Posted by
Frigglesnitz on Thursday, January 18, 2007 9:27:45 PM
George W. Bush could hardly have asked for a more loyal "subject" than I have been for the past six years.
However, the Border Patrol Agents fiasco takes the cake. It takes the wind out of my sails (to say nothing of what it must be doing to the now-imprisoned Border Patrol Agents), and it makes my loyalty fade like jeans dried in the sun too many times.
On many occasions I have believed, very reluctantly, that mistakes were being made in certain political areas, but I never voiced my opinion stridently, as so many thousands are now doing. I wrote quiet, respectful letters to my U.S. lawmakers voicing my opinions, including my opinion about the instant Border Patrol Agent matter.
Quiet and respectful, I see, will get me nowhere in a hurry.
I now wonder who should be in the slammer. Hint: it is not the Border Agents.
I want to know what in the name of time it takes for some people to see the light. There is this, however: it is not writing quiet, respectful letters to my lawmakers. It would seem my future letters and e-mail messages will have to be somewhat more strident, strongly voicing my disquiet.
Those Border Patrol Agents no more belong in prison than my cat (now deceased). Someone has made a terrible mistake here, and I am ashamed to have been a part of it, no matter how intangentially (by the simple fact, I should explain, of being an American citizen).
A pardon is not too late, Mr. President.
We are waiting. So are those two Border Patrol Agents and their families.