It can go from candlelight vigil to cray cray in a flicker

Protesters during a 1960s candlelight vigil against U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War (Courtesy)

I can remember like it was yesterday going up to Center Hingham in Massachusetts to join in a protest at a candlelight vigil against the Vietnam War.
When me and a few of my close friends arrived around dusk, we saw a group of volunteers handing out candles, and as darkness fell, we lighted them in silence and whispered to each other abut how we felt about the war and how it was time to get out.
This week they held protests around the country that were far different than our protests against the war in the 1960s.
At LA and other cities around the country they weren't passing out candles. They were passing out bricks, chunks of concrete, body armor and gas masks.
No one was arrested at our candlelight vigil. I don't even remember seeing a police officer.
But in LA scores of officers have been injured and hundreds of protesters have been arrested in violent confrontation with rioters who tried to burn down law enforcement offices, threw bricks at LA police officers and National Guardsmen and pelted ICE vehicles with rocks.
The money spent by peace advocates at our vigil amounted to a couple of bucks for a few candles.
The money spent on these coordinated nationwide protests are well into the millions.
If you watched any extended footage of the armed protests, you saw many who were simply walking around, some with signs, but there was also and obvious cadre of violent agitators seeking to injure law enforcement officers who were simply trying o stem the violence and keep anyone from getting hurt.
Members of that cadre our well paid, and their leaders and lieutenants paid even more.
Not to get political but where do you think that money comes from?
I'm not going to tell you. You should be able to figure that out, yourselves.
But what I am sure of is that the sovereignty of this country did not get due process when some 15-20 million illegal immigrants were allowed to enter this country, paid billions of our money for free housing, meals, health care and college.
Where was the due process for U.S. citizens when migrants are allowed to entering our country illegally. No one in the previous administration cared.
They cared more for illegal immigrants than citizens of the United States.
Now many of our politicians, especially on the left, want due process for every illegal immigrant before they are deported.
Personally, I've seen felony charges for things like theft by unauthorized taking, habitual offender and drug possession take years to go from arraignment to sentencing right here in Strafford Superior Court.
Due process for 20 million illegal immigrants is simply untenable and foolhardy.
It should be an administrative decision by a judge, just like when you get a speeding ticket.
You're speeding, they got you on the radar. You just go to court and pay the fine.
You illegally cross the border, you get hauled into court and asked if you can prove you're a citizen or on a lawful pathway to citizenship. If you can't, you're outta here.
How did we go from candlelight vigils to cray cray?