The Descent into Dark State in Defense of Iowa’s Frida Lessers
Iowa Office of Civil Rights:
1. Introduction
Transformation of Injustice
25 JUN 2020
If a person experiences injustice, and they do nothing to make a change, they are as guilty as the individual or group that caused the injustice
because they allowed it to happen to someone else.
The complaint set forth below was filed against the City of Marshalltown, Iowa, within the 300-day filing period prescribed by Iowa Code § 216.15(13). Because Case No. CVCI012940 was dismissed without prejudice pursuant to Iowa Rule of Civil Procedure 1.943, I intend to refile the claims asserted in that action in the Iowa District Court.
I respectfully submit to the leadership of the City of Marshalltown that the controversy arising from the City’s historical assessment of fees alleged to have been excessive and inconsistent with Iowa Code § 22.3 cannot reasonably be dismissed as moot. Recent evidence indicates that the alleged disability-based discrimination documented in public records, records to which those fees impeded or prevented access, remained ongoing as of July 2026 and continued to affect a member of a class protected under Iowa Code chapter 216.
The State of Iowa can hoist me up on a public cross within the Iowa Capital Dispatch, criminalize and attack my mental health disabilities, and then sweep its conduct under the judicial rug within this agency and the Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board within the Iowa Judicial Branch. But the State of Iowa will no longer abandon a heavily bruised and damaged woman located at a mental health drop-in clinic. Suppose this email fails to properly, respectfully, and lawfully articulate this to the leadership of the State of Iowa. In that case, I am certain my future court documents will accomplish this objective.
Investigating government corruption is not an endeavor of finite game theory (victories within administrative and civil procedure). My experience supports that it is an infinite game theory paradigm: a meticulous, methodical, unyielding, and lawful multi-year slow walk of an entire state’s apparatus of elected and appointed leadership into a corner where no licensed lawyer will desire to defend the state’s chosen course of conduct.
Suppose my lawful investigative work violates my eternal humble obedience to the Apostles’ Creed. In that case, this is a weight that I alone will carry during my Lord’s judgment, which exists in the Kingdom that reigns above the cracks within the limestone walls of this world’s courts.The Form of the Fallen Judicial Branch
A judicial branch that the evidence supports has fallen from the philosophical trunk of truth, uniformly executed rules, and proper ethics will, by its own hand, lie in rot within the undergrowth of the forests of this world.2. Complaint Intake: Michael J. Merritt v. City of Marshalltown, IA
Evidence Supporting Retaliation
I have reported to God and nearly every leader within the City of Marshalltown, IA, and the State of Iowa evidence supporting the Marshalltown Police Department’s strategic and coordinated targeting of my service-connected mental health disabilities beginning during the spring of 2019 while seeking an arrest pursuant to Iowa Code section 708.7. The evidence supports that this led to a paradigm of service-connected, mental-health-based discrimination that evolved statewide, including numerous State of Iowa government bodies and conduct involving individuals appointed directly or indirectly by Governor Kim Reynolds.
On 16 JUN 2026, LT Hillers of the Marshalltown, Iowa, Police Department made recorded statements supporting the inference that my criminal complaint intakes were being handled differently because I decided to take the City of Marshalltown, IA, to court over public-record fee anomalies related to the city’s historical alleged acts of discrimination targeting my service-connected mental health disabilities. The evidence supports that this is related to the Marshalltown, IA, Police Department’s historical posture of criminalizing—with zero evidence—disabilities that are protected pursuant to Iowa Code chapter 216.
Further, LT Hillers produced evidence of violating my constitutional rights protected by the First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America and section 7 of article I of the Constitution of the State of Iowa by abridging my ability to communicate a proper criminal complaint, including references to Iowa Code provisions that I believe were violated, in my report to the Marshalltown, IA, Police Department.
Evidence supporting retaliation is directly contained within LT Hillers’ statement:
“…If you’re wanting to talk about something as far as any code sections etc. anything like that again we are not going to have those sorts of discussions with you and you can get in contact with our attorneys as far as those things go… …Because of the actions that you have filed, that’s the stance our department’s taken, so… …Because of the decisions you have made, that’s the stance our department now has to take. Once you file legal actions against the city, we are not going to talk about any of that stuff with you personally. That’s what our attorneys are for…”
This conversation led to evidence indicating that the City of Marshalltown, IA, Police Department took no adequate action to provide proper public safety measures or attempt de-escalation regarding evidence supporting historically hostile behavior manifested by a citizen of Marshalltown, IA, and member of the Mid-IA Triumph Recovery Center, located in Marshalltown, Iowa.
I was attempting to report to LT Hillers that this member of the Mid-IA Triumph Recovery Center had been targeting me with hostile behavior because of my handling of, and reporting to law enforcement, his communicated intention to harm an elderly woman who frequents the Mid-IA Triumph Recovery Center.
Regarding LT Hillers’ handling of this interaction and his above-documented recorded statement included in the chest cam video that will be entered as supporting evidence for this complaint:
Every law enforcement officer within the Marshalltown, IA PD has the right to remain silent regarding interactions that include citizen communications involving evidence or reporting during current criminal complaints that may be related to the Marshalltown, IA PD’s alleged historical violations of the law.
Anything an officer of the Marshalltown, IA PD communicates can and will be used against them in a court of law.
The law enforcement officers within the Marshalltown, IA PD have a right to their attorney.
If the City of Marshalltown, IA, desires an attorney who does not produce evidence of misquoting historical court case short titles on court documents, misapplying court rules on court documents, or misrepresenting facts on court documents, they have a right to retain new counsel. However, no officer of the Marshalltown, IA, Police Department may discriminatorily or retaliatorily restrict a citizen’s lawful complaint intake in a manner that prevents the complete and accurate documentation of the event being reported.Summary of Complaint
This complaint encompasses events that have occurred from the Spring of 2019 through 2026:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1B4azlIws3w6gsRcqflnZ6aeN6qEHrJIi?usp=sharing
Events That Linear Historical Evidence Supports Are Relational—Hy-Vee Food Stores, Inc. v. Iowa Civil Rights Commission, 453 N.W.2d 512 (Iowa 1990)
Spring 2019 to January 2020 (known): The Marshalltown, IA PD, while coordinating with Hope United Methodist Church of Marshalltown, IA, produced evidence of targeting my mental health disabilities while seeking charges pursuant to Iowa Code § 708.7 with zero evidence supporting a violation of the Iowa Code.
From Spring 2022 to August 2024: The City of Marshalltown, IA, produced evidence of deploying what are now known to be excessive fees inconsistent with Iowa Code § 22.3 related to requests for public records related to evidence supporting the Marshalltown PD’s historical acts of disability-based discrimination during 2019-2020 (known).
30 MAY 2025: Evidence supporting that the City of Marshalltown, IA PD disregarded and failed to provide timely guidance and equal opportunity regarding a request for a citizen-law enforcement ride-along to a citizen that evidence supports the MPD historically criminalized and targeted the citizen’s disabilities.
Active Complaint Line Items Within the 300-Day Filing Period Under Iowa Code § 216.15(13)
October 6, 2025: The City of Marshalltown, IA PD produced evidence of abandoning a woman with evidence supporting periorbital ecchymosis. This act not only produced further evidence of disability-based discrimination as the MPD failed to provide tax-funded law enforcement accommodations to this woman who was at a mental health drop-in clinic, the MPD also produced evidence of a discrepancy regarding its criminal complaint intake process regarding an alleged violation of Iowa Code Chapter 708 reported by a male (06 OCT 2025) in contrast to evidence supporting the MPD’s handling of reports originating from female reporters (Spring 2019 as documented in this complaint).
Early Spring 2026: Chief Jones was directly informed and produced evidence of failing to conduct an investigation regarding Assistant Attorney General Steven Blankinship and former Iowa Public Information Board Legal Counsel Alexander Lee’s alleged violation of Iowa Code § 708.7(1)(a)(4) related to both agencies’ repeated attempts to criminalize my lawful public records work pursuant to Iowa Code Chapters 22 and 23 (see Iowa Code §§ 708.7 and 718.3).
State of Iowa Court Case – CVCI012940: The City’s alleged misrepresentations concerning the capabilities and continuity of its electronic-mail system are directly relevant to this disability-discrimination complaint. The public-record requests at issue sought records documenting the City of Marshalltown’s alleged historical discrimination against me based upon my service-connected mental-health disabilities. The excessive fee estimates imposed in response—including a January 18, 2024 estimate of $397,440—materially obstructed my access to evidence necessary to investigate, document, and oppose that discrimination.
On February 13, 2026, the City filed a motion to dismiss my January 14, 2026 petition while acknowledging that I had alleged the City later admitted that the necessary electronic-mail searches could be performed internally and that responsive records were ultimately produced at little or no cost. Nevertheless, the City represented to the Iowa Court that my allegation that it continued to operate the same or a substantially similar electronic-mail system and records process was “factually untrue.”
After I filed an amended petition on February 16, 2026, the City repeated that representation in its February 26, 2026 motion to dismiss. That motion also expressly acknowledged my allegation that, in November 2024, the City admitted that its electronic-mail system possessed administrative and cross-mailbox search capabilities allowing responsive records to be located and produced administratively at little or no cost.
On the face of both motions, the City relied upon a resolution amending its public-records policy to support its assertion regarding the electronic-mail system, rather than identifying technical evidence establishing that the server, platform, administrative search capabilities, or cross-mailbox search capabilities had been replaced or materially changed. The City also transformed the pleaded fact that records were eventually produced at “little to no cost” into the broader assertion that the records had been produced “to Plaintiff’s satisfaction.”
These alleged misrepresentations were therefore not collateral to the disability-discrimination allegations presented in this complaint. They were used in judicial proceedings to defend and preserve fee practices that had obstructed access to public records documenting that discrimination and to seek dismissal before those practices could receive substantive judicial review. Accordingly, the February 13 and February 26, 2026 filings constitute evidence supporting the continued concealment, perpetuation, and judicial defense of the underlying discriminatory course of conduct, as well as potential retaliation for my lawful efforts to investigate, document, expose, and oppose it.
These representations were made in motions signed by counsel and submitted to the Iowa Court in support of dismissal. Under Iowa Rule of Civil Procedure 1.413(1), counsel’s signature certified that, to the best of counsel’s knowledge, information, and belief formed after reasonable inquiry, the motions were well grounded in fact, warranted by existing law or a good-faith argument concerning existing law, and not interposed for an improper purpose, including harassment, unnecessary delay, or a needless increase in litigation costs.
Evidence Supporting Judicial Concealment of Alleged Attorney Misconduct and an Apparent Institutional Conflict of Interest: On April 13, 2026, I electronically transmitted an attorney-misconduct complaint against City of Marshalltown Attorney Holly Corkery to the Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board concerning her representation of the City in matters directly connected to public-record barriers obstructing access to evidence of disability discrimination. The complaint concerned, in part, Corkery’s representation of the City regarding events involving former Marshalltown Police Chief Michael “Mike” Tupper.
On May 15, 2026, I notified Honorable Chief Justice Susan Christensen that I had received no written acknowledgment or other observable evidence that the complaint had been processed in accordance with the Iowa Court Rules. On July 2, 2026—approximately eighty days after the complaint was transmitted—I again notified the Chief Justice, the Executive Director of the Office of Professional Regulation, members of the Iowa Supreme Court, and disciplinary officials that no required written notification had been received. Iowa Court Rule 35.5 mandates that, upon receipt of a complaint, the disciplinary board must notify the complainant in writing either that the complaint has been received and will be acted upon or that no action will be taken pursuant to Iowa Court Rule 35.4(1). The record provided contains no acknowledgment, declination notice, or documented disposition.
Public records further establish a direct personal connection between former Chief Michael Tupper and a disciplinary counsel operating within the institution that received the Corkery complaint. In an October 21, 2022 candidate profile, Sarah Tupper—then First Assistant Marshall County Attorney—expressly stated, “I’m married to Mike Tupper, who is the Marshalltown Police Chief.” A January 6, 2026 report concerning Michael Tupper’s campaign for the Iowa House independently confirmed that he is married to Sarah Tupper. Marshall County Attorney Jordan Gaffney subsequently confirmed that Sarah Catherine Tupper served as an Assistant Marshall County Attorney from August 14, 2012, through February 3, 2023. An October 27, 2023 Iowa Attorney General continuing-legal-education agenda thereafter identified Sarah C. Tupper as Disciplinary Counsel for the Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board, and subsequent Judicial Branch records continued to identify her as disciplinary counsel.
Thus, when my complaint was submitted on April 13, 2026, the spouse of the former Marshalltown police chief connected to the underlying events was serving as disciplinary counsel within the Iowa Supreme Court Attorney Disciplinary Board—the institution responsible for receiving and processing my complaint against the City attorney representing matters involving her husband. The present record does not establish that Sarah Tupper personally reviewed, investigated, or decided the Corkery complaint. Nevertheless, the documented marital and institutional relationship raised, at minimum, an appearance-of-conflict issue warranting documented screening, recusal, reassignment, or written clarification concerning whether Sarah Tupper had any access to or involvement in the matter.
On July 22, 2026, I expressly placed Judicial Branch leadership, the Executive Director of the Office of Professional Regulation, and Sarah Tupper herself—through her iowacourts.gov address—on notice of this potential conflict. No acknowledgment, screening determination, recusal notice, reassignment notice, or other clarification addressing the relationship appears in the record provided. The apparent failure to perform the mandatory Rule 35.5 notice function—after repeated written notice reached the highest levels of the Iowa Judicial Branch—combined with the absence of any documented response addressing the direct marital connection between former Chief Michael Tupper and an Attorney Disciplinary Board counsel, constitutes evidence supporting the inference that the Judicial Branch disregarded, administratively concealed, or institutionally insulated alleged attorney misconduct connected to the continued concealment and judicial defense of disability-based discrimination.
https://www.timesrepublican.com/news/todays-news/2022/10/meet-the-candidates-2022-marshall-county-attorney-2/ – Evidence Supporting Connection Established
https://www.timesrepublican.com/news/todays-news/2023/03/supervisors-finalize-fy24-budget
https://www.timesrepublican.com/opinion/your-view/2022/10/we-support-sarah-tupper
https://www.timesrepublican.com/news/todays-news/2026/01/retired-marshalltown-police-chief-announces-campaign-for-iowa-house/ – Evidence Supporting Connection Established
16 JUN 2026: The Marshalltown, IA PD produced further evidence of inconsistency within its responses to male and female reporters of alleged violations of Iowa Code § 708.7. Evidence shown within public records stored and preserved by the Marshalltown PD related to events from 2019 reported in this complaint shows the Marshalltown PD requires no evidence for female reporters of alleged violations of Iowa Code § 708.7. At the same time, the evidence supports that the Marshalltown PD does not provide the same enforcement, intake reporting, or investigation procedures regarding reports of an alleged violation of Iowa Code § 708.7 that are reported by alleged male victims. Further, the Marshalltown PD produced evidence of refusing to charge the female reporters from the 2019 incidents with violating Iowa Code §§ 708.7(1)(a)(4) or 718.6 regarding the evidence supporting their false reports that were supported by zero evidence during the height of the MeToo movement.
The evidence supports that the Marshalltown, IA PD not only provides preferential treatment to female reporters over males regarding possible violations of Iowa Code § 708.7, but that they require absolutely no evidence if the allegations are brought forth against a person known or suspected to have a mental-health disability, which is a protected characteristic under Iowa Code Chapter 216.
02 JUL 2026: Evidence supports that the City of Marshalltown, IA PD disregarded and failed to provide timely guidance and equal opportunity regarding a request for a citizen-law enforcement ride-along (2nd Count) to a citizen whom the evidence supports the MPD historically criminalized and targeted because of his disabilities.
3. Statutory Relief Requested and Applicable Agency Duties
Complainant formally requests that the Iowa Office of Civil Rights discharge its applicable statutory duties under Iowa Code chapter 216, exercise its administrative and remedial authority as authorized by law, and provide the following relief:
Confirmation of Receipt and Jurisdictional Processing: Complainant requests formal written confirmation of the agency’s receipt of this complaint, the agency case number assigned to the matter, and the complaint’s submission for jurisdictional review. Iowa Code § 216.15(1) authorizes an aggrieved person to file a verified written complaint and prescribes the information that the complaint must contain. Iowa Administrative Code rule 161—3.3(216) requires the executive director or the executive director’s designee, upon receipt of a submitted complaint form, to review the complaint to determine whether the agency possesses jurisdiction. Iowa Code § 216.15(3)(a) requires that a true copy of a verified complaint be served upon the designated respondent within twenty days after filing, subject to the service provisions of § 216.15(4). Iowa Administrative Code rule 161—3.5(216) further provides that, after jurisdiction has been established, the agency will serve a copy of the complaint upon the respondent within twenty days by mail or electronic mail.
Statutory Investigation Obligations: Pursuant to Iowa Code § 216.15(3)(a), Complainant requests that agency staff conduct the statutorily required prompt investigation and issue a recommendation to the administrative law judge responsible for determining whether probable cause or no probable cause exists regarding the allegations presented. Complainant further requests that the investigation be impartial and sufficiently comprehensive to address the documented allegations of disability discrimination, retaliatory law-enforcement complaint-intake restrictions, and public-record fee barriers allegedly employed to obstruct access to evidence of discrimination.
Administrative Exhaustion, Release, and Right to Commence Civil Action: Consistent with Iowa Code § 216.16(1), Complainant has initially sought administrative relief by timely filing this complaint with the agency in accordance with Iowa Code § 216.15. Pursuant to Iowa Code § 216.16(2)–(4), Complainant expressly preserves the right, after this timely filed complaint has remained on file with the agency for at least sixty days, to submit a written request for an administrative release authorizing the commencement of an action in Iowa district court. Any request for and issuance of an administrative release shall remain subject to the exceptions enumerated in Iowa Code § 216.16(3)(a)(1)–(4). Upon issuance of the administrative release, the agency shall be barred from taking further action upon the complaint, and any authorized civil action shall be commenced within ninety days in accordance with Iowa Code § 216.16(4). Pursuant to Iowa Code § 216.16(6), the district court may grant any relief authorized under Iowa Code § 216.15(9).
Conciliation and Mediation Relief: If the administrative law judge determines that probable cause exists regarding the allegations presented, Complainant requests that agency staff promptly undertake the conference, conciliation, and persuasion procedures required by Iowa Code § 216.15(3)(c)–(d). Complainant further requests that any resulting conciliation or mediation agreement include appropriate prospective and remedial provisions authorized by Iowa Code § 216.15(10), together with enforceable measures sufficient to ensure the Respondent’s continuing compliance with the agreement and Iowa Code chapter 216.
Contested-Case Hearing Procedures: If conciliation does not resolve the complaint and the statutory conditions for further proceedings are satisfied, Complainant requests that the agency proceed through the hearing process prescribed by Iowa Code § 216.15(6)–(8). This process includes the issuance and service of written notice specifying the charges to be adjudicated, presentation of the case supporting the complaint by an agency attorney or agent, and adjudication through a contested-case hearing conducted in accordance with Iowa Code chapter 17A, during which the statutory burden of proof rests upon the agency.
Final Remedial and Affirmative Relief: If, after considering all evidence presented at the contested-case hearing, the agency determines that the Respondent engaged in a discriminatory or unfair practice, Complainant requests that the agency issue findings of fact and conclusions of law, together with the cease-and-desist order and necessary remedial action required and authorized by Iowa Code § 216.15(9). Such relief should include the extension to all individuals of the full and equal enjoyment of the Respondent’s advantages, facilities, privileges, and services pursuant to Iowa Code § 216.15(9)(a)(5), as well as verifiable reporting concerning the manner of compliance pursuant to Iowa Code § 216.15(9)(a)(6).
The requested relief should require the City of Marshalltown to provide full, equal, and non-retaliatory access to its facilities, privileges, governmental services, and criminal-complaint intake procedures for individuals with disabilities, including veterans whose disabilities are service-connected.
4. Conclusion
The testimony supported by evidence provided within this complaint submitted to the Iowa Office of Civil Rights requires that this government body perform its tax-funded and statutory duties. At the same time, any evidence of deviation from these statutory responsibilities and requirements could be seen as evidence supporting not only a violation of Iowa Code Chapter 216 (which establishes the statutory authority and duties of this government body) but also the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 (commonly cited simply as the Americans with Disabilities Act or ADA, found under 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq.).
The Form of the Spiritual Martyr
Weekly coffee and donuts within a spiritual paradigm of self-seeking are not enough to manifest the proper form of Christianity. It requires one with the honor, courage, and commitment to let go of and lose everything they have and everything they are in defense of Truth and the proclamation of the Good News.
Waving colored fabric while carrying a gun and beating a loud drum is not enough to manifest the proper form of patriotism. It requires one with the honor, courage, and commitment to let go of and lose everything they have and everything they are in defense of the philosophical and constitutional conscience of the republic they serve.
The Form of Governor Kim Reynolds and Attorney General Brenna Bird’s Veteran Crisis Hotline
Discrimination is a paradigm designed to inflict suffering and abandonment upon those society has determined are unequal and lacking value so they are unable to challenge those who inflict this treatment. Once a person has experienced enough external evidence that they have no value regardless of how strong they are, it will slowly erode them to a place where they truly believe that their life has no value while they drown within an existential illusion they can no longer see through or connect with.
When I retired in 2017, I felt loved for the first time in my life, and I was completely functional regardless of the mental health ailments that I was managing. Over the course of years of unethical and malicious conduct manifested by private citizens and ultimately including the elected and appointed leadership of the State of Iowa, I slowly deteriorated to a place where I was no longer able to function while I continued to study the law across multiple states.
When I witnessed the City of Marshalltown, IA PD abandon Frida Lesser while she was at a mental health drop-in clinic in Marshalltown, IA, in a physical condition that the evidence supported was the result of domestic abuse—and I saw someone else’s daughter abandoned by law enforcement just like the evidence shows the country that I served abandoned my daughter—something twisted and broke within my soul as I walked across the Center Street bridge of Marshalltown, IA, as tears of anger fell down my face. In the weeks after that moment, I began drafting court documents against the City of Marshalltown, IA. I later requested dismissal of that case because I believe in forgiveness, having witnessed what I thought was evidence within the leadership of the City of Marshalltown, IA, supporting a desire to change. I no longer hold that belief or conclusion regarding the leadership of the City of Marshalltown, IA.
Regardless of the individual character or intentions of those serving on the City’s council or within its police department, the cumulative record demonstrates systemic entitlement, unqualified arrogance, and the mistreatment of members of protected classes. Furthermore, the acts and omissions of City leadership have resulted in the administrative obscuring of evidence concerning alleged municipal misconduct. This cumulative pattern constitutes an injustice from which I cannot turn away and one that I will continue to challenge and lawfully seek to correct, with or without the assistance of the State of Iowa.
I graduated from Marshalltown High School the same year as Frida Lesser. When I saw her, I asked myself: Had I not possessed the strength and discipline provided by my training in the United States Navy—and had I been abandoned by the Marshalltown, IA, PD for the last quarter century rather than only the last seven years—would this have been me?
Before drafting this correspondence, I spent weeks lying on the floor of my apartment for the majority of each day, drowning in symptoms of depression, anxiety, panic, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and post-traumatic stress disorder in a mental stasis that I could not physically move from while lost between my theological and spiritual beliefs and my philosophical sense of duty.
I spent years trying to save my children while navigating evidence supporting the State of Iowa leadership’s attempts to cover up its abandonment of my family and its many alleged Iowa Code violations. In the end, it was my children who saved me.
The Form of Navy-Blue Desert Boots v. Marshalltown, IA, Baby-Blue Public-Record Fee Flip-Flops Wandering Around in a $17.5 Million Tactical Frat House
When the unethical within the State of Iowa turn up the heat, show them you have lived and served in a desert, and remind them who is asking for licenses and registrations.
US Navy Chief #1: “Where the hell is Merritt?”
US Navy Chief #2: “I think he’s on the watch floor.”
US Navy Chief #1: “WALDO!”
IT1(IW/SW) Merritt: “What’s up, Chiefs?”
US Navy Chief #1: “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD… Merritt, please help me understand how and why a size idiot is wearing a size 2 law enforcement uniform with a pink unicorn helmet, and why are you walking around with a pink BMX bike with a pink basket, handlebar bells, and those pink handlebar streamers?”
IT1(IW/SW) Merritt: “Relax, Chief, I paid my $2 Morale, Welfare & Recreation (MWR) civilian clothes day bar tab. I am going to the Halloween party dressed as my favorite Marshalltown, IA cop.”
US Navy Chief #1: “Oh yeah, RAGBRAI Security, what’s that mean?”
IT1(IW/SW) Merritt: “RAGBRAI? That’s where people ride bicycles across Iowa while their spouses chase them in six-figure RVs with air conditioning and WiFi. I usually just go to the Y and sit on a stationary bike for 10 minutes and watch someone’s helmet cam at 100× speed so I know what to talk about at the bar on Friday night.”
US Navy Chief #1: “Where in the hell did you get this ridiculous ensemble?”
IT1(IW/SW) Merritt: “Dude…I mean, Chief, relax; these clothes are legit. I got them online at a Christian bookstore.”
US Navy Chief #1: “Well, dumbass, I mean Merritt, enlighten me, what Christian bookstore would sell this bullshit rent-a-cop outfit?”
IT1(IW/SW) Merritt: “Adam & Eve, Chief.”
US Navy Chief #1: [Looks down and sighs] “Merritt, you have to be the most intelligent idiot I have ever had the unfortunate luck to have met in my entire life. You do realize if it weren’t for the fact you are so constitutionally adorable, I would have busted your ass for ‘getting lost’ in South Korea. Leave your Mountain Dews and get the hell out of my office.”
IT1(IW/SW) Merritt: “Chief, this is my BYOMD for the party tonight at the base bar!”
US Navy Chief #1: “OK, Merritt, I’ll let you decide. Give me your Mountain Dews, or you’re getting a counseling chit and an extra watch for taking the wheel out of my office chair again, causing me to face-plant on the deck at 0530 this morning about 4 hours before you get up, I might add, and leaving a banana peel under the false floor under my desk. I know that was you, you crazy bastard.”
IT1(IW/SW) Merritt: “Chief, can I go get you breakfast down in the First-Class mess and possibly go out and wash your car so it’s straight up off the hook bling when you are done for the day?”
US Navy Chief #1: “Get the hell out of my office, Merritt, and take your damn pink BMX bike with you.”
US Navy Chief #2: “Damn, bro, don’t you think you were a little hard on Merritt?”
US Navy Chief #1: “Jack, I love the guy, but you know damn good and well if we don’t screw with him a little bit he’ll never get a haircut.”
US Navy Chief #2: “WHAT THE HELL …?”
US Navy Chief #1: “What???”
US Navy Chief #1: “Someone glued my coffee mug to my desk… …that son of a.”
US Navy Chief #1: “Too hard on the guy? Really? Good luck getting your desk down to the mess to get your morning coffee.”
Respectfully,
Michael J. Merritt, USN (Ret.)
Founder: Pyre Harbor
Information Warfare Specialist
Independent OSINT Operator
2510 S 6TH ST D24
Marshalltown, IA 50158
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In addition to the formal legal allegations and supporting factual record, this correspondence contains theological and philosophical allegory, creative expression, and personal testimony. Those materials are included to provide relevant context, articulate the nature and effect of the alleged injuries, and support the undersigned’s lawful petition for redress of grievances directed to the State of Iowa and the City of Marshalltown, Iowa.
Nothing contained herein is intended to communicate, threaten, advocate, encourage, or insinuate any past, present, or future violation of federal law, Iowa law, or any other applicable legal authority. Any rhetorical, literary, satirical, theological, or philosophical language appearing in this correspondence should be interpreted within its expressive context and not as evidence of unlawful intent or contemplated unlawful conduct.
Should the leadership of the State of Iowa elect to characterize, discredit, or disregard this submission as unhinged, disorganized, incoherent, or merely rambling political rhetoric, the undersigned respectfully requests that those officials apply that evaluative standard with consistency and recall the candidate for President of the United States whom they publicly endorsed during the 2024 election.
References:
1. Matthew 19:27
2. Luke 14:26–33
3. Matthew 16:24–25
4. The Apostles’ Creed
5. U.S. Navy Enlisted Oath
6. The Sailor’s Creed
8. https://www.kcci.com/article/kim-reynolds-endorses-donald-trump-in-2024-general-election/60118000
12. https://www.nycourts.gov/LegacyPDFS/press/PDFs/Trump-Verdict-Sheet.pdf
13. https://www.nycourts.gov/public-information/people-v-donald-j-trump-criminal
15. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCOURTS-ca2-23-00793/pdf/USCOURTS-ca2-23-00793-0.pdf
16. https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/USCOURTS-ca2-23-00793/context
17. https://www.supremecourt.gov/orders/courtorders/062926zor_1bn2.pdf
18. https://www.supremecourt.gov/docket/docketfiles/html/public/25-573.html
19. https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/06/the-mind-of-donald-trump/480771/
20. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8763223/
23. https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/moral-landscapes/202008/the-psychology-donald-trump – A significant portion of the developmental analysis in this article relies on the memoir of Mary L. Trump, PhD, a clinical psychologist and the niece of Donald Trump. Readers should note that her accounts are informed by firsthand experience within the Trump family, which has been characterized by publicly documented estate disputes and interpersonal estrangement.
24. https://youtu.be/9OtO-cypKmY?si=aLXbsCMn48mBnnTU
25. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6145972/Distribution:
USPS Mail Service
President Donald Trump
United States Department of Justice
Electronic Service
Governor Kim Reynolds
Attorney General Brenna Bird
Iowa Office of Civil Rights
Iowa Public Information Board
Iowa Department of Public Safety
Kara Warme
David Blone
Marshall County, IA
Personal Service – 03 AUG 2026
Marshalltown, IA, Chief of Police Jones
Marshalltown, IA, PD Captain Stevenson
Marshalltown, IA, PD Captain Weekley
Marshalltown, IA, PD LT Hillers
Marshalltown, IA, PD LT Watson
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