Power and Responsibility

Dear Representative Pelosi,

         Senator Boxer,

         Senator Feinstein

 I realize all three of you are part of the power elite, bought and paid for by the 1% and dedicated to protecting their interests, but does it ever bother you that your leader, the President, is amassing all the power our founding fathers – long-haired intellectuals – so carefully distributed among the three branches of government to serve as checks and balances? Does it bother you that you have failed to do your job as required by the Constitution, that you have abdicated responsibility for holding the Executive branch in check? Does it keep you awake at night that President Barack Obama now has the power to declare any one of you or all three of you terrorists or terrorist sympathizers and order the military to incarcerate you indefinitely without trial? Impossible! you say. Not as far-fetched as you might think. A man drunk on power and blood who has no qualms about putting teenage children on his “Kill List” and says ordering the assassination of an American citizen without trial was an “easy call” can just as easily decide that anyone who opposes him is a terrorist. It could be you, it could be me, it could be anyone. In yesterday’s paper I read that the Senate will hold hearings on the recent articles which appeared in The New York Times detailing the President’s personal involvement in selecting “nominees” for his weekly “Kill List.” But the hearings are not to investigate the legality of this obscene evil policy of Targeted Assassinations or the breaking of law by the President or his war crimes and crimes against humanity, they are to investigate how this information was leaked to the press! I had to read the article twice to make sure I wasn’t misinterpreting it. What a charade. Senator Feinstein, your “classified” letter to the President worrying that this type of information might “endanger American lives and undermine America’s national security” is the height of hypocrisy and absurdity. McCain’s right: the information was leaked because the President wanted it leaked to show what a tough guy he is. You should be investigating the immorality and evil of undeclared war, of war crimes committed in the name of the United States and of the unbridled power that the office of the President now has in contravention to the Constitution. To investigate the leaks is to disrespect the intelligence and will of the people and to neglect your duties and obligations as members of Congress. Shame on you all.