Reply #93: my emails to Clinton and Byrd

[Marthe48]

to Clinton:

I live in Ohio, so I'm not represented by the Ohio Senators. Right now, I don't feel like anyone in the Senate represents me or listens to my views. I really hate the idea that Alito is going to be voted onto the Supreme Court without any kind of resistance from any of the Democratic Senators. I have 2 adult daughters who don't plan to have children. While most people would mourn their choice, I don't. I would mourn having grandchildren growing up in this country. What will they have to look forward to, any of the kids? And with Alito on the bench, I think what I get to look forward to is many more years of Bush as dictator, Bush's relatives as dictators, and watching them impose their will on a strangely compliant nation. If I didn't have a family who would miss me, and if I thought it would do any good as a statement, I'd set myself on fire in a public square the way the Buddhists did during Vietnam. At least in the last 6 years, I've come to understand why the Buddhists had committed suicide in such a way. They experienced the death of hope, something I never thought that I, as an American would feel.

to Byrd:

I wrote to Sentator Clinton the other day, as I was disheartened and discouraged by the backward slide Bush is leading. I know that there isn't enough support (or knowledge of the Constitution) to keep Alito off the bench, but can't we at least try? I have learned how to become tolerant, I have lived with freedom my whole life and I've lived with hope my whole life. If you Senators and Representatives don't find the right fight to fight against convservatives, can you tell me how I can learn to narrow my mind, accept fetters and live without hope? Because I don't know how to grow down or backwards, I really don't. And the way things are going, that's what American citizens will have to do and be.