Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Dear Mr. President,

It looks like a full-court press on WikiLeaks and Julian Assange. He=s apparently got some pretty incriminating emails on those guys running the banks that you bailed out and in addition to the bankers, they might also cast regulators in a bad light for not regulating, so this weekend the Vice President called Mr. Assange Aa high-tech terrorist@ and Eric Holder, your guy at the Justice Department, said, and I quote, ATo the extent we can find anybody who was involved in the breaking of American law, who put at risk the assets and the people I have described, they will be held responsible; they will be held accountable.@ When I read that this morning, the first thing that came to mind was, Wait a minute! What about Bush? What about Cheney? What about Rumsfeld and Wolfowitz and Yoo? They all broke laws, they=re all guilty of war crimes, guilty of violating human rights and human decency. Where=s that righteous indignation and accountability when it comes to them? Boy, talk about a double standard. No wonder people are disillusioned and frustrated and just plain fed up. We=ve been lied to, deceived, our treasury=s been looted, we=ve had nine years of illegal immoral wars of aggression with no end in sight and nobody=s been held to account for any of that. When the rich and powerful tycoons on Wall Street and in the big corporations that were Atoo big to fail@ ran the economy into the ground through incompetence and greed nobody was held accountable for that either. You bailed them out, made them whole, and threw the rest of us a few crumbs with that tax cut deal you made with McConnell that shifts even more wealth to the rich. Did you know that in the first nine months of this year, lenders filed notices of default on 229,843 homes in California alone? 229,843! Meanwhile we=re spending $10 billion a month on wars based on lies and deceit. Where=s the justice in that, Mr. President? And now the generals want to expand the war into Pakistan, open up a new front. Hoo boy! Don=t go down that slippery slope. You=ve already authorized more than 50 drone strikes in Pakistan since September, well over 100 this year, and now they want you to authorize ground raids into the tribal areas. Deja vu. Vietnam. Don=t do it. Stop the war. Stop the madness.