Stand with the Proud Boys

This is in response to “Stand against Proud Boys,” (William J. Neville, Letters, Nov. 12, 2018). The Proud Boys is a fraternal drinking club. The members come from multicultural and multiethnic backgrounds – hardly white supremacists.

The Proud Boys stand for free speech. Unlike the communists and neo-Nazi group-thinking lemmings of the progressive left, the Proud Boys applauds individual insight and expression, with hearty debate, preferably over a pint or two. They stand for honesty. The writer maligned the Proud Boys and made unsubstantiated allegations without fact-checking.

The Proud Boys is uncomfortable with people who cannot tolerate the rights of the 1st and 2nd amendments. Those people make us all uneasy because they engage in violence to assert their totalitarian ideology.

There is no right to feel comfortable in public. The Constitution is about freeing people from authoritarian government at any level. If the price for feeling good at a concert is suppression of freedom, the price is too great and it betrays the founding principles of this nation.

To stand with the Spokane Proud Boys is to stand for freedom, charity in the community, defense against tyranny and ideologies that undermine the Spokane community and this nation.

Tim McCreary

Fairfield