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Date Posted: 07:20:26 08/03/04 Tue
Inaction is our greatest tool of resistance, because the greatest weapon in our nation is dollar. It is not a crime to not buy. And if enough people did not buy for but one day our strength would be remembered by those with and without power.
I wrote this letter and see no fitting way to send it to the president. I'd like some advice as to how this could be done anonymously.
Dear Mr. President,
I am writing from the heart when I say that what you are doing in the war against terrorism is wrong. Making me afraid to go to work so you can win one more election is wrong. Spying on Americans is wrong. The system of alert is wrong. Going to war against a single country in the name of the war on terrorism is wrong. Sending troops to war ill equipped is wrong. Taking from the poor and giving to the rich is wrong.
A stem cell is not fetus. On this account you are wrong. An abortion for a woman who is for one reason or another unable to provide for her child is neither indecent nor inhuman. On this account you are wrong.
Standing by while people of foreign nations kill each other for food when we in America are more than fed is wrong. Killing people who are already dying is wrong. Revenge is wrong. Greed is wrong. Calling for armageddon without the sword of God with seven stars and seven golden candle sticks is wrong.
Empathy is not wrong. Giving what is needed to those who need it is not wrong. Asking your people to give what they don't need to those who need it is not wrong. Taking it is wrong.
I am not posing a threat Mr. President. I am merely stating an opinion and I hope many of my fellow Americans have done the same and will do so in the future. I think we are entitled to. I think we are obligated to. I think that the very principles of American Democracy are founded on a right which not only suggests we the people state our opinions, but asks us to.
I am not going to work tomorrow. I am not going shopping tomorrow. I am not aiding the economy in anyway tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow and by the way you treat the American people I am shocked that not more of them do the same.
"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."
--From Macbeth (Act V, Scene v, verse 19)
Good evening Mr. President,
a fellow American
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