Army Veteran Arrested Trying to Petition Rep. Thelma Drake

SAVE AS FAVORITE

VIEW FAVORITES

By Mac McKinney (about the author) Page 3 of 3 page(s)

opednews.com Permalink

This is a serious matter, and is a further example of the arrogance of the authoritarian network that has captured the Republican Party. When the voters sent a clear message to the White House to de-escalate the Iraq debacle last November, Bush's reply was to escalate the war. When Virginians now try to petition a Republican representative regarding the same issue, her tax-payer financed staff's reply is to lock the door and engineer or allow the arrest of a messenger of the citizenry. How much longer before they decide to shoot the messenger? I don't care if the messenger is from the Minutemen, the Flat Earth Society or anyone else. This is blatantly wrong!

Thelma Drake has in effect thrown down the gauntlet, or should I say prison-keys, to us all. If we the People want to protect our rights and freedoms, we had better accept her challenge before this becomes contagious among our representatives. Tom Palumbo has stuck his neck out for everyone's rights, and he needs our support. If you want to personally contact him, you can email him at DissentingSoldier@Yahoo.Com .

This is the contact info for Thelma Drake, if you need to express yourself to her:

Washington, D.C., Office:
1208 Longworth HOB
Washington, DC 20515

Phone: (202) 225-4215
Fax: (202) 225-4218

Hampton Roads Office:

4772 Euclid Rd., Suite E
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23462
Phone: (757) 497-6859
Fax: (757) 497-5474

Her website is http://drake.house.gov/ , where you can access her email system.

If you feel outraged about this, please consider contacting your own Representative or Senator as well and asking him or her to demand that Thelma Drake be investigated for this affront to the First Amendment. If this turns out to be a deliberate pattern, she should be censored. Please also consider writing a letter to your local newspaper.

We do not know if Drake was actually in the office when these events took place. We would like to know. But whether she was there or not, she bears the responsibility for her staff's conduct. We should demand from Congress, in no uncertain terms, that the First Amendment be honored and protected. If it takes a law to clarify this, so be it.

The First Amendment is our first line of defense against tyranny. It is active citizenship and a willingness to speak out that will keep this country free. Please do your part.

1 | 2 | 3

Take action -- click here to contact your local newspaper or congress people:
Protect the Right to Petition Our Representatives in Congress

Click here to see the most recent messages sent to congressional reps and local newspapers

http://plutonianmac.blogspot.com/

Student of history, religion, exoteric and esoteric, the Humanities in general and advocate for peace, justice and the unity of humankind, not through force, but through self-realization and mutual respect. I have also just come out with my first (more...)

The views expressed in this article are the sole responsibility of the author
and do not necessarily reflect those of this website or its editors.

Contact Author

Contact Editor

View Authors' Articles

Book Recommendations for "Bush Iraq Surge Civil"

Bush's 7th Year - Civil War in Iraq: "Stay the Course 'Surge' Dirge"
by Robert Morman

$19.98
Lowest New Price $15.39
Number of pages: 316
Publisher: AuthorHouse