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Ma'am;...I hope you do not mind me blowing a little whistle here; but: The corruption so evident in the economic capital and the political capital of this country extends all the way to the bottom of the political system... I don't think any dog catcher in America does not get elected without a view to some day becoming president, and I doubt that any President does not fear not being able to get elected as dog catcher...No one ever gets elected to do a job, and having it done, quietly retires...Rather, they all put off solutions to another term, and always look to higher office so they can fail to resolve even larger problems at higher pay...I would honestly find some hope in the people if we did not find we were universally demoralized, stripped of our community morals by the immorality of our economy, our politics, and our religion...If you see some immorality seeping out of politics; just consider that the main immorality is majority rule, which as rule is not self government...The majority is justified, in taking rights, or in restoring rights, in being friend or foe of the people... It cares for itself, and if that means robbing some and feeding other from the public trough, then fast forward to more corruption ahead...I want freedom...It is a simple request... To have freedom I need no more power over others than necessary for my own protection from them...I don't need to tell the boys to put their pants on slot to the front...If it isn't my business, It isn't any of my business; and no amount of law or faith is going to make it my business. .. The high spot of morality is freedom...For freedom, morality is essential, but morality does not result from one man forcing another to act as they consider, morally... Morality is self control, only... But people controlled by their governments and by their denominations and by their economies are denied the essential freedom to chose morality... Surely, if a free people were to choose immorality, as a conscious and consider course, then their freedom would be doomed... We have to have a sense of community to have morality... We need some basic love of others to have morality...All this fighting for a majority, this divide and conquer in order to rule the whole people does not lead to morality, does not add to peace, does not result in justice, and will never achieve unity...This whole people could whistle like a locomotive, and our leaders would not care...A few individuals would get flushed, and the form would continue on the same path forever...What we need to do is claim both freedom and morality in one stroke, and trash our old forms, and begin again all over... How this will ever be possible when corruption is spread from the highest to the lowest levels in society is unknown... It is this fact that has doomed so many societies in the past to failure, to invasion, to civil war, or dissolution... The corruption by itself is a small thing with great meaning... It means we are stuck, unable to achieve good, and desparate to avoid absolute evil...Unfortunately, it is the facing of evil that is the way to reaching good... Evil runs faster than we can flee...Thanks...Sweeney