{"id":599356,"date":"2026-02-18T19:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/599356\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T19:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T19:51:14","slug":"questioning-government-not-acquiescing-is-patriotic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/599356\/","title":{"rendered":"Questioning government, not acquiescing, is patriotic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260218-100513-079-20210818-110952-To the editor typed red letters.png.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tIndependent Newsmedia\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>By Dan M. Freeman | Glendale<\/p>\n<p>OPINION \u2014 Regarding Tom Cobley\u2019s letter, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourvalley.net\/stories\/surrendering-to-unaccountable-power-isnt-patriotic,662074\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Surrendering to unaccountable power isn\u2019t patriotic<\/a>: Here, here, Tom! Excellent letter! Spot on.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So was Attorney General Kris Mayes when she warned that sending in ICE to Phoenix like they have in other goose-stepped upon states could be dangerous here. How do we know all of these people are even ICE? You can buy all of the gear on Amazon for a couple hundred bucks.<\/p>\n<p>To say that Renee Good should have acquiesced is wrong. To say Alex Pretti helping a woman agents shoved to the ground should have acquiesced is wrong.<\/p>\n<p>These Proud Boys and others in the administration think they are patriotic? Well, guess what, folks, being patriotic is not adhering to whatever a government says &#8230; especially your own. Being patriotic is questioning the government &#8230; especially your own.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Spoken by a libertarian. Seriously, don\u2019t tread on me (any more than you already do).<\/p>\n<p>Please submit comments at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourvalley.net\/letters\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">yourvalley.net\/letters<\/a> or email them to AzOpinions@iniusa.org.\u00a0We are committed to publishing a wide variety of reader opinions, as long as they meet our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yourvalley.net\/civility-checklist\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Civility Guidelines<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"in-story-ad\">\n<p class=\"in-story-ad\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Independent Newsmedia By Dan M. Freeman | Glendale OPINION \u2014 Regarding Tom Cobley\u2019s letter, Surrendering to unaccountable power&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":599357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[238640,5229,5643,1587,5410,15565,258277,1589,225146,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-599356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-alex-pretti","tag-america","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-ice","tag-ice-agents","tag-patriotic","tag-phoenix","tag-renee-good","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116093379364617183","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}