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.
September 14, 2022
John G. Roberts, Jr., Chief Justice
Supreme Court of the United States
1 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20543RE: LOSS OF LEGITIMACY
You have stated your concern about loss of faith in legitimacy of the Supreme Court. Your concern is justified. A recent Quinnipiac poll found 62% of respondents believe Supreme Court Justices are now motivated more by politics than law.
Supreme Court legitimacy is based on the belief decisions will be based on a rational apolitical interpretation of The Constitution of the United States of America. Distrust is a logical outcome given the way Supreme Court Justices are chosen. Legitimacy will always be questioned as long as the court is staffed by identifiably Republican and Democratic judges.
Judges have no control over the selection process but there is an even more divisive issue.
For a long time there has been at least one Catholic Supreme Court Judge which makes sense given about twenty percent of all Americans identify as Catholic. What is unprecedented is a Supreme Court dominated by six Federalist Society vetted Catholic judges. Appearance of religious domination is compounded by the widely held belief that the Federalist Society is closely associated with Opus Dei.
This nation was settled by pilgrims seeking economic and religious freedom. Adoption of the protestant work ethic enabled individual achievement and created prosperity. Freedom to worship as one wanted was written into The Bill of Rights in response to Anglican discrimination against Christians who worshipped in ways slightly different than themselves.
The freedom of individuals, regardless of race, religion and sex to pursue their dreams has been very good for Americans, America and the world. For example it was an immigrant married couple that invented a Covid-19 vaccine that works and the camera sending us pictures from the Webb telescope was designed and built by a husband and wife team at The University of Arizona.
Pope Francis is trying to steer Catholic church leaders towards nurturance of family and charity and away from identification with divisive religious and political dogma. He has forbidden Opus Dei priests from promotion to the rank of Bishop, downgraded the Sovereign Military Order of Malta and replaced "Latin Mass Cardinals" with "Progressives". This makes sense as he personally witnessed the horror of politically inspired atrocities in Argentina.
There is often disconnect between what a speaker said and listeners heard.
According to Judge Alito reversal of Roe vs. Wade is consistent with The Constitution of the United States. What seven of ten Americans heard was six Republican Opus Dei Catholic Judges have decided to impose their personal political and religious beliefs on all Americans and soon police will be arresting women who find it impossible to carry a fetus to birth.
Please encourage Supreme Judges, and those whom they influence, to refrain from promotion of religious and politically based decisions that enflame emotion. We live in a nation of well-armed easily led angry men who came very close to ending the peaceful transition of power on January 6, 2021.
The problem is the appearance that openly political and religious judges, and at least in one case a Judges' wife, are trying to impose adherence to their personal religious and political beliefs on a citizenry that believes in separation of church and state. This may end very badly.
Sincerely,
John L. Bradley, PhD
12572 West Coronado Road
Avondale, Arizona 85392cc: SCOTUS Judges