K.H. Ryesky Submission, 19 June 2019 Judiciary Hearing on H.R.

40 Page 1

KENNETH H. RYESKY, ESQ., STATEMENT FOR SUBMISSION, UNITED STATES

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY, HEARING ON
H.R. 40 AND THE PATH TO RESTORATIVE JUSTICE:

I. INTRODUCTION:

On 19 June 2019, the Subcommittee on Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties of the
House Committee on the Judiciary held a hearing entitled "H.R. 40 and the Path to Restorative
Justice." 1 This Commentary is submitted in response to said Hearing.

II. COMMENTATOR'S BACKGROUND AND OTHER PRELIMINARIES:

Background: The Commentator, Kenneth H. Ryesky, Esq. is a United States citizen

currently based in Israel, who complies with his taxation obligations under the Internal Revenue
Code, and who exercises his right to vote in Congressional and Presidential elections. He is
admitted to practice law in the States of New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, and also
before the United States Supreme Court. Prior to his current situational posting abroad, he was a
solo practitioner attorney in New York, and taught undergraduate and graduate courses in
Taxation and Business Law for more than 20 years at Queens College of the City University of
New York.

Prior to entering into the private practice of law, Mr. Ryesky served as an Attorney with
the Internal Revenue Service ("IRS"); before serving with the IRS he was a Contracting Officer
and an Analyst with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). In addition to his law degree (JD,
Temple University), Mr. Ryesky holds a BBA degree (Temple University), a MBA degree (La
Salle University) and a MLS degree (Queens College CUNY). He has authored several
scholarly articles, some of which have been cited in court decisions. His submitted
commentaries have been made part of the record for prior Congressional hearings, and for
various governmental rulemaking proceedings.

Mr. Ryesky's ancestors were enslaved and otherwise subjected to adverse discrimination
by various regimes over the centuries (including in the United States); indeed, Mr. Ryesky
himself has been discriminated against in the United States on account of his ethnicity. 2

1
<https://docs.house.gov/Committee/Calendar/ByEvent.aspx?EventID=109648>.
2
The Defense Logistics Agency, a U.S. governmental activity that formerly employed the
Commentator, had a well-founded reputation for tolerating discriminatory employment practices, see,
e.g., Weiss v. United States, 595 F.Supp. 1050 (E.D.Va. 1984); see also Clark v. Ryon, (Docket No. 75-
3577, E.D. Pa., 22 April 1977) (Final Judgment of agreed settlement in a discrimination lawsuit against
the Defense Supply Agency, the predecessor of the Defense Logistics Agency).
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Contact information: Kenneth H. Ryesky, Esq., kenneth.ryesky@gmail.com.

Commentary Disclosure & Attribution: The Commentator consents to the release of this
Commentary in its entirety, including the Commentator's personal identifying and contact
information, to all relevant governmental officials and indeed, to the news media and to the
public. Consent is also given for accurate quotation and/or republication of this Commentary in
whole or in part; such consent being conditioned upon proper attribution of this Commentary to
the Commentator (which includes the correct spelling of the Commentator's name).

Disclaimer: This Commentary reflects the Commentator's personal views, is not written
or submitted on behalf of any other person or entity, and does not necessarily represent the
official position of any person, entity, organization or institution with which the Commentator is
or has been associated, employed, or retained.

III. NOMENCLATURE:

Clarification, definition, and qualification are warranted regarding certain words and
phrases as they are used (and not used) in this Commentary:

A. "Black Race":

It has been noted that "[r]eparations would take money from people who never owned
slaves and bestow it on people who never were slaves. It would require judgments of collective
guilt and collective innocence, which are problematic at best; when the collectives are defined by
race and the judgments extended across generations, the whole issue becomes noxious in the
extreme." 3
2F

The Hearing apparently has an ill-disguised agenda of collective guilt and innocence, the
collective guilt to be imposed upon white people because and only because they are white, and
the collective innocence (as a pretext for benefitting from redistribution of wealth) being
bestowed upon black people because and only because they are black. If there is to be
accountability imposed upon white people on account of the wrongs committed by other white
people (almost all of the latter now being long deceased), then all black people must similarly be
held to answer for the misdeeds committed by other black people.

Accordingly, this Commentary will use the term "Black Race" to inclusively entail all the
black people of the world, in their individual capacities, as responsible/accountable parties for
the wrongs committed by every other black person who is, was, and/or ever will be.

[Of course, if the Hearing and its subject legislation somehow do not descend to the level
of the Commentator's worst expectations, then the hyperinclusiveness of the term "Black Race"

3
"The Reparations Fantasy" by The Daily Dish (no individual author named), The Atlantic (11 July
2009) (quoting H.W. Brands), <https://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/archive/2009/07/the-reparations-
fantasy/198923/>.
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as used in this Commentary would warrant a proportionally commensurate adjustment and

recasting.].

B. "Nigger":

Imprimis, this word "is perhaps the most provocative word in the American lexicon." 4 It
is reviled by the public at large, including the Commentator himself.

When speaking or writing in his personal capacity on a matter of public concern, the
Commentator (and every other American) in fact has a Constitutional right to use the word
"nigger." 5 As the subject of a Congressional hearing, the instant matter is implicitly of public
concern. As noted above, this Commentary is emphatically posited by the Commentator in his
personal capacity.

In addition to this First Amendment right (which has been characterized as "stupid but
constitutional" 6), the Commentator was given the moral right to use the word on 18 August
1976, when the Black Race physically attacked him in an unproductive armed robbery attempt;
the Commentator's body to this day bears physical scars resulting from the encounter.

For the purposes of this Commentary (and hopefully beyond), the Commentator shall
forbear to exercise the aforementioned Constitutional and moral rights (except to the extent that
the word's usage is necessitated by direct quotation, or by the clarification, definition, and
qualification of the word), thereby making optimistic provision for the seemingly remote
possibility that the outcome and sequelae of the instant Hearing might warrant continued (or, in a
best case scenario, permanent) forbearance; the instant and continuing forbearance is not
intended to operate as a waiver of those rights.

IV. THE ILL EFFECTS OF SLAVERY:

History has demonstrated time and again that slavery wreaks deleterious effects upon
society. Looking beyond the personal negative consequences slavery imposes upon the enslaved

4
Michele Goodwin, "Nigger and the Construction of Citizenship," 76 Temple L. Rev. 129 (2003).

The public use of the word by black celebrities detracts from the credibility of claims by black
people that the word is offensive, see, e.g., Kyle Antar Coward, "Nigger: Interpretations of the word's
prevalence on the Chappelle's Show, throughout entertainment, and in everyday life," Master's Degree
dissertation, UNC Chapel Hill (2007), available at
<https://cdr.lib.unc.edu/concern/dissertations/wh246s87b>.
5
Brown v. Board of Education, 824 F.3d 713, 715 (7th Cir. 2016); see also Bonnell v. Lorenzo, 241 F.3d
800, 820 (6th Cir. 2001).
6
Brown v. Board of Education, 824 F.3d 713 (7th Cir. 2016) (citations omitted).
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(which are quite significant in their own right), slavery (at least as it was practiced in America)
imparts the following unwelcome attributes to society as a whole:

A. The fracturing of the basic family unit so vital to an orderly and stable society;

B. The need to limit interactions between slaves and the unenslaved, lest the
slaves be inspired to desert their owners. Accordingly, segregation in society as a whole is an
inevitable consequence of race-based slavery. This, in turn, deprives society of the many
advantages of cultural diversity.

C. Unlike wagons, tractors, and other agricultural equipment, slaves could not
simply be placed in the barn for the winter; they had to be kept occupied and fed every day of the
year. While crops such as corn, black-eyed peas, and watermelons have a limited growing
season, the raising and processing of cotton fosters activity twelve months each year.
Accordingly, slave ownership distorted and perverted the free market economy's determination
of the optimal crops for the plantation owner to grow.

D. Just as many if not most motor vehicles on the road today are collateral for the
loans that facilitated their acquisition, most slaves during America's slavery era were collateral
for the loans that facilitated their purchase (or the purchase of their ancestors). This made it
difficult for slaveowners to singlehandedly free their slaves because doing so would prompt the
loanholder to claim and exercise security interest rights in the slave/collateral. Moreover, many
slaveholders inherited their slaves in a mortgaged condition, thereby further complicating the
problem.

E. As with other property used in production, slaves were often the subjects of
insurance policies. Like the insurance carriers of today, the issuers of such policies compelled
business decisions that were deficient in humanitarian attributes. 7

It accordingly is more than mere coincidence that, all else being equal, those regions of
the world that abolished slavery earlier have better economic viability than those regions where
slavery persisted later. An example of this dynamic is illustrated by comparing the city of New
York with the city of Philadelphia. Each city is at or near the mouth of a river basin of
approximately 14,000 square miles. Pennsylvania's gradual abolition process began with
legislation enacted in 1780, 8 while New York's initial abolition legislation was not enacted until

7
See, e.g. "Judge calls insurer ‘barbaric’ for denying cancer therapy," AP News (30 April 2019)
<https://www.apnews.com/0162374aa5164ca2849f5b921066f79d>.

The irony is not lost that many scholars and activists are now directing criticism and censure
towards the entities that insured slaves, see, e.g., Rachel L. Swarns, "Reckoning With a Legacy of
Insuring Slaves' Lives," New York Times, 19 December 2016, p. A1, while those same scholars and
activists would become no less exercised over an insurer's attitude to the effect of "Sorry, boy, we don't
insure your kind."
8
Pennsylvania, Act of 1 March 1780.
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1799. 9 Until 1820, the population of Philadelphia exceeded that of New York, but by 1830 New
York, having manumitted all of its slaves as of 1 July 1827, saw its population surpass that of
Philadelphia 10 (The 1825 completion of the Erie Canal contributing significantly to New York's
economic growth during the decade).

V. THE HEARING TESTIMONY:

Like every other Congressional hearing, the instant Hearing has an underlying agenda,
with witnesses who have been cherry-picked to present viewpoints to collectively support and
justify that agenda. In the case of the instant Hearing, there is an agenda that is based upon the
premises that every white American during the slavery era was a slaveowner, and that all white
Americans of the current day are descendants of slaveowners. 11

The witnesses' submitted written testimony will now be critiqued seriatim:

A. Senator Cory Booker: 12

Sen. Booker's polemic testimony basically serves to tout his own S. 1083, the companion
Senate bill to H.R. 40 which he has introduced in the Senate.

B. Ta-Nehisi Coates: 13

Mr. Coates's submitted written testimony is a verbatim version of his article "The Case
for Reparations," which appeared in the June 2014 issue of The Atlantic. The article makes some
very valid points regarding how the situation of black people in America differs from that of
other groups.

9
1799 Laws of New York, Ch. 62 (29 March 1799).
10
Prior to 1854, Philadelphia County consisted of several cities, townships, and boroughs; these were all
united together to form a single City of Philadelphia, coterminous with the County, thereby legalizing the
reality of the County being a single integral economic unit. Pennsylvania, Act of Consolidation (P.L. 21,
No. 16, 2 February 1854).
11
Patricia Dickson, "The Slavery Reparations Argument is Built on a False Premise," American Thinker,
(23 June 2019),
<https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2019/06/the_slavery_reparations_argument_is_built_on_a_false
_premise.html>.
12
<https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU10/20190619/109648/HHRG-116-JU10-Wstate-BookerC-
20190619.pdf>.
13
<https://docs.house.gov/meetings/JU/JU10/20190619/109648/HHRG-116-JU10-Wstate-CoatesT-
20190619.pdf>.
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The article also draws parallels between the reparations paid by Germany to Israel
following the Holocaust, and the prospective reparations to the Black Race he now advocates.
On this score, Mr. Coates fails to factor in a major and significant difference between the Jews of
Europe and the Black Race in America, specifically, that the demographic of Germany's
population following World War II did not change to the extent that the American population
demographic had changed following the Civil War and the 13th Amendment. A great majority
of Germany's population was the same German population demographic (or the descendants
thereof) as at the time Germany committed its atrocities, while the American demographic had
been significantly altered by immigration of people who had no involvement whatsoever with
slavery.

It cannot be ignored that Mr. Coates's comparison with the Israel situation cites to two
self-hating Jews, 14 Tom Segev and Tony Judt, each of whom have castigated Israel's status as an
unabashed homeland for the Jewish people.

C. Danny Glover:

Danny Glover personally and visibly has engaged in anti-semitic activity, most notably
the "Toronto Declaration," which urged the Toronto International Film Festival to boycott Israeli
films; 15 he has neither standing nor credibility to advocate for justice of any sort.

D. Katrina Colston Browne:

Ms. Browne's narrative appropriately details why American society needs to come to
terms with its past, but her assertion that "black Americans are not angry at us [white people] as
individuals, for the deeds of bygone ancestors who may have been complicit in large or small
ways" does not square with reality. Ms. Browne admits that she has had the good fortune to
have been born into a sheltered and privileged life; this surely has skewed the sampling from
which she propounds her observations.

Ms. Browne's narrative also asserts that her "European immigrant ancestors who came to
the U.S. in the 19th century, worked in factories, and struggled. But because they were defined
as 'white,' they were able to move up the economic ladder." This does not account for the fact
that millions of non-black immigrants (including the ancestors of the Commentator) also faced
discrimination and were denied opportunities in America, yet, their descendants found success

14
There is an obvious element of self-loathing in a person who denies his/her own people's worthiness of
the same national aspirations he/she so staunchly advocates for other ethnic groups.
15
"The Toronto Declaration: No Celebration of Occupation, An Open Letter to the Toronto International
Film Festival" (2 September 2009) <http://torontodeclaration.blogspot.com/2009/09/toronto-declaration-
no-celebration-of.html>.

The Declaration was also endorsed by many self-hating Jews.

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and prosperity in spite of those adverse conditions. The prevalent discrimination is reflected in
the following classified employment advertisements that appeared in the New York Times:

► "Accountant, 25 - 28, Protestant, accounting graduate, corporate accounting

experience …" (31 December 1939, p. 110).

► "Wanted -- Good Jap or Chinaman for housework …" (3 October 1906, p. 18).

► " Wanted -- A Refined Woman, either young or middle aged, to assist a mother
in the care of a young child … No Irish need apply…" (8 September 1858).

Moreover, Ms. Browne's comment that European immigrants came to America

"[b]ecause it was the Land of Opportunity. Because there were jobs" overlooks the fact that so
many of those immigrants, including all four of the Commentator's grandparents, came to
America because they were fleeing from discrimination, torture, pogroms, and abject oppression
in the old countries.

E. Coleman Hughes:

Mr. Hughes recognizes that the approach taken by HR 40 and S. 1083 would be unjust
because of their scheme's implicit discrimination based upon color and descent without regard to
actual harm or culpability. This instant Commentary's scheme for collective accountability of
the Black Race for all of its failings and misdeeds is a natural, logical, and just corollary to the
collectivist approach of HR 40 and S. 1083.

F. Burgess Owens:

Similar to Mr. Hughes, Mr. Owens recognizes the wrongheadedness of the collectivist
approach taken by HR 40 and S. 1083, but he further expands upon the failures of past efforts
grounded in the same sociopolitical philosophies.

G. Rev. Eugene Taylor Sutton:

Rev. Sutton's testimony was explicitly proffered in his ecclesiastical capacity. The
Episcopal Church of which he is a Bishop does not have clean hands; its notoriously anti-Semitic
pronunciamentos continue to cause discord of the very type he speaks out against. 16 And while

16
Simon Wiesenthal Center, "SWC Reaction to Bishop’s Apology for Repeating Phony Blood Libel
Against Israelis" (20 August 2018) <http://www.wiesenthal.com/about/news/swc-reaction-to-
bishops.html>; Noah Summers, " The Episcopal Church General Convention’s Sin of Scapegoating
Israel," Algemeiner (16 July 2018) <https://www.algemeiner.com/2018/07/16/the-episcopal-church-
general-conventions-sin-of-scapegoating-israel/>.
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the Bishop himself has personally spoken out against some of the excesses of his own church, 17
the collective guilt/innocence approach behind the HR 40 and S. 1083 legislation he supports
dictates that he and his descendants (and indeed, all Episcopalians) likewise be held personally
accountable for the antisemitism perpetuated by his fellow bishop. 18

H. Dr. Julianne Malveaux:

Dr. Malveaux's otherwise insightful economic analysis of the post-slavery factors that
economically harmed black people fails to take into account the Black Race's failure to mitigate
its damages and its exacerbation of the dismal situation imposed upon it; other disfavored
socioethnic groups in America did in fact mitigate their damages and did not exacerbate the
hands they were dealt, thereby achieving prosperity and success.

The colleges and universities of America have economically and socially abused their
Adjunct faculty members; such abuse continues to this day. 19 Given her recent role as a high-
ranking college administrator, the collective guilt assignment agenda underlying the subject
Hearing dictates that Dr. Malveaux should, along with all other college and university
administrators, be personally held accountable for such abuse; the abuse of white faculty
members should be allocated as a credit to any reparations which might otherwise be extracted
from white people, and the abuse of black faculty members should be credited as an offset, on
comparative negligence principles, to the quantum of damage otherwise inflicted upon the Black
Race.

J. 20 Prof. Eric J. Miller:

Prof. Miller's discourse well explains the differences between economic wrongs and
dignity wrongs, and specifically recognizes that in reaching the goal of justice, "it is essential to

17
George Conger, "Mass bishop denounced for anti-Semitism," Anglican Ink (29 July 2018)
<http://anglican.ink/2018/07/29/mass-bishop-denounced-for-anti-semitism/>.
18
Gayle Harris, one of the offending bishops, is herself a member of the Black Race; consistent with the
approach of this instant Commentary, her misdeeds must be imputed to the entire Black Race, including
Bishop Sutton.
19
Gayle Harris, one of the offending bishops, is herself a member of the Black Race; consistent with the
approach of this instant Commentary, her misdeeds must be imputed to the entire Black Race, including
Bishop Sutton.
20
No doubt as a result of lessons learned from numerous past confusions between the numeral "1" and
the letter "I," and between the numeral "0" and the letter "O," whether in handscribings or printed fonts,
the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulations Supplement ("DFARS") prohibits, with certain exceptions,
the use of the letters "I" and "O" in assigning alphanumeric procurement instrument identification
numbers to Department of Defense contract documents. 48 C.F.R. §§ 4.1603(a)(3) & 204.1603(a). This
Commentary will follow similar convention, so as to preclude the conflation of this subhead with the
Roman Numeral "I" of the Introduction.
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detail both what happened and who did it [emphases in original]." This runs contrary to the
simplistic collectivist blame approach implicit in many schemes that purportedly advocate for
righting past wrongs, and which are strongly suggested in the apparent agenda behind the
Hearing.

VI. THE COLLECTIVE FAULT OF THE BLACK RACE:

The duty to mitigate one's damages pertains in civil rights cases. 21 Not only has the
Black Race failed to mitigate the damages imposed upon it, but it has exacerbated its own
situation.

Unlike other groups in which obtaining a good education is a salient social value, the
Black Race impedes and frustrates the education of its own through the concerted and organized
work of its criminal thug gangs that pressure black people to drop out of high school, thereby
further exacerbating the economic harm caused by slavery. 22

The Black Race habitually ruins what had been good and safe residential areas, bringing
about urban decay in neighborhoods such as Mt. Airy, Strawberry Mansion, Parkside, East New
York, Dexter-Linwood, Mattapan, et cetera. 23 Black-on-black murders and other violent crimes
have long been the norm in many neighborhoods. 24 The Black Race sets fires in their own
neighborhoods and then attacks the responding firefighters who come to extinguish the blazes. 25
That neighborhoods where the Black Race predominates frequently are economically depressed
is an inevitable result of activities and conditions that discourage businesses from setting up shop
in such areas, thereby making jobs and employment opportunities all the less accessible.

21
See, e.g. Miller v. Lovett, 879 F.2d 1066, 1070 - 1071 (2d Cir. 1989).
22
Alison Fox, "Kareem Potomont indicted in shooting of 13-year-old boy," AM New York, (24 April
2014), <https://www.amny.com/news/kareem-potomont-indicted-in-shooting-of-13-year-old-boy-
1.7818980> ("Potomont was charged with the shooting just four days later. His lawyer, Audrey Thomas,
told amNewYork that Potomont was forced to leave high school in the eleventh grade due to gang
pressure.").
23
The Commentator and his relatives have lived in some of these neighborhoods and have witnessed the
decay that occurred when the Black Race displaced the previous residential population.

The Commentator's personal empathies are squarely with the law-abiding people of whatever
ethnic background who live in such neighborhoods and who must return to them each evening.
24
See, e.g. Adamma Ince & Christine Lagorio, "Double Dutch in a War Zone," Village Voice, 25
November 2003 <https://www.villagevoice.com/2003/11/25/double-dutch-in-a-war-zone>.
25
"Race Troubles: 109 U.S. Cities Faced Violence in 1967," U.S. News & World Report (14 August
1967) <https://www.usnews.com/news/national-news/articles/2017-07-12/race-troubles-109-us-cities-
faced-violence-in-1967>.
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VII. MATTERS FOR DOCUMENTATION AND EXAMINATION BY THE

COMMISSION:

In addition to the matters enumerated in Section 3(b)(1) of HR 40, the proposed

Commission would need to document and examine material anent to the following issues:
26
A. The Historical and Ongoing Role of the Muslim Slave Trade;

B. The Role of the Democratic Party in Slavery and in the governmental programs that
have inflicted damage upon the black people; 27

C. The Failure of Major Players in the black grievance industry to pay their fair share of
the taxes they owe; 28

D. The allocation of guilt and reward with respect to people of mixed race;

E. The allocation of guilt and reward with respect to members of the Black Race who are
not descended from people who were enslaved during the slavery era, such as recent immigrants
from Africa; and

F. The killing of police officers by the Black Race. 29

VIII. CONCLUSION:

This Commentary is intended to demonstrate, by reductio ad absurdum, the folly if not

the insidiousness of the collective guilt/collective innocence paradigm. The Commentator does
not oppose measures that would bring American society to confront and adequately internalize a

26
Raymond Ibrahim, "America’s 233-Year-Old Shock at Jihad," American Thinker (26 March 2019)
<https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/03/americas_233yearold_shock_at_jihad.html>.
27
Kimberly Bloom Jackson, "The Secret Racist History of the Democratic Party," American Thinker (3
May 2016)
<https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2016/05/the_secret_racist_history_of_the_democratic_party.h
tml>.
28
Robert W. Wood, "Lessons From Rev. Al Sharpton's $4.5 Million Tax Bill," Forbes, 19 November
2014 <https://www.forbes.com/sites/robertwood/2014/11/19/lessons-from-rev-al-sharptons-4-5-million-
tax-bill/#7b308be6cb0a>.
29
E.g., Trooper Werner Foerster, Officer Down Memorial Page < https://www.odmp.org/officer/4964-
trooper-werner-foerster>.

This includes black law enforcement officers who were killed by the Black Race, e.g. Police
Officer Waverly L. Brown, Officer Down Memorial Page <https://www.odmp.org/officer/2372-police-
officer-waverly-l-brown>.
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dismal aspect of its history; but believes that the agendas behind HR 40 and S 1083 are more
likely to give rise to a escalated strife and discord that America can ill afford.

The appointment of a commission to study a given problem can further complicate the
issue and exacerbate public doubt and cynicism, 30 or it can have salutary effect upon the lives of
Americans. 31 If the legislation becomes law, the proposed Commission's effectiveness would
depend in no small measure upon the Commission's composition and conduct. The Commission
would need to represent a diversity of stakeholders, and give due regard to diverse viewpoints
and items of evidence.

If the Subcommittee withholds this instant Commentary from the Hearing record while
including other submissions received subsequent to the receipt of this Commentary, and/or if the
legislation becomes law and the Commission is not otherwise availed this Commentary but is
availed other viewpoints that are more consistent with the views of the legislation's sponsors,
then such would bode well for neither the Commission's success nor the success of American
society in adequately coming to terms with an insidious aspect of American history.

27 June 2019
Respectfully submitted,

Kenneth H. Ryesky, Esq.

30
As was the case with the report of the so-called "Warren Commission" on the Kennedy Assassination,
<https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/warren-commission-report>
31
As was the case with the report of the National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research, "Wake up
America: a National Sleep Alert" submitted to the United States Congress and to the Secretary, U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services. 1993 (SuDoc Y 3.2:SL 2/SL 2/v.1-2)