Tactic of agitators is to weaken us through mob rule

By Lethbridge Herald on February 10, 2022.

Editor:

Remember the Alamo, and the mythic horse of Troy? Beware the turncoat who yells “freedom” loudest, and who will drown the rest of us like a sack of kittens. I am a vet, and don’t run with the pack who use American Confederate and Nazi flags as standards while flying our Maple Leaf upside down. Peeing on our Canadian War Monument is a sacrilege to those of us who served overseas to preserve the rights of expression and disagreement; not rebellion. Agitators are experienced at mass infiltration and corruption of democracy. Their intent is to weaken us with mob rule. These are tactics we have seen used by dictators and tyrants to remove the very freedoms they espouse.

 Their actions display the lie of their words. They claim the rights and freedoms of a Democracy, but they display the practice of a Republic where the privileged rule the majority.

Who benefits from violent confrontation over negotiation? From lies and distortion of the truth? From mudslinging and misrepresenting our elected leaders? From hacking anonymity on the net to destroy our trust? From choking our economy and blaming our medication?

Extremists deny responsibility for themselves and their faceless leaders. They do not build on what came before, they only destroy. 

Militant fanatics call for strength and determined resistance from stable society. 

Only serious family and community ties back our elected representatives when facing reptilian rioters; people who shed their skin to suit their purposes, people who melt into the muddied water after the fracas. 

We only maintain our society’s integrity with honesty and deliberate firmness.

Don Ryane

Lethbridge