To the editor:

If Tiverton’s illuminated sign guy, Alan Zielke, didn’t get hit with crossed wires, you’d never know it from the message that drew the initial attention.

It is one thing to billboard one’s bile against several entities that objectively are not a disgrace and do not deserve vituperation. But even with its vulgarity, Zielke’s message is his First Amendment right.

His reported reason for the thrust of the message is, however, bereft of substance. Who, pray tell, in the U.S., has been praising North Korean President Kim Jong Un? Moreover, doesn’t the same free-speech right resorted to by Mr. Zielke allow for “putting down Vice President Pence?

Zielke’s notion that Democrats care more about people outside our nation than those within is sheer nonsense, Votes by the outsiders don’t count here — or at least they are not supposed to.

Not surprisingly, it is Fox he now turns to for his information. That will not straighten out his wires.

Charles M. Moran Jr.

Tiverton