Sometimes people have a representative but its in name only. Perhaps this blog can get the attention of Rep. Connolly. There is nothing like a little embarrassment to bring everyone front and center.
Colonel Morris Davis, better known to all of us at Moonhowlings as Moe Davis, once again attempts to get hold of his Congressman for some assistance with his on-going problem–that problem being he was denied his first amendment rights by his government. You don’t have to agree with Moe, but damn he does have a right to his opinion.
Here is his correspondence, again, to his congressman, Gerry Connolly, who is pretending Moe does not exist.
Dear Rep. Connolly,I have tried several times over the past two years to contact you by email and regular mail to request your assistance. To date, I have not received so much as a form letter reply. [Although I did get an out-of-office email response once in Dec. 2009 from Mr. Fields.] Copied below is an article published earlier today on CBSNews.com that explains why I have tried to contact you repeatedly the past two years. As one of your constituents, I again ask for your assistance.Best regards,—
Morris D. “Moe” Davis
No free speech at Mr. Jefferson’s library
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- Peter Van Buren
Here’s the First Amendment, in full: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Those beautiful words, almost haiku-like, are the sparse poetry of the American democratic experiment. The Founders purposely wrote the First Amendment to read broadly, and not like a snippet of tax code, in order to emphasize that it should encompass everything from shouted religious rantings to eloquent political criticism. Go ahead, reread it aloud at this moment when the government seems to be carving out an exception to it large enough to drive a tank through.
