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Open Letter to Congress: Must the system of checks and balances come from overseas?

By Kathryn Smith  Posted by Kathryn Smith (about the submitter)       (Page 3 of 3 pages) Become a premium member to see this article and all articles as one long page.   4 comments

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~ Now don’t take my statement out of context: I am not suggesting that we will stop paying our taxes. My point is: We are being coerced to funding our own victimization. And while we are not going to stop paying our taxes, we also have every right to object to the ways our moneys are being diverted, particularly when it is used as a weapon against our own selves. Economic depression and starvation are not acceptable uses of *our* tax dollars, and neither are mass murder rings such as the Iraq War and torture of innocent people.

~ J) Contrary to what you might like us to believe, wherever there are huge problems, there are almost always very simple solutions. Peaceful, effective ones.~The day is coming soon, when We the People will ourselves campaign to unseat you-----90% of you----from public office. We will campaign to challenge your Congressional seats, in ratios of 10 citizens for every Lawmaker-or-breaker.~We will pull the levers at the polls and “Just say NO” to treason.~We will broadcast your wrong-doings in letters to the editor and in open letters to the public, such as the one you are now reading.

~ We will expose your individual voting records in the newspapers serving the areas which you supposedly represent, urging voters to “Just say NO“ to your seat in office.

~ In so doing, we also will very clearly expose the lies with which your mouths woo us, while your feet indeed walk all over us while we pay you for it.

~ We will not be silenced. We the People, as the first branch of government with the power and duty to enforce the system of checks and balances on the Executive and Legislative branches alike, will never stand down in our patriotic and moral duty to uphold, protect and defend the Constitution.

~ We will boycott the corporations which sponsor those law-breaking Senators and Representatives in our own areas, sending them a strong message.~We will work for campaign finance reform and election reform. Never, ever will we let this happen again to America.

~ And as protest, we will claim every last legal and legitimate tax break, refusing to fund such Missions as you would love to see Accomplished.

~ K) Food for thought:

~ Congress, would you yourselves be willing to pay good money to someone to abuse you? Would you say that they were pretty unreasonable to threaten you with jail for objecting to such a thing? Are we all psyche hospital cases diagnosed with masochism as our malaise?

~ L) Conclusion:

~ As stated in our Declaration of Independence, it is our right, it is our duty, to alter or abolish any government which becomes destructive to those ends of the pursuit of life, liberty and happiness. Congress, you have threatened all three, in spades: Life, liberty and happiness have never been so at risk in all of American history as they now are.

~ Have you lived up to your oath of office to uphold, protect and defend the Constitution? Do you have any respect for the self-evident, inalienable rights of all human beings granted by our Creator, for dignity and respect? Methinks not.

~ Get ye gone. It’s time for real Americans to be in office, not Iron Curtain-like dictators such as yourselves whose work is to deliberately convert America to a dictatorship.

~ I am asking that each and every reader pass this letter on to their friends by e-mail. I am asking them to post this letter to blogs and to circulate it widely.

~ I am asking, above all, that they check the Congressional voting record and vote to unseat each and every Public Offender.

I am urging interested individuals to step forward and campaign to challenge Congressional seats by a ratio of 10:1. We are all going to work for campaign finance reform, for election reform, and to vote 90% of you out of office.

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This quote summarizes the nature of my concerns and the content of personal experiences which stir my activism: "Necessity is the plea for every infringement on human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves". --Paul (more...)
 
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