To the editor:
Against WHAT this time, world peace? The cornerstones of our Republic are individual and property rights, the rule of law, limited government, and electoral MAJORITY rule. (Toss in sound money for good measure.) The word “protest” appears nowhere in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. What IS secured in the First Amendment are a citizen’s inalienable rights to “peaceably assemble” and to “petition the government for redress of grievance”, along with freedom of speech, religion, and the press. Leelanau “resisters” (our own geriatric Antifa?) assemble five days each week to fret that their right to free speech (and other unspecified rights) are under attack, all the while speaking and acting as freelyasbirds. Inanycase, theirs are very fuzzy grievances driven by blind hatred — based on media lies and hyperbole — for one man, the undisputed leader of the free world. (No county conservatives waved signs condemning Biden during that dark period in our history, by the way). The minority party today lies in tatters; radicalized, leaderless, unprincipled, and increasingly violent, so maybe the “loyal opposition” should focus more attention on fixing that problem and less on succumbing to figments of their own imagination. Liberty and prosperity for all, not the lust for political power, is what should animate every American. “The government was set to protect man from criminals. The Constitution was written to protect man from government” and as Queen Gertrude might add, “Leelanau democrats doth protest too much, methinks.”
Curt Raftshol Suttons Bay
