(no subject)
Dear Members of U.S. Congress,
Why should I feel like I have no freedom of speech? Why should the debate of free speech ring louder than the reason why someone chose to say what they feel?
This "ism" war needs to stop. We need to stop repeating history- fighting fascism we locked up an entire race of people many of whom were US citizens (I know you know this, but why does it seem like our government doesn't remember?!). When we fought communism we blacklisted and arrested anyone that might speak out against some "american value" then we killed our own youth, Koreans, Vietnamese, and thousands of others that we aided with weapons and training in order to serve American interests in other parts of the globe- we live on planet Earth not plant USA. Now that we're fighting terrorism we're killing our own youth again as well as thousands of Middle Eastern people- who are not all evil- why don't we recognize any of our own acts as evil? Why do we have to fit neatly into binaries of for or against? Where has the logic and rationality in government gone? (or has it ever even been there?)The money we spend on this failed "war" could have been spent to promote peace and to help Katrina efforts- this drought in California- or college scholarships, medical benefits, ANYTHING to affirm life (not as an abortion issue- which shouldn't be an issue at all even) rather than kill those who have a different ideal or those who follow blindly- EDUCATION NOT WAR PLEASE!
If we live in a democracy then I hope you listen (read)this with compassion and hope. I do not feel like a vote on a ballot is a voice- I need my voice to be heard and my beliefs/opinions/facts to be taken seriously by those who "represent" me. Please knock some sense in congress, we have to be responsible if we're going to be the superpower on the globe- that doesn't mean being imperialistic.
Thank you for your time,
Hilary Graham (please don't black list me)
additionally- why is it that when Clinton tries to get a blow job the American public tries to impeach him- where as Bush has put death sentences of many poor Americans, Iraqis, Afghanis, +++ and lies about wmds to the American public to get support for this "war" and we still let him get away with it?
http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/65?ad=g4&gclid=CMLU6Z6mio8CFSgZagodhVSBvA <- petition to impeach
Why should I feel like I have no freedom of speech? Why should the debate of free speech ring louder than the reason why someone chose to say what they feel?
This "ism" war needs to stop. We need to stop repeating history- fighting fascism we locked up an entire race of people many of whom were US citizens (I know you know this, but why does it seem like our government doesn't remember?!). When we fought communism we blacklisted and arrested anyone that might speak out against some "american value" then we killed our own youth, Koreans, Vietnamese, and thousands of others that we aided with weapons and training in order to serve American interests in other parts of the globe- we live on planet Earth not plant USA. Now that we're fighting terrorism we're killing our own youth again as well as thousands of Middle Eastern people- who are not all evil- why don't we recognize any of our own acts as evil? Why do we have to fit neatly into binaries of for or against? Where has the logic and rationality in government gone? (or has it ever even been there?)The money we spend on this failed "war" could have been spent to promote peace and to help Katrina efforts- this drought in California- or college scholarships, medical benefits, ANYTHING to affirm life (not as an abortion issue- which shouldn't be an issue at all even) rather than kill those who have a different ideal or those who follow blindly- EDUCATION NOT WAR PLEASE!
If we live in a democracy then I hope you listen (read)this with compassion and hope. I do not feel like a vote on a ballot is a voice- I need my voice to be heard and my beliefs/opinions/facts to be taken seriously by those who "represent" me. Please knock some sense in congress, we have to be responsible if we're going to be the superpower on the globe- that doesn't mean being imperialistic.
Thank you for your time,
Hilary Graham (please don't black list me)
additionally- why is it that when Clinton tries to get a blow job the American public tries to impeach him- where as Bush has put death sentences of many poor Americans, Iraqis, Afghanis, +++ and lies about wmds to the American public to get support for this "war" and we still let him get away with it?
http://www.democrats.com/peoplesemailnetwork/65?ad=g4&gclid=CMLU6Z6mio8CFSgZagodhVSBvA <- petition to impeach