HEALTH CARE "WINGNUT" WRITES NEWSPAPER EDITOR AND CONGRESSMAN ADAM SCHIFF

Pasadena Sub Rosa ^ | August 21, 2009 | Jerome J. Jahn

[WayneLusvardi]

To: Larry Wilson, Public Editor, Pasadena Star News http://www.insidesocal.com/publiceye/2009/08/the_friday_column_truths_for_t.html#comments

"Mr. Wilson, I don't understand you liberals; you claim you are for total freedom of speech, yet when anyone disagrees with you, we are immediately called "wingnuts" un-American, mobs, Nazis, Astroturf and worse. My reply to you, Sir is the same as I wrote to Congressman Schiff. My letter follows:

August 19, 2009 Congressman Adam Schiff 29th Congressional District 87 N. Raymond Avenue, Suite 800 Pasadena, CA 91103

Dear Congressman Schiff,

My wife and I and several friends attended your “Town Hall” meeting last week. We have never before attended any type of political function; we have never before expressed our political feeling publicly. While admittedly we have not attended a Town Hall meeting before, this was anything but what I understand a town hall meeting to be. You provided a liberal biased panel to preach to us, and to use the time that we had expected to have a dialogue with you our elected representative. Only one question was taken from the questions we had submitted in writing, and no microphone was provided to your constituents wishing to ask questions. This was clearly not intended to be a dialogue with your constituents. Hundreds of Acorn and union protesters were bused in to offset and prevent your actual constituents from voicing their opinions. It was an appalling performance.

Frankly we decided to attend this event, for several reasons: 1) Because we are frightened and shocked over HR 3200 (yes I have downloaded the bill from the internet site, and have read large portions of it). As a lawyer I find it totally incomprehensible. Whoever wrote it should be embarrassed and ashamed. I did understand enough to know that what congress and the administration are telling us about it is in many respects not true and that I want no part of it. 2) Because we are frightened and shocked over what this administration and this congress has done to our country: in less than 8 months you have run up the largest deficit in the history of the nation; nationalized the auto and banking industries, and now want to force nationalized health care upon us. Perhaps what awoke me from my lifetime of political silence, was the statement of my 13 year old grandson, when watching the news and hearing about the trillions of dollars of spending and deficits, turned to me and said “Grandpa, I will never be able to live as well as you have lived, my sister and I and our children and their children will still be paying for all that our government is spending now, so we will never be able to have the life you have had.” I then realized that if I don’t start speaking out, I and all the silent majority like me will be equally guilty of destroying our children’s future and the nation they will inherit.

We and many of our friends and acquaintances have started for the first time to make our feelings known, and what has happened is that our elected representatives have called us “un-American; Nazis; mobs; rabble rousers; Astroturf” and worse. These insults hurled at us because for the first time we are exercising our constitutional right to speak up has only further served to anger and frustrate us. We are not “un-American” and we are not "Astroturf". We are the hard working tax paying citizens who have paid your salary and who have been ignored for too long. Our anger and our frustration runs deep.

Now I understand from the news commentary today, that this Congress, since it is such an unbalanced majority and therefore can pass whatever it wants, plans to pass this health care legislation in spite of the opposition of the American people. I can assure you Sir, that this “un-American, rabble rousing mob of Astroturf” that this congress has called its constituency will not remain silent. We will speak loud and clear when we again vote in November of next year. The fate of our grandchildren and their entire generation depends on it and we will not continue to fail them.

Very truly yours, Jerome J. Jahn Pasadena, California"

[Welcome2thejungle]

It is hard to believe but Pasadena used to be rock rib Reagan/Goldwater country. California has gone to hell!

[DJ MacWoW]

I loved the letter but find it hard to believe that the 13 yr old said all that. They may be different than when I was a kid but, maybe not.

[the long march]

“Adam Schiff is a fictional character on the TV drama series Law & Order. He was played by Steven Hill from 1990 to 2000. Hill was the one of the main characters of the series and appeared in every episode of the first ten seasons, with the exception of the pilot.”http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Schiff_(Law_&_Order)

Oh you didn’t mean him?

[GloriaJane]

Awesome letter!