June 20, 2001
Dear Editors,

The Democrats and the Press are afraid of Rove. They don't want to start a
fight because everyone knows how nasty he is and how nasty the rest of the
Republicans are (they impeached the sitting President for a blowjob! Sent
Federal employees to shut down the vote counting. The list goes on and on,
but this is a much too small space for it all.)

But most of all Rove rode in town with the first appointed dictator the
American nation has ever seen, on the bases of a number of conflicts of
interest by the Supreme Court.

What they have done is already too extreme.
Nothing is or will be too extreme for them now, from that coup d'etat on.
Nothing it seems, after that one, is too extreme for them to get away with
nary a peep from anyone.

Arrange for the top political advisor, who works out of the White House, to
meet lobbyists and the CEO of a company when a merger is pending and said
political advisor owns a major chunk of stock in same company? No problem!
Piece of cake compared to stealing an election and having no mention made of it.

No one wants to stand up to these people. Though the crimes they have
committed in only six months time are googles worse than Al Gore's non-lie
about his visit, or not, with a FEMA executive to TX. Or Bill Clinton's
blowjob or pardons or Jesse Jackson's child by his mistress.

The Repubs "get" the Dems on non-crimes.
But the Dems are paralyzed to stand up to the Repubs on actual ones.

Compare Bill Clinton's pardon of Rich to Bush the senior's pardon of Weinberger!
Give me a break. One wasn't even a payoff to speak of - - right, - - money to the
Democratic Party or for a Presidential library, if anything.

*The other was a pardon for a crime in which Bush Sr. himself was implicated
and the pardon occurred two weeks before the trial was to began. WHEN
WEINBERGER HAD EVIDENCE AGAINST BUSH SR. IN THE FORM
OF A DIARY AND DIARY ENTRIES HE HAD PROMISED TO TURN OVER*

Now, Clinton is *still being investigated* by the Republicans for a non-criminal offense
AT THE SAME TIME THE DEMOCRATIC MAJORITY LEADER OF THE
SENATE IS BULLIED INTO SAYING HE DOESN'T WANT TO MOUNT
ANY INVESTIGATIONS AT ALL OF REPUBLICANS.

The price fixing of the oil and gas supply in CA is alone a huge scandal,
not to even mention the conflict of interest between W. and the CEO of Enron.

Let alone this business with Rove.

Calling this all a double standard is way too weak.

The reaction by the Press and by the Democrats is called APPEASEMENT.
And people would always rather take the easy way out, it seems, in this type of
situation, with these types of characters.

This Administration - - Rove, W., Cheney etc. is made up of extremely scary people.
(*Kissinger* called Cheney the most ruthless man he has *ever* met.)
The White House is filled with the people who hunted President Clinton for
years on the flimsiest of evidence and got away with it (Ever check out what
was really behind the much touted "Whitewater" scandal? NOTHING.)
And tens of millions of public and private monies were spent on that enterprise.

The same weasels who were behind that ignoble purpose are the exact same
weasels who have illegitimately taken over the White House. Who are now
pompously declaring that it's time now for a new tone. (But that's only a
line to preach to Democrats.)

The Dems and Gore pretend to be better than these investigators but they
really are just frightened of them. They get off the hook of having to fight
them by just saying, "Oh, we are better." But they might as well be playing
precisely by Republican dictated talking points.
WE MIGHT AS WELL HAVE NO OPPOSITION PARTY.
WE MIGHT AS WELL BE A TIN-HORN DICTATORSHIP WITH ONE PARTY.

Perhaps the Democratic leadership are just hoping the Repubs will go away or
perhaps they are just waiting for them to hang themselves. However, waiting
for them to hang themselves is futile. Meanwhile, while the cowards look on,
the Repubs will just hang the country instead.

These vicious Republicans are so seriously scary that no one has the balls
to stand up to them. The ridiculous, blatant and outrageous conflict of
interest exhibited by the Rove incident and the non-response to it by
everyone shows this exactly.

Anthony Lewis in today's Op-ed of the Times said [ordinary citizens] are
frightened of George W. Bush.

Well yes, I am.

And what frightens me even more is the deafening silence of the Democrats
and of the Press. This silence and the appeasement mentality that goes with
it just give the far-right Republicans further permission to steal our
country, our democracy, our rights and our money.

Sincerely,
Marguerite Chandler
NYC