Once more I sit here pissing in the wind.....deaf ears, deaf ears.

[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. __________________

[H2O Man]

1. Good letter.

I remember a decade ago, I was involved in an effort to get the EPA to force Allied/Amphenol to "clean" a 120-acre Superfund Site. And there are few situations where one is more likely to encounter deaf ears than when advocating that the government hold the military industrial complex responsible for little things like dumping TCE and other industrial wastes into a tiny hamlet's water reservoir for a couple of decades. There were some good and decent people working on the case in the Justice Department, but their influence was mitigated by some of the bureaucrats without conscience in the EPA.

One night, after a couple hours of frustration brought on by a conversation with an EPA paid liar, I was at my half-wit's ends. (Perhaps that was the desired result from the other end of the line.) Anyhow, I spoke with an associate, and he said, "You are only responsible for what you said. If you told her the truth, that's all you can do with her. It's up to her if she acts on it or not."

It is, I think, the same thing here. You and I may at times feel that we are speaking to deaf ears when it comes to our elected "representatives." But we are only responsible for what we say. They may not listen, and even if they do, they probably won't act on it .... because they are snakes. But it remains our responsibility to tell them the truth.

I like your letter.

[Pacifist Patriot]

2. You are absolutely correct.

But with any luck this letter will be a moot point and he'll be out on his ass in 5 weeks. Thanks!

[H2O Man]

4. And perhaps

in five weeks he will make a connection between his ignoring the truth while in office, and his unemployed status.

[Pacifist Patriot]

5. My major concern....

Most of his district votes on Diebold.

[exlrrp]

3. Pissing in the wind...

I like your letter but I agree about micturating into the weather. Weldon will file this in the little round basket.
Good sentiments but you get nowhere appealing to Republicans sense of patriotism, Weldon especially. You'd do better appealing to the profit motive

[Pacifist Patriot]

6. Nah, they've proven they don't understand money either.

I think they're just morally, intellectually and logically bankrupt.

[exlrrp]

7. Oh they understand money all right

That money is power. How to get lots of it. How to use it to stay in power.
Spending the taxpayers money is another matter entirely.
Don't forget spiritually and ethically bankrupt

[Pacifist Patriot]

8. I figured spiritually and ethically went without saying. ;-)

Cheers!

[lildreamer316]

9. Wow.

Kiiiiick! Incredible. All I can say is thank you.

[Usrename]

10. Bravo!

Well done! I hope the effort is not wasted.