Iowa Public Information Board Agency Counsel Alexander Lee:

I am uncertain regarding why events unfold in the manner in which they do.  All I know is that I trust in God, and I know everything is as God wills it.  Nothing I am about to communicate in this email is for the purpose of seeking sympathy, as it would be illogical to seek compassion from a collection of people in which many have spent the last several years attacking me with false allegations of criminal conduct, evidence of mental health based discrimination, and evidence supporting countless other unethical acts, including being levied a month ago regarding a tax balance that we all now know was incorrect that I had on a payment plan with the State of Iowa while I was trying to fix.

The only thing that I do know is that what separates me from many of the leaders within this state, as I would like to believe the leadership of Marshall County, IA, would back me up on, is the quality of my integrity.  When I speak based upon a false understanding of the reality in which I exist or if I possess a misunderstanding based upon facts or evidence I have not witnessed, I publicly communicate when I am in error.

I found what appears to be the Iowa Attorney General’s response you spoke of when I was closing out my work for today.  I am not going to augment on or articulate the state of my worsening health and how severely the evidence of the unethical conduct I have experienced has impacted me to a point it is difficult for me to function on a daily basis.  All I am going to communicate here is that as my health worsens as I continue to provide evidence of what I have experienced since retiring from the United States Navy within the State of Iowa if I incorrectly communicate based on a misunderstanding of facts or not witnessing something or not having knowledge of something that was in my possession, I will report publicly regarding my error because I believe that in this life the authenticity of honor and integrity within a flawed state of being will far outlast the illusions of perfection that many among us attempt to perpetuate.

Many of you know what you have done to the lives of my children and myself through your inaction and the evidence supporting the State of Iowa’s unethical conduct to cover it up.  I think the most paralyzing and brutally painful truth, as supported by the evidence, is that after serving this country for twenty years and giving everything I have to elevate my high school diploma to a place where I have kept pace with an entire state’s judicial and law enforcement infrastructure, many of you have shown me that my life was not important enough to acknowledge with a simple email.  Many of you worked to attack and discredit me with false allegations of abuse, sexual abuse, harassment, stalking, and other malicious false rhetoric to the point that I no longer have any friendships or long term social connections.  At the same time, when I began reporting this attorney related misconduct to the Iowa Judicial Branch they disregarded my complaints based on Court Rule changes that were issued over a decade ago.  The only people I have in my life right now is the Triumph Center in Marshalltown, IA, the Quick Star employees by the mall, Marshalltown PD Impact Team, and the kindness of elected and appointed leadership within Marshall County, IA who have been there for me and allowed me to sit and talk and feel like I am a part of this community.  I am eternally grateful for that.  I think the number would probably be close to maybe a dozen or so people that have reached out to me in a meaningful way.  I have never got a response from my State Senator or Representative.  I have rarely if ever got a response from local leadership (Newton, IA, Grinnell, IA, Jasper County, IA, Poweshiek County, IA, State of Iowa leadership).  At the same time, I have scanned through over 100,000 data points of evidence in the last few years while composing most likely close to 30,000,000 words or more since I started working to find my children as they were concealed across three states.  I have communicated with the Iowa Press for years providing solid evidence of the transparency problems within this state as it relates to domestic abuse and the State of Iowa’s failure to protect citizens from evidence of sexual abuse and trauma and the best this state’s press corps could accomplish is publishing a piece reporting my PTSD diagnosis, degrading my clothing “pajamas” and my appearance “wild hair” because I have felt so low and depressed that taking care of myself has not been a priority for a very long time because I stopped caring about myself a long time ago.

I will never quit.  I will never give up until I have reached the finish line because I know doing so will evolve the country that I have served my entire life to a higher state of philosophical conscience that will hopefully protect the next generation and the next round of retiring veterans from what my children lost and I have experienced.

Attack me, persecute me, criminalize me, discriminate against me, levy me, degrade me publicly across this entire state’s press during the weeks after I was discharged from VA inpatient mental health treatment from the wounds of serving and the fractures within those wounds from navigating the gauntlet some have created for me. None of it will matter.  I will stay the course until Chapter 23 is repealed and Section 22.6 is reinstated and elected and appointed officials are held to the same form of justice and accountability as those they currently rule over.

The Form of the Guardian Angel

The state of Iowa cannot destroy me because I already died in a VA hospital bed in 2019.  The kingdom that I now serve in the defense of the least among us is not of this world. I serve the Lord my God. I know he will never abandon or betray me, as the evidence shows the nation of this Earth I spent my life serving accomplished while protecting and serving itself.

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IT1, are we going to make it home?

You bet we are.

Respectfully,

Michael J. Merritt