Dear Mr Putin, It is customary to say I hope this finds you in good heath when we address a Head of State in an open letter. But America and its NATO partners are the sick ones. We are in terrible economic, social and political health. Our press and our political leaders lie to us. They rob us and demand we believe their lies. Thirty years ago a man whose family had farmed their land for generations was told by the federal government that they needed his farm where he had been growing onions. Their land was seized for pennies on the dollar. Today a giant agricultural corporation is raising onions which was the same crop he and his family had been raising.
Last year police seized more assets from American citizens than did all the burglars, muggers and armed robbers. And our police killed more innocent civilians than did terrorists and crazed mass shooters.
If we protest the evil that is our government, we can be put on ‘No Fly Lists’ with no appeal process for those unjustly denied their rights. We can be persecuted by the Internal Revenue Service and other federal agencies. They can even take away our children and place them in situations known to be dangerous and unhealthy.
As I write this, we are observing the 4 month anniversary of your decision to use the Russian Air Force to defend Syria from NATO’s hired mercenaries. We can clearly see the difference between what you are doing to stop ISIS and Al Qaeda and what Mr Obama has been doing to promote them. There are tens of millions of people like me who despise our government and have to search for our news outside the corporate media. When a world leader of your stature compares the Russian defense budget to America’s, the storm of protest in the alternative media would force the corporate press to cover the issue.
It would be greatly appreciated by tens of millions of Americans if you could say the following: On September 10, 2001 that Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was forced to admit on the CBS Evening News that $2.3 trillion was ‘missing’ from the Pentagon budget. Rumsfeld said we just don’t know where the money went due to poor accounting practices. But he did promise to do improve the DOD’s accounting procedures so when the next administration came to town we would know where all that money went...