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Five Sept. 11 Suspects to Face Trial in New York

The Obama administration has announced it will try 9-11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other 9-11 Gitmo detainees in a civilian federal court in New York, allowing them the protections of the U.S. Constitution even though they are not U.S. citizens.

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Four Radical Chinese Muslims Transferred to Bermuda

Four Chinese Uighers (radical Chinese Muslims) were recently transferred to Bermuda. Do you think it's a good idea to release Gitmo detainees to idyllic vacation retreats?

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July 22, 2008

An Open Letter to Voters of America

Lee Ellis

Dear Voters,

I don’t care whether you are a Republican, Democrat or Independent; all I know is that you are an American in heart and mind - even though you may be like me, born of mixed heritage from immigrant families who escaped foreign shores to build lives here in this new land. You are still a product of this great melting pot of America. Yes, my skin is olive and I am now an old geezer left over from WWII where I served in the South Pacific, but sometimes age combined with many life experiences wakes us up, having given us some knowledge of history and civics. With that in mind, let’s look at what is facing us in the future.

I realize that some of you vote the Democrat or Republican ticket because your parents and grandparents always did. This is fine if the particular party has remained the same. But are they the same parties your grandparents knew?

The Democrat Party, for example, has been taken over by many Socialists and a few Marxists. This new Democrat Party even pushed out Joe Lieberman. Let us not forget that President Ronald Reagan was a staunch Democrat and the head of a strong, now left-leaning union. When asked why he left that party, he said, “I didn’t leave the Democratic Party. It left me.”

The GOP has also suffered. Certain RINOS (Republicans in name only) who are fence-straddlers - people who can fall either way, Left or Right - make up a portion of today’s Republican Party.

Sen. Obama has declared that he, if elected Commander-in-Chief, will want to get all our troops out of Iraq and move them to the “real war” in Afghanistan. I hate to tell him this, but while they did train there and also in Iraq, we are not currently waging war against any one nation. We do realize that no one country attacked our trade towers on 9/11, but, rather that this attack was originated by Islamic terrorist organizations from all over the Middle East! It had been put together and run at that time by Osama bin Laden. There is doubt that he is still in charge, as he had many independent chieftains in charge of groups in all Middle East countries with countless large cells in every country in the world, including here in the USA.  Like the amoeba, these cells keep dividing and reproducing everywhere and infecting others, not unlike the streptococcus bacteria that they now try to emulate.

We are in Iraq in order to gain the intelligence we need to keep innocent Americans from another attack on our soil. That is and has been our only reason for being there! Looking at all the places we could have set up a major presence in the Middle East, Iraq was the only spot least costly in lives and money, thanks to a corrupt despot who had sided with terrorism by donating money to it and who had also violated so many UN Resolutions. 

By the way, we all, including Sen. Obama, should remember that we did have human intelligence agents in the Middle East at one time until the Democrats stopped the CIA from using them! Between the Church committee, Jimmy Carter and later, Jamie Gorelick, former U.S. Deputy Attorney General under Bill Clinton, we lost all our ability to keep informed of any potential enemy attacks by either human foreign agents or cooperation between the various police agencies in the U.S .

Sen. Obama also keeps bringing up the old canard that John McCain wants to keep our troops in Iraq for a hundred years. You and I know that service non-combat troops have been stationed in Germany, Japan, Korea and other nations for years to maintain peace and help other nations in doing this. It was obvious to anyone who heard McCain’s comments knew that McCain was referring to this possibility in the Middle East after all conflict had ended.

Just as the new Democrats and a few RINOs allowed - through their ineptness - terrorists to secretly attack us, they also tried to keep us from monitoring overseas calls between al Qaeda and its cells residing here in America - cells planning to kill our citizens. Fortunately the Republicans and some loyal Democrats joined to let the Bush administration continue this monitoring, although, thanks to all the publicity and leaks to the New York Times, I suspect that the terrorists are now alert to this and are using different forms of communications with the suicide bombers they have planted inside the USA.

Now Congress wants to keep us relying on foreign enemy oil while at the same time trying to drain our own reserves of this precious fuel. This could cause us to lose any future wars due to lack of such energy. Lowering our oil reserves in order to lower the cost of gasoline by a few cents is like going on a cruise without any life preservers in order to save a few dollars on the cost of the cruise tickets.

Again, President Bush has stepped up to start us drilling again. This should allow the futures market to lower the price of gasoline immediately once Congress agrees and acts!  Even the very statement made by our President has already caused oil costs to drop several days in a row.

What with Sen. Chuck Schumer causing the run on the Indymac bank and Nancy Pelosi and her cohorts wanting to keep us from drilling for our own local oil (and also wanting to take a share of the oil profits for the government instead of realizing that this money goes not to oil fat cats but rather to pensioners and other retired folk like teachers, blue-collar workers and other middle-class shareholders), we see the continued ineptness of the current Congress.

If we think the economy is bad now, wait until ‘09 when, if things remain the same, taxes would go sky-high for proposed government spending bills. If we think that the cost of living has been escalating, try living with double the cost of wheat, corn, or dairy products and higher energy prices while fewer jobs are available and our dollar is worth even less. Technically, our dollar bill which was worth 100 pennies is now worth only 60. If we continue down this path, it is estimated by government sources that a financial collapse of either Medicare or Social Security could occur in 2041. Is this really what we want our children and grandchildren to inherit from us?

Stop voting for the personality of candidates. Instead, look at the philosophy of government that each candidate and his or her major party are proposing. By the same token, don't waste a vote on a minority party, as this can cause the major opposition to win as it did when Ross Perot ran. How we and our kids fare in the future will depend on what we do in November. Help America remain a Republic under God, returning to our basis Constitution with its original amendments and the three separate wings of  our government -Executive, Legislative and Judicial.

FamilySecurityMatters.org Contributing Editor Lee Ellis is a retired journalist, narrator, and formerly a Vice President with both CBS and Gannett (USA Weekend). He can be contacted at indiolee@dc.rr.com.

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