CHANGES

[Mon, Nov 14, 2011]

The President of the United States
The Whitehouse
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington DC 20500

Dear Mr. President,

It was Veterans Day when this letter was started, a good day to ponder the meaning of freedom. Freedom is one of those words you have to keep up with, it's meaning seems to change over the years, kind of like a "living" constitution. If you don't pay attention someone else will decide for you.

Less than half a century ago, when I was a child, the thought of our country turned into a place where government arbitrarily ignored the moral and legal ambit protecting citizens from government launched, decades long terror campaigns of pain and grief would have been derided. The idea that our national institutions would in the future be fouled by those who support the trafficking in and rape of mere babes and furthermore that an impuissant leadership would refuse to stop these vilest of monsters and in fact allow them positions of prominence would have been met with scoffing incredulity. Nor would it have been believed that our free press could so quietly be coerced to silence. The First Amendment? Apparently the new dispensation  does not include that part of the "living" Constitution. Moral relativity seems to have conquered. Virtue has changed places with vice.

Now statesmanship has been replaced by vociferation. Nancy Pelosi screeches out dire claims of republicans wanting to "end life as we know it", clamoring Bill Clinton joins in the hysterics claiming house republicans are "anti government zealots", and in the meantime our returning troops are put on terrorist watch lists and our students protest, sometimes violently, in support of those who stand aside for pedophiles. The center is not holding.

America is not, entirely, the country promised to us by the Constitution and attempts to diminish our law and culture continue. Perhaps we should compare what we have to what we had and moreover to critically evaluate what the unscrupulous attempt to force on us in the future. Then we could decide for ourselves.

Sincerely,


Lynn Swartos
535 Ryman
Missoula, MT 59802
406-696-8576

cc: Lisa Bazant
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