an open letter to US President Joe Biden
By seannelson
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Good morning President Joe, Team Biden; I wish you the best on your trip to Ireland. You know, my middle son Elijah is Irish; His mom is a devoted reader and I am so excited about his Irish upbringing. I regularly read a book of Yeats given to me by my Irish friend Caitlin Kelly.
I'm going to be candid with you about the sensitive subject of Donald Trump and his offenses I suppose one would say. It's true that he attempted, vigorously, election fraud and then accused you of the same without any grounds. He used social media to get the mob ready to fight; Then pretended like he had nothing to do with it. I told him Jan. 6 was a 'crazy thing to do,' and to desist and that's all I ever said until well after the event.
Part of the reason I have been defensive of Trump is that I feel strongly we are suffering an epidemic of overcriminalization that is also a threat to democracy. And although it was an environment that Trump helped create by bowing to Dr. Fauci's insane regime, I don't feel that what was disrupted was much of a democracy. So it's like the pot calling the kettle black.
And what are we to do if we end up with a super-orderly police state? At this point, I'm too mentally ill to follow all the many laws of social propriety and preference; and it all started because police outright framed me when I was clearly innocent back in 2004. This scuttled my well planned career and excellent university marks(I was holding a scholarship, for instance.)
Regarding gun violence, I have a slew of ideas for how to reduce it. But both parties come in with their common sense prescriptions that don't really work, and on the side of the left, can't practically pass; and which unduly effect the 'mentally ill,' a situation direly misunderstood. JFK, Gandhi, MLK, as 'a first rate madness' documents all of these were profoundly mentally ill. It's not a cause for disempowering a person except in certain cases.
I wish you the best.
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