Wednesday, December 20, 2006

Shame on Rep. Virgil Goode (R-VA)

This letter was recently sent to hundreds of constituents by the office of Republican Rep. Virgil Goode Jr. of Virginia:

Thank you for your recent communication. When I raise my hand to take the oath on Swearing In Day, I will have the Bible in my other hand. I do not subscribe to using the Koran in any way. The Muslim Representative from Minnesota was elected by the voters of that district and if American citizens don't wake up and adopt the Virgil Goode position on immigration there will likely be many more Muslims elected to office and demanding the use of the Koran. We need to stop illegal immigration totally and reduce legal immigration and end the diversity visas policy pushed hard by President Clinton and allowing many persons from the Middle East to come to this country. I fear that in the next century we will have many more Muslims in the United States if we do not adopt the strict immigration policies that I believe are necessary to preserve the values and beliefs traditional to the United States of America and to prevent our resources from being swamped.

The Ten Commandments and "In God We Trust" are on the wall in my office. A Muslim student came by the office and asked why I did not have anything on my wall about the Koran. My response was clear, "As long as I have the honor of representing the citizens of the 5th District of Virginia in the United States House of Representatives, The Koran is not going to be on the wall of my office." Thank you again for your email and thoughts.

And I'm going to include his address in case you are so inclined to get ahold of this idiot and give him a piece of your mind.

Virgil H. Goode, Jr.
70 E. Court St., Suite 215
Rocky Mount, Va. 24151

They asked my son, Lt Ken Ballard for his religion when he enlisted in the Army, so it could be embossed on his Army dogtags; dogtags that were given to me with his body when it was returned to me after he was killed in Bush's war in Iraq, and that I now where around my neck. They didn't care what religion he was when he enlisted in the military and they didn't care what religion he was when he was sent to war. And lastly, they didn't care what religion he was when I had to determine the verbiage on his headstone that sits in Arlington National Cemetery.

If the Un-honorable Virgil Cooke doesn't know his history, the United States was founded on the premise of religious freedom.

I am ashamed that he represents any district in this country.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

The idea that Jesus could bear this cruel intolerance in his name is clearly nonsense.

It is the only Book, the Book of the Heart, which Mr. Goode has not yet read.

Nemesis of Evil said...

Can we refer to him from now on as the Condescending Representative from Virginia?

Unknown said...

evil- don't you think that is much too kind? Someone should just put the people of VA out of their misery and fire his sorry a**!