In the US, millions of letters fly across from one household to another each day - I'm one of those people who contributes to that number of letters in my small way. Many letters are directed to the leaders and policy makers of the nation, but how many of them are read and how many of them are actioned?
I recently read a letter addressed to President Bush which asked him, simply and directly, if he was awake. I don't know of a reply.
Similarly, with the following letter, I don't know whether the person who originally wrote it will ever receive an answer, or whether President Bush will ever see the letter.
Some observations
To:
President George Bush
January 22, 2005
Once, I asked my friend if she believed in the existence of Satan. She said not in a literal sense, but that the concept embodies social chaos and destruction - lies, deceit, harm. I was reminded of a conversation I had 25 years ago with a close friend, a professor of developmental psychology, after I had finished a clinical practicum working with inmates in a federal penitentiary. He asked me if I thought anyone was truly evil, and in my callow and idealistic youth I said no; that everyone has some redeeming positive quality.
Over the last few months, I've considered the promises, rhetoric and actions that have emanated from your 'administration', and it gave me thought to review that old question. I got out the notes I have been keeping on you for some years and went over them, which led me to question my friend.
I decline to proffer a diagnosis of your mental state. That would be unethical. Without slander or libel I am free to call you a liar and a cheat. The evidence exists at literally thousands of locations around the world and is available with little effort.
Most people are acquainted with pain. You enjoy it vicariously in myself and others. Undoubtedly there are some who simply pity you. I do not. I despise you. I find no worth in you as a human being whatsoever, and whatever qualities are lumped together to construct the mythical figure of Satan are all found in yourself.
I will continue to expose you because as Edmond Burke said, "Evil triumphs when good men say nothing." So I shall continue from a sense of duty to humankind, just as years ago I separated the body parts of small, dead children from wrecked autos after some drunk had whimsically declared himself capable of driving. Please do not think for one second that I am exposing you for any other reason. Not one word or action I have ever seen from you contains a grain of truth or honesty.
I shall fulfill my promise to have my children and friends read history textbooks because I want them to find out now that there are people like yourself that would strip them of their intellect and innocent desire to learn truth, and then **** them with the perverted seed of fascism, disguised as "compassionate conservatism."
I want them to know that beyond the humour in your self-ridicule there is a depth of evil that is unsurpassed in the most hardened criminal.
I care not whether you seek mental help. You are there; I am here. As long as you continue to spew crass and arrogant lies in public (who knows what craven notions you espouse in private) and decimate the soul of America I will be there to show the dishonesty that oozes from every pore of your wretched body.
You have fooled, cajoled, or intimidated a fair portion of the electorate. But your scam is coming unraveled...every day, thousands of Americans are willing to admit they have been victimized by a superb con job and we are not going to take it any more. What you have done to the country, the Presidency, the Constitution and the world is obscene and disgusting.
Not all of us are willing fools, Mr. Bush.
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Wagoner , OK
