Nickolai gave me...
Nickolai gave me a call on Wednesday morning concerning my letter to my congressman. It wasn’t a call I was expecting but happy to have gotten it and in a timely fashion. Patrick had said on Monday that he would follow up with the Washington DC office of the congressman and evidently he must have done so.
I could sense...
I could sense he wasn’t interested in what I had to say and I was quite sure that he hadn’t even read the letter before calling me because he started the call by introducing himself and then jump right into “I’m calling about your complaint”.
I guess my asking for some clarifications about things is a complaint.
“Could you refresh my memory Nickolai, I don’t remember sending any complaint to the congressman?” , I replied. He told me that he was following up on my letter in which I complained about not getting a copy of the congressman’s signed oath.
“Oh… do you mean the letter I dropped off a couple weeks ago to Patrick?”, I responded. “Yes, that letter” he came back with.
“Have you read that letter, son?” I asked. “Do you happen to have it handy?” without giving him time to answer the first question. I find myself getting a little impatient the older I get. I just start firing off questions with little time in between them.
He told me...
He told me he didn’t have it front of him so I told him, “Okay, I’ll wait.” I guess they just had scanned my letter and emailed it from Houston to DC. because he said it would take him a minute or two to “pull it up”. Not a problem, “take all the time you need”, I said. It didn’t take him but maybe 40 seconds and he let me know he had it.
“Now please direct me to the complaint?” I asked. There was a pretty long silence before Nickolai said “you were complaining about the oath of office the congress takes.”
“Son, the intent of the letter was to get some questions answered that I just can’t figure out on my own, so if asking legitimate questions is a form of complaining I guess I didn’t realize I had become a “Karen Papper.”, I told him.
I couldn’t see through the phone, but I have to believe he had cracked a smile because he made an audible little chuckling sound.
From that point...
From that point on he seemed more relaxed and we went through the letter paragraph by paragraph. I let him know that I really like Dan and I believe he is the position he’s in because of the love he has for the country and his fellow Americans.
“Nickolai, I’m just an old man who believes in the Constitution and I believe Dan does too. You can see as well I as can that the oath they gave Dan, and all those other congressmen and women, isn’t the oath that satisfies the sixth article of the Constitution. I felt it was my duty too Dan to inform him and let him get some answers for both him and me, I have to believe once he knows this ,he will have questions for Nancy Pelosi too.”, I said.
I went on...
I went on to tell him about the Justice Marshall Harlan quote and that his assessment of the situation dated back all the way to at least 1901.
”Now do you see my concern? If we have a congress that is operating outside of the Constitution since way back then that means my entire life, and yours, has all taken place under false pretenses and that is downright scary.”, I said.
I let him know that there may be a logical explanation and something I might be missing but I am counting on Dan and him to get me some answers to my questions. Nickolai said he would get back to me again on this in the “near future” as he gets some answers.
I guess we will see if Nickolai lives up to his word.
Until next time,
Sult
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