Sunday, August 9, 2009

Re: Further on Violation of our Right to Privacy, Missoula, MT

Dear Missoula Mayor and Missoula City Council,

Under the Montana Constitution, your electorate, have a Right to Know, that their elected and employed representatives are living up to their Oaths of Office.
Consequently, below are some additional questions for you ...
By-the-Way, Please don't accept any other person's interpretation of the Montana Constitution (it is your Oath after all)...
What exactly to each of you, does your Oath to support, protect and defend the Constitution of Montana mean to you?
In each of your deliberations and actions as an elected or employed representative of Missoula, do you perform an extra-ordinary duty of care, i.e. actively championing and guarding our Constitution and keeping it safe from attack or harm?
In regards to the aforementioned business license background checks in the City of Missoula, What Compelling State Interest have you shown to negate these people's Constitutional Right to Privacy (Article ll - Section 10)?
What probable cause (in each case) did you have to search these people's backgrounds (Due Process of Law & Article ll - Section 11. Searches and seizures)?
Who was involved in creating, instituting and carrying out these ongoing background checks? Who had access to this information.
Who were the people, who had to endure these infringements?
These are just a few of the questions. I have for now. Please answer them forthrightly ...

"The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed."
"I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray himself."
"You are right. He did not. But, millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good." from The Magus, John Fowles

As always, Think about it and I'd like to encourage your comments about this important topic. Please feel free to ask your City Councilor or Your City Attorney or Your City Employee (this could also apply to County or State) ...

thanks,
Rick Gold
Missoula, MT