its not out of context, the leter, while longer than its needs to be, and self promoting by the author asks the state police if they are willing to do the dirty work of the politicians, if they are, are they willing to die for it.
The author states he thinks there are more than 3,000 people willing to kill them if they do what is being proposed and if they do that they won't get their pension.
its not out of context, it is THE context of the entire article