I found the stories and photos on your front page Feb. 11 instructive and ironic.
Here we have local high school students skipping school to protest ongoing efforts to excise criminals who walked into America during the borderless, power-driven policies of the Biden administration.
Elsewhere on page one we see photos of a (man charged with being a) child molester/drug dealer as well as a man who is charged with executing a young cop with a wife and children and is now seeking an insanity plea to escape the unenforced death penalty. If he were better looking like the man (charged with shooting) a health care executive in cold blood there’d be a Broadway musical in the works. Sadly, that’s not a joke.
We entered an era in the 1960s where criminals are celebrated, exonerated and pardoned in the name of “social justice.” Our young protesters have every right to do so, although skipping class to do so only hurts them as California education continues plummeting to the worst in the nation. If they’d only waited for another pupil-free day I’m sure their teachers would have joined them. They certainly aren’t teaching them the meaning of law and order.
A cold civil war is upon us and violence is now applauded and encouraged. Those who cherish cell phones and social media embrace being entertained to death. If an evil empire invaded today they would oppose us defending ourselves.
Having reread Orwell a few years ago I knew his 1984 forecast was near. Our president, despite his coarse nature, has forestalled it temporarily. But the left, who want to tell others how to live, will not stop until totalitarianism reigns.
This glorious republic has made it to year 250, but Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, Adams, Roosevelt, Kennedy and King would now be incarcerated if not killed by this relentless, hateful movement.
They abhor borders, demonize law enforcement and have no moral compass. And so it goes …
Paul McGuire
Canyon Country
