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Leutisha Stills' Letter to the President

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by Leutisha Stills

Dear BuzzFlash Readers & Supporters:

The Christian Progressive Liberal is disturbed by what I read on a diary on Daily Kos. If true, then we need to mobilize behind Gold Star Mother for Peace Cindy Sheehan, and her protest outside of Bush's Ranch. According to the diary, the Government plans to arrest Ms. Sheehan on Thursday, on the grounds that she is a threat to NATIONAL SECURITY.

The following is my letter to the President regarding this. If you're thinking I'll be trashing the President, I'm going to disappoint you, because my letter is appealing to him as the Christian he purports himself to be. As always, stay focused, keep the faith, and may God continue to richly bless you.

Dear Mr. President:

Why won't you meet with Ms. Sheehan? Or better yet, start going to the funerals of dead soldiers who lost their lives fighting in a war that was based on a pack of lies? Why can't we protest your leadership of this country at your events? Why are we arrested for engaging in the democratic process of dissent? Why won't you face us without a script or Karl Rove?

Why can't you be brave enough to tell the truth, instead of lying to America and telling us it's the truth? Why won't you level with us, Mr. President?

Why won't you admit that the facilitation of economic class warfare was what you meant when you pledged to be a uniter and not a divider? Why won't you admit that going to war as a means of getting revenge on Saddam Hussein for attempting to kill Poppy was your real motive when you ran for President, rigged two elections and entered into the White House?

Why won't you give us some answers, Mr. President? Is it because you are a coward and don't want to face the American People? Is it because you maxed out your credit card with alleged Political Capital you pledged to spend - that you never really had in the first place?

Why won't you admit that torture is accepted, but protesting it gets one thrown in jail, or fired from their jobs? Why won't you talk to Cindy Sheehan, and other parents of soldiers who died fighting a war you or your brothers won't even send your own children to? That members of Congress, save Tim Johnson, won't even send their children to?

Is it because you are a coward and bereft of any moral decency? If so, then I know I need to be praying for you to gain the courage to face the American people and admit to what you have done in our names. I know I need to be on my knees interceding for your soul to convince you to do what's right. People are saying not to waste a prayer on you - but I write this as a concerned Christian, and as such, not only am I charged to pray for you, but to call you out when you are doing heinous things that contradict God's Word and telling the public that Jesus told you to do it. I must stay in prayer for you because that is my charge.

However, while I pray for you, maybe, you will reconsider meeting with Cindy Sheehan, instead of having her thrown in jail under the lame excuse that she's a threat to National Security, while the truth of the matter is, as long as you allow Karl Rove to continue being employed when his actions in outing an undercover CIA Agent did more to undermine National Security than a grieving mother of a dead soldier, you not only dishonor the office of President of the United States, but you dishonor your relationship with God.

Please reconsider Mr. President. Don't respond in anger to the pleas of a grieving parent in an attempt to bolster your ego. It's not worth it.

Leutisha Stills (The Christian Progressive Liberal)
a Oakland, California

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