American By Choice and the Grace of GOD

This is a letter my Dad made to his friends and to WSJ. He came from Cuba right after Castro took Power in the 1960's. They have lived here ever since and has alway been part of the Conservative Republican Party. My Parents always told us to be Proud to be American and to Fight for our Freedoms and never take them for granted for at anytime they can be taken away. Sorry for the spelling he usually types these off the cuff.

Please take me off your list.

I believe in racial justice. I marched in 1964 with students from my HS class in New Jersey and I was exposed to racial prejudice against blacks and Latinos like me in Florida and in Connecticut. I was a witness in the first case of Antisemitism in Connecticut when when having a mezuzah on the door of a Jewish family was cause for insults.

However, i strongly disagree and I am very vocal in opposing violence that promotes destruction of private property as well as the attempt to demonize the police.

While there are abuses and sometimes criminal behavior by police using excessive force I experienced the problem in Cuba when demonstrators would push enough to provoke the police and challenge the Rule of Law which eventually destroyed the Republic.

No reason in the world will nullify the words of MLK Jr. against violence. Those that give such behavior an inch of support are betraying Dr. King's heartfelt beliefs.

Unfortunately humanity is full of prejudices and changes are required on both sides. I don't believe that a call for defunding police- the last wall between anarchy and civilization or the use of politically driven slogans such as "white privilege's" and "political correctness" are standard elements of a civilized society but they are designed to impose conformity with a single point of view.

Looting is not a protest or excuse for being poor. Mt grandmother lived in a dirt floor hut and never approved of my mother, aunts and uncles breaking the law. Dignity and respect for others was their creed.

The mayhem in the streets is not about compassion but it is about control and destroying of individual rights and freedom for all not just a few or to win support of others.

So please stop lecturing. Lawyers are not paragons of virtue. Social responsibility is a very personal choice born out of convictions and culture not as mandates from the state in the name of the Common Good. Who defines what is "the Common Good"? The left, the right or people of conscience.

In over 50 years of trillions of dollars spent to achieve equality and social justice nothing has changed and politicians think that more money and more laws and lowering the bar of respect for dissenting opinions are the key to solving the problem. There are deep seated cultural issues on both sides that need to be addressed and trillions more with more laws or handcuffing law and order will not fix the problem.

Sincerely,

A Proud American by Choice and the Grace of God

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American By Choice and the Grace of GOD