Burning Electrons

To: Barack Obama,

Listen, all that good rhetoric that Amnesty International says follows
what I really want to say. Listen! you need to just tell that MF that
you are going to put the detainees, the ones with evidence against
them that can be used in court, in the prison that is closest to his
back yard, and if he doesn’t like it, he should go take a flying leap
into the cesspool that he and GW Bush left this country in.

Listen! you have 60 senators. Tell the republicans to get real. What
they say doesn’t matter in the least because they are stupid, mean,
cruel people whose hearts ( if they have them) are not in the right
place. Listen! Tell them that you get more flies with honey than
vinegar, and they have been pushing vinegar on the people of the US
for long enough. We have learned our lesson. If what they stand for is
what Christianity is all about, we should become a Buddhist nation.

Listen! There is no other way to say it; Just tell them to fuck off.

There, I’ve said it. I managed to find compassion for Bush in the last
days of his term, it took a lot of meditation to do that. I could
never find that compassion for Cheney. He is a mean person. Tell him
to go live in China. He would fit in well there. (On the other hand, I
would have loved to see what would have happened to him during the
cultural revolution… reeducation time, baby!).

Oh… and close gitmo right now!

But wait, there is more…

I want you to investigate and prosecute those responsible for torture.

According to the bipartisan Senate Armed Services
Committee report, the previous administration’s Office of Legal
Counsel “distorted the meaning and intent of anti-torture laws” and
“rationalized the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody.”

Please help establish and support a non-partisan, independent
commission of distinguished Americans to examine, and provide a
comprehensive report on policies and actions related to the
detention, treatment, and transfer of detainees after 9/11 and the
consequences of those actions, and to make recommendations for future
policy in this area. Such a commission needs to be independent, backed
by the full force of law, and adequately funded.

The U.S. government has a legal obligation to prosecute grave breaches
of the Geneva Conventions. I ask that you help establish this
commission of inquiry to live up to obligations and to help hold
perpetrators of abuse accountable. Moreover, I ask that you ask
Attorney General Eric Holder to launch a criminal investigation into
abuses and hold those responsible for violations accountable.

Finally, I would like you to ensure that the Administration produces
and publishes all remaining relevant policy memos that argued for,
documented, and established the basis for coercive interrogation,
detainee treatment and policy in the last administration. It is
important that we expose the truth about the abuses that were
committed in our name and hold the guilty responsible so that these
abuses do not happen again. Please let me know of your actions to hold
abusers accountable, and to uphold our obligations under law.

And in addition…

You need to go after the CEO’s and CFO’s and bankers and all those guys who caused this economic meltdown just so they could line their own pockets with filthy lucre.  What they did shows the real intention of the previous administrations lack of compassion for the common folk who live and work in the USA.  And you need to pay special attention to all those guys who floated housing securities and then bet against them; like Goldman Sachs and their partners.  They created the market and then bet that it would fail, talk about playing both ends. It didn’t cost them their houses, in fact, they made millions on shorting the market that they created in the first place.  They knew it was easy to take advantage of people who can’t keep up with the money boys, its like selling encyclopedias; every salesmen knows that they can sell more in a poor neighborhood than in an upper middle class one because there are people there who are trying to climb out of a hole that someone else put them in, and they want to give their kids any advantage they can give them. Or at least that’s the way it was before the internet and Wikipedia.

THey need to pay for what they did.  They need to give back those millions or billions and then pay a penalty on top of that.  Maybe they would have a little more compassion if they were forced into the same wealth class as the rest of us.

We have to make people know that greed is a bad thing, that it hurts people who are just trying to live a good American life with the hope that their kids will have a better world to live in than they had growing up.  That is the American dream and we have lost it because of the Bushes and Rayguns and Cheney’s.  Kids today know that it is unlikely that they will do better than their parents, and in fact, they are probably right in that, but you have to make sure that know who caused this problem because Fox news (sic) is going to tell them that you caused it and that the Bushes ruled over the golden years.

Get out there and fight dirty.  Make sure you point the finger at the right people, the ones on top.  Do something!

Sincerely

Stephen R Lasky

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It boggles the mind to look at the stats on where the people on death row are located.  Would you believe Texas is number 1 with the most death row inmates?  You would be right.  I also found this video on Amnesty internationals sight the describes the plight of a death row inmate in Georgia.  Besides being a good song, most of the witnesses have recanted and told of police pressure to name a perp for the murder.  A new trial is in order for this one case, but its time the supreme court says that the Death Penalty is cruel and unusual punishment or whatever they need to do to stop this foolishness. The death penalty does not allow for mistakes.  It is a permanent decision that can’t be taken back by new evidence.

End the death penalty now.