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Feeling marginally better now...
After sending letters to my CongressCritters. One isn't up for re-election this year, so he has a few years to clean up his act. The others have a month to let me know they got the message.
The topic words today are PATRIOT ACT and Torture.
I thought, perhaps, that I should explain why I am not only voting for your opposite, but I am actively campaigning for anyone whom I believe can unseat you.
And I quote:
"They came for the unpatriotic, and I didn't object -
For I was not unpatriotic;
They came for the dissenters and activists, and I didn't
object -
For I wasn't a dissenter or an activist;
"They came for the Communists, and I didn't object -
For I wasn't a Communist;
They came for the Socialists, and I didn't object -
For I wasn't a Socialist;
They came for the labor leaders, and I didn't object -
For I wasn't a labor leader;
They came for the Jews, and I didn't object -
For I wasn't a Jew;
Then they came for me -
And there was no one left to object."
--- Martin Niemoller, 1892-1984, a Protestant pastor in Nazi Germany
Perhaps you'd like the views of another American, instead?
"Treat them with humanity, and let them have no reason to complain of our Copying the brutal example of the British Army in their Treatment of our unfortunate brethren."
-- George Washington, commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Army, after the Battle of Trenton
You have allowed the white house to gut the Constitution, and have left in office a president who intends to authorize torture whenever he feels like it. You have betrayed your office. We know you for whom you are.
My God Does Not Torture! Remember that you won't be around when history judges your efforts. But your grandchildren will be. And they will be ashamed.
Thank you for reading this, whomever on staff is wading through these things.
-- Alfreda89
(Part of the Loyal Opposition, and a person who thinks the "Pledge" should be swapped for the Preamble to The Constitution.)
You are welcome to write something similar. If a hundred -- or a thousand -- people use these few quotes and their own words to finish, perhaps someone will take notice.
Please, tell me the soccer moms are going to toss these people out!
The topic words today are PATRIOT ACT and Torture.
I thought, perhaps, that I should explain why I am not only voting for your opposite, but I am actively campaigning for anyone whom I believe can unseat you.
And I quote:
"They came for the unpatriotic, and I didn't object -
For I was not unpatriotic;
They came for the dissenters and activists, and I didn't
object -
For I wasn't a dissenter or an activist;
"They came for the Communists, and I didn't object -
For I wasn't a Communist;
They came for the Socialists, and I didn't object -
For I wasn't a Socialist;
They came for the labor leaders, and I didn't object -
For I wasn't a labor leader;
They came for the Jews, and I didn't object -
For I wasn't a Jew;
Then they came for me -
And there was no one left to object."
--- Martin Niemoller, 1892-1984, a Protestant pastor in Nazi Germany
Perhaps you'd like the views of another American, instead?
"Treat them with humanity, and let them have no reason to complain of our Copying the brutal example of the British Army in their Treatment of our unfortunate brethren."
-- George Washington, commander-in-chief of the Revolutionary Army, after the Battle of Trenton
You have allowed the white house to gut the Constitution, and have left in office a president who intends to authorize torture whenever he feels like it. You have betrayed your office. We know you for whom you are.
My God Does Not Torture! Remember that you won't be around when history judges your efforts. But your grandchildren will be. And they will be ashamed.
Thank you for reading this, whomever on staff is wading through these things.
-- Alfreda89
(Part of the Loyal Opposition, and a person who thinks the "Pledge" should be swapped for the Preamble to The Constitution.)
You are welcome to write something similar. If a hundred -- or a thousand -- people use these few quotes and their own words to finish, perhaps someone will take notice.
Please, tell me the soccer moms are going to toss these people out!