Letters to the Editor
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Frustration!!
I do what I can do and I have concluded that my efforts are completely ineffectual.
I email my congressman, Hoyer, continuously about how I feel about his ineffectual performance. It stinks! I have requested responses over the last couple of years and have never received one. I am viewed, I am sure, as a gnat, trying to just be annoying. Best to ignore him, his staff must say.
I email Senator Mikulski, especially relative to her support for the condemnation of moveon and Petraeus. And then her support for Kyl-Lieberman. Sometimes I get a form-letter response.
I stopped using Verizon because they wouldn't accept NARAL as a customer and also AT&T because of their censorship of Pearl Jam.
I write to all the editors of the NY Times about the bias towards the administration in the writings of Bumiller, Gordon, and Healy.
I continuously write Brooks and Friedman asking them to discuss their support of the Iraq war during 2002 and to defend it. Never a response.
I stopped protesting after getting stomped on by the DC police in 2002. And I am a coward.
I contribute generously to Obama, moveon, Amnesty International and the ACLU. I would contribute to others if I could hope that they would make a difference.
I am acutely aware of the national data bases for dissenters and am repeatedly being threatened. Many people have called the FBI and CIA to report me as a possible terrorist because I talk about dissenting with the policies of this administration.
Unless something changes radically in the USA we are all screwed except for the neocons and the wealthy and the corporations.