blaming people they didn't have a thing to do with issues people are screaming about become the norm? Kinda backwards and upside down, not to mention a lack of common sense, to blame something on someone that have zero to do with an issue. Really, a waste of focus and resources, unless what they are doing is not what they say they are intending, or in other words, have an alternate agenda other than what they lead one to believe.
Joe Blevins
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If the protesters make you uncomfortable of feel unsafe, that’s good. If they disrupt your daily schedule, that’s good. Now you might have just a small understanding of how someone who is black feels when they go out or get pulled over.
Mr. Miller keeps referring to progressives as if they're the problem. They're not the problem, how would you feel, Mr. Miller, if a police officer put his knee on your son's or daughter's neck for nine minutes till they're dead? Or shot your or one of yours in the back over something stupid.
There are some things that are just right and wrong. Doesn’t matter what your political views are, doesn’t matter what your skin color is.
It’s time for a different way of thinking and acting. You can’t keep doing the same thing over and over and expect a different outcome. People are afraid of change but the time has come to change.
Al Hargis