POLICE STATE: Make no mistake, we’re living in one

My father piloted 43 missions in a B-24 Liberator and became a wing commander. My grandfather was West Point Class of the Stars and was commandant for all training bases on the west coast, including training my father. They were both Antifa: Anti-Fascists. 

Mr. Hulbert, your rhetoric aligns with the current administration’s policies of rounding up immigrants and deporting them whether they are here legally or not. This administration is flagrantly ignoring the Constitution of the United States without allowing due process, killing U.S. citizens when they peacefully protest, and now arresting members of the press.

Your representation that the citizens of Minneapolis are “a highly organized group of professionally trained and paid agitators” is beyond the pale. They are citizens standing up for their neighbors who are not willing to stand by and watch the abuses of this administration. The protestors have been overwhelmingly nonviolent, peaceful and exercising their constitutional right to protest.

To your last point, “an overwhelming majority (60-plus %) of Americans support the removal/expulsion of all illegals.” Mr. Trump campaigned on “removing all the illegal criminal aliens.” My eyes are witnessing something wholly different than Trump’s promises.

Mr. Hulbert, please know the facts before you pontificate talking points that hold nothing but hot air.

RALPH SHAY
Coeur d’Alene