We must protect the state-house and family business from vandals equally

Re: “Stop this madness,” Jan. 8 letter to the editor

Since the riots last Wednesday, The Post has published numerous letters in the Open Forum condemning President Donald Trump for his role and condemning the rioters. However, you have only published one view making a comparison between Trump’s followers and Black Lives Matter and Antifa. I know your paper leans to the left, but don’t be so blatant. Try, l know it’s hard, to show some semblance of balance!

The letter writer’s analysis of the turmoil in America this past year truly demonstrates that the “man in the street” gets it! I too have been perplexed that BLM and Antifi burned and looted American cities and states and federal buildings for months while many in the government and the media failed to call them criminals or terrorists. Many in the media even justified the mayhem and quoted Martin Luther King by stating that riots are “the language of the unheard.”

There is no difference between the statehouse and the White House. The owner of a family business and a congressman both need protection from rioters. We are all equal under the law. Now, the politically elite have experienced what people in Portland, St. Louis, Denver and many other American cities have dealt with this past year. All rioters, looters and terrorists should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. There should be no tolerance for this kind o behavior regardless of the grievances.

George H Wayne, Golden