PARADE

Note: This is my 225th letter to Congressman Dana Rohrabacher since January 2017, all sent to his office in Huntington Beach via the US mail, all hand-signed, all hand-addressed. Each one has been individually conceived and written--no copy/pasting, except for the occasional quotation from another source. To date, I have received, via email, only four or five boilerplate position papers in response. There has been not one single personal response to a constituent, even though a critic, who is concerned enough to write that many letters. You would think that even as a matter of good manners... But then, no. I write them not in the expectation of a thoughtful response, however; I write them for this blog.

February 8, 2018

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher,

101 Main Street #380

Huntington Beach, CA 92648

Dear Congressman,

Re: Parade

I write this morning to ask your opinion of Trump’s planned military parade, with tanks and ICBM’s roaring past the White House—and presumably with Trump saluting on the parade stand, a bit like, dare I say it?, St*l*n on Red Square or *d*lph H*tl*r at Nuremberg. Or Little K*m in Pyongyang.

I find the idea to be an abomination. A raw demonstration of bullying power, it is alien to everything America has stood for, and should stand for, in the world.

Marc Short, the White House director of legislative affairs, told MSNBC’s Hallie Jackson: “ This is not about a dictatorship, this is about the president wanting to honor the military.” To which I say, Nonsense (or a word to that effect). This is about the president wanting the military to honor HIM.

Enough with the aggrandizement of this man’s pathetic ego. Don’t you agree?

Respectfully,

Peter Clothier, Ph.D.