Dear Senator Harkin--
Thank you for your email updating me on your "anti-surge" bill and asking for a contribution.
I have been a long-time supporter of yours, particularly when you were running for president and flouting "trickle down" economics and touting "percolate up" instead--
And I fully support the legislation you have proposed to clarify that additional troops require specific congressional authorization--
But let's be frank, Senator. For whatever reason, your party, the party for which I vote overwhelmingly in every election, has simply acted in the worst interests of the country since Bush 43 was installed in 2000. You permitted private corporations to control 85% of the votes cast in the United States via the Help America Vote (sic) Act, you ceded our Bill of Rights, all of them, via the Patriot Acts I and II, the Military Commissions Act, the retroactive granting of immunity for War Crimes, domestic warrantless spying, opening of citizen's mail, torture, the suspension of habeus corpus...and the appointment of justices to the Supreme Court (Alito and Roberts) that will permit these abominable and perverse subversions of the Constitution to become/remain the law of the land.
In short, it will take a little more hefty an action than opposing the admittedly ill-advised troop surge on your part--and the whole of the Congress, for that matter-- to convince me that the lot of you are anything other than complicit in the destruction of U.S. democracy.
You have one hell of a lot of work to do Senator, before you ever come knockin' on my door for money. The list above doesn't even begin to address the tortuously long list of damage that must be reversed JUST TO STOP THE DECLINE, never mind return us to where we were, oh, say, when Clinton left office.
The people, sure, they oppose the troop surge, but I think I've made my point that your support of this measure, while laudable, simply won't be enough to convince most people that anything meaningful has changed. Indeed, your assertion that the troops already in harms' way will always be supported ignores the very obvious fact that funding their withdrawal removes them from danger altogether, which is the type of "support" the voters indicated in November.
All of this should be, to me, blazingly obvious to you. Perhaps you need a policy analyst to point these things out. Contact me immediately should you wish my assistance.
I'm not kidding. The system appears broken from here, sir, but I'm willing to be disabused of this notion.
In any event, I'll be watching the Congressional agenda to address all of the items I listed above in the near future--
And legislation to bring our troops safely home,
And one helluva lot more.
Peace and Democracy,
Gurn Blanston
Thank you for your email updating me on your "anti-surge" bill and asking for a contribution.
I have been a long-time supporter of yours, particularly when you were running for president and flouting "trickle down" economics and touting "percolate up" instead--
And I fully support the legislation you have proposed to clarify that additional troops require specific congressional authorization--
But let's be frank, Senator. For whatever reason, your party, the party for which I vote overwhelmingly in every election, has simply acted in the worst interests of the country since Bush 43 was installed in 2000. You permitted private corporations to control 85% of the votes cast in the United States via the Help America Vote (sic) Act, you ceded our Bill of Rights, all of them, via the Patriot Acts I and II, the Military Commissions Act, the retroactive granting of immunity for War Crimes, domestic warrantless spying, opening of citizen's mail, torture, the suspension of habeus corpus...and the appointment of justices to the Supreme Court (Alito and Roberts) that will permit these abominable and perverse subversions of the Constitution to become/remain the law of the land.
In short, it will take a little more hefty an action than opposing the admittedly ill-advised troop surge on your part--and the whole of the Congress, for that matter-- to convince me that the lot of you are anything other than complicit in the destruction of U.S. democracy.
You have one hell of a lot of work to do Senator, before you ever come knockin' on my door for money. The list above doesn't even begin to address the tortuously long list of damage that must be reversed JUST TO STOP THE DECLINE, never mind return us to where we were, oh, say, when Clinton left office.
The people, sure, they oppose the troop surge, but I think I've made my point that your support of this measure, while laudable, simply won't be enough to convince most people that anything meaningful has changed. Indeed, your assertion that the troops already in harms' way will always be supported ignores the very obvious fact that funding their withdrawal removes them from danger altogether, which is the type of "support" the voters indicated in November.
All of this should be, to me, blazingly obvious to you. Perhaps you need a policy analyst to point these things out. Contact me immediately should you wish my assistance.
I'm not kidding. The system appears broken from here, sir, but I'm willing to be disabused of this notion.
In any event, I'll be watching the Congressional agenda to address all of the items I listed above in the near future--
And legislation to bring our troops safely home,
And one helluva lot more.
Peace and Democracy,
Gurn Blanston
