Dr. Forbush Thinks

Yesterday I did something that I normally don’t do. What I did might have repercussions with some of my friends and family. I let people see a side of me that I normally don’t expose. I did something that I don’t always like when other people do it to me. But, I did it because I believe it was the right thing to do.

Yes, some of you already know what I’m writing about. I sent out an e-mail encouraging people to take political action. Some may think of this as a form of spam e-mail. Others will see me in the light of my politics. But, I took a leap of faith and tried to reach out to those who believe that there is still hope for this country that we call America.

The conservatives that I know used to tell me about the corruption of the Democratic Party. They seemed to be well meaning people who believed in America. They used to tell me how the Republican Party could clean up the mess in Washington and through out the country. However, as we know the recent revelations about Tom Delay, Jack Abramoff, Bill Frist, the Bush administration and other leaders of the Republican Party has shown us that these assertions were wrong. The actions of these leaders have shown that what these people do and what they say are most often miles apart.

I don’t know what else these people have done, but time will reveal even more anti-American behavior in the Republican Party. Since we are only scratching the surface one can only guess what else there is deeper down. The point is that Republicans have created a method of saying one thing and doing another. They tell us that they want to have less government, but they spend more, cut taxes and borrow the difference to be paid back over time. Americans know that the lenders are the only winners in this deal, and the majority of these lenders aren’t even American citizens. Isn’t it strange that the Republican Party who dislikes illegal immigrants taking advantage of our government services is willing to borrow money from non-Americans paying it back with interest? This is a type of corporate welfare for the international bankers.

But this corporate welfare doesn’t stop at borrowing money. The money that is being borrowed is being used to pay companies like Haliburton to support the military in Iraq. A place we should never have gone if the Republican congress had asked the difficult questions before hand.

All of this has been going on for some time, and it is well known. However, recently it has been revealed that the Bush administration has broken the law by spying on American citizens. Now, some spying is legal if one is to follow the laws that were written to protect the American people from the abuse that can easily happen. In fact we know this because Richard Nixon abused the FBI in an effort to learn about Civil Rights protesters and Vietnam War protesters. He abused this resource in an effort to expose the dirty little secrets that we all have in an effort to discredit the movement. Now George W Bush has ordered the same kinds of tactics using the excuse that he is fighting terrorists. But, we should remember that our liberty and freedom must be protected at all times, not just when it is convenient.

It seemed pretty simple to me. The conservatives that I know have told me that they care about our country. And, we now have a president who has admitted that he is breaking the law. He has told us what he is doing, why he is doing it and most legal experts agree that it is against the law. Only legal experts within the administration, or close to the Republican Party say otherwise. This alone should initiate an independent federal investigation. But, the Attorney General, the former Counsel to the President must find it difficult to look at this situation in a non-partisan independent way. In fact this Attorney General counseled the President to break the Torture laws back in 2003. How can he be trusted to uphold the law? But, there must be conservatives out there who believe in the rule of law. There must be conservatives out there who care more about our country than their agenda.

So, I sent this e-mail out to some of the conservatives that I believed had an open mind and a willingness to put the country ahead of their agenda. They may look at the e-mail as just another spam. Or, they may look at me as just another Left Wing Extremist. But, hopefully they will look at me as just another concerned American trying to keep the government honest and following the rule of law.


If you want to read about the petition or maybe even sign it you can go to the Rule of Law Petition.









Politics, Wiretapping, The Rule of Law, Bush, Impeach Bush