former county commissioner was interviewed by the local paper and encouraged fellow citizens to “have a plan” in case we turned violent. He told the paper, “This is a communist insurrection. If you believe anything else, you are naive. These communists are your enemies. They would kill you, your wife and there’s no telling what they would do to your kids.”3 This statement surprised me. I was a Christian wife and mother of two who went to church every Sunday and had no affiliation with the Communist Party. He thought I would kill kids if given the opportunity?! All because I was silently asking
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