Submitted by: A TRUE CONSERVATIVE

Mr. Obama:

I’d love to begin this letter with ‘allow me to introduce myself’, but I’m obviously not that stupid. If I had, your unionist thugs, Black Panthers, and ACORN operatives – or should we just refer to the whole collection of them as your ‘internal military force’? – would be outside my house before I’d even had the chance to swallow my corn flakes the next morning. Suffice it to say, however, that by the time you’re reading this letter, it will have begun to go viral on the internet. I just love the internet.

See, what I have begun to stridently object to is your administration’s tactic of diversion and crisis, say, like, holding a vote on Cloture for healthcare at 1 am. I’m not fooled, and neither are millions of people across this country. Whenever one particular issue is at the alleged ‘forefront’ of the news (i.e., ClimateGate), I now see that your people are already onto the next one or two issues. The American People are always one step behind. I’ve decided, therefore, to move on this letter, because, quite simply, it’s something that your people were not expecting. There’s another word for this…what is it?…oh, yes…let’s call it a ‘politically man-caused disaster’.

Like many common sense, freedom-loving Americans, I don’t necessarily enjoy paying taxes. Nobody does. That being said, however, most common-sense Americans understand the necessity of paying taxes…after all, the government (a limited one, as laid out in the Constitution) has to be able to function. Indeed, even the true revolutionaries of 1776 had no issue with paying taxes per se; they simply objected to having taxes that they had never condoned heaped upon them without being allowed even one representative in the British Parliament. Ironically, one might put forth the argument that the people once again do not have a single representative. The colonists rebelled not over taxes – they rebelled over the point of being forced to live under the dictates of a soft tyranny.

With the advent of progressivism, communism, and Nazism at the beginning of the 20th century – no doubt in ideological reaction to the effects of the Industrial Revolution – we have witnessed (around the globe, not just in America ) the drive for bigger and bigger government by those who have vested interests in power and wealth. These ‘players’ attempt to ingratiate themselves to the lower classes and the portion of the middle classes that are ignorant enough to fall for the rhetoric – either polished or emotional – that lambasts the ‘wealthy’, conveniently omitting that they themselves are also a part of the very class that they’re attacking. In its own way, it’s quite intelligent. Exploiting the sensibilities of the disaffected in populist outrage has always been the key to gaining and maintaining power, because, quite simply, there’s a lot more of those people than there are very successful, wealthy people.

Which, of course, leads my discussion to the current American political administration. Despite you promises of transparency, refusing to listen to the whims of lobbyists, and making sure to appoint people that have nothing to hide, you have surrounded yourself with a collection of outrageous tax cheats, no doubt expecting that the American populace is much too dumb to pick up on any of this, and, even if they do, who cares? We’re certainly well below your superior intellect. Don’t make me laugh.

Guess again, big fella.

Despite surrounding yourself with the likes of Tim Geithner, Tom Daschle, and Charlie Rangel (WRITING OUR TAX CODE!!), you expect that the people of this country – more specifically, the common-sense, conservative middle class – to fork over more and more of the wealth for which we work to feed our families so that you can pay for your potential centerpieces – universal health care (which any educated person can see through), cap & trade (based on a fraud), and amnesty (people who will be paying zero income taxes). You’re not really this stupid, are you? I don’t know…based on everything that I’m seeing these days, maybe you are.

Consequently, President Obama – if, in fact, you’re truly the president, which would open up a whole new ‘taxation without representation’ can of worms – I’ve decided to change my income tax filing so that I claim as many exemptions as I possibly can, and when income tax time comes, you’re more than welcome to come to get those taxes from me (or at least try), because I will not be paying them until which time you finally make the decision to behave like an adult and to actually lead your people as a president would.
I’m more than willing to spend time in jail, if it ultimately be necessary. Fear not, however…I’ve already taken pre-determined measures to ensure that my stay behind bars will, indeed, be a reasonably short one. If you doubt the veracity of my resolve, then I invite you to test me. I’ve a feeling, though, that there’s going to be so many Americans that follow the same course of action that I doubt you’ll ever discover the author of this letter. Good luck.

I truly regret that you’ve brought the American People and I to this point, but actions have consequences, just as elections do. Remember this – you’re not a god; you’re only a man. I fear NO man.

They say that the pen is mightier than the sword. Well, we’re about to find out. I’m not so bold to think that I’m an especially important person, but I will personally consider this the first shot fired in the Second American Revolution.

“That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security.”

Until we meet at my front door,
Yours Very Sincerely,
Anonymous