To WV Public Broadcasting

"Connecting Communities"

An admirable goal, but considering that WV Public Broadcasting consistently, persistently and insistently refuses to acknowledge that they EXCLUDE me (and more than a half-million of my neighbors, ordinary Americans all) from participation in the country of my birth, the hypocrisy and cognitive dissonance are overwhelming. 

I spend every weekend (given my work schedule, that amounts to 6-7 days out of every two weeks, or nearly half my time) in WV, much of it listening to WV Public Radio.  I am a native of Wisconsin, and, inspired largely by JFK's "Ask not what your country can do for you" line, have spent the last 35 years of my life serving the people of the fifty States.  In spite of my pretty well-established bona fides as a loyal American, and in spite of the ostensible principle of "Consent of the Governed" upon which our participatory form of government is founded, WV Public Radio refuses to acknowledge, recognize, or respect the principle that the roughly one-in-600 Americans who happen to live in DC, have the same fundamental and inalienable  rights to participate in our nation as the other 599 who live elsewhere, whether it be in the fifty states, or as expatriates abroad.

This stance is unprincipled, and hypocritical.  Shame on you!

Consent of the Governed.  Equality, Nothing More, but Equality, Nothing Less.  "Your" Constitution notwithstanding (DC denizens have had no input to "your" constitution since 1801, so it becomes less and less "our" constitution with every amendment into which we DC denizens have had no input), those principles, and those rights, are innate, inherent, intrinsic, ....inalienable.  What is lacking is YOUR respect for and recognition of that fact.  Again, shame on you for being such ill-informed and unprincipled citizens as to let this situation persist for this long.

Until DC denizens are allowed to participate equally (perhaps, at least similarly to the other expatriate Americans abroad), DC stands for "Decline Cooperation".

No Pledge for YOU!