A reasonable person would want to give Mo Brooks the benefit of the doubt. I called his Huntsville office on Tuesday, January 18, to verify that the old Parker Griffith office was now the Mo Brooks office, and was assured that it was. Parker Griffith sought and received an endorsement from an Arizona domestic terrorist outfit, then was tossed out during the GOP primary for being insufficently conservative. The "benefit of the doubt" is this: Maybe Mo Brooks, keeping his pledge to be a hawk on spending, moved to a cheaper office. My letter to him was returned ADDRESSEE UNKNOWN; UNABLE TO FORWARD.
Benefit of the doubt denied. I have sent Mo Brooks correspondence in the past, when he was a Madison County Commissioner. He never answered. Furthermore, the following letter was mailed the same day that I called his office. I'm the most strident liberal troublemaker in Limestone County, and my congressman refuses to listen to my complaint.
In a representative republic, many of us live in places where we disagree sharply with the politicians who "represent" us. The following complaints, however, are beyond partisan bickering. If Mo Brooks slides by without criticism for how he climbed to power, this will draw God's wrath down upon America.
Ryan Amptmeyer
[street address]
Elkmont AL 35620
January 18 2011
Honorable Mo Brooks
Huntsville
Dear Congressman Brooks,
As you know, Hugh McInnish boosted your campaign with a Quixotic, premature attempt to remove your predecessor's name from the primary ballot. While you passively benefitted from this, you may have been blissfully unaware of McInnish's views on race relations. It would be irrational of me to ask for an apology, but may I suggest that you use your influence to coax you local political allies into behaving more respectably.
McInnish is a fervent defender of Nazi war criminals, internet pen-pals with foreign leadership of thge Holocaust denial movement, and his rants on VDARE are saturated with Caucasian self-pity.
http://www.fpp.co.uk/...
I moved to this district in the autumn of '03. I expected none of this, but just wanted to live a quiet life and study the Bible. Some of the ultraconservatives who demean and persecute nonwhites are men who I sat next to in the church choir. Until north Alabama conservatives delineate their ideological limits, I feel unclean living here.
A 1952 book by Robert Welch, founder of the John Birch Society, asserts on page 7 that the European theatre of the Allied war effort during World War II was a puppet show choreographed by Joe Stalin.
I have close relatives who suffered as civilians in German-occupied Europe. I would be ashamed to live under a government that believes that we fought World War II on the wrong side. While you, personally, are not guilty of this opprobrium, the "true conservatives" who preopelled you to office are. Please use your prestige to straighten out some attitudes among them.
Sincerely,
Ryan Amptmeyer
UPDATES:
- The GOP Executive Committees of Madison and Limestone Counties took the unusual step of endorsing Mo Brooks during the 2010 primary. From the January 23 Athens News-Courier:
Jim Burden, chairman of the Limestone County Republican Party, said the fuss made over Bentley's comments [about non-Christians] is just another example of the "liberal media" finding fault with Christianity.
- There is nothing wrong with a Mormon holding political office. Mo Brooks, however, quit the Latter Day Saints Church shortly before running for Congress. He has no god but mammon.
- Mo Brooks has been sounding the alarm about the national debt since the day he was sworn in, yet the population of the USA grew only 10% since 2000. This seems incongruous for a man who built his career on xenophobia, immigrant-bashing, and general podsnappery. Is it wise for an elected official to rant about the public debt while he is personally responsible for seeing to it that such debt falls on fewer shoulders?