THE EVIL MEN DO LIVES AFTER THEM

I voted for Mr. Obama. So did enough other people to get him elected. Mr. Obama defeated a stupid but honest man. The Nobel Committee in Oslo agreed with our vote, and awarded him the Nobel Peace Prize.

Now he is the world's leading criminal. He has no respect for any laws. He violates the United Nations Charter on torture. He refuses to let United Nations monitors interview Bradley Manning--who has been held without charge for 16 months (a violation of the U.S. Constitution, but Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama have both suspended the Constitutional right of Habeas Corpus)--and has already convicted him, by executive declaration: "He broke the law." He has expanded Mr. Bush's offensive wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to include Pakistan, Syria, and Libya. Will he next attack Mexico?

Now Mr. Obama has murdered an American citizen because he has declared that citizen guilty of terrorist activities. Supposedly, the idea of a bounty of the "head" of an alleged criminal went out in the late nineteenth century, as the United States moved toward civilisation.

Mr. Obama is a dictator. He is the law. Of course, in matters of domestic policy, he doesn't act as a dictator: he is a patsy for the rich. And in exchange, they let him play Nero in the rest of the world.

Have Americans no shame? "My country, right or wrong" has never--ever--been as bad as this. Give us Bush II and Cheney: they were better. Oh, for the good old days of Richard Nixon and Lyndon Johnson.

Has there been a worse president than Barak Obama? Ever? Has there ever been a more dangerous man in the White House? Has the United States ever been so dishonorable?

And yet there is no protest. We roused ourselves to protest against Lyndon Johnson's small war against Vietnam. We were indignant enough to force Richard Nixon out of office for minor crimes. And we impeached Bill Clinton for sexual dalliances with a White House intern. But we accept Mr. Obama's lawlessness, his violations of our Constitution and our honor.

Are we--ourselves--as un-American as he is? Have we no honor left?

Bert Hornback