Stephen Neitzke

Mr. Neitzke [send him email] is the founder of the Direct Democracy League.  He is the author of "The State of the Republic, 1776-2004" as well as a number of other works, which can be found at http://www.ddleague-usa.net/ and http://ddrevival.blogspot.com/

Sixty-something techie city dweller, prone to wilderness.  Raised up in a rural-town Iowa newspaper publishing family.  Boyhood years included Sarasota, FL, early 1950s.  Bad reactions to the "separate but equal" nonsense and to white supremacy.  Flytying and flyfishing since early 1970s required extensive Sierra Mountains and northern California backpacking, as well as much long-range Klepper kayaking in Alaska.  Handloader and shooter.  USAF journeyman photog, 1959-63 (by-passed specialist), in SAC.  EWO, CBR warfare technician.  Heavily schooled in the handling of illegal orders.  Dual majors, philosophy and history, Univ Calif Santa Barbara, late 1960s and early 1970s.  Personal emphasis in the philosophy of law from then to now.  Former Claims Rep, 1st level appeals officer, SSI specialist, and Field Rep, Social Security Admin (Calif and Alaska), 1970s -- with considerable experience in administering both the letter and spirit of the law.  Former ham radio operator.  Computer literate since late 1980s. 

Sizeable chunk of identity inserted from ancestors.  2nd generation American out of northern Germany on father's side.  10th generation American out of England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland,  southwestern Germany, France, and Switzerland on mother's side.  First American immigrant ancestor was 8-g grandfather Edward Spaulding, arrived Jamestown, May 1619, as an indentured servant.  After losing two young families, he gave up on Jamestown, 1636, and moved his third young family overland to Concord, Mass Bay Colony, where his children married into families of other early immigrant ancestors.  Next arrival was 8-g grandfather Simon Willard, at Charlestown, Mass Bay Colony, 1634.  A BMOC in colony govt and a fur-trader with local indians, he was one of the two formal co-founders of Concord, winter 1635-1636.  His establishment of town meetings in that first bad Concord winter was some of the earliest direct democracy in New England.  His 3rd wife, my 8-g grandmother, Mary Dunster, was a niece of Henry Dunster, first president of Harvard.  Many 5-g grandfathers were patriot fighters in the War of Independence.  Their betrayal by the predator elitist authors of the Constitution is a burning issue.