Dear Mr. President:

I want to report myself to you before my neighbor does for what may very well be pure political speech on my part that is deemed ‘fishy’ or otherwise inimical to the White House’s political interests.

I am guilty under the first amendment of the United States Constitution for expressing my freedom of speech.

You may not know it, but you have sent me two e-mails and your chief of staff has sent me one dealing with health care.  I am listening to you – but you apparently do not want to listen to me.  You would rather call me one of the ‘Mob.’

No, I don’t come from Chicago, I come from New Jersey — perhaps that may be worse; but at least I have learned enough to know where I don’t want to be from.

Unlike you, I have never appeared as a ‘community organizer’ before a public forum and protested anything.  Unlike you, I have never appeared before any public forum as a citizen and protested anything.

However, I do, under my constitutional right, practice the right of my free speech as a journalist/citizen under a column that is clearly identified as being commentary, opinion and satire.

Yes, I am a blog today and you send me e-mails.  I do want to hear from you and obviously you want to talk to me.  Or, is your talk only a one way street?

I would prefer dialog.  Perhaps I could be convinced of some of your policies and perhaps you could be convinced of some of my opinions.

But, when you ask my neighbor to report me for expressing my opinion, you have stepped over the line to Chavez tactics that we see today in Venezuela and what we have seen in Communist countries around the world.

Yet, you seem to be open to dialog with President Ahmadinejad of Iran. But, how about we the people?

When I am ‘welcomed home’ by a customs agent after returning from a foreign country I know what it means and I am grateful for having had the privilege of being born in the United States.

But I don’t like what I see when someone called a  White House director of new media, a Macon Phillips , wrote an Orewellian blog urging readers to flag questionable claims about health care proposals.

If you haven’t read it, like most of you guys we put in elected office don’t, this is what it says: “There is a lot of disinformation about health insurance reform (was this a change you recently made from ‘health care reform?) out there, spanning from control of personal finances to end of life care.  These rumors often travel just below the surface via chain emails or through casual conversation.  Since we can’t keep track of all of them here at the White House, we’re asking for your help.  If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.”

And when you get this ‘fishy’ report from our neighbors, what are you going to do about it under the first amendment?  Now, if this doesn’t sound like Orewellian’s “Big Brother” of 1984, what does it sound like to you?

Mr. President, your disinformation program started with you when you took your ‘signature’ legislation of your administration, ‘health care reform’, now known as ‘health insurance reform’,and sent it to the congress for a bill to be prepared.  With all the Czars you have in your administration, some 44 at last count, why couldn’t you prepare the bill and let we the people know what you are talking about rather than allow multiple versions be prepared by your Democratic cronies, which is the source of what you might call disinformation and I might call information.  It seems to me that you politically punted the ball.

Whatever it is, or was,  it sure lacks transparency.  Oh, I’m sorry that’s your word, not mine . . . nor is change, or Washington not being what it once was.

A recent poll showed the American people — or what your administration might call the ‘Mob’ — opposed any health care reform that would increase the deficit by a margin of 57 to 37.

Well, I did my duty, I reported myself before anyone else could, about anything I said, past or present, that might at all be ‘fishy.’  Oh, my last column on health care, in case you haven’t seen it, was “If It Ain’t Broke Don’t Fix It.”