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Edited on Wed Nov-03-04 03:33 PM by KevinJ
Just want to post this quickly before I embark upon an extended vacation to a gulag. Should I suddenly disappear, somebody please call ACLU.
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Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2004 2:31 PM
To: president@whitehouse.gov
Subject: Well, I suppose congratulations are in order
Dear Mr. President,
How strange it feels to say that, but I suppose I have to call you that now that you appear to have actually won an election as opposed to simply being appointed by your ideological kin on the Supreme Court. I'm writing simply to urge you, as you bask in your triumph, to recall that the other 49% of the country which did not support you is now weeping, trying to decide whether to commit suicide or to emigrate to a civilized country. You have an awesome responsibility before you now to actually fulfill the promise you made in your first campaign but predictably ignored, which is to be a uniter rather than a divider. Since your extremist agenda is what produced the violent schism in our country, I have no doubt that my admonition will fall of deaf ears and you will continue on, if anything with greater vigor than before, in your campaign to resurrect feudalism. Nevertheless, for this brief moment, while I still enjoy the protection of the first amendment and before a squad of John Ashcroft's jackbooted thugs come in the middle of the night to spirit me off to some gulag beyond the reach of the Constitution's protections for my unamerican thought crimes, I wish to offer a word of advice. When, in a few months, you decide to authorize the wholesale destruction of the environment and dub it your Healthy World initiative; when you empower enforcement agencies to detain, torture, and kill anyone who so much as looks suspicious in the eyes of an officer with even less education than yourself and call it your Fair Play initiative; and when you appoint David Duke to the Supreme Court in the interests of preventing judicial activism, be not surprised when this country finds itself split into opposing camps who hate each other even more than they hate al Qaeda and know that you need look no further than the mirror for the explanation.
May God save us all... from you.
KevinJ
Washington, DC
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edge sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done.
- Julius Caesar
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