BUSH MUST THINK THERE ARE 300 MILLION TERRORISTS LIVING IN THE US

In this misguided Age of Terrorism, Bush has been pushing for Congress to give him the unadulterated leverage in which to spy on all of us without court approval or warrants.

This week, he got it--thanks to the spineless Democrats and the rest of the Constitutional-shredding varmints currently infesting the halls of Congress.

Thinking about how our Founding Fathers gave this nation its fundamental rights and liberties, Bush must have been in some kind of drug-induced hallucination into believing that there aren't 300 million Americans currently living and residing within this country of ours--after all--but discovered that he was really surrounded by 300 million Islamic extremists with deep ties to terrorist groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, and Al-Qaeda instead.

So out with the Constitution, in with illegal spying for the last 5 years.

And when the government comes knocking on your door--accusing you of being a Muslim terrorist--be sure to thank your telephone carrier for their role in this whole mess as you're being led out in handcuffs with a hood over your face.

Because it was they whom illegally turned over all our personal phone and internet records to the government in the first place.

All without a court-ordered warrant. All done in absolute secrecy.

In the same of fighting terrorism.

Schuyler Thorpe

xxxth Street xx #X001

Everett, WA 98204

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(This letter was published in the Everett Herald of Snohomish County.)

MORE BULLYING, LESS DIPLOMACY

When it comes down to dealing with rogue nations--or nations we just don't plain like--the status quo of this country has always been: "More bullying; hold the diplomacy mayonnaise and the pickles."

In the last 8 years, we've seen many such examples of our own country reps giving nations hostile to US interests both barrels of 100% True Blue American Bullying. (And it's fat-free!)

Diplomacy? What's that? Is it where we actually have to sit down and talk with these roguish nations or nations we just plainly despise because of a brevity of reasons known only to us, but not to them?

Well...yes.

Talk.

From a historical standpoint, this nation has gotten a lot more done talking to its enemies--rather than bullying or threatening them with force.

I realize that we have no love of Iran for the moment, but talking to them certainly would do more wonders than just desperately wishing to throw missiles and bombs into the heart of their country--with the blind hope that this will work so much better than good old-fashioned diplomacy.

Schuyler Thorpe

xxxth Street xx #X001

Everett, WA 98204

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