There would not have been a problem if he had threatened to kill President Trump.
20 or 30 years ago to clean cut men in the suits would’ve knocked on his door. Or even possibly, simply found a way to be watching him and seeing him go about his day realizing he was doing nothing of the sort. He would’ve never even known they were there. Today we get a bunch of bombs looking like soldiers with beards, hitting the place like it was a terrorist compound at 6 AM startling him in bed and murdering him. The guy was a old crank who could barely walk, and even a cursory investigation would’ve revealed that he was just a nut spouting off. They murdered him.
That would have been “free speech”—the “heart and soul” of our “precious democracy”.
The extremism in our society are not people like him. It is our zero tolerance extremist government. And the extremism is seen in modern law-enforcement that dresses and acts like soldiers of some sort.
*There would not have been a problem if he had threatened to kill President Trump.*
He was no George Floyd and we get nowhere turning him into one.
People did that all the time with Trump. And the same with Bush...I remember all the public death threats, the hanging in effigy, the bloodied severed heads.
Never punished, never even publicly censured in any way.
Funny, isn’t it?
That very succinctly sums it up. That’s the world we live in now.