In my conversation with Lori R. Price of Citizens for Legitimate Government in Podcast 187, I promised to post the text of my recent memo to Obama from the Professional Left Coast. Here it is:
I’ll stop whining when:
--you stand up to the spooks and the generals and get our troops out of Afganistan
--you end the illegal drone attacks in Pakistan and Yemen
--you restore the Fourth Amendment and end illegal surveillance in the US
--stop obstructing investigation and prosecution of Bush-era criminals
--stop using “state secrets†to block legitmate lawsuits by torture victims
--stop using “state secrets†to cover up the plan to execute al-Awlaki without charge or trial
--stop playing us for idiots, that you “fixed†health care or Wall Street regulation
--end your silence on global warming, and offer real leadership
--deliver on your campaign promise to remove roadblocks to union organizing
--appoint a real liberal to the Supreme Court, to offset the rightward tilt
--stop attacking your base for offering valid criticism of your shortcomings
-when you speak up for the poor—now 4 million more—as loud as you do the middle class
--when you denounce and end FBI and police harassment of nonviolent American activists
--you put an end to Don’t Ask Don’t Tell, like you promised.
Yours in Hope and Change,
pbc
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