Open Letter to Bush
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who cares about a stupid letter that I wrote to our deplorable president who feels the need to explain that he's purchasing a chew toy for his dog. Oh, really? It's not for your mom?
I decided to post this letter for purely selfish and self-protective reasons. I once had to research and prepare some court documents in defense of this schizophrenic kid who had written letters to the president and other elected officials. Mostly, his letters were trying to explain his illness and his horrible childhood as partial justification for his actions that originally got him into the criminal system. Unfortunately, tidbits of the letters included some erratic and poorly spelled outbursts of rage. He was charged with threatening public officials, of course.
While I don't have too many questions about my mental stability, (ahem), and I have very little rage inside me, I do have a little nit to pick with the way this US government is governing us. One of those nits is the comfort much of the right seems to have in pointing fingers, throwing accusations, and otherwise sweeping the age-old proviso that we are all innocent until we are proven guilty under the tacky rug of patriotism. So, paranoid as ever, I am posting the letters I write to the President, just so anyone out there can see that I didn't say anything that can be construed as threatening or otherwise maliciously intended. To the contrary, I would love to "have a beer" with the ol' Pres, just to see if it's really as fun as people say it would be. And maybe, while we are toasting our good health, I might ask a couple questions about how he sleeps at night.
Here's the first, maybe the last, but one, in any case:
May 4, 2006
Dear President Bush,
I have decided that I will write a letter once a week to you, for the remainder of your term. I’m not joking; I am really going to do this. You may think that I am full of it, but I have a lot of reasons to do this. And I have the time.
I listen to the news every morning. I know you stated early on in your presidential career that you don’t let yourself become influenced by the mundane reality in daily newspapers (mundane means ordinary or dull), but there are some snippets of information that might serve you well as a human being living in this world. I may be a liberal Democrat, but I still recognize that you are, indeed, a human.
For example, as a human, you might be keen to know that every morning, most of the US wakes up to hear about a number of people getting killed in Iraq. Maybe these are just numbers to you. I don’t know whether you recognize that behind every number are actual bodies of flesh and blood, born to mothers and fathers, and loved by people around them. You, I would point out in case no one has, are also a body of flesh and blood, born to a mother and a father who love you. You have created two beings, of flesh and blood, with your wife, also human, and I believe that you love these creatures you created with the wife who I believe you also love. Do you see what I’m getting at here? You are human, and you are responsible, directly, for the killings that are taking place every single day in a country far away. You are responsible, directly, for the loss to this universe of loved flesh and blood.
Did you know there is also such a loss here, and you could address it if you pulled some money away from implementing a daily course of death and destruction in Iraq? There is a loss that takes place on the streets of this country’s cities: everyday, someone without a home, a human also of flesh and blood and loved at some point or even now, dies on the streets. Everyday. And it isn’t just one person, but many who die in different cities across the country. Did you know that?
I don’t want to beat the horse here, but I hope that you might consider how you are exacerbating a difficult situation. And there is no positive net result for a lot of humans, of flesh and blood, as a result of your actions. Instead of doing anything for the greater good, you are killing members of the greater good. You know, you could probably do something about that?
It’s not really my place to make you feel guilty, but it is my place, as a citizen and member of the electorate, to complain when I see fit. I have complained in my community, and increasingly, people are agreeing with me. Now, I am going to complain directly to you.
Sincerely,
Me (And here, I really did sign my true name.)
I decided to post this letter for purely selfish and self-protective reasons. I once had to research and prepare some court documents in defense of this schizophrenic kid who had written letters to the president and other elected officials. Mostly, his letters were trying to explain his illness and his horrible childhood as partial justification for his actions that originally got him into the criminal system. Unfortunately, tidbits of the letters included some erratic and poorly spelled outbursts of rage. He was charged with threatening public officials, of course.
While I don't have too many questions about my mental stability, (ahem), and I have very little rage inside me, I do have a little nit to pick with the way this US government is governing us. One of those nits is the comfort much of the right seems to have in pointing fingers, throwing accusations, and otherwise sweeping the age-old proviso that we are all innocent until we are proven guilty under the tacky rug of patriotism. So, paranoid as ever, I am posting the letters I write to the President, just so anyone out there can see that I didn't say anything that can be construed as threatening or otherwise maliciously intended. To the contrary, I would love to "have a beer" with the ol' Pres, just to see if it's really as fun as people say it would be. And maybe, while we are toasting our good health, I might ask a couple questions about how he sleeps at night.
Here's the first, maybe the last, but one, in any case:
May 4, 2006
Dear President Bush,
I have decided that I will write a letter once a week to you, for the remainder of your term. I’m not joking; I am really going to do this. You may think that I am full of it, but I have a lot of reasons to do this. And I have the time.
I listen to the news every morning. I know you stated early on in your presidential career that you don’t let yourself become influenced by the mundane reality in daily newspapers (mundane means ordinary or dull), but there are some snippets of information that might serve you well as a human being living in this world. I may be a liberal Democrat, but I still recognize that you are, indeed, a human.
For example, as a human, you might be keen to know that every morning, most of the US wakes up to hear about a number of people getting killed in Iraq. Maybe these are just numbers to you. I don’t know whether you recognize that behind every number are actual bodies of flesh and blood, born to mothers and fathers, and loved by people around them. You, I would point out in case no one has, are also a body of flesh and blood, born to a mother and a father who love you. You have created two beings, of flesh and blood, with your wife, also human, and I believe that you love these creatures you created with the wife who I believe you also love. Do you see what I’m getting at here? You are human, and you are responsible, directly, for the killings that are taking place every single day in a country far away. You are responsible, directly, for the loss to this universe of loved flesh and blood.
Did you know there is also such a loss here, and you could address it if you pulled some money away from implementing a daily course of death and destruction in Iraq? There is a loss that takes place on the streets of this country’s cities: everyday, someone without a home, a human also of flesh and blood and loved at some point or even now, dies on the streets. Everyday. And it isn’t just one person, but many who die in different cities across the country. Did you know that?
I don’t want to beat the horse here, but I hope that you might consider how you are exacerbating a difficult situation. And there is no positive net result for a lot of humans, of flesh and blood, as a result of your actions. Instead of doing anything for the greater good, you are killing members of the greater good. You know, you could probably do something about that?
It’s not really my place to make you feel guilty, but it is my place, as a citizen and member of the electorate, to complain when I see fit. I have complained in my community, and increasingly, people are agreeing with me. Now, I am going to complain directly to you.
Sincerely,
Me (And here, I really did sign my true name.)
posted by your friend at Friday, May 05, 2006
1 Comments:
He'd just feel sad for you. "People are unsettled. We're at war. People get unsettled when we're at war." He said that about his lowered popularity ratings. He just does not get, that many, many people really do not like him.
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