Monday, September 3, 2012

My letter to the President.

Dear Mr. President:

I voted for you in 2008.  I will not vote for you again.  Here are the reasons why:

You have decided not to close Gitmo Indefinite Detention Center.

You have a kill list that may include US citizens.  Even if it doesn't include citizens, the disregard for due process is alarming.  Shouldn't these people be brought to justice rather than be assassinated in acts of terror?

You kill people in Pakistan and Afghanistan without due process using drones.  Often times, you do "secondary strikes" against first responders and family you come to render aid to those tried to help the wounded.  Women and children civilians are often killed as collateral damage. 

Instead of using political means to end the crisis in Syria, your State Department has been throwing gasoline on the fire.  Some parts of the resistance, and the Syrian Government have asked for political resolutions, but you decided to exclude that part of the resistance in your decision to advance the bloodshed in Syria.

Maybe if these sort of things changed I might vote differently, though I doubt it.  As a moral person, I can't in good consciousness vote for you.

Damien Mathew.

As usual, I'm sure there are typos.  I don't really care, to be honest. I have brain damage, what's the President's excuse?