Anti-maskers shout "We will find you"
Thought for the day
I was a 21-year-old senior at USC when the Kent State shootings took place in 1970. Fifty-one years later, I still get angry watching the events of that fateful day unfold.
I never thought I'd be as upset again as I was half a century ago. But then, the attacks of 9/11 happened, and those same feelings came roaring back -- only this time I wasn't a college student but a father of three. After watching the World Trade Center Twin Towers fall, I don't think I slept through the night for a year. Surely, I thought, nothing would make me feel so sick or angry again. But it has.
I watched what happened in Franklin, Tenn. a few nights ago when an uruly mob verbally assaulted a neighbor for urging the local school board to reinstate a mask mandate for students. What was said in that parking lot, when the man, who had to be escorted to his car by police, tried to drive away from the crowd was frightening beyond belief. Shouts of "We know who you are" and "You'll never be allowed in public again" were mild compared to this threat: "We will find you." To tell the truth, I almost vomited watching these out of control, "freedom-loving" Americans terrorize that driver.
What is happening to our country? It's a question I have asked myself many times since the Vietnam War. Now that we are at war against a deadly virus, I wonder why so many people have decided to take up arms (not literally, thankfully, but rhetorically) against their fellow citizens? How many more school-age kids need to be hospitalized before angry parents, like those in Tenn., realize they are contributing to our national crisis? Heaven forbid any of their kids contract COVID while in school. If that happens, who will they blame?
I'm not sure they ever will point their fingers at themselves, but I do know this: They won't be able to blame the man who urged the school board to reinstate the mask mandate. Shame on these parents for their unruly, beligerent (and frankly un-American) behavior.
-DF
As a veteran, sworn to defend the Constitution, I find this behavior clearly un-American, placing these people in the "enemy of this nation" category. I hope all intelligent Tennesseans and their children get vaccinated as soon as possible and wear masks to school and church and everywhere else. The rest can die of their own stupidity, frankly, and the sooner the better. I will not mourn their passing.
I agree Denny. It is frightening what is happening in our country. To threaten someone because of an opposing idea -- and something so innocent as wearing a mask is ludicrous and downright silly. These adults are acting worse than children. Someone is going to get hurt -- over a mask.