Let me expand on this:

When you started abusing me, I documented it.

And instead of responding to that documentation like professionals, you retaliated.

You told me to chew glass and swallow it.

You told me I was never given the benefit of the doubt.

You reframed everything you could to support a sinister narrative out of whole cloth.

You elicited empathy from me in order to extract disclosures you could weaponize.

You attacked my sexuality under a gay governor.

You had a man I didn't know, who had no identification on him, question me while you were all away for regional events.

You tried to frame what happened to me as "emotional processing" instead of the institutional abuse it is.

You hid behind a portal for ninety days rather than answer a public records request.

You have tried to isolate and contain me at every level, and yet not one of you stopped to see what you are trying to contain.

So let me name it: abuse.

And you are contributing to it.

I built an archive.

No one has threatened legal action for it. No one has asked me to take it down.

Because there's no legal basis.

Because your actions are indefensible but they are accurately described.

Because truth is absolute defense.

And you can't dispute it.

325 days.

That it now how long you have been violating my constitutional rights.

That is how long you have barred me from civic participation.

And that's after the abuse. Because, lest you forget, the abuse itself was also unconstitutional.

So no, your deputy director can't protect you from the consequences you created yourself.

You harmed me. You are harming me right now.

Robert Samuel White