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The following is a letter I wrote that
was published in my town's local newspaper on July 3, 2013
Dear Editor,
Last
month you printed a letter I wrote in which I said that Obama
ought to be impeached. I also said that
what we need is to have a public airing of what is happening
to our Constitution. Since then we have the
revelations of Edward Snowden and Russ Tice, whistleblowers
who tell us that the government has recorded for some time now
the contents of every email and phone call we’ve made.
This means that any citizen or public official can now
conceivably be blackmailed and/or shut down by the NSA or
whoever it is that controls this information. So
this revelation has convinced me that I was wrong to advocate
for Obama’s impeachment. The truth is
that we have no mechanism by which he could be impeached and
have his impeachment make a difference. Most
members of Congress, the Supreme Court, military leaders and
captains of industry, particularly those who run the so-called
fourth estate and the military-industrial complex that
Eisenhower talked about are now so corrupted, that we no
longer have what can legitimately be called in the United
States, a true democracy. To restore the
rights and freedoms the Constitution promises would require
that the people who have had such a corrupting influence,
acknowledge their infidelity, tell the full truth about what
they’ve done and what they know, and then step aside so that
we might try again to form a more perfect union. Frankly,
I don’t believe this is going to happen. We
live in a very special place here on Vashon, and yet I’m
left to wonder… if the citizens of every other town and city
in the country care as much about protecting our rights and
freedoms as most Vashon residents do, will our children and
grandchildren ever know true freedom again?
Mark
A. Goldman
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