If OUR representatives aren't accountable for their crimes, then we're in more trouble than many can imagine; because if corrupt and criminal representatives know they won't be held accountable by the citizens of the US, they won't stop. To these unconscionable criminals way of thinking, why should they? It is up to "We, the people" to stop them. There's no one else.

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Recent letter to President Obama:

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Mr. President,

One of my hobbies is finding truth and beauty in unusual places. For instance, there used to be a TV show called Nero Wolf (detective series). One day Wolf said to his foe: "The quality of life is at least as important as the quantity".

The day I heard that, my life changed; because I could no longer afford fear (fear destroys the quality of life).

I'm sure I'm not alone in saying, I would much rather live with the possibility of another terrorist attack, than watch my country become its citizens' own worst enemy. Frankly, the precedent the Bush administration established for my country, terrifies me. Not for myself, but rather for future generations.

If OUR representatives aren't accountable for their actions then the United States of America is doomed; because if corrupt and criminal representatives know they won't be held accountable by the citizens of the US, they won't stop. To these unconscionable criminals way of thinking, why should they? Please sir, understand how very important this is to so many people that have entrusted you with the stewardship of our nation.

There are many of us who recognize that the closing sentence of President Lincoln's Gettysburg address is just as valid today, as it was 146 years ago (Lincoln's speech reproduced here on youtube in its entirety):

"Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.

But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate -- we can not consecrate -- we can not hallow -- this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above