Dear Editor, We are unceasingly deluged with descriptions and images of cities being destroyed piecemeal by organized crowds of sanctioned and protected thugs who, completely unopposed, riot, loot, burn and destroy the property and businesses of hard-working, productive, taxpaying citizens. As outrageous as that is, the same closely directed mobs are defacing and destroying public buildings, blocking highways and tearing down monuments. These cowardly wannabe warriors are bravely attacking innocent, inoffensive and frail elderly people on the streets. If these sorts of activities were being committed against our citizens and our country by uniformed foreign troops, it would rightly be…

Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000205 EndHTML:0000004262 StartFragment:0000002689 EndFragment:0000004226 SourceURL:file://localhost/Volumes/Public/%E2%80%A2%20editorial%20storage/Opinion/081220/jones.doc Dear Editor, It has often been said that history repeats inself. In 1861 another president, Abe Lincoln, was hated by the democrats as much as Trump is hated by the modern democrat. They used much the same methods then as now. President Lincoln said it best of Trump’s election and the subsequent attempts by the democratic party to destroy modern America. “Teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by a war – teaching all the folly of being the beginners of a war.” His statement delivered…