When They Come for Us  

   Remember the St. Louis couple with guns, holding off several unhinged people who broke into their gated community and tried to occupy their home? And the judge who sided with the radicals? 

   Makes us wonder who's next, given the boldness Democrats and their media comrades have shown since Georgia iced the senate's cake January 5. 

   A newspaper article on Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day gives us food for thought. When King released his "Letter from a Birmingham Jail" in 1963, we were serving our two-year stint in the Army. We had nothing to fear unless we failed to salute an officer. 

   The civil rights movement was not on our radar. Meanwhile, Dr. King had the courage to campaign peacefully against racial segregation. Blacks in the South had plenty to fear if they didn't "behave." I was dating a Southern girl who almost convinced me George Wallace was a good guy.  

   In solitary confinement, King began to write on margins of a newspaper, then scraps of paper, and finally, a legal pad provided by his lawyers. When his associates put it all together, it was 21 pages long. 

   His words were not ones of sorrow, the article says. They were filled with rational hope, quiet optimism, steadfast faith in God and the founding principles of our nation...not a description of leftist Democrats today. 

   "Now is the time to make real the promise of democracy and transform our pending national elegy (poem of reflection) into a creative psalm of brotherhood," he wrote. "I have no despair about the future." This from a man who was arrested 29 times. 

   The Civil Rights Act passed in 1964 and the Voting Rights Act a year later. 

   Sad, that voting rights have been manipulated to serve the interests of the ruling party, not so much the voters.     

        Jimmy