July 16, 2025
To: AZ Congrressional Delegation & SCOTUS
From: John Bradley
RE: DEATH OF OUR DEMOCRACY
Heritage Foundation recruiters, who's stated goal was to "Interpret the scriptures and translate them into public policy" were on campus recruiting when my second-year law student nephew called in 1973. We laughed because our constitution dictates separation of church and state and only a few religiously zealous law students signed up. Project 2025 is becoming public policy.
When John Adams learned Founding Fathers created a Democratic Republic his response was "...there never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide" Abraham Lincoln said "...As a nation of free men we must live through all time ...or die by suicide." When I proposed to my future father-in-law in 1969 his only advice was "Beware of the man with too much, or too little religion".
Religious fanatics have allied with a perfectly amoral president, to replace our democratic republic with an illiberal democracy. Our convicted financial fraud felon president is also using the presidency to enrich himself, loyal royals and family.
Hitler, Mussolini and most dictators led failed first attempts, used what they learned to launch successful second coups, became dictators for life then left enablers destitute or dead.
Pardoning insurrectionists gives the president an army of violent vigilantes loyal only to him. Masked deputized agents are terrorizing communities and courtrooms and disappearing handcuffed innocents in unmarked cars. Concentration camps are built. Wanton firing of competent civil servants is making it impossible for government to respond to crisis or enact the president's edicts.
Dictators dispose of no longer needed enablers.
Heritage Foundation vetted judges, who ruled it legal for royals to buy public office, and that the president is above the law, are enablers.
Cowardly congressmen and women who vote for policies that exasperate inflation, deprive millions of Americans of basic healthcare, starve poor people, defund public education in favour of religious education and defund protective services like FEMA, are enablers.
Masks can hide one's face, and legalise may protect an enabler from immediate retribution, but normal human beings having knowingly been cruel often live with nightmares the rest of their lives.
Leaders with too much and too little religion have united to throw away the most valuable inheritance any nation ever received. While not perfect ours is a nation so rich poor people get fat.
At 84 years of age, I will soon die having lived well. What world will our grandchildren inherit?
February 24, 2025
To: AZ Congrressional Delegation
From: John Bradley
RE: OVERCOMING FEAR
A decorated Vietnam veteran in-country last half of 65 I know what it's like to have people out to kill me who know how to do it. You have good reason to fear a convicted felon who is immune from the law and perfected retribution.
He has deployed a lackey to find everything about you, your family and all Americans: Mad genius with godlike delusions of saving humankind by colonizing Mars. We have no place to hide.
Mussolini used Blackshirt thugs, and Hitler used Brownshirt thugs to intimidate citizens and elected officials. More than one-thousand pardoned well-armed thugs now live among us. Thugs only loyal to the man who pardoned them, and will pardon them again, if they do anything they believe he wants them to do. We have reason to be afraid.
This is a Constitutional Crisis.
Congress has been made irrelevant. It's time for you to overcome fear and take back your role as a co-equal branch of government. To serve the people who sent you to Congress, and save the democratic republic that has served us so well.