Letter to the editor: Countering 'consequences'

Leonard Stanga’s diatribe “Predictions have consequences” (Dec. 4, TribLIVE) was sort of over the edge. He starts by asking, “How can BLM or antifa or anyone get away with these threats?” Then he proceeds to make a few threats of his own. How does that work?

Then he goes off on the “socialists in the media, blue cities and states, and the federal government.” OK, Mr. Stanga, name one of these socialist boogeymen you seem to be so afraid of.

“They have to declare all in opposition to their leftist agenda as ‘domestic terrorists.’ ” Has anyone called you a domestic terrorist lately, Mr. Stanga? No? So what was your point?

His right-wing propaganda goes on about liberals’ “intent to push critical race theory on students and impose gun control, and calling the unvaxxed ‘killers.’ ” First off, no one “pushes” critical race theory in middle or high school anywhere in this country. The only people spouting race theory today are neo-Nazis claiming that Aryans are the “master race.”

Then he moans about “President Biden linking Kyle Rittenhouse to white supremacists before the facts were even in.” No kidding. Who came up with Rittenhouse’s bail or paid his legal fees? News flash: It wasn’t the Little Sisters of the Poor.

All of this, Stanga states, affirms his and our “God-given right to be free.” Didn’t Jesus enjoin us to “turn the other cheek”? Didn’t God command “thou shalt not kill”?

You wouldn’t know a socialist if one came down your chimney on Christmas Eve, would you?

Jim Harger

New Kensington