10/04/06 Letter to the editor, Seattle Times

[rustydog]

Hundreds of thousands of Americans gave their lives in service to America from the American Revolutionary war to today. Abraham Lincoln once said at Gettysburg "... that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

These lofty ideals: freedom, justice, honor, integrity, dignity and a system of law and order.

They have now all been completely destroyed. This Republican Party has given George Bush the right to suspend habeas corpus. The party that tried to impeach Clinton for an extra-marital affair has retroactively freed George Bush of the fear of being prosecuted for war crimes, for authorizing and allowing people to brutally torture innocent persons in our name. Bush can now imprison American citizens without warrant, without pleading their case. This Republican-controlled Congress made Bush a dictator. (How Nazi-like does this have to be before you wake up, America?) An appallingly soiled and brutally assaulted corpse of a Constitution was lain at the feet of George Bush by the Republican Party.

I weep for America.

Richard Bartz

This is what we need to be talking about, not a botched joke.