By Devin McGuire Venice
(Editor’s note: The following is an open letter to Sen. Dianne Feinstein) My confidence in you and your colleagues has withered to winter. With the passing of this latest warrantless wiretapping legislation and the absolute inability (or complicity) of this Congress and Senate to perform the oversight required by what our president (seems to consider) a worthless piece of paper — the Constitution of the United States. I can only surmise that this once great democracy is doomed.
Your office recently alerted me to the fact that you will not pursue impeachment of our highest office because our country is too divided. Let me suggest that this division will only be healed through your sworn duty to uphold the precepts outlined in that worthless piece of paper, and can only grow with this administration’s dangerous continuance.
Fascism is a word often heard, but little understood by post-Boomer generations. Hitler is a historic memory. Nazi Germany, a thing of the past. It might be nice to be an aristocrat under fascist rule during a power grab, but I am a small man, my concerns are not your concerns. This, I understand and accept, and I await this Ice Age with trepidation.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on August 18, 2007. Read the original PDF.