January 20, 2009
by Steve Osborn
Dear Mr. Obama, You are about to take Bible in hand and repeat the following:
"I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."
I ask that you consider this oath and what it means. I have been watching your selection of the players on your new team, and see that many of them are the authors or the worker bees that have shredded our Constitution and Government. That does not give me confidence.
I watched your introduction of your new team and saw only one brief mention of the Constitution. The rest was dedicated to a need for more intrusiveness, more spying, more searching and restricting of We the People. That does not give me confidence.
I listened to your campaign promises to end the wars and end the gulags and have watched you hedge and back off on every one of these promises. Now we are to have more and wider wars, we are continuing to back Israel including sending them several thousand tons more munitions as they raze Gaza and slaughter its population. Closing the gulags is going to be complex and time consuming. That does not give me confidence.
You indicated that We the People, not They the Wealthy would be helped to survive in the economic chaos brought on by the Bush "help the wealthy" program. My bank does not have any money to loan to the retired, the marginally employed, to refinance stressed mortgages, etc., but it did buy another bank since they got the bailout. That does not give me confidence.
You are said to be a Constitutional scholar. You should know that the Constitution mandates impeachments and bars pardons for the impeached. That the impeachment process is much like a Grand Jury. It certainly does not require multi-million or billion dollar investigations when anybody with a copy of the Constitution and Bill of Rights can point out many repeated violations of the documents and, many noted scholars as well as laymen have produced excellent Articles of Impeachment, only to have them ignored or tabled. Yet, you now hedge and say that bringing these crimes into the open would be counter productive, or that proof would be difficult and costly to obtain. That does not give me confidence.
In short, since you won the election, I have seen a great deal of "Bush Lite" and "Business as usual." I think you should heed the words of Thomas Jefferson, who said, "The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."
We the People have watched those chains being systematically cut and shattered by all three branches of the government. What Jefferson feared and warned about has come to pass. You were elected to bring about change, to restore our Constitution and bring some honesty and decency back to the United States, to tie the government back down with the chains of the Constitution. We see you hedging around that mandate. That does not give me confidence.
We have watched the American People being turned into homeless serfs as the wealth of the country has been bled off by the Oligarchy that has run the country for the past few decades and its jobs have been outsourced to countries where desperate people will work for a couple of dollars per day, then further to where starving people will work for a handful of rice. That does not give me confidence.
If you are not going to work to return our country to us, to restore our Constitution and Bill of Rights as the rule and guide of our nation, and act internationally to restore respect for, in place of fear of, the United States in the world. That does not give me confidence.
If, in fact, we are looking at four more years of an unconstitutional and growing police state, then I ask all of you to remember another of Jefferson's quotes. "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."
That worked two hundred and thirty-three years ago in shedding another tyranny and, that does give me confidence.
Don't let us down again.
Sincerely,
Steve Osborn
copied from http://www.populistamerica.com/one_last_reminder_to_mr_obama
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