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Déjà vu All Over Again! [1]
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Date: 2025-06-22
This editorial was sent to the President, Secretary of State and my Congress Senators & Representative:
The following is an editorial in the Anchorage Daily News that was by me and published on October 17, 2006. So many of the same issues are repeating history and that is not good. Your support of the bombing of Iran is deplorable and will not be viewed well in our history. It's Déjà vu all over again!!
"We must realize as Americans we're becoming what we were against. We were against the following:
Restriction of women's rights, joining of religion and government, unprovoked invasion of sovereign countries, restriction of civilian rights, restriction of legal emigration, torture of prisoners of war (now called detainees), reward of incompetence and arrogance, and so much more.
Women across our country should be protesting this step back in history to abolish a woman's right to choose in respect to her own body. If the religious right has its way, we will return to the days of wire-hanger abortions. Do we want to become a nation like some Muslim countries that give women few or no rights?
The proliferation of faith-based government offices across the country must be stopped. This is the first step toward a government controlled by religion. Do we want to become a nation that has religion as a main influence on government?
The invasion of a sovereign country without provocation or without any fact-based reasons was what we have fought against for over two centuries. Do we want to follow in the footsteps of Nazi Germany in its invasion of Europe and Russia, and Saddam Hussein in his invasion of Iran and Kuwait?
The proliferation of governmental agencies such as Homeland Security, TSA and their ilk have restricted civilians and created levels of citizenship that mimic communist and fascist societies that we have previously abhorred. Do we want to become a society that belittles religions that are not Christian-based, that profiles individuals based on their appearance and heritage, and that brands citizens based on what the government believes their threat levels are against us?
The establishment of groups such as the Minutemen in Southern states to allegedly stop illegal immigration is reminiscent of such groups as the "brown shirts" of Nazi Germany and their persecution of Jews and the mentally disabled. Do we really want the formation of vigilante groups such as these that seem to have the support of and, at the least, no objections from our government? What happened to the "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free"? Was it only 17 years ago the Berlin Wall came down? Now the U.S. is building our own wall.
True Americans should be marching in the streets to object to the current administration's view of long-established rights of prisoners of war, the belittling of the Geneva Conventions and the abuse and torture of prisoners of war. Do we want to become a nation known for its lack of human rights?
It has become a sad fact that in the current national administration, incompetence and arrogance have been rewarded with advancement and appointments.
The national security adviser who ignored warnings of the previous administration that directly led to the acts of 9/11 has been rewarded with the position of secretary of state. An attorney who supported the belittling and abuse of the Geneva Conventions was rewarded with the job of attorney general of the United States. An abusive and arrogant bureaucrat who belittles and attacks the United Nations is our representative to the United Nations (and given the job behind Congress' back).
A deputy chief of staff of the White House who jeopardizes our national security has been protected and praised. We have new Supreme Court justices who have worked for the abolishment of women's rights with the repeal of Roe v. Wade, and one of them now sits as chief justice. A FEMA director was responsible for hundreds of deaths.
All these are examples of an administration's arrogance.
It is my hope that we Americans will wake up to what is happening and react in the elections of 2006 and 2008, sending a clear message to this current national administration and state government that the last five years are not acceptable!
Sam Combs is an architect in Anchorage, Alaska.”
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