Silver Lining - An Open Letter to Obama

Dear President Obama,

I hope that you will regard this letter in the spirit in which it is intended: true peace and justice for the people of this great nation. Your administration has come in for a fair amount of criticism over such things as your health care reforms, Check Card unionization, the National ID Card, implanted RDIF chips, the North American Union, and several other instances of increased government control of the lives of American citizens. As it turned out that protesters at one of your latest appearances were carrying rifles, it may be time to settle down and take a hard look at where we are.
Abraham Lincoln, without whose action in 1863 you would in all likelihood be sitting in the back of a bus instead of the oval office, said, "You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time." He also said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand." Our house, to which the voters gave you the keys in 2008 is sorely divided and this condition cannot remain unattended much longer.
One of your campaign promises was to end the war in Iraq, a war based on the lies and misrepresentations of the Bush regime, acts of treason that have so far gone unaddressed on your watch. We still don't have the truth about 911 and we the people are getting a bit hot under the collar on that issue. So, let's talk.

Firstly, I believe it would be well to formally introduce you to the people, we the people, whom you have been chosen to serve. Contrary to popular opinion we are an intelligent, honest, and decent people, and when roused to action we are capable of rising to great heights of industry and resourcefulness. We were the "arsenal of democracy" not so many years ago when we defeated totalitarianism abroad. Do you think we will tolerate totalitarianism here at home? Think again. Protesters carrying rifles suggest that we won't and that we are dangerously close to making that point in the most unambiguous of terms.

As to the war in Iraq, there is one sense in which it is not as wasteful as it may appear. Our troops are helping the cause of liberty, not for the Iraqis but for ourselves. A quote from another great leader in history, Tzar Peter the Great of Russia will help make the point.
Toward the end of the 17th century Russia was at war with Sweden under Charles XII and doing very poorly. Russia was sorely unprepared for the war and suffered a number of defeats. Peter's minsters approached the Tzar and asked what could be done to remedy the situation. Referring to the Swedes Peter replied, "Watch them, they are teaching us how to beat them."
You may recall the federal law enacted in 1878 called Posse Comitatus which prohibits the employment of federal troops against American citizens. How many troops does the Pentagon want to retain in this country for national emergencies and crowd control- 400,000? What does this have to do with the war in Iraq? Simple.The Iraqis have been teaching us how to beat an occupying military. Car bombs? IEDs? Guerrilla warfare? How do you think four hundred-thousand troops would do when set against fifty-million armed, and very pissed off Americans? Want to find out? Oh, and those foreign troops? Forget it; if we won't take shit from our own military, you can be damned sure we aren't going to take it from foreigners.

So, there you have it. The decision is yours. Stop trying to foist a Socialist agenda on the American people. Stop curtsying to the moneyed interests. Stop supporting Israel. Trash the North American Union, ID Cards, and RDIF chips. Get rid of the Federal Reserves as John Kennedy tried to do with Executive Order 11110. Disband Homeland Security and FEMA. And uphold the US Constitution as you took an oath to do.

In short, let's be friends.