Once more I sit here pissing in the wind.....deaf ears, deaf ears. [View All]

[Pacifist Patriot]

A letter to Rep. Dave Weldon, R-Of Course

Surely by now the Republicans in Congress have recognized the danger inherent in the policies and behavior of the Bush administration. If not, an informed citizen can only draw the conclusion these men and women are complicit rather than responsible representatives.

I am chilled and appalled by the increasing anti-dissent rhetoric and ire coming from our president and others in the administration. Have any of these men and women read either the Declaration of Independence or the U.S. Constitution?

The cognitive dissonance necessary to condemn terrorists for violence against innocent civilians while our actions in Iraq have slaughtered tens of thousands of women, children and non-combatants is astounding. We no longer hold any degree of moral superiority among the world community and it is irresponsible to blindly believe and behave otherwise.

Representative Weldon, I truly hope you will exercise you duty as an elected representative and use your conscience as a human being to put an end to this charade. Your responses to my legislative inquiries in the past have invariably contained the admonition that Americans should "support the president because he is the President." I beg to differ sir. Americans should support the principles bequeathed to us in the U.S. Constitution and respond to the universal call for human compassion. If a president does neither, Americans have not only the right to respond with dissent, but a civic and moral duty to do so.

Show yourself to be a leader and soundly denounce administration efforts to justify torture, un-constitutional tribunals, warrantless wiretapping of U.S. citizens and most particularly the request to somehow retroactively pardon the administration for actions even they agree were illegal at the time they were committed.

Are you a politican beholden to special interests or a patriot sir?

Regards,
Rev. __________________