The Internet notwithstanding, letters to the editor are the only written method for ordinary people to openly voice their opinions. However, this letter is not in response to any cover story, news headline, editorial, column or commentary. It's not about waging war against Iraq, terrorism, President Bush, the Congress, Democrats or Republicans. And it's not about the economy, the environment, education, corporate crime, government programs, race, gender, smoking, drinking, drugs, overweight people, celebrities or SUV's.

This letter is simply from the trenches of democracy regarding our failed republic. Something the news media and political parasites -- even with all their polls, surveys and focus groups -- have woefully turned a blind eye to or simply forgotten. Worse, the media, academic, entertainment, corporate and political elite have betrayed democracy by indoctrinating and manipulating innocent children and ordinary people into a divisive society of hate and discontent, commercial excess, superficial extremes, instant gratification, selfish interests, cynical ignorance, rancorous political indifference, functional illiteracy, diversity fraud and socialist cancer.

What we need is more democracy and less republic. It's time for the voters to take a front seat in making decisions about taxation, public policy and foreign policy. Indeed, unless the vast silent majority of people wake up to the undermining that's going on in America, our country could implode into a republic like the the former Soviet Socialist Republic, People's Republic of China, the Republic of Cuba, or the People's Republic of North Korea.

Thomas Paine and Common Sense where are you? The American revolution isn't finished.

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SEND IN THE STORM TROOPERS
March 15, 2003

There is one thoroughly tested means of getting rid of someone like Saddam Hussein. Send in the American Storm Troopers to seize Saddam and bring him to justice. Lead by Dan Rather (disguised as his CBS film crew), the Saddam strike team would consist of six warriors:

An animal rights activist (Saddam's cruelty to animals tortured and killed by chemicals). A human rights activist (Saddam has summarily murdered masses of men, women and children). An anti-smoking activist (Saddam is an avid smoker with no regard for secondhand smoke). A feminist (members Saddam's regime have tortured, raped and murdered women). An environmentalist (Saddam burned oil wells).

And an anti-war activist (Saddam invaded, pillaged and plundered Kuwait).

Considering what they have accomplished in America, they would surely succeed.

Unfortunately, it won't happen simply because the American Storm Troopers only respond to left-wingers and when there's a Democrat in the White House. Working for President Bush and our national security is hypocritically out of the question. Sadly, to the contrary, the (un)American Storm Troopers are, in effect, protecting Saddam Hussein and his brutal regime. And there's no excuse and nothing humorous about that.

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THIS IS GETTING SCARY
March 12, 2003

President Bush is getting ready to free Iraq from Saddam Hussein's vicious regime and the world from his weapons of mass destruction, which is a job that should have been done to conclude the 1991 Gulf War and help stabilize the Middle East. That is, if it were not for being held back by the United Nations. However, the media, Democrats, our former allies in Europe and the education establishment are actively engaged in anti-war tactics that include undermining the military and gross hypocrisy.

Indeed, while the media dishes out daily doses of anti-Bush, and anti-war rhetoric that includes the scare tactics of terrorist retaliation against America -- along with undermining the morale of our soldiers and their families -- they are gearing up with competing media war rooms to give blow by blow accounts of a war against Iraq.

Democrats, and the liberal media, are undermining the Bush administration's handling of the war against terrorism and any invasion of Iraq, simply for the purpose of political posturing for the 2004 presidential elections. Unfortunately, they seem to forget the events of September 11, 2001. Worse, while they favored ridding Afghanistan of the Taliban -- more because of the Taliban's abuse of women than harboring Osama bin Laden and Al Qaeda -- they overlook Saddam Hussein's overall brutality against his people.

The Media and European countries, including France and Germany, pressured America into sending our military into Bosnia and Kosovo in a war to save Bosnian and Kosovar Muslims from Serbia's ruthless dictator. Yet they selfishly and ungratefully forsake America's efforts to rid the Middle East and the world of Saddam's deadly regime.

It's simply reprehensible that our education establishment's liberal ilk is poisoning young minds against their country, not to mention teachers provoking high school students to demonstrate against a war involving Iraq, regardless of Saddam Hussein's support of terrorism and crimes against humanity.

Turning against America is a disturbing fad these days, from American socialists and elitists, to obstructionists who are keeping us from reducing our dependence on foreign oil, by not drilling in ANWR for instance, to Canada, Mexico, South America, South Korea and Europe. Maybe we should recall our military and all our business interests from around the world, nationalize our energy resources and foreign holdings, close our borders and see how they get along without us.

Alas, this American, for one, is wondering which is more frightening: Our enemies outside the United States, or within?

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DARE CALL IT TREASON?
March 8, 2003

It is highly disturbing to see that so-called Americans are actively opposing military action against Saddam Hussein under the misguided notions of anti-American, anti-war dregs from the 60's. They have gone to Iraq and given aid and comfort to the enemy. They are in Bagdad to act as human shields. Indeed, they are here spewing anti-American ilk from the Media, the entertainment industry, the education establishment, socialist and liberal activist organizations, and from the Democratic Party (to win the 2004 presidential elections at any cost). Clearly, their goal is to undermine the morale of the military and President Bush's administration. And they have intentionally helped in delaying action against Hussein's regime, which will imperil our soldiers even more as the temperatures rise in Iraq.

Could it be called treason? Some of it certainly qualifies. Even "Code Pink" could help cause a "Code Blue."

Alas, have their shallow minds misplaced the September 11th attack on America, and all the other acts of terrorism against the United States? Do they know the United Nations is little more than an exercise in futility? Do they know Saddam Hussein trains and gives aid and comfort to terrorists' efforts against Israel and the West. Do they know terrorists don't negotiate? Do they know Saddam has and will use his own people as human shields? Do they know he will disguise his thugs as American soldiers and slaughter his own people to blame our military? Have they forgotten that he sets oil wells on fire? Did they forget he plays deadly games to buy time, or that he has and will use weapons of mass murder?

Apparently so. Do they know Saddam Hussein idolizes Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin? Apparently they don't care...

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IRAQ SHOULDN'T MATTER
March 3, 2003

If it were not for the selfish interests of big oil companies, manipulating energy traders, partisan politics, inept government, commercial excess and environmental extremism, the American people would not be suffering through terrorist attacks, the economic stress of energy crisis after energy crisis, or the overall uncertainty of what is becoming an anxiety society.

Neither Iraq, nor the Middle East or any country from which we import oil would matter if the United States had become energy independent over the past few decades. Indeed, it would have been possible if, after the OPEC oil embargo and the export of terrorism, our government had the courage to nationalize our energy resources, reduce consumption, and implement alternative forms of energy.

Though the probability of minding our own business is slight, toppling Saddam Hussein's regime at great overall expense will certainly settle America's place in or out of the global arena, and it will surely force us to make some hard decisions. Sacrifice and pay the price of real national security now, or face what could be unspeakable consequences.

Maybe it's time for a truthfully informed electorate to participate in making those decisions. Iraq shouldn't matter. American democracy does.