Patriot Games

In the past year I have heard people say, on more than one occasion, "Won't somebody DO something?"

You know exactly what they're referring to without me having to explain it.

Cole Tomas Allen tried to do something about it... alone.

Let me say right up front that I admire Mr. Allen's intentions but not his methods. Guns are never the answer when it comes to politics. Ever.

Mr. Allen's mistake was not rushing that ballroom with another thousand or so like-minded, unarmed, Americans like himself. A non-violent protest of such magnitude would have achieved markedly different results, in particular no attempted murder charges.

They should have commandeered the stage, waved some flags, read a manifesto or two, and shown off their progressive prose skills with a spicy sign or two about Trump's miniscule member.

Without doubt, Mr. Allen single-handed attempt at change was foolish but it's exactly what any population of oppressed peoples would do after they've had their fill of being ruled by corrupt and vicious madmen. They would storm the castle. It's the solution we've always read about with admiration in our history books and in our fictions.

(Trump's attack on the Capitol on January 6th was a "storm the castle" moment but for all the wrong reasons. He was, after all, the "king" and so to have his own people storm his own castle was... bizarre.)

What Mr. Allen did was what the NRA always promised to do, protect this country from tyrants, but didn't. Time to rethink that Second Amendment again.

In my eyes Mr. Allen is a patriot and a hero as he's given up his precious freedom in order to try and keep this country free. I hope the next Democratic President sees it the same way and offers similar clemency of the sort Trump did when he pardoned the hundreds of violent criminals who killed and wounded the Capitol police for his narcissistic benefit.

- Lefty