Jul 20 2007
Letters to My Congresspeople
I just can’t take it anymore, so I wrote those in Congress who represent me:
Some highlights:
Please understand that this letter is from a conservative. There was a time when I supported the Republican party over the Democrats, because I appreciate social solutions and limited government over legislated morality and bloat. However, since the Bush administration has taken power, I have watched the government balloon unchecked and encroach into our personal freedoms in blatant disregard of the sanctity of private life. Some of these things I accepted as necessary consequences of the 9/11 attacks, and some of these things seemed like reactionary panic, which I tolerated in faith that the courts and future Congresses would refine them. For a while, it seemed like my faith was well-placed.
Things have now changed. The Bush administration’s politicization of justice and unwillingness to accept the rule of law and Congress’s role of oversight has orchestrated a constitutional showdown which Congress cannot lose. Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Paul Craig Roberts has said: “Unless Congress immediately impeaches Bush and Cheney, a year form now the US could be a dictatorial police state at war with Iran.” A few weeks ago, I would have written that off as paranoia, but the administration’s now flagrant disregard for Congress’s oversight role, and its blatant disregard for the public that it is supposed to serve, has pushed me too far.
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Be assured that I will be watching the next few months of politics very carefully. Any member of Congress who takes a positive step to oppose this affront to American ideals will gain my lifelong support, and a outspoken and passionate advocate; any member who is complacent through this breakdown of our government will earn their own place in that Hell reserved for those who stand by while evil triumphs.
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