Didn’t fight for this

We veterans served to uphold and protect the Constitution, the checks and balances that cement and protect it, believing in life, liberty and freedom for all. We served with our brothers and sisters of every culture and belief as equals and had each other’s backs.

When an elected official discharges anyone who disagrees with him, advises him, educates him and only hires people who agree with him, and those people go out and fire those who disagree with them, hire only people who agree with them, we lose the critical balance and self-examination that’s a hallmark of democracy.

We suffer under the very tyranny we veterans defended against. When our Constitution is disrespected, disregarded, trampled on, and our system of checks and balances disassembled, we become the very entity we fought against.

A man who praises dictators prior to running for office has already basically announced what he intends, no? Acts against the Constitution are a threat to the very fabric of our nation and democracy itself. I want to know what our representatives intend to do to protect and uphold the constitution and the checks and balances meant to safeguard a nation of laws, not men.

Tom Keenan

Coeur d’Alene