THE POWER OF PUBLIC LETTERS AND THE FIRST AMENDMENT

Prior to 1776, American revolutionaries like Samuel Adams worked hard to instigate public anger and prepare the people for war. Adams sent public officials excoriating letters exposing their malfeasance; then he published the letters in the local newspaper, a technique he used on Massachusetts Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas Hutchinson. Thus; the otherwise out of public view machinations of a loyalist judge were exposed to public view, with astonishing and powerful effect1. After the revolution was done, the framers gathered to enshrine, and legalize, the process of public exposure, and the power of speech and the press, thus establishing The First Amendment as a mechanism by which the people could wage a continual revolution against the corruption of the establishment. Even the most powerful government officials, wielding the immense power of the state, could be held accountable in the Court of Public Opinion. Today, however, the traditional media, now owned by oligarchs motivated by profit, protect the interests of the corporate establishment. The internet has changed this. Outside constraints now imposed on us, We the People can expose official malfeasance, hold otherwise faceless officials up to public ridicule and organize what will be the Third American Revolution. We the People can renew the spirit of the American Revolution, re-employ the power of the First Amendment and confront, face to face, the corrupt powers of the establishment. In the coming weeks I will publish a series of Public Letters regarding clear violations of law by judges now sitting on the Arizona District Court. Take time and read these letters.
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Governor Hutchinson, whose sons imported the tea the Patriots threw into Boston harbor, was literally driven out of the Colonies.

Share them with your friends. Then, if you support the sentiments expressed therein, print the letter, write your own endorsing comment in the margins (or use a post it) and mail it to the judge at his court address. Many of you who read this have already expressed your anger in blogs. Some have threatened to employ rifles with sniper scopes, to put 1,000 armed Minutemen on the steps of the courthouse, to confront the establishment with violence, head on. Heres a better way to destroy the corrupt powers that be. For the cost of an envelope and stamp YOU can confront, and embarrass, those faceless officials who now, out of public view, corrupt the rule of law, bend it, twist it and violate the public trust. Dont be afraid of government; make government afraid of you! Use the power of public exposure and rebuke. Remember; the First Amendment belongs to you.

Roy Warden publisher Arizona Common Sense roywarden@hotmail.com