GOD BLESS AMERICA--SOMEDAY

The President of the United States says that the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law is discriminatory, and unconstitutional. So he pressures the judiciary to keep that discriminatory and unconstitutional law in force.

He says that the district court judge who ruled that the law is discriminatory and unconstitutional was "moving too fast." Does the President not know that "moving too fast" is what racist America said to people like him for more than a century?

But the President doesn't move fast. He has had nearly two years now to say "Close the Concentration Camp at Guantanamo," but he hasn't said it. He has had nearly two years to restore the consitutionally guaranteed right of "Habeas Corpus"--but he hasn't done that, either.

And thanks to the President's disregard for law or justice, he now has Bradley Manning beginning his seventh month in solitary confinement at the Quantico Marine Corps base. Manning hasn't been charged with a crime--and he hasn't committed one. In fact, he is in prison--in solitary confinement--because he obeyed the law.

A person who knowingly conceals information about a felony is by definition an "accessory after the fact" of the offense. "Misprision of a felony" is the other legal name for this crime. It is both a federal offense and an offense under the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Had Manning kept secret the criminal activity which he uncovered about our military, he would have become himself guilty. He did the right thing, and released the information.

Another young man in the U. S. military risked his life trying to expose the murderers in his unit in Afghanistan. When his father told military authorities about it, they told him to get lost. Now that the murders are public knowledge, the military has charged the whistle-blower with murder. And the men who murdered innocent civilians at random, for sport, and saved their victims' fingers--and one skull--as souvenirs of their crimes: they are "under investigation."

What has happened to us--to the United States? Mr. Obama was supposed to be a good man, and an intelligent man: that's why I voted for him. I can't find either the goodness or the intelligence. And I can't find any leadership or courage or honor.

My friends tell me, "Give him time, give him time." They tell me we can't go too fast in trying to undo wrongs. If the house is on fire, I shouldn't hurry to put it out. If I see a drowning man, I shouldn't rescue him too fast. If. . . .