Resisting Arrest

IT TAKES a heckuva liberal to be threatened with eviction, arrest, and incarceration twice within the span of one week, to live to tell about it, and to shrug shoulders and laugh at the pathetic people who issued the threats, but leave it to me, I'm the man for the job.  Alas, the trials and travails of a left winger firmly ensconced deeply within a right wing morass, a conservative cultural quagmire. I would be ashamed to receive such threats for engaging in harmful or illegal activity, but am proud, if horrified, to be so threatened for merely having the audacity to be an outspoken progressive writer, unafraid to introduce conservatives to respected progressive historians and theologians who factually contradict conservative political and religious dogma. Yes, horrified, if not surprised, in the era of Trump, in which conservatives, following the leader, resort to pervasive, comprehensive dishonesty and wanton violence in pursuit of a poisonous, malignant agenda, the agenda of Donald Trump. I have been censored and threatened with further censorship not only for daring to sharply disagree with the Trump agenda, his followers, and conservatism, but have also been threatened with arrest and possible criminal prosecution for daring to sit in my car in a parking lot next to a building with a wifi connection, using the wifi to express my disagreement. I have been banned for six months from a public building for having the audacity to discuss historical facts unpalatable to the people who work in the building, in this case, a library. The temerity of mentioning progressive historians in a library! My precise crime? I discussed the central theses in a seminal monograph by Mathew Stewart; "Nature's God: The heretical origins of the American Republic". To wit, the United States was not founded on Christian principles, nor ever intended to be a "Christian" country. If that won't get you thrown out of a small conservative town library, nothing will. An even greater crime is discussing the books of Bart Ehrman, Dean of the UNC Chapel Hill School of Divinity and author of many books on early Christian history, written not from a devotional point of view, but from a critical,  historical, factual viewpoint. Heretical, in a small conservative American town. I don't know who criticizes whom more, or more harshly, or more unfairly, liberals or conservatives. Maybe, as Voltaire said :"All comes out even when the day is done, and more even still when all the days are done". Either way, it seems to me that if a liberal, say, severely criticizes conservatives on his or her website, conservatives should find it easy to ignore it, to ignore it as a droplet in a vast internet ocean of hundreds of millions of websites, without resorting to threats. And if a liberal expresses an anti conservative or anti religion point of view in the presence of religious conservatives, it seems to me that the religious conservative should be able to ignore, avoid, or dismiss as water off the back of a duck the disagreeable verbiage. If nothing else, the Christian conservative can simply inform the liberal anti- religion person that it would be best to change the subject, without ostensibly tolerating the viewpoint, then, later on, threatening the liberal with eviction and arrest. But then, what would the Christian conservative ever do to replace the joyful feeling of feeling offended and victimized, the joyful feeling of accomplishment of wielding power and exacting punishment against a person whose viewpoints differ from their own that joyous feeling of victory and conquest?