An Amarillo “Vietnam veteran and his wife have had enough” of President Obama and his “radical Chicago thugs.” They sent a letter to be published in the newspaper. It won’t see print. But I thought I’d share a bit of it here, unattributed.

“Those of you that have never been in the military may not know that an American flag flown upside-down is a distress signal. As of today, our flag will be flown upside-down … Amarillo, it is time for Americans to stand up and fight for your country … Let it be known that Amarillo is a city that wants its freedom back … “

Well.

This hate-filled screed begs at least two key questions: What freedoms have we lost? What are Americans unable to do today that we were able to do when Barack Obama took the oath of office in January 2009?

The correspondents said that “we are Americans, Obama and his thugs are not. Those of us that have fought for our freedom will not give it up now because a band of thugs from Chicago do not believe in our traditional way of life.”

One tradition is to disagree respectfully. What has become of civil discourse?