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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThank you all for your support and warm wishes as I testified today.
This is in relation to the impeachment inquiry. As most of you know I was put on the no fly list and had the validity of my naturalization challenged in the summer of 18 as my wife and I were ready to work in a refugee camp in Greece.
If there is an abuse or power article this could become part of the record of how the orange asshole is messing over every day citizens.
The hearing went well. I was a bit nervous and awed by being there. They had all my records. All the green cards I had, the score of my naturalization test and also the dates of the 29 times I have gone in and out of the country during my life. They also had the documentation when I was charged with inciting a riot when George Bush came to Tacoma as VP campaigning to be President. The charges were dropped but the repubs still brought it up.
I got into trouble twice. Once when the republican staff counsel asked me about being on the no fly list. I was once before also right before the 2008 repuke convention. They were insinuating that I should have seen it coming. I answered that in 2018 I didn't expect we would have a rethuglican dictator along with a sycophantic majority republican house and senate behind him. It was stricken from the record.
What I did get in was another response, but I was admonished for it. The repub staff counsel insinuated that I cheated on the citizenship test. So I just looked at him and said "I challenge you to go toe to toe with me on civic questions and I bet I would mop the floor with you"
Other than that, It was calm and I got my story out. I was in for 26 minutes. I am relieved that I am done and very grateful for all of your kindness and support.
In Gratitude Mike C
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,414 posts)Congrats!
dhill926
(16,355 posts)well done.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)If all the others had such balls...
trueblue2007
(17,238 posts)Aweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeesome !!!
You think fast on your feet. get into politics and run for office.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Did you mean to reply to me?
Cause I sure don;t think fast on my feet..
Ah HA You meant to reply to the OP...
trueblue2007
(17,238 posts)Glimmer of Hope
(5,823 posts)UpInArms
(51,284 posts)You did well, gopiscrap
You definitely earned your stripes ... we are lucky to have you amongst us
SCantiGOP
(13,873 posts)Thanks for carrying the flag for us.
blm
(113,091 posts)alwaysinasnit
(5,072 posts)NBachers
(17,136 posts)flunked the naturalization test you passed.
Thank you for making us part of your story.
lastlib
(23,286 posts)Glad you survived your ordeal--I can only imagine what you went thru! --- ---
Dem2theMax
(9,653 posts)and how I wish we all could have been there in person to see you do it! Congratulations. Sounds like you did a fine job.
Aristus
(66,462 posts)There's not one of those repukes who could pass a high school civics test. Armchair patriots who think saluting the flag and weeping crocodile tears during the anthem is all that is required of a patriotic citizen.
tblue37
(65,487 posts)Thanks.
catbyte
(34,447 posts)Beringia
(4,316 posts)world wide wally
(21,754 posts)erronis
(15,328 posts)Generic Other
(28,979 posts)I am outraged to hear you were forced to go through this.
I bet you ran for public office in our town before the Grand Inquisitors who questioned you were even born.
So very sorry they did this to you. I am so angry tonight.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)FuzzyRabbit
(1,969 posts)You survived the latest incarnation of McCarthyism, and with flying colors.
gristy
(10,667 posts)Good job! And kudos on the awesome snark!
DFW
(54,436 posts)Typical Republicans: making sure you learned your lessons by knowing all your rights as an American citizen, and then trying to take you down for exercising them!
Mme. Defarge
(8,042 posts)Karadeniz
(22,572 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,494 posts)KY............
blaze
(6,373 posts)"I challenge you to go toe to toe with me on civic questions and I bet I would mop the floor with you"
Gothmog
(145,554 posts)spanone
(135,873 posts)panader0
(25,816 posts)MaryMagdaline
(6,856 posts)So glad you became a US citizen and are fighting for others
pecosbob
(7,543 posts)Hortensis
(58,785 posts)explain the location and the kind of people there? Congressmen, staffers, etc?
In any case, good for you! And us.
NNadir
(33,544 posts)crickets
(25,983 posts)mountain grammy
(26,648 posts)Thank you for being an American.
Wawannabe
(5,678 posts)Wonderful!
Glad you made it through the ordeal.
Would love to buy you a pint or cuppa joe if you would let me. Tacoma is a ways away for me (Im near Kirkland) but it would be an honor to meet you.
Let me know (DU mail me) because I have time this coming week and I am serious about my offer. You ROCK!
Thank you so much for your activism and caring for others.
gopiscrap
(23,765 posts)I am up there sometimes
Wawannabe
(5,678 posts)flying_wahini
(6,646 posts)I LOVED your response about the test.
Stuart G
(38,445 posts)AllaN01Bear
(18,384 posts)SleeplessinSoCal
(9,144 posts)...by Republicans. Whether you're a woman exercising her rights or someone like yourself who
had to go before a judge to get it straightened out. I testify today at the US House about being put on the no fly list and also about having the validity of my naturalization challenged.
In lieu of fighting climate change we fight each other. Every single hearing should have that pointed out. We could all be on the same team - Rectifying the problems we created for our existence on Earth.
Congrats for having the guts to go. Well done!
ailsagirl
(22,899 posts)wnylib
(21,606 posts)Republican fools who could not pass a high school civics test if their lives depended on it. We need more citizens like you. Thank you so much for being one.
brush
(53,843 posts)Hope I would be as brave.