Cultists on January 6 at the US Capitol

Threats won't silence me!

Echo opinion published in The Democrat Star, a Maryland newspaper:

Justice William O. Douglas (1898-1980)

Beginning in 2015, when Donald Trump (aka TFG) commenced his campaign for president, his hateful followers have attacked me with threats and violence because of the things I say opposing them and their vile disgraced failed twice-impeached leader through the yard signs I post, my involvement in rallies, and the letters and commentary I have published in local media. The one characteristic that these cultists all have in common, in addition to opposing others’ 1st Amendment rights, is that they are all cowards, too afraid to reveal their identities so they go to great lengths to hide them.

The first incident occurred during the 2016 presidential campaign when several of them drove onto our property and ran down my yard signs for Hillary Clinton and other Democrats. After I put them back up with a very heavy concrete block under the Clinton sign (hoping they would tear up the undercarriage of their pickup), they decided they didn’t like that so went back home and brought back diesel fuel to pour all over the signs and our property, then lit it on fire on a windy very dry night. Our home could have caught fire and injured or killed me and my wife. A neighbor saw them, but the Sheriff’s office was unable to apprehend them.

During the 2020 campaign season, Trump cultists tore up our lawn by driving all around and spinning up turf and mud. Then, while I and my fellow Democrats were holding a rally along Rt. 50 in Cambridge, they vandalized our cars by defacing the finish and breaking windows. They also violently attacked MY U.S. Capitol, The People’s House, on Jan. 6 in an insurrection act of domestic terrorism to overthrow MY government. It felt as if they had attacked our home.

Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist, essayist, journalist and critic.

Recently, they have decided to try to intimidate me into silence by sending threatening letters ....

to me by name, to my home address. They are postmarked from Baltimore, and I know several neighbors who live there and come here on the weekends. These letters typically arrive soon after I’ve published another letter/column in local papers.

Here’s the one thing I want these hate-filled cretins to know about me — they will NEVER stop me from exercising my 1st Amendment rights, and if anything their hateful attacks only incentivise me to go after them and their cult leader even harder. I will do anything to prevent them from taking over our great country and turning it into a North Korea or Russia with an authoritarian dictator such as Trump.

From Mike Brown in Cambridge, Maryland