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Rants are set in Stone

Reading Curtis Stone’s latest diatribe in the March 25 Spokeman-Review (“Democrats are the extremists”) takes me back to days of translating Cicero, which shows how old I am. I remember a famous question from Cicero’s oration against Catiline: “How long will you continue to abuse our patience?”

You do so with these seemingly endless rants of fear and loathing that roll on like a tsunami: “… threat to freedom … most anti-gun president ever … may soon erase the Second Amendment … regard the Constitution as toilet tissue … hate the Second Amendment … Southern Poverty Law Center … a communist front ….”

All of which brings to mind another line, this one from Will Shakespeare: “Oh judgment, thou hast fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason.”

Mike Huff

Colville

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