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Peter Lawrence
PO Box [redacted]
[redacted]
President Barack Obama
White House Residence
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Washington, DC 20500
3/24/09
Dear Mr. President,
Thank you so very much for halting those coal contracts. They, and the ones those corporations had already acted on, are eco-disasters. By now, even you know that there is no such thing as clean coal and even if there was a way to burn it with zero emissions (which is a mathematical impossibility) there is still the damage made from mining it. I believe all this coal that we have in our ground is also one of the keys to filtering our ground water. Without it I believe our water purity will suffer.
Robert Mueller asked congress to renew some Patriot Act Provisions, specifically section 215. In the past I have been against this and I still am. I do not understand how having to get a warrant after the fact keeps us from intelligence gathering. It's insulting to the Justice Department to say that they would stop anything that could protect us. 215 allows investigators probing terrorism to seek a suspect's records from third parties such as financial services, travel and telephone companies without notifying the suspect. FISA would not disallow this so there is no reason to have it. There is another provision that would allow roving wiretaps. FISA also allows this. I believe it is okay to wiretap an individual instead of a specific phone line but I also believe that agencies must still do the paperwork under FISA. The People's job is not to make it easier for them to spy, our job is to make it harder for them to take away our rights because without our rights we become "the people" instead of "The People".
I just hope that at the G20 next month you will do the right thing with all those other governments and break up those corporations internationally and remove their power permanently by disallowing them from growing "too big to fail" and too powerful to stop. The future Fascist world begs for your wisdom in stopping what will only lead us to worldwide civil war. This is what I truly believe will happen if corporations are continually allowed to grow.
I just spoke to a new friend minutes ago who was concerned about the power you are already giving back to corporations by allowing them to buy toxic assets with TARP money. I am reminded of a vacuum turned on itself. I also saw you putting the foxes in charge of the hen house. Those men do NOT have The People in mind when they make decisions. They are for the trusts. I see Hoover because he was the one who was blamed for it all because he took advice from those who would lead us all down the wrong path for that extra dime. I don't see any of it working unless you and the G20 truly bring about MAJOR change.
All the financial companies are wielding the Sword of Damocles over us when, instead, we should be holding it over those who hold the power. Rules have been changed for students where they are forced to begin paying their Sallie Mae student loans while they are still in school. What student will be able to learn with that sword over his or her neck? You say you are about education but this doesn't seem to be. Personally, I think college should be free - as it is in other countries that we compete with for jobs. Let's have a level playing field. And let us have an even more level field with free health care for all. Single Payer is a nice stepping-stone to where we need to be. The Right see healthcare as handouts to The People when in actuality it's hand outs to corporations and a return of taxes to the individual in lower health costs.
By the time you receive this letter you may already be at the G20. I wish you inner strength to do what's right and the power to lead the change to what's needed.
Very Sincerely yours,
Peter Lawrence
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