September 24, 2015
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington D.C. 20500
Barry,
My
dear fellow, not to be presumptuous in my familiarity but I have been writing
these letters for six full years now and thus believe formalities ought to be
set aside. So Barry it is, unless you object.
Understanding truth as a threat
to the state’s imperious march to power media progressives beat it down or edit
it out while portraying those of the left as oh-so-gaily beneficent and
tolerant. Yet if that were true they would not have to hide from telling us why
they and their homosexual terrorist allies harbor such militant enmity for
India and cultures like it, and how those same homosexuals appropriated United
States government assets to deliberately engage in dastardly, malevolent
and mortifying sectarian violence (a dirty war of terror) against that
sovereign nation’s culture and appointed representative:
Ahh, to be able to grasp from a
distance by proxy of law a human and by eminence of government to eliminate all
their hope, to reach out and force oneself on them, to humiliate, to terrify,
to violate she who is at their mercy by putting their very hands on her in
order to warm and firm their loins with her fearful trembling, secure in the
knowledge this violation of, this chipping away at her soul is unstoppable by
law, protected by the state, that they are utterly in control, they own her.
This is pure joy tinctured sexual for these gay perpetrators. And that cringe
of horror at this defilement that her sternest discipline cannot quite control?
Well, wonderful they crow, this will be interpreted by their toady’s as
resistance, as an excuse to force her to endure the further wretched touch of
their filthy hands; hence, the fear, the shame, the breaking anguish, Yes! That
is pain they can live on even from a distance, puts a spring in a psychopaths
step, firms the phallus, sets the nethers a tingle, and make’s life worth
living! This is the totalitarian way. Stand up people and let everyone see what
gay tolerance and your ballyhooed esteem for cultural diversity, really, looks
like.
Institutional decay is an ingravescent fact. Where once we at least paid lip
service to the belief that persons ought to be equally free and thus had a hope
of being treated equally, liberty is now taken as license for hedonism and
equality as license for government to dissolve the boundaries of our lives and
institutions with its leveling directives. Hence, seemingly endless rights,
disjoined from practical reason, are claimed by force of and
dispensed by government, willy-nilly. Where once the law was
respected and a rule of law or justice over it acknowledged as indispensable
and objective we now have open rebellion, relativism and draconian laws that
can make the hapless and the innocent into criminals and punish as if the minor
were momentous. Decadence has wrought corruption in pretty much all areas of
the society, including perhaps, some military personnel.
It
is not difficult or unusual to persecute our men at arms. It may be that even
some of their officers have indulged themselves. From Afghanistan (per NPR)
comes the story of the, apparently, self-indulgent commander who, despite
numerous protests, and viable options that would have led to victory,
deliberately ordered his men to execute a tactic most likely to get them killed
and maimed for no discernable reason but that he wanted them to. And it
did. I once had the honor of making the acquaintance of a Marine gunnery
sergeant who despite his fidelity to country and duty was betrayed by his
country and his service for doing his duty in Beirut. My neighbor of years ago
was a man of Duty, Honor and Country for what must have approached four
decades, had led his men over the bloody beaches of Normandy and finally, for
all his achievements and devotion, retired as a Major. This while the
historical record tells us one highly lauded officer, who never went near those
beaches, repeatedly defied the supreme commander’s explicit orders and put that
war effort at dire risk for no good reason. He did as he
pleased. Thousands upon thousands of men might have perished for his
self-indulgence.
Now that paragraph should not be taken as an indictment of the services. It is
because of their members’ honorable dedication to guarding our national
security that it is written. The honorable and dishonorable ought not to be
mixed. When individuals make themselves available to spend their lives to the
death if necessary, integrity becomes a sacred trust. When that trust is
violated to satisfy someone’s fancy or politics or as an expression of cruelty
or control the violator becomes, at best, a scheming bully with rank; at worst
a murderous traitor. Neither should be tolerated.
The state, at its best, is an integral and accountable part of society under
the higher law of justice; two parts of the same whole that secure a liberty
Edmund Burke defines like this: “It is not solitary,
unconnected, individual, selfish liberty, as if every man was to regulate the
whole of his conduct by his own will. The liberty I mean is social freedom.
It is that state of things in which liberty is secured by the equality of
restraint. A constitution of things in which the liberty of no one man, an no
body of men, and no number of men, can find means to trespass on the liberty of
any person, or any description of persons, in the society. This kind of liberty
is, indeed, but another name for justice; ascertained by wise laws, and secured
by well-constructed institutions.” (Letter to Charles-Jean-Francois Depont,
November 1789)
Totalitarian socialists see the state and its power as something separate to be
captured for their purposes, a rise from which, in conjunction with allied
cultural institutions (media and the academy), to launch their assaults. And they
have; and they do. Good and bad, the just and unjust, are determined by the
party that rules the heights.
Conservatives understand truth as something external, to be discovered and
understood, not pulled out of a hat; society’s institutions as the result of
long experience; and man as forever less than perfectly virtuous. But
totalitarians, like the Jacobins of the past, disdaining even hating the
intricacies of society that make us a people, would have us ignore the danger
of man’s ungoverned passions and put our confidence in his deceptive goodness,
they claim human perfectibility given the right political circumstances, which
they, having seen the light of reason, are uniquely qualified to engineer (why
the rest of us have not seen this light they do not say). In this way, they
poison the deep wells of wisdom and experience from which we draw with their
adolescent itches.
Yet for the left politics becomes the means to make, our institutions and
society, over. So freedom takes a knee to the lefts coercion, the Constitution
becomes a mouthpiece for progressivism, schools become places that hold title
to and indoctrinate our children, and some institutions are given license to
monitor us for various reasons, and even take our information, even our
smallest children’s, as their property (Michelle Malkin, Look Who’s Data Mining
Your Toddlers, 10/10/2014). The polity that once left people to make their
choices for themselves now insists that was a bad idea and totalitarians will
do it for us.
There has, this political season, been much ado made of a
narcissistic juvenile twit that runs to cad, a creepy clown, honking his horn to
get attention. And of his popularity it has often been asked, how can this be?
The man has made himself a political whore on the auction block of interest,
and found his way to the Republican Party by the direction of his soul mate
smiling Bill who, as has been written before, would come scratching at our
door, boy scout in hand, and require us to call this normal. But in spite of
his grotesque shortcomings this flouncing funnyman provides a hint of what
people want from a leader. And that is Action on issues they believe to be
pressing. The clown has honked his horn and said with great gusto and plenty of
spittle and unfortunate splatter, he will do this and that, and whatever it
takes to accomplish this and that. So his allure may be the result of peoples
longing for the political class to take a principled stand and do something.
However, this requires political skill and that disqualifies clowns.
Silence is golden? Not where governance and sorting through candidates is
concerned. Republicans are facing a stampeding herd of hopefuls for the highest
office in the land. And why shouldn’t they all run? It’s a great job, full of
perks, and there are plenty of folks to do the real work; plenty of nap time, a
little astrology, it’s all good, right? If you are some sensitive soul who just
wants to make everybody smile and at the same time indulge a well-concealed
destructive streak by contentedly following along in the footsteps of
democrats, though at a slower pace (we call those moderates), you will have
powerful interests supporting you. After all, to run one need only bring lots
of cash and name recognition, hire the best marketing people—you are now a
commodity—and sell yourself. And remember to keep track of who owns you.
You once said, “you didn’t build that.” For the record, that sir is a lie, and
the implied corollary to it, “you can’t do that” another lie that would have us
surrender to the helping hands of ever bigger government and its crony’s.
Now my dear man, I have surely upset your delicate constitution. To this I can
only say, tough.
I have the honor to be,
an independent conservative
an independent conservative
LYNN SWARTOS
Missoula, Montana
This letter was emended 1/20/2016. In the third paragraph from the end Rick Perry's name should have followed the Democratic Party instead of the Republican Party.
Gmail will no longer allow me to send group emails. Therefore, one individual from each state assemblie and senate etc. will be emailed this letter. Those that will still accept them. The President will receive a copy in the mail.
This letter was emended 1/20/2016. In the third paragraph from the end Rick Perry's name should have followed the Democratic Party instead of the Republican Party.
Gmail will no longer allow me to send group emails. Therefore, one individual from each state assemblie and senate etc. will be emailed this letter. Those that will still accept them. The President will receive a copy in the mail.