To the Dishonorable Governor Rick Perry:
For eight years, I witnessed unspeakable crimes committed by our nation under your party's control. My nation, under our flag, not only committed torture and engaged in an unjust war of aggression, but flaunted it. But when I spoke up, I was called a terrorist sympathizer.
For eight years, I beheld the executive branch of our government, controlled by a tightly knit neocon cartel, usurp powers not theirs under the Constitution that is the basis for the law in our nation and our society; the rules that we all agree to live together under. And when I protested this, you and your ilk asked why I hated America and called me a traitor.
For eight years, I watched my fourth amendment rights being blasted away in the name of unattainable security; my communications privacy reduced to effectively nothing; even the right of habeas corpus legally reduced to nothing. And when I raised my voice in protest, I was told that I was unpatriotic.
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