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As promised (Letter to the editor)
Oct. 22nd, 2006 05:48 pmHaven't heard back from the folks at the Seattle Times yet, so it's doubtful they're going to print the letter I sent them. As promised, here it is:
To The Editor:
I read with some interest your endorsement of Dave Reichert (Sunday, 10/15) for the Eighth Congressional District. However, to say that I strongly disagree with it is an understatement.
Dave Reichert has, along with virtually the whole of the Republican Party, indelibly stained this Congress by voting for the Military Commissions Act of 2006, an act which it can be argued is not only unconstitutional but actively anti-constitutional, rising to the level of a direct violation of his oath of office.
In voting for the provisions of this act which allow the President to re-interpret the settled international law of the Geneva Convention, and which allow the ranking members of the military under his command to violate it with impunity, Rep. Reichert has spit in the face of every American prisoner of war who will now be subject to maltreatment because turnabout is fair play. In voting for the provisions which effectively destroy habeas corpus, and arguably take this government across the line into a police state, he has desecrated the graves of our Founding Fathers.
It is time we the voters put a stop to this madness, and the only way we have available to us is to give control of the Congress to people who know the value of the Constitution.
Shame on you, Rep. Reichert. The citizens of Washington deserve better.
Sincerely, etc.
To The Editor:
I read with some interest your endorsement of Dave Reichert (Sunday, 10/15) for the Eighth Congressional District. However, to say that I strongly disagree with it is an understatement.
Dave Reichert has, along with virtually the whole of the Republican Party, indelibly stained this Congress by voting for the Military Commissions Act of 2006, an act which it can be argued is not only unconstitutional but actively anti-constitutional, rising to the level of a direct violation of his oath of office.
In voting for the provisions of this act which allow the President to re-interpret the settled international law of the Geneva Convention, and which allow the ranking members of the military under his command to violate it with impunity, Rep. Reichert has spit in the face of every American prisoner of war who will now be subject to maltreatment because turnabout is fair play. In voting for the provisions which effectively destroy habeas corpus, and arguably take this government across the line into a police state, he has desecrated the graves of our Founding Fathers.
It is time we the voters put a stop to this madness, and the only way we have available to us is to give control of the Congress to people who know the value of the Constitution.
Shame on you, Rep. Reichert. The citizens of Washington deserve better.
Sincerely, etc.
