NOTE: All links take you outside the SDC Sentinel Newspaper’s web site. Below are a few mentions of the No Kings Rally and Flag Day Celebration which took place in Westcliffe, Colorado on June 14.
It’s easy to see the war from studying congress, or the left or the deep state, the CIA, FBI, etc., because there, it’s all laying out for anyone to see who wants to see it; if they know what they’re looking for. Those who dig a little deeper past rhetoric and see the culmination of that rhetoric as action such as calling a protest a riot and a riot a protest. Still, it seems a distant vision of Spy vs Spy, 007 or Mission Impossible, when, in fact, it’s not so distant and not nearly as elegant. The civil war being waged between political appointees (directors and secretaries of different departments) and the bureaucratic dictatorship I’ve often warned of goes on in the halls of DC, but the lunatic left are their minions, their advance troops to put the threat to the American people directly and they’re everywhere. And, as such, are often defended by communist judges and big-city police chiefs. They could not act so aggressively if that were
not true.
Of course, none of this could happen in a quiet valley in the central Rocky Mountains of Colorado, but it did. This is the extent, this story I’m about to reproduce here, to which the militant left, struggling to find a cause, any cause to attack their political enemies, is an account of that reality that should reverberate through all of peaceful,
rural America.
Westcliffe, a town of roughly 800 people, that plays much larger, because it’s a shopping and supply point for Custer County, a large area of farms, ranches and tourist attractions. Westcliffe, one might remember, is known for its massive Open Carry March during their Independence Day celebration. It was attended by Mike Vanderbough and myself at different times. If you have no plans for the Fourth, they welcome those [want] to participate. Often, there are more in the Open Carry contingent than on the sidewalks.
The following is straight from the article in the Sangre de Cristo Sentinel of which electronic subscriptions are available. It’s a newspaper I read faithfully.
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Leftist Violence Comes to Happy Valley
Enraged Lib Points Pistol at Flag Day Celebrants
Sentinel June 14, 2025 photo by G. Gramlich
by George Gramlich,
News and Commentary
Oh man. Last Saturday, June 14th was a wild one in Happy Valley. All kinds of events going on for families, kids, etc. The summer people were streaming in. Beautiful, warm Rocky Mountain day. National U.S. Flag Day. And then the local libs ruined it. In more ways
than one.
During that week as the national bolshie NOKings event media hysteria was climaxing, the Sentinel decided to do something positive and celebrate our June 14 U.S. Flag Day with a little flag waving in front of the Sentinel from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. There were two other things we wanted to celebrate that day, Trump’s Birthday and that day was also the 250th U.S. Army Anniversary. Couldn’t get any better. So we put an announcement on the front page of last Friday’s Sentinel paper saying come on down and bring a flag and we can have a great patriotic get together for a couple of hours.
We brought our Jeep down to help celebrate the Army’s Birthday. The Jeep was given to us by my ex-partner, Col. Mike Hess, Ret. It is painted to duplicate the Army Jeep he used in Korea many moons ago and we parked it on our front lawn. Yvonne put a ton of small U.S. Flags around the yard and we hung several from our porch. Our local Republicans showed up with a tent. We were all set to wave our flags on Main Street and have a good, patriotic day.
About 50 Patriots showed up during our celebration. We had about six to 12 people waving the flags at any point in time. As usual, in Free Custer County, we got a ton of thumbs up, horns blasting and encouragement shouts from the passing motorists. Good stuff.
A Custer County Sheriff’s Deputy was nearby and told us that the NOKings rally down at the west end of Main Street (at the “Bluffs”, a scenic overlook of the Valley and the Sangres) were going to march down the sidewalks on Main Street and pass us. Some observers came back from there and said there was a fair amount of lefties there, maybe 60 or so. (The NOKings rally was a nationwide effort by the libs to protest Trump and his policies, normal Americans, and support the insane libs dystopian issues. It was very well organized with 100’s and 100’s of NOKings rallies around the country. )
So we’re waving our flags and we see a block or so down toward the Bluffs a bunch of people on the sidewalk walking towards us. They were on the sidewalk on the other side of us (the south sidewalk). As they get closer, we hear this percussion type noise, it keeps getting louder and finally we see what the racket was. You can’t make this up, it was a tall, fairly greasy looking bolshie pounding BONGO DRUMS! BONGO DRUMS! The same lame obnoxious noise that the red diaper babies have been using since the 60’s. This guy was very aggressive on them pounding away like he was in some nightclub in Cuba back in the old Batista days. This, of course, caused much amusement amongst our Patriots.
As they marched by on the opposite sidewalk you could see the composition of the rabble: a fair amount of old, pasty, bony wanna be bolshie types that never grew up, some Marxist types, younger, very angry, sad and lonely people and depressingly, some children in
the mix.
They carried dozens of childish, handmade cardboard signs declaring us normal people “nazis”, “fascist”, and other bad things, that Trump should be gone, plus the self-righteous lib mantras on sex. The usual lefty, Marxist opioid mix. They constantly chanted catchy phrases knocking and mocking normal Americans with a heavy emphasis on the “nazi” theme which the national libtards have adopted since Trump got in. To us old folks who have seen this garbage in the old days, it looked like a pathetic attempt to re-create these old bolshies’ childhoods. Vice President Vance calling those shriveled up old lady hippies, “sad, lonely cat ladies” was a compliment. Brain washed. The word “parasite” comes to mind.
So the red mob passed, and we kept waving our American Flags and the passing vehicles continued to give us the good vibes.
After about 20 or 30 minutes, we can see to the east of us that the red rabble is now crossing the street about a block away, and they start walking towards us on OUR side. No need for this. They want to cause a confrontation. (Which could have been a big mistake.)
So we tell our crew to stay off the sidewalk and let these fools pass. As they pass, they are screaming curse words, calling us “nazis”, etc., chanting lib nursery rhymes, trying to provoke us. All we do is yell stuff like, “God Bless America”, “USA, USA…”, “Trump”, etc. This gets their drawers in a bind, and they chant and scream harder. Finally, the lemmings finished passing and all was well.
But here is something that we observed: Our crew, save one beautiful gentleman from Ohio, who was visiting his son here, were ALL LOCAL and we know who the locals are. After the Red Pioneers passed, we all compared notes on how many local people did we recognize in that emasculated crowd. The consensus was SIX. Out of 60. SIX. And when you viewed the clothing, the demeanors, the physical appearances (I don’t think there was ONE alpha male in that whole creepy mob), the sad and angry look on their faces, you know they were from out-of-town. The urban shorts, the hip tee shirts, way too clean for country folk, the way they shuffled along. City libs. The worst. This is what local libs do around the country. Literally bus in city commies to harass conservative cites and towns.
So how did they get here and why? Our own geriatric, red diaper baby libs brought them here. But why? Because Custer County is one of the last red counties in the state. Because Custer County is hard core Christian conservative. And if they want numbers, they must still import just like they did here.
(Custer County is so hard core right the local dems don’t even hold a primary here! There hasn’t been a registered dem running for county office in like forever.
Our county level elections are won after the Republican primary because the dems don’t even bother to field a candidate in the general election because they know they will be massacred. So our local libs use us as a target for their urban commies to come here and attempt to intimidate us. Which obviously is a total waste of time. In fact, every time these losers march up and down Main Street the more locals come to dislike them. These sidewalk marches totally disrupt our tourist trade and the Main Street stretch that they march on is the tourist shopping district. Who is going to park and shop with their kids when they see/hear sick looking crazy people walking down the sidewalk? Our Main Street merchants don’t want this. Plus the marchers blow out of here as soon as they are done because they don’t want to spend a dime to support our community.)
GUN UP!
So they kept marching down the sidewalk to where they started. We get back to flag waving. However, during this period and now afterward, there was a newer, four door Jeep Wrangler that kept driving slowly past us. Every time he drove by, he shouted (LOUD) hard core obscenities at our flag wavers including, of course, calling us “nazis”. Now remember this is an older crowd. Probably most of our crew are retired. Regular, polite, conservative Christians spending a few hours celebrating our great country. And this guy keeps coming back screaming at old men and old ladies waving the American Flag, constantly using the “F” word. Each pass he gets louder and crazier.
Finally, at maybe his fourth or more pass, he drives past me and another male flag waver and stops right in front of one of ladies waving. Very close to her. (The woman happens to work at the Sentinel. Me and another male were just a few feet to the left of the lady. To her right were a bunch of flag wavers.) The guy, his face contorted with rage, starts screaming like a mad man at the lady in a very threatening manner using extreme obscenities (including the “F” word). Finally, the lady yells back at the punk and then a few seconds later she steps back and freezes. (The guy is on our side of
the road, driving left to right past our wavers. His passenger window is next to us.)
The guy keeps screaming and starts to move past us towards the other wavers (he is going west). Just as he starts moving we all hear, “He’s got a gun!” from multiple people.
The woman says he had pulled a pistol out, wracked it right in front of her and then pointed it directly at her, the male standing next to her, and as he started driving, at other people. The lady said he stretched his arm across the cab and had the gun right by the passenger window, only a few feet from her.
Little did this rocket scientist know, but at the end of our line was our County Coroner, Brad Baltzly, and coming to his side, Assistant Coroner, Nikita Phillips. Both had seen what was happening and Brad whips out his cell phone and is filming it. At the same time, he grabs his police radio and calls it in to our SO.
Game on!
The punk goes another 30 yards or so and then turns south at the intersection on Hwy 69 heading towards Walsenburg. He knows he screwed up and is fleeing.
Based on Brad’s call, the Custer County Sheriff’s Office swings into action. All the Deputies are on duty due to the NOKings commie march so there are plenty SO cars around. Four or five SO vehicles jump on it and chase this loser down 69, lights on, sirens screaming and stop this guy around 4 miles outside of
town. (It was like a “Dukes of Hazard” chase except they caught the perp.)
High Risk, Felony style stop. Rifles and pistols out. BUSTED. Wrong county to play lib bad boy. They book him. Tons of charges. Down to the Fremont County Criminal Playground for this guy. The SO tells us his name is Brett Tuthill.
The SO stated that the guy was wearing body armor!
So what set this guy off? Was it the NOKings loonies marching around town chanting satanic verses. Was it the BONGO DRUMS? My guess is that he got all pumped up with the loonies marching around and he has a severe case of Trump Derangement Syndrome.
It could have been a disaster. The guy could have shot the lady point blank and then opened up on the rest of us. Just on the street flag waving line, half of us had sidearms and if he started shooting it would have gotten nasty. Plus there were more of our guys with guns behind us. Hey, it’s Custer County.
So our local lefties finally brought the horror of liberalism to our peaceful community. Their predictable solution is always the same–violence, voter fraud, indoctrinating our children and taxing and regulating our way of life out of existence. A sad commentary on where America is today due to their extremism.
Attention Lefties: You’re wasting your time in Happy Valley. We see through the facade.
(We didn’t stop waving our American Flags after the gun incident. We kept on trucking. It will take more than that to stop Patriotism here in Happy Valley.)
God Bless Happy Valley and
God Bless America.
(Bonus Feature: A VERY reliable source told us that after the red parasites crossed the road to get to the school parking lot and started down Main Street toward the Sentinel, they left one of their members behind! Apparently, it was an older lady who succumbed to the heat. She was laying on the parking lot or the sidewalk. The libs left her there. NOT ONE LIB BOTHERED TO STAY WITH THE OLD LADY AND HELP HER. (I guess, “Leave no man behind” is not part to the lib team mentality.) Finally, someone from the SO came to help her. Yup, a valuable insight into the libs’ heads.)
(Editor/GG: Remember, all defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.)
by George Gramlich
Saturday will be a beautiful day to celebrate the day our country recognized June 14 as National Flag Day. With all the negative events around the country we need to display our respect for our country and our flag and this Saturday is the day to do it. That can be done by showing up at the Sentinel (601 Main St., Westcliffe) this Saturday from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and bringing an American or patriotic flag for you to display.
We will be assembling on the spacious front lawn of the Sentinel to display our flags to our fellow citizens. Bring your kids, family and friends and lawn chairs if you want to sit.
Show our neighbors, our visitors and the rest of the country what a patriotic county looks like!
Feel free to enjoy your 2nd Amendment rights for without them, we would have no Flag Day.
God Bless Custer County and God Bless America!
