by Gregory Thayer
What I witnessed yesterday in Warren during Vice President J.D. Vance and his family’s visit to Vermont is totally sick and disgusting and should be highly concerning to every Vermonter and American.
These protesters are uninformed agitators and liars! I attribute this behavior to the fringe organizations that many of these people subscribe to and follow. They listen to these groups more intently than to the Bible. We witnessed people coming from other states, arriving in vehicles with out-of-state license plates. Some even brought very young children with them, singing their prepared chant songs.
Additionally, why didn’t Senator Sanders, Welch, and Representative Balint issue statements to stop the pre-visit chatter of hate on social media by their fringe groups? Christine D. Hallquist, the former gubernatorial candidate, played a leading part in escalating tensions, directing uninformed protesters to Pitcher Inn in Warren and then to the second location of the Vance family’s stay.
I organized a “positive support” rally for VP Vance and his family in Warren with Maureen H. and Sherilyn. On Saturday morning, we arrived on Main Street in Warren to a sea of anti-group protesters chanting pro-Palestinian rants with Palestinian flags, spreading hate rhetoric and lies. There were roughly 45-50 of them, including 5-6 young children and a single drum with someone banging on it, reading prepared papers and chanting lies and hate. There was bantering between the two groups.
It was disgusting watching these people spewing hate, lies, misinformation, and jealousy. I thought these people were supposed to be a welcoming group. There was nothing welcoming about these people. These individuals are uninformed and spew hate, and they had young children stand with them, scared and being indoctrinated. I believe that is child abuse, friends.
I do not believe these people understand the difference between democracy and a Constitutional Republic. It is pretty simple in our U.S. Constitution. They yell out that Vance is a fascist. In a democracy, the majority rules, and if they decide to take away your rights, they can do so. In a Constitutional Republic, the individual is protected from majority unconstitutional laws. We live in a Constitutional Republic, but public schools no longer teach civics or the law of the land.
They chanted that Trump and Vance are taking away LGBTQ rights, but then they support Palestine. Do these people not understand that Palestinians hate gay and lesbian people? They will torch and kill them. They chanted support for Hamas, the Palestinian terror group.
They sang songs for open borders, but America is a great country that welcomes everyone who applies to come here legally. People from across the world want to come to America. We welcome you as long as you come through legal channels and follow our laws. “We The People” are a very welcoming people—come legally!
Then it was about the Constitution. We are not a democracy; we are a Constitutional Republic. They were claiming that Trump and Vance are shredding it—how? I think they heard that from Bernie. When I asked a couple of them, they couldn’t explain it. These are the same people who do not support our secure borders, our legal immigration process, and who want to dismantle law enforcement and prevent Immigration Enforcement officers from doing their jobs. They hate ICE and want open borders.
President Trump and VP Vance are protecting our sovereignty and taxpayer money that the Democrats, Socialists, and Biden were spending like drunken sailors. They are ending the teaching of hate through Critical Race Theory (CRT), Equity, and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), stopping sex changes for children worldwide through USAID, and preventing money from going to terrorist groups that hate America. Cutting spending and expecting government employees to actually work is not unreasonable, and stopping social security checks for 80 million deceased Americans is not wrong.
Remember what these types of people did in the summer of 2020. Can you say Antifa and Black Lives Matter? This is Antifa through and through. They are well-organized and funded, paying people to participate in these types of protests. They hate everything about America.
Trump and Vance are frugal, hard-working, well-organized, caring people who respect our laws and all people, as long as they are law-abiding and doing the right things. I believe in second and third chances, as long as people are reformed.
The Vances’ visit here should have been celebrated as good and positive for our Vermont economy, especially for our great ski industry. But again, the far Left, with their bused-in protesters, ruins it with lies, misinformation, and hate! They subscribe to archaic and nasty behaviors, lying, hate, and jealousy.
It’s time for the Left to stop the nasty behavior and work together with all Vermonters. Stop taking your orders from the Bernies of our great little state.