My Latest Fax to Bush

To President Bush,

I find it very interesting that whenever you need a distraction such as the illegal eaves-dropping issue, up pops Osama bin Laden. While you once said of him that you would capture him “dead or alive” which turned into, “I do not know where he is, he is not important and is not our priority” he has become your ally, that is if he is still alive and where Americans will run around as if the sky is falling. Me, I just shrug my shoulders since I feel that this government just gave Osama a pass and frankly, I believe you do not want him caught that is if he is still alive. Most likely, you are terrified of what secrets he can spill if caught.

In my opinion the ultimate terrorist is one that destroys their country from within and treats our Constitution like a “god damn piece of paper” You do remember saying that, don’t you? More people have died due to your incompetence than on September 11th, 2001. How many have died due to lack of medical insurance? How many seniors have died where they have had to choose between taking their medications and eating? How many have died from hunger as you turn your back on the poor? How many died as a result of Hurricane Katrina where thousands are still missing? We could have had aid coming in from Venezuela and Cuba, but you said NO. How many soldiers have died in Iraq where you lied and sent them to their very deaths? In my opinion these are all cases of personal terrorism, yet no one screams about these deaths.

Poverty is just as terrorizing as any bomb going off, but with poverty the suffering lingers to those who are its victims. Those who died in the Super Dome waiting for help to come and where many died were victims of terrorism. It was not Osama who terrorized them, but you, President Bush. As you bungled Katrina, let me remind you that NO ONE died as a result when Hurricane Ivan crashed into Cuba. While you may dislike President Castro, his evacuation plan worked.

If in eaves dropping on innocent Americans is something you feel the need to do, then the sites that I log onto, my feeling is that you really need to get a life. As far as phone calls, most of them are made by my teenage children and I have the bill to prove it. If you feel the need to monitor folks like me, then this country is seriously in trouble. I have got to go, I hear the phone ringing.

Mary MacElveen!

"The people of this country, not special interest big money, should be the source of all political power." the late Senator Paul Wellstone