I read with great interest last week’s front-page article ‘Be a Whistle Blower When ICE Comes.’ I was not sure whether to laugh hysterically or be outraged. The article chronicles the meeting hosted by the Progressive West Roxbury at the Stratford Street United Church. It explained how participants were instructed to initially chat with each other as “a basic strategy in fighting tyrannical dictators” and steps on how to thwart federal law enforcement efforts.

I truly wish I knew about this meeting so I could have witnessed first-hand this extraordinary display. I’m thinking of sending the article to the producers of South Park as it would make a great episode.

The meeting ended with the trainer handing out whistles to all participants to use in case they see ICE activity.

Where were these whistleblowers when the Biden administration and Democrats ushered in over 15 million illegal immigrants into our country? Their whistles were silent as this flood of people has overwhelmed our schools, health care, housing, and welfare systems. Where was “Progressive” West Roxbury when the sanctuary status of Massachusetts attracted many of these illegal immigrants at a cost of over $1 billion to the state.

Who footed the bill? The taxpayers of MA, and we continue to pay the price in our one-party state. The Healy Hotels may have closed but where do you think all those immigrants are now being housed? Places like Section 8 housing and soon on Redlands Road in West Roxbury. Pardon me if I don’t refer to them as my “neighbors.”

I don’t hear any outrage from Progressive West Roxbury when American citizens are being murdered, raped, robbed, and defrauded. Where was the shrill of whistles when the elderly Everett woman was recently struck in a hit and run by an illegal immigrant going the wrong way, speeding, without a license, and previously arrested for dangerous driving. I see this did not get brought up at this enlightened gathering.

We’re always hearing from Democrats that ‘nobody is above the law.’ Looks like that applies to American citizens only as far as they are concerned.

Frank X. O’Brien West Roxbury