To,
Barack Obama,
Whether you win it all and become our next president or you don't and stay on as a Senator from Illinois, I would implore you and all others, like myself that desperately need our country to become the beacon of light it is supposed to be, not by force but by diplomacy, not with lies, whether to "We the people" or to those of that other country, but with the truth, regardless if it hurts.
We as a nation have to come to terms with our horrible past, it seems that at every turn we have spread freedom, liberty, and justice not with our Constitution in hand but with our military forcing our preceived "We are America and can do no wrong" attitude that we have all grown up with.
While we can't change our past, we can change our future by collectively coming to terms with our past and the damage our government has done in our names, from the wholesale slaughter of indigineous American Indians to bringing here and forcing blacks into slavery to attacking an Arab country under false pretenses and utter lies.
I encourage everyone, starting with you Barack Obama to read, with an open mind "on the JUSTICE of ROOSTING CHICKENS" by Ward Churchill, regardless of whether you or I or all of our fellow American's don't fully believe everything written, it is obvious that those that have governed us since the birth of our nation have at times used our military to get what they or their business interests want and yes, they have used our military for the right reasons too.
If you make it to the White House, I'm not saying that you or even we should say sorry for our past but to simply change our foreign ploicies to reflect America as a country that allows the other 96% of the people of the Earth to have total control over their lives, their destiny, and the resources under thier soil, (with only guidence from America) if we do this we take away two things:
1) Terrorists; individual or groups, have no new motivations to hurt their own or us.
2) You take away the motivation of Big Business to pay under the table, politicians that can make or break laws that make it easy for them to make profit using our boys/girls blood and the blood of millions of innocents worldwide!
There is no doubt that we live in a scary world, yes, Muslims have been killing eachother for centuries before America existed, but lets not forget that Christianity hasn't been a collective group of saints either, the door swings both ways (remember the Crusades), but if we start playing by using the Rule of Law by its very definition we can begin to be looked upon as a real beacon of light to all that is decent and good!
It would also create an atmoshere throughout the world that those individuals that can be defined as a terrorist would be jumped upon by those that would be following the leader (America) by also using the Rule of Law
While war is ugly, it is at times nescessary, and the entire point of my post here is to say that we (America) shouldn't be waging war for nothing more than certain corporations from making profit, this could be possible by repealing the Telecommunications Act 1996 that Bill Clinton fatally passed into law that deregulated media, look at the damage done to our media since; Fox News is pure propaganda, ABC, CBS, NBC are all now owned by corporations that own divisions that make war possible, so little if any truth is ever possible to be heard again from these 'media'
In some cities, one company might own every type of media outlet, so how can news and truth be told if this company is owned by someone that loves profit at the cost of the truth or death of innocents!
Please, I implore you to consider this, even if you don't do this directly (I understand politics is ugly) find a way to do this quietly, but please find a way to do this, to save this planet, to save its people, to save America from itself!
Thank you
David S
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