LETTER: Protests an important part of American history

I reached the property of ineligible adulthood successful the 1960s connected the West Coast. I witnessed protestation aft protest, which often included gathering occupation. The intent was to marque the medication perceive to the issues of those protesting. Sometimes the connection got through, but usually the effect was to “shoot the messenger” by arresting and prosecuting the protesters for trespassing. This occurred regularly until they virtually changeable and killed the messengers astatine Kent State.

If much radical had paid attraction to the issues Colin Kaepernick protested against — alternatively of castigating him for the mode helium protested — George Floyd mightiness beryllium live today.

Now we person those who, connected Jan. 6, took their protestation into the Capitol. They are being witch-hunted by Nancy Pelosi and her legislature cohorts. Once again, they are attempting to prosecute the protesters alternatively of looking astatine the issues they brought to the Capitol.

The arrogance of “what we are doing can’t beryllium wrong, due to the fact that we are right” is the modular effect of those successful office.