Letter to the Editor - SD voters need new leadership in D.C.
Thank you, Mr. Kloucek and Mr. Van Bemmel on your Letters to the Editor a couple weeks ago. You prompted me to provide the below thoughts, which I wrote in early May and sent to the Republican National Convention at their request. I agree that some real changes are needed in Washington, D.C. and a good way to accomplish that is to send new South Dakota Conservative leadership to represent us and the country.
Republicans have been doing the two-step with the Socialist-Democrats for my past 50 years of voting; one step forward and two steps back. Republicans have not made sustained social or economic progress. Review the present plunge to socialism/communism in this country for your answer to why today’s Republicans cannot be depended on to find a solution to this “deep state government mess.”
I will begin at the beginning; I went to Sioux Falls, SD Veteran’s Administration Medical Center (VA) for service sin I am a combat veteran of the Vietnam era and I am to go there for medical services. I was informed by Sanford Medical that when I had the vaccinations that vaccinated individuals would no longer have to wear masks. VA was informed of my vaccinations but they informed me that I had to wear a mask as the vaccinations did not provide a good solution to the ‘China virus’. I have cancelled all my appointments for further medical services with VA Sioux Falls. I was informed a “mandate” by three clerks at the VA check-in desk. I asked to see a copy of the mandate, no one had one or had seen one. I asked the clerks to contact the Sioux Falls VA administrator’s office for a copy of the mandate; they had been informed by the administrator’s office to not contact that office for information on the mandate. I asked who had signed or issued the mandate. None of the clerks knew for sure but maybe the Communicable Disease Center (CDC). There was also a “door bully” at the clerk’s desk that informed that I would have to leave the VA building or he would have to call the Sioux Falls Police and have me removed.
I wrote two or three more times to the following: Senator John Thune, Representative Dusty Johnson and Governor Kristi Noem. I never got a reply from any one of them. I called the Governor’s office and left a message to return my call. I did receive a phone contact with Gov. Noem’s office. The receptionist could not get rid of me fast enough when she found out why I had called.
The Governor’s receptionist informed me, after a long discussion, that the Governor was not going to publicly speak on the mandate subject or take any action for South Dakota citizens or military veterans. The local newspapers did not publish a copy of the mandate for public information because they did not receive it. The population of communities nationwide have been turned against one another for masks, vaccinations, natural immunity and who, when and where to wear a mask or the need to be vaccinated for the ‘China Virus.’ All above based on a “rumor”? How many of the readers of this article have seen or a read a copy of President (Joe) Biden’s or Dr. (Anthony) Fauci or Dr. (Rochelle) Walensky of CDC, “Mandate?”
News readers of this newspaper are you and I – gullible fools as the idiot “deep state” bureaucratic have just proven us to be? It would appear that each of us will make prime candidates for the coming socialist state.”
The Republican Committee, as an agent for the Republican Party, among others, seriously wants me to support the above three Republicans in the next national election? I am to send election funds to them, and the Republican Party, for it to be wasted again as in the past 50 years, on candidates who mean well, but find they have become politically mentally incompetent. These politicians slowly, over multiple elections, just become one more part of the “deep state.” As the size of government grows, more and more bureaucrats are employed as “overseers” of departments with no Congressional restrain on their decisions.
Since World War II, the House, the Senate and the Executive branches have all gradually relinquished their authority and oversight, as described in the U.S. Constitution. My communication with each of the above listed SD legislators was and is: When did you write to the National VA Headquarters and object to the VA policy to refuse to admit or test, at the entrance to the VA facility, eligible veterans? Please publicly provide to the military veterans of SD the VA’s reply to your inquiry. Yes, ‘oh gullible fools of SD’, we are still waiting our reply from the SD “elected.”
Responsibility, integrity, honesty, character, reliability, effectiveness, efficiency have all been burned and blurred. Nothing and change in Washington, D.C. unless those elected conservatives are willing to give up and lose their political careers in the effort to bring sense and respect back to the U.S. Government and its Constitution. 400,000 military veterans died in WWII, 20,000 in Korea, 58,200 in Vietnam, 4,000 in the deserts of the Middle East. Each military veteran, deceased and living, bought you the Constitution that the political parties now squander as a piece of trash. Taxpayers shipped deceased military veterans back to the U.S.A. in an aluminum box. Washington, D.C. talks and brags about their “experts.” “Elected political bureaucrats,” have you forgotten where you sent those military veteran “experts” or years gone by? At the VA, I heard “not welcome, Veteran.” You must be diseased. The VA did not offer a test to see if a veteran had any communicable disease. Shen I was at the Sioux Falls VA, I heard, “If you do not leave this VA facility, I will call the police and have you removed.” Veterans and citizens of SD, think well of your vote in November. Those SD politicians presently serving will not get the job done of purging the “deep state.”
Republican Committee pass this memo on to all Republicans in the House and Senate. Pass this memo on to each and every candidate for elected office. If you fail to do this task, then there will be little or no change in Washington, D.C. affairs in the future. This will also inform me of how you stand on this “deep state” issue, really.
Perry Anderson
Brandon
