Open letter to Daines, Sheehy and Zinke

by Shawn Wathen, Hamilton

It has been a while since I have written. Not because you have actually acted in a manner consistent with your job description as a legislator, but from the futility of wishful thinking that you would eventually put the country before your party. The assaults on our Constitution, the destruction of the economy, raining murder and terror upon our citizens and immigrants, the financial blackmail, the war crimes, acting as prosecutor, judge and executioner, the grift and corruption, the war on free speech, the protection of rich white pedophiles. And today, an illegal war launched to distract from these disasters—all of which you actively or passively support by your actions and/or inactions—continue unrelentingly. By supporting this daily assault on decency, integrity and justice, you have covered yourself in blood and shame. It was easy to recognize your soulless vacuity early on. You are not distinguished by intelligence, but I think even you probably recognize that a criminal stares back when you look in the mirror, and that you believe the only way to keep justice at bay is to cling ever more tightly to the convicted felon that heads your cult. Perhaps that allows you to sleep more soundly at night; not needing to have the light on to keep the ghosts away. I wonder if the school children who were slaughtered today in a strike against an elementary school in southern Iran will trouble your dreams. Or Renee Good. Or Alex Pretti. Or Liam Ramos. Or Nurul Amin Shah Alam. Or those languishing in US concentration camps. So many killed and disappeared. I suspect not. Your taste for secondhand blood has grown insatiable. If only in the interest of self-preservation. 

I doubt that you will ever read this. I submit it only in the faint hope that it could provide some additional context for the prosecution in a future where you are tried for war crimes and treason.

Nota bene: It was not only the highest level Nazis who were tried at Nuremberg.

We do not live in a just world, but there are occasions where justice prevails. If you ever face such a reckoning, the words and actions of all the millions who oppose this morally and legally corrupt regime and your complicity in its campaign of murder and destruction, will bask in the light of that justice.