Government no longer responsive to the people

Mr. President, senators, and house members,

In my 76‑plus years, I have experienced some American history firsthand that has been denied you. World War II is among them. It is the last war we won because it was the last one we fought to win.

You are hell‑bent to insure our loss in this current war.

When we lose this one, the “Great Experiment” will have come to nothing because government forgot, or failed to care, that its first charge is to preserve and protect the Constitution against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Against the plenitude of threats that face us with destruction, you will not focus. Honestly, why?

You’ve abandoned your oaths, and our men in battle, because you refuse to put the country on a war footing, and you have abandoned the Constitution in favor of taking unto yourselves the powers that are rightly reserved to the several states and to the people. You don’t know what war footing, total war and unconditional surrender means? ask the survivors and read. As your teacher of old might say, “compare and contrast ‘total war’ and ‘limited war’ throughout history.” Where does the Islamic Jihad find a place in this? What do the Jihadist leaders say?

And, why? Pride? Power? These have blinded you. You scuffle amongst yourselves while liberty bleeds. Congress behaves like Roman soldiers dividing spoils beneath the Cross.

God is barred from public life. Americans know little or nothing of their history. Many don’t even know the words to their National Anthem; it has become a showcase for entertainers rather than a statement of citizen belief.

America’s borders have nearly vanished while we are at war. Why have you presided over that?

How many miracles do you expect from Homeland Security? How many have you earned? What have you prepared American fighting spirit to do when we sustain a wound so severe that 9/11 pales in its destructive shadow?

You play Russian roulette with the life of our republic, making back‑room deals and ginning up laws you do not understand, thus seeding minefields of unintended consequences that may plague us to death, all while American soldiers fight with hands tied because of your callous failure to care that the rules of engagement are troop killers.

Examine your home for things recently manufactured in the U.S. by its citizens. Why are they not only few but in some cases missing, or nearly so?

Span the globe and consider the methods other powerful nations use against us to pursue their national interests at our expense. Political fecklessness squanders time, precious time, better spent keenly focused on turning our nation from its path toward destruction.

Your self‑absorption poisons us. Two hundred and thirty years or so is a short life since the Declaration of Independence presciently encouraged Americans to rise against a government that is no longer responsive to the people.

Freedom will not survive social licentiousness, and most Americans are dangerously blind to the differences between rights and license.

Disappointedly,

David A. Strongin
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