The attack on our rights needs to end

When I first read that the United Against Hate summit would be held in Sandpoint, I thought it would be great to host a dialogue on hate. But then I read the comments by Mr. Hurwit (Daily Bee, Nov. 9) …"troubling hate incidents” and “the moment for an all-hands-on-deck approach to combating unlawful hate.” I am sorry, what?

The past eight years or so has seen an explosion of hate, of violence, of intolerance, and of attacks on the Constitutional freedoms found in our Bill of Rights. The problem for Mr. Hurwit is that the vast majority of these incidents have occurred in places like Seattle, Minneapolis, Portland, San Francisco, New York, Chicago, and Berkeley. There residents have seen non-stop Maoist tactics and self-appointed goons running amok against the defenseless and innocents. It is Antifa and deranged you want, not Sandpointians or Bonner County residents.

In quite the brilliant contrast, Sandpoint and Bonner County have handled both COVID and its mini population explosion quite nicely, Any grumblings we have seen are par for the course where many want to preserve the values of small towns and rural living and reject the hollow values of a resort economy. But “troubling hate incidents” and the need for an “all hands on  deck approach to combat unlawful hate?” WTH?