Dear President Bush
First, we would like to introduce ourselves to you. We are 75 and 65 years old and both of us are psychotherapists, writers, and consciousness teachers. We have over 90 years of combined experience working with people in many different settings and in many nations around the world. We have written five books together and one each separately. These have been translated into seven languages. We have five children, three grandchildren, and a number of cats. We tell you all this simply to establish the fact that we are thoughtful, professional, competent people who have lived full lives and have experienced a great deal in this world -- both separately and as partners.
We are not usually alarmists, but as professionals who have worked with people all our lives, we...
Politics
Dear Mr. President:
I am glad to see that you fired some U.S. attorneys. But you missed one: U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, who prosecuted border guards Ignacio Ramos and Jose Compean instead of a professional drug smuggler, and who prosecuted Texas Deputy Sheriff Gilmer Hernandez instead of a professional people-smuggler.
Yes, you have the presidential prerogative to hire and fire U.S. attorneys for any reason or for no reason. Any prosecutor has large discretion in whether to bring a case to trial or not, and the public has the right to know why he made that decision.
So much has come out since the Ramos and Compean trial that proves the decision to criminally prosecute them was a gross miscarriage of justice. Their alleged violation, if true, deserved, at most, an...
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Dear Mr. President:
I am writing for two reasons.
The first is to extend my prayers to you, your family, and your White House staff for providing this country with strong leadership in these difficult times. I can only imagine that, since September 11th, precious little of the decisions you must make on a daily basis are pleasant ones. I pray that God continue to bless you with the wisdom and strength you need to persevere as a national and world leader at a time when so much of the world and its politics are undergoing such great stress and flux.
The second reason I'm writing is to protest, in the strongest terms possible, the recent raids on the homes and offices of Muslim citizens and community leaders in Virginia and the D.C. area. I realize that ensuring national security in...
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Dear President Clinton:
Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) spin doctor Parris Chang recently posted a letter in the Liberty Times, a ruling regime mouthpiece: "We... hope Clinton can sincerely examine Taiwan's achievements in democracy, freedom, and human rights... and share his observations with his Democrat colleagues in the US."
Ironically, that is what we, the Committee of 319, earnestly hope you can do.
We hope you can examine Chen Shui-bian's grotesque abuse of the power of his office to ensure himself a second term, and share your observations on how Chen's fraudulent "reelection" in March 2004 makes George W. Bush's 2000 "victory" over Al Gore in Florida, seem like the epitome of fairness.
We hope you can examine the Democratic Progressive Party's appalling violations...
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Dear Dr. Kazdin:
On September 5, 2008 I wrote to you regarding publication of falsified results for GID prevalence by the APA Task Force on Gender Identity and Gender Variance. A copy is attached [2].
As discussed in that letter, the Task Force failed to respond to alerts about errors in their results. They apparently failed to read the key paper in question (Bakker, et al [3], attached), thus failing to check for the errors themselves. Unaware that they were not reporting what their primary reference study had actually measured, they published long-held assumptions about what that old paper said, while failing to mention peer-reviewed papers that conflicted with those assumptions.
On September 25, 2008, Clinton Anderson, Ph.D., the Director of the APA�s LGBT Concern�s Office...
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Dear Secretary of State Clinton,
“No nation, no group, no individual should stay buried in the rubble of oppression” Hillary Clinton, January 21 2010
When the United States participates in the Bahraini government’s initiative, Manama Dialogues this week we would like you to use the opportunity to press for freedom of speech, the protection of human rights, greater freedom and democracy in Bahrain. In particular, we would like you to advice the authorities to end its routine practice of torture and ensure fair and independent trials for all detainees. Furthermore, in your historic speech of 21 January, you clearly affirmed your country’s support for online free speech and freedom of opinion, making it a cornerstone of US diplomacy. We now urge you to defend these principles in your...
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Dear Madam Secretary,
We support the U.S. government’s role in promoting the rule of law in Colombia, but much work still needs to be done to protect human rights defenders from prosecutorial abuse and uncorroborated charges. We write you as human rights activists to urge you to continue to monitor Colombia’s human rights performance, and to use U.S. leverage to alleviate violations as they occur.
While there are many human rights defenders at risk, we would like to bring to your attention human rights defender Principe Gabriel González, who is imprisoned today under the codes of yesterday’s discredited criminal justice system. González was a prominent student activist and, as a Regional Coordinator for the Political Prisoners Solidarity Committee, he worked to expose ill-...
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Dear Madam Secretary:
We write to urge that the current review of United States policy on the International Criminal Court [ICC] be completed quickly, and that it lead to three results: US participation in the Court’s meetings to complete its formation; extensive and thorough US cooperation with and support to the Court in its prosecutions and trials; and action to declare emphatically that US relations with the Court are in an entirely new era. The historic ICC arrest warrant for Sudanese president Omar al-Bashir makes these steps especially urgent. The United States is now in the odd and unsustainable position of strongly endorsing the most important action that the ICC has ever taken while evading any commitment to support or participate in it as an institution.
Participation...
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Dear Hillary,
Now that the Democratic Convention and Obama’s nomination are all wrapped up, it’s time to acknowledge the achievements of perhaps the strongest fighter in the Democratic primaries. Weeks of watching Super Tuesday coverage and shouting, “You go, girl!” at the TV were not enough to save your campaign, but I am not bitter nor rethinking my allegiance to the Democratic Party. The truth is, Hilldog (may I call you that?), that your candidacy has only strengthened the party and proven to America, and to the world, that a woman president is possible in the near future.
At the risk of sounding schmaltzy, I would like to thank you for your contributions to the Democratic Party and America as a U.S. Senator. Your relentless push for quality health care for all Americans, begun...
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Dear Friends of Africa:
Let me first say thanks for all the great works that you have been doing for your brothers and sisters in Africa. Each of you in our own way has changed lots of lives in a very positive way be it debt relieve, AIDS programs, drought relieve, educational programs to peace programs.
Let me introduce ourselves, we are Nigerians for Super Energy. We are a grassroots campaign aimed at supporting the need for energy in Nigeria and the sub region. 35% of all black people in the world need energy to improve their daily lives. One of our goals is a Nigeria with 50,0000 Megawatts in a well planned grid system. Nigeria today on a good day is producing only 3,000+ megawatts. In January this year the power fell to 1,320 megawatts in a country of 140 million people. If you...
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