In re: “Police Authority Has Limits,” Philip Wasserman, letters, Feb. 13.
Excuse me, sir, but your left-wing blinders obviously were at work when reading and commenting on my letter you referenced.
Of course police authority has limits, but I stand by my sage advice that ignoring the orders of law enforcement officers, especially in an obvious volatile situation like what was going on in Minneapolis, is not real smart nor conducive to your freedom or physical well being.
As Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was famously quoted as saying while sitting in the Birmingham jail: “My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without legal and nonviolent pressure.” (Bold text added for emphasis.)
And Dr. King was also famous for stating that if you choose to publicly protest and confront police you must also be accepting of the fact that you may be arrested or worse.
Anyone who is interested about the causes and sequence of events leading to the Civil War is free to do an online search and see which of us is correct.
Rick Barker
Valencia
