Date: 12-22-12
To: President
Barack Obama
Dear Mr. President,
During the first American revolution, there was a man, a
Brigadier General in the Continental Army, whose responsibility it was to
dispatch vital food and supplies to the troops at Valley Forge. But instead, he sold wagonloads of
their provisions on the black market while Washington’s men were freezing,
starving, and dying. His
name was Benedict Arnold and later he sold out West Point to the British for
money.
It’s not hard to understand why he was tried and convicted
of treason. The very things that
were vital for the protection of this nation’s patriots were denied them and
provided to their enemies.
Mr. President, in recent days we have seen Your
administration actively involved in illegally placing thousands of guns into
the hands of Mexican drug cartels and providing military weapons to other
nations which are not friendly to us but are, in fact, enemies of our country-
actions that, in fact, have caused the deaths of some of our own citizens.
At the same time we have observed how Your administration
has deprived one of our ambassadors and three other men, the protection they
needed in Benghazi resulting in their torture and death.
Now You are seemingly pressing hard to deprive us of our
constitutional rights to obtain and keep the tools we need to protect ourselves
and our families.
Please tell me sir, how are You different from Benedict
Arnold? Perhaps Benedict Arnold
should be posthumously exonerated.
What do You think?
I hope You and Your family have a merry Christmas in Hawaii
and I trust that You all are much safer than we are.
Respectfully,
Ralph M. Petersen
“When the righteous are in authority, the people rejoice;
but when a wicked man rules, the people groan.”
3 comments:
I want to know what response you receive.
Dear Sir, Thank you for your concern. As you know we are committed to an engagement of foreign policy that encourages freedom in the world and provides vacations for all who are not in the 1%. You and others like you are grateful to be supporting me.
Love,
BO
Actually, if my memory serves me correctly, Benedict Arnold actually served well at the beginning of our march to independence. I am told that there is a statue somewhere of his leg. Evidently he was wounded at one point.
So the big difference would be that Arnold at least at one point served his country. He is the more worthy of the two.
Grace and peace.
@ Pumice--
True; he was a decorated war hero. And that's the point. This is a matter of character; it doesn't matter how good a man looks on the outside. What really matters is how he acts when he thinks no one is watching.
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