While I appreciate the confidence with which Ms. Hester demonstrated decisively why it’s never wise to use Wikipedia alone, I find her description of the celebration of the Constitution as “outdated,” highly concerning. 

Despite the constant framing of Constitution Week as a gathering of white supremacist, misogynistic, racist, pro-life supporters of Trump, the reality could not be more different.

Constitution Week, in the three years I’ve been a direct participant, has been educational about how the Constitution protects people’s rights, how it can be changed and why it remains the most important and effective document of its type, ever. As the first of its type created to protect the people from the perpetual drift of all governments towards tyranny.

The Constitution was full of compromises between the state delegations and the enumerated powers to ensure the branches remained separate. 

Opinions vary, but it was a document with a mechanism for changing it, as you may remember from the 11th-27th Amendments.

As for Ron Paul’s record, I believe there has never been a Congressional representative who was as adamantly devoted to peace, sound money and liberty for all.

During Clinton’s impeachment, he spoke not about the salacious scandal, but the president’s foreign policy and how the he authorized the bombing of Sudan and Afghanistan without Congressional approval. He was also was a no vote for Operation Iraqi Freedom. A position Joe Biden and others did not support.

When it comes to a representative who stood on his job description 100% of the time, I believe Ron Paul stands alone.

Seth Stern
Granby resident