Re “Confederate chair held ransom: White Lies Matter group threatens to turn stolen $500,000 chair into a ‘toilet’ unless the United Daughters of the Confederacy in Richmond posts banner on anniversary of Confederate surrender,” Free Press April 8-10 edition:

While the new administration and its Virginia cronies are running roughshod over the Constitution and foolishly running the country full tilt into socialism, and while China is taking over the world with an inscrutable smile, the erudite Richmond Free Press blares headlines about a group of Martin Luther King civil rights wannabes who sneak into a cemetery in Alabama, steal and vandalize a memorial chair, and “hold it for ransom” from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, threatening otherwise to use it for a toilet.

No, it is not called ransom. It is called felonious theft and blackmail across state lines.

So much for their lofty ideals that they no doubt are proud to post on their Facebook pages.

Aside from their bid for cheap immortality with the news media, (White Lies Matter) merely belittle themselves and confirm once more a widespread and ineradicable opinion long held about them.

H.V. TRAYWICK JR.

Richmond