DEAR EDITOR:

There is still much confusion about what our freedoms and obligations are as Americans, and about what actually happened in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6.

The April 18 letter from John Leseganich, “Freedom is hard to accept,” exemplifies this confusion. Yes, it’s true we all should be guaranteed freedom of speech — although the writer doesn’t mention actively trying to silence conservatives and others they disagree with “canceling.” Liberals worship at the altar of diversity, but they don’t believe in diversity of beliefs, conveniently labeling speech they disagree with as “hate speech.”

His call for tolerance will fall on deaf ears, since people who don’t buy the leftist narratives do not receive the same tolerance.

As for the disturbance at the nation’s capital on Jan. 6, anyone who calls it an insurrection should look that word up in a dictionary. An insurrection is a violent overthrow of government by a nation’s citizens. What occurred didn’t even come close to that. Most of the folks who entered the Capitol building did so peacefully, walking around taking pictures. Many of them were allowed in a side door by Capitol police standing by (it’s on the video). And the protesters killed no one.

The media at first falsely claimed they killed a Capitol police officer, when in fact he went back to his precinct offices afterward and just collapsed and the deep state said he died of natural causes.

Furthermore, I notice the letter didn’t mention leftist radicals who rioted and looted and burned buildings down and assaulted many people, killing a few, in numerous American cities all summer last year, using the phony excuse of racial injustice. You can always tell when liberals are losing the argument or simply don’t have one — they play the race card.

To them I say, “America — love it or leave it!”

JAMES DUNLAP

Mineral Ridg