📧 “Conditions”
At 14:25 on February 21, 2025, I received the following letter from Oregon Legislative Administrator Brett Haines.
Text of the Above Letter
Office of the Administrator 21 February 2025 Mr. Logan Isaac PO Box 1251 Albany, OR 97321
900 Court St NE, Rm. 140A • Salem, OR • 97301
LEGISLATIVE ADMINISTRATION
Dear Mr. Isaac,
Your recent visits to the Capitol have caused alarm, disruption and concern for persons working in the building. During your visits, there have been multiple reports of you berating and using concerning and threatening language at employees and causing disturbances in various locations within the Capitol. These types of visits are alarming and disruptive to the employees working within the Capitol and to members of the public visiting the building.
Pursuant to my authority as Legislative Administrator as described in ORS 173.720, I have authorized the Oregon State Police troopers working within the Capitol to restrict a person’s access to the building when necessary for the safety and security of employees and members of the public. Receipt of this memo signifies that such a decision to restrict your access has been made, and you are hereby informed that you are prohibited from visiting the Oregon State Capitol at 900 Court Street NE in Salem unless you follow the following procedures. You may enter the Capitol only to attend a scheduled public hearing of the Legislative Assembly or by specific invitation of a legislator or building tenant, and only under the following conditions. Prior to visiting the Capitol for these specified purposes, you must first notify the State Police Capitol Mall Patrol Office in writing (900 Court Street NE, Room 141, Salem, Oregon 97301) or by email (capitol.police@oregonlegislature.gov) at least one hour in advance of your visit, and you must state the reason for your visit. Upon your arrival at the Capitol, you must check in at the security checkpoint, with the State Police or the Capitol Security Manager on the first floor of the Capitol. Security staff will contact the State Police, and the State Police will escort you to your meeting and then out of the building at the conclusion of your business at the Capitol.
Notification to any other office of the Oregon State Police will be considered inadequate notice. Failure to comply with these conditions for your visits will result in your being escorted from the Capitol and you may be charged with criminal trespass under ORS 164.245.
These procedures are intended to allow you to conduct any needed business within Capitol offices, but only within the conditions outlined in this letter. If you would like to appeal the decision to restrict your access to the Capitol, please notify me in writing (Legislative Administrator, 900 Court Street NE, Salem, Oregon 97301) within 30 days after the date of receipt of this letter and specify why the restriction should not apply to you.
Sincerely,
Brett Hanes
Legislative Administrator
My reply @ 18:47
Sup Brett, cool name. Coupla things:
Nowhere in your first paragraph do you specify any federal, state, or local laws I may have violated such that a restriction of my Constitutional rights may be (lawfully) "restricted." The Oregon State Capitol is not private property, and you possess no private right to deprive other citizens of political power without cause.
Furthermore, "[your] authority" does not supersede the United States Constitution, federal law, or my rights thereunder. Therefore, your "decision to restrict" the lawful exercise of my rights is unlawful. Oregon is federated under said laws, not above. The very least the Constitution, and my service thereto, requires is access to political power. In other words, civil rights.
For the reason stated above ⬆️, the rest of your letter is fundamentally irrelevant because I do not recognize authority without force of law. I will visit my state capitol whenever I damn well please, because it doesn't belong to fragile elites who can't tell the difference between their feelings and political determination.
Let's be real clear, if you continue to assert your so-called (and unlawful, private) power "under color of law," then you are gifting me a private right of action to sue you, Brettt Haines, under a couple of federal laws, namely 42 USC §§ 1983 and 1985(3). That is one gift I'd happily accept!
You have until midnight on Sunday, February 23, 205, to amend, retract, or rescind your illegitimate and unlawful written assertion.
