ColdTowne Theater
Act for the Good of the People
RECEIVED Thu., Nov. 2, 2006
Dear Editor,
Allowing President Bush and those around him to break the law and not doing anything about it is creating a sense of helplessness among Americans. When people feel helpless, when they think their vote does not count, when they are afraid to express dissent, when they feel there is nothing they can do, when the people representing them are not listening, when leaders do whatever they want even if it is illegal or ethically wrong, or immoral, we have a dictatorship rather than a democracy.
The Bush administration runs the country like a dictatorship. I live in this country because it is supposed to be a democracy where the people have a voice and where they know that if they vote and speak out, representatives will listen and act on behalf of the people. America is losing the characteristics that have made it a democracy because the people feel helpless!
I urge people to please help turn America around from the damage that has been done by all the illegal and sneaky things this administration has done to take away the rights of Americans and further perpetuated a feeling of apathy and helplessness that is discouraging Americans from even exercising their right to vote! We must not let our country take on any more characteristics of a dictatorship!
Recently CNN reported: “The Pentagon cannot account for 14,030 weapons – almost 4 percent of the semiautomatic pistols, assault rifles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and other weapons it has been supplying to Iraq since the end of 2003. The missing weapons will not be tracked easily: The Defense Department registered the serial numbers of only about 10,000 of the 370,251 weapons it provided – less than 3 percent. Missing from the Defense Department's inventory books were 13,180 semiautomatic pistols, 751 assault rifles and 99 machine guns.”
This president and his administration must be held accountable! What happened to checks and balances? What will come next from this president if you do not hold him accountable for breaking the law? Democracy is truly failing if President Bush is allowed to break the law repeatedly and the voices of the people are ignored! Americans need renewed hope in the system.
I urge people to vote and act for the good of Democracy, for the good of the country, for the good of the people.
Allowing President Bush and those around him to break the law and not doing anything about it is creating a sense of helplessness among Americans. When people feel helpless, when they think their vote does not count, when they are afraid to express dissent, when they feel there is nothing they can do, when the people representing them are not listening, when leaders do whatever they want even if it is illegal or ethically wrong, or immoral, we have a dictatorship rather than a democracy.
The Bush administration runs the country like a dictatorship. I live in this country because it is supposed to be a democracy where the people have a voice and where they know that if they vote and speak out, representatives will listen and act on behalf of the people. America is losing the characteristics that have made it a democracy because the people feel helpless!
I urge people to please help turn America around from the damage that has been done by all the illegal and sneaky things this administration has done to take away the rights of Americans and further perpetuated a feeling of apathy and helplessness that is discouraging Americans from even exercising their right to vote! We must not let our country take on any more characteristics of a dictatorship!
Recently CNN reported: “The Pentagon cannot account for 14,030 weapons – almost 4 percent of the semiautomatic pistols, assault rifles, machine guns, rocket-propelled grenade launchers and other weapons it has been supplying to Iraq since the end of 2003. The missing weapons will not be tracked easily: The Defense Department registered the serial numbers of only about 10,000 of the 370,251 weapons it provided – less than 3 percent. Missing from the Defense Department's inventory books were 13,180 semiautomatic pistols, 751 assault rifles and 99 machine guns.”
This president and his administration must be held accountable! What happened to checks and balances? What will come next from this president if you do not hold him accountable for breaking the law? Democracy is truly failing if President Bush is allowed to break the law repeatedly and the voices of the people are ignored! Americans need renewed hope in the system.
I urge people to vote and act for the good of Democracy, for the good of the country, for the good of the people.
Brenda Freed
