Happy 250th Birthday America but… (Letter to Lee County, FL Commissioners and Sheriff Marceno)
Dear Lee County Commissioners,
I have begged, for years, for your intercession concerning enforcement relevant to unlawfully LOUD motor vehicles operating on the public roadways of Lee County, you and Sheriff Marceno do NOTHING to enforce the OEM/factory installed muffler mandates of Florida’s Motor Vehicle Muffler Statute. I called the Lee County Sheriff’s Department on July 4th, 2026, begging for intercession relevant to unruly, disrespectful, neighbors exploding fireworks near my home and within the Sun Diet Community in Bokeelia, Pine Island. I was informed by the clerk that fire works were lawful on the July 4th Holiday and the police would do NOTHING to intercede on behalf of my Wife who was preparing for surgery and needed her rest prior to anesthesia. Lee County and its law enforcement “community” is impotent as are the local law enforcement communities of Fort Myers and Cape Coral.
Fireworks in our communities is insanity,
I hate fireworks in our communities almost as much as I do the relentless illegal, intrusive, NOISE from illegally LOUD, illegally equipped, motor vehicles operating unencumbered by law enforcement on our public roadways. Fireworks exploding in our communities robs the citizenry of quality of life, it’s disrespectful and harmful to our veterans and law enforcement officers, first responders, the autistic, especially relevant are those who have been in life and death scenarios where unwanted exposure to this intrusive, unnecessary, selfish, explosive noise causes a visceral form of trauma (PTSD), it horrifies our pets, wildlife, as well. It is insane that municipal, county, state, officials allow individuals to lawfully purchase explosives – fireworks and transport them into our communities around the United States to destroy the daily and nightly quality of life of their neighbors…men, women, children, the elderly, the handicapped, unlawfully traumatized by this unnecessary, physiologically injurious, NOISE nonsense, those physiologically and psychologically offended and harmed but who are too timid, too fearful, too cowardly, to stand for their rights concerning domestic tranquility and law enforcement intercession.
Why are individuals in Lee County, Florida, allowed to legally purchase explosives from a licensed vendor then take those explosives home, into our communities, and explode them, discharge them, all day, all night, without care or concern for the health and welfare of the families living in those communities? Why do these narcissistic morons receive police protection as they engage in this quality of life destroying behavior? Why are vehicular NOISE bullies with illegally modified, illegally LOUD aftermarket racing exhausts, allowed to bully and abuse Lee County’s most innocent while Sheriff Marceno and his Politically Correct deputies, Cape Coral PD, Fort Myers PD, DO ABSOLUTELY NOTHING? This is WOKE incompetence.
The only viable option,
The most viable option concerning fireworks for celebrations is an organized event within a municipality or county and invite those interested in exposure to the dangerous, quality of life altering, decibels of exploding fireworks the opportunity to enjoy the fanfare in a contained, centralized, location while sparing the peace loving members of society from unwanted, unwelcomed, exposure to the dangerous explosive noise intrusion. Stop allowing the retail of explosives to a society of narcissistic misfits, a society that is faltering in moral relativism, arrogance, selfishness, narcissism!
This is NOT a difficult concept, protect the innocent from unlawful, unwanted, destruction of domestic tranquility initiated by narcissistic NOISE morons within our society who are essentially careless bullies who care NOTHING for the health and welfare, the daily quality of life, of their neighbors.
In conclusion,
I moved to Florida five-years ago under the “impression” that Florida was a “law and order State” replete with patriotic conservatism but what I’ve found is a State replete with men and women who believe “freedom” is actually moral relativism and they’re free to do what is right in their own eyes…a skewed and warped ideology rooted in selfish narcissism. It is law enforcement’s duty to protect our true “freedoms” from these selfish bullies…Lee County and most of Florida’s law enforcement community has embarrassingly failed to protect. I will leave Florida in the rearview if my home receives a fair offer for retail. I’m sure this will please all concerned. This State is inundated with selfish narcissists and Florida provides little to no protection from the same.
Here is but one example of a fireworks, loud vehicle, vulgar, moron in my community I confronted on July 4, 2026 subsequent a failed promise of police intervention…these people are not well psychologically, they do not deserve the opportunity to destroy the daily quality of life of Lee County’s citizens: https://youtu.be/_hJUNDT-66A
Rickey D. Holtsclaw













