Letters to the Editor Web Page
Some Practical Advice for Support Contemnors in the State of Washington.
A Way to Walk a Mile in a Noncustodial Parent's Moccasins.
For their sponsorship of Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox Sucker's www.paykids.com his Paykids Foundation, boycott the listed sponsors, including Art Van Furniture, Meijer Stores, Michigan State Medical Society (warning, the MSMS website does not like to let you out when you click the back button), SBC Communications, and Michigan Health and Hospital Association and tell them why you are boycotting them! Go to the Michigan Enemies of Freedom Page and read letters by Stan Rains and Terry Lear for more information as to why, and read Domino's Pizza, Inc.'s letter to me in response to my concerns about PayKid's use of Domino's Pizza gift certificates as a prize in their loathsome Billboard contest, which was CANCELLED!!
Not to be outdone, we are announcing our own billboard contest!
www.lulu.com is to be commended for their courage, unlike Borders, in continuing to distribute father Kevin Thompson's book, "Exposing the Corruption in the Massachusetts Family Courts" in the face of Judge Mary McCauley Manzi's court order prohibiting its distribution. More on this at the Massachusetts Enemies of Freedom webpage.
This is the Web Page upon which I list the internal links to a sampling of letters I have written to our local papers. I thought you might enjoy reading them.
Letter to New Zealand Member of Parliament Muriel Newman. She is at muriel.newman@parliament.govt.nz In this letter I make what I believe to be the kind of argument that just might get through the thick skulls of those who cannot otherwise seem to grasp that this is a vital issue of FREEDOM, without which, we CANNOT be the parents our children need.
Second Amendment This letter was written in response to a Seattle Post-Intelligencer editorial dated April 2, 2000. That was when the United States v. Emerson case was being appealed from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas. This was the decision where the federal court in Texas decided that the Second Amendment guaranteed an INDIVIDUAL right. The PI, as with most of the established liberal press, prefers to believe that the Second Amendment guarantees only a "collective" right, which as I explain in my recent comment on the Ninth Circuit's Silveira v. Lockyer decision, is no right at all. The whopper in this PI editorial is in its assertion that in more than one hundred state and appellate since, there has been no deviation from the United States v. Miller assertion that it only guarantees a "collective right", it neglects to mention the Supreme Court of Washington decision finding in one of Mitchell Rupe's appeals that Article I Section 24 of the Washington Constitution provides an individual right to keep and bear arms, broader than the right guaranteed by the Second Amendment!
Smart ID Cards This was in response to a Seattle Times article on December 23, 2001 concerning a national identity card. I also reacted to how people were willing to toss Gary Ridgway's constitutional rights down the drain to save tax money.
Click It or Ticket I am deeply offended by the new seat belt laws and I did not like the old ones. But I am really frosted by the use of our tax money by the Washington State Patrol for an ad campaign to rub our noses in it. www.clickitstickit.com is sponsoring an Initiative to roll back the new seat belt laws.
Discrimination in Employment in Domestic Relations
State Patrol Ferry Searches For perfect safety, well, the illusion of perfect safety, just give up the Fourth Amednment.
Personal Information to Leave Country on Airplane or Ship. Why not just consent to radio transponders medically implanted?
Don't just take my word for it. Judge Rheinhardt of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals wrote this dissent in United States v. Kincade, (9th Cir. August 18, 2004) ____ F. 3d. _____.
Columbine High School Tragedy and Second Amendment. An interesting note: During subsequent falls, Columbine's football team twice won the Colorado state championship in its student body size category. Strong emotions can be a powerful incentive. Can cause Saudi rich kids to hijack an airplane and fly it into an office tower. The question is how to harness strong emotions, for good or for evil, and how to keep them from clouding our thinking as to our fellow citizens' rights.
Global Warming. My objection to the global warming crowd is that they are using an unproven, even nonsensical, scientific theory to justify new statutory schemes to restrict our freedoms and privileges.
Response to a Blame America First Column. We Americans should stop worrying about offending them. They should start worrying about offending us.
Response to a column by law professor Cass Sunstein who fears an "activist court". Meaning a Supreme Court who actually enforces the Constitution. That is something to fear? If only they would enforce the Constitution! Consistently and constantly, until the state supreme courts and federal courts of appeal get a clue!
Bakke Decision and Initiative 200. This in response to a letter by University of Washington Professor Arval Morris, whom I believed misread the Bakke decision.
An Earlier Letter About ID Cards Alan Ehrenhalt's column on our obsession with privacy drew several letters in response. I do not believe my letter was published, though you can read it on this website.
Judicial Salaries. This letter was actually published by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Freedom of Judicial Speech. This is what I mean by the "Breathtaking Hypocrisy" of those who criticize Tim Eyman while placing a cone of silence around the In re Boot decision and the Violence Reduction Act that it upheld. This letter was NOT published by the PI.
And if judges have free speech, then why are they not held accountable by the same laws we are? Case in point: the failure by King County Prosecutor Norm Maleng's Office to charge Ninth Circuit Judge Jerome Farris for having the City of Seattle owned trees in Colman Park cut down. This is my letter on that subject.
Why Not Let Juries Decide if the Washington Constitution is Being Violated? I got so frustrated with our judges playing political games with our constitutional rights and their inconsistent rulings similar in nature to finding that the word "hill" means a flat place and that the ocean is not salty that I threw this in the mail. It did not get published.
The Problem With Tolerating Perjury This letter was in response to a Letter to the Editor by Mohamed Omer published by the Seattle Post Intelligencer on December 20, 1998. It appears to be too old to be listed in the PI's on line archives.
If Clinton Were Indicted, Bush Should Not Pardon. This letter was published by the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. While the power to pardon has always been claimed by the chief executive of almost every nation, as kings, czars, presidents, governors, chancellors, tyrants, dictators, and ceasars have pardoned criminals, in a nation that is supposed to guarantee its freedoms by law, the power to pardon should be used only where necessary to correct a miscarriage of justice, as in Wenatchee, or where it is appropriate to temper justice with mercy. I did not believe that either circumstance would be met if President Clinton were indicted for any of his misbehaviors.
Why Give Public Education More Funding if it is Doing it the Wrong Way? It is not that I don't like the Metric System, it's that I don't like the people who tell me I have to use it in my own country. They tend to be the ones responsible for the other policies I complain about.
My Comments on What the Seattle Times Called "Ridiculous Ideas". Perhaps these ideas are not so ridiculous.
Concerning Mark Sidran for Mayor. This letter was published by the Seattle Post Intelligencer and may have made the difference in keeping him out of the Mayor's office. I simply reminded folks about how he treated Oscar McCoy and his nightclub.
Some Spending Cut Suggestions.
Trident, Dream or Reality. People whose energy we can use to get our government to stop violating our rights spend all their time protesting our nuclear deterrent. It is expensive, I admit. But nuclear wars do not happen because everyone believes we will burn them if they burn us. The Daisy Cutter bombs we used in Afghanistan are not nuclear, but they must have been impressive. Perhaps the reason we cannot find Osama bin Laden is that there isn't much left of him to find. Just a voice on a tape recording, which only proves that he was alive when he made the tape. But shucks! We can go kill him! We should no more tolerate his continued breathing than we would of any person who burns American soil and American people with plutonium fire.
Eastern District Grand Jury Has Some Work to Do in the Wenatchee Cases. This letter was published (at least part of it) by the Seattle Post Intelligencer.
I had a few laughs with the WTO Protests in Seattle.
But before the WTO meeting, I made a serious suggestion that what we need is a Planetary Minimum Wage. This letter was not published.
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