Letter to a Senator from a citizen

Senator Kelly,

 As a taxpayer and English speaker, I can not in good conscience support the idea of sending young Americans off to be killed fighting for some undefined unarticulated unexplained irrational explanation. I will not dignify that sentence by ending it with the word reason as there is clearly zero reason being employed at this moment nor is there any reason evident in anything that has come out of the current government in the last four weeks at a minimum and four months in the medium term and nine years along the longer idea/arc of time. 

 I am counting on you and your rational experience to deliver that message to the remainder of your colleagues and to anyone that you speak with in the media concerning the ongoing war against sanity that 'we the people' have been re entered into funding without even the minimum requirement of asking the question much less obtaining our collective permission. 

 I am also suggesting to you here and now to find rational colleagues to partner with and begin to demand an accounting of the current losses that have been hidden from view of all American taxpayers over the last four weeks or so. 

  As far as I can see, the minimal cost has been in the hundreds of billions of dollars represented by what were up to a few weeks ago termed 'American assets' in the form of military bases and military equipment and young lives that as far as I can tell have been wiped off the face of this green earth now. You have the perspective to call it the pale blue dot. That covers the color spectrum from stem to stern as they say. 

 There needs to be public hearings held where the damage done is assessed immediately in the effort to make clear what has transpired up to this point with the view to avoiding and preventing more of the same where the  mounting cost is measured in increasing loss of life and more tax payer money turned into black clouds of smoke that keeps attention focused where it should not be and keeps awareness redirected from what should be the most important matter on the mind of all thinking American taxpayers. 

  As an english speaker, it appears to me that the current part time occupant of the White House that we the taxpaying people own and maintain, who failed in his first attempted government overthrow a few short years ago and was granted immunity from potential war crimes now committed, spends most of his time and a significant portion of taxpayer money flying around in rectangular circles attempting to keep himself out of jail or the electric chair for a list of crimes that grows longer by the day if not the hour. 

 My belief, if I may be so bold as to express one of those mostly useless ideas, is that when the American taxpayers see with their own two eyes what sort of damage has been done and how blatant the attempted cover up of the same has been, the much needed effort to replace that body with one more suitably suited for the job will become as apparently obvious as it obviously is to me, one of whom I believe to be many. 

 I appreciate the idea that you are a busy man and have many busy people working with you and for you as you are working for me and my fellow taxpaying citizens who made the rational choice to send you into the fray to represent us as a rational individual who is obviously capable of doing basic arithmetic. 

 I have spent the last four years reading Plato and the dialogues that this public servant put together 2500+ years before this moment in time in an effort to help his brothers and sisters to help themselves by not allowing the insanity of inanity to become the overpowering force that it has now been recorded as having been and is.

 I might also suggest this to you and to your colleagues. To use the workforce that you have to bring the message of one of the first to be hounded out of his home land by 'religious fanatic's' back into the foreground of our modern and sadly lacking discourse. A cursory reading of the first few pages of the book titled Laws brings more parallels out of the distant past into the hour of present day than is most likely imaginable by the average not so well read  modern American citizen. 

 You had my vote and you have my vote as a rational thinker a rational actor and one who has had the experience of volunteering to be a science experiment and survived the ordeal. Please continue that work and use that taxpayer bought and paid for experience to pilot us through the coming days which are only as dangerous as we allow ourselves to make them through ignoring the obvious and cultivating ignorance. 

Thank you for your attention to this urgent matter. I will not check the no response necessary box. I expect to see with my own two eyes, you doing what, you with  your own two eyes tell you, needs to be done by us now.

Again, Thank you

 Matthew Fiori