Miller, I thought you might enjoy this…

In a business meeting this week, I sat and listened to six business associates agree that it was okay for the Bush Administration to authorize wire taps and censorship of U.S. mail without court approval because that would keep us safe from terrorist attacks. Everyone at the meeting was a registered Republican.

Just when the subject was about to change I spoke for the first time, "I'm sure glad you guys agree with me that President Obama can tap phones, go through our mail, set up secret torture camps around the world, leak the names of intelligence agents who may have information that weakens his agenda, and change or delete pertinent information that is to be presented to Congress about controlling greenhouse gases so corporations can continue to pollute earth as they please. You guys might want to go through your tax returns for the last seven years and make sure you have reported the income from our little business arrangement in St. Thomas. I have been reporting it, and I will be asking the Internal Revenue and the Security Exchange Commission this week if what we have been doing is okay."

I said all this knowing that none of these guys had declared this income because it was a cash project and we held a very silent position in the operation, having put up some venture capital only.

One of the men who I had had harsh words with on several occasions said, "Roger, how could you do this to business partners? I think it's pretty damn anti-loyal."

I answered, "Why should I give a damn about what a person thinks who doesn't give a damn about the image and economy of my country, not to mention the health of the only known human-friendly planet in our universe?" The meeting ended without another word.

Roger Haligowski
Dallas, Texas

There is one thing for sure Roger: Republican hypocrites are going to whine day and night about Obama as they did about Clinton. Clinton getting a haircut on Air Force One was a three-day news event. His getting some oral sex was a two-year event. George W. Bush and Dick Cheney committing countless felonies that would get the average citizen hung or life in prison is being accepted as business as usual. What is so unusual and frightening about all this is the fact that this Democratic Congress seems perfectly content with letting Bush and Cheney get away with all this. It makes me wonder what they have planned. I'm hoping they decide that Texas (#1 polluter), South Carolina (Falwell idiots and tobacco growers), Pennsylvania (full of Catholic child molesters) and Florida (Jew graveyard) are the "four axis of evil" and bomb the hell out of them.

Bobby Miller