Open Letter to President Obama, Secretary of State Kerry, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and Congress…
...especially...
Max Baucus
(D-Mont.)
John Hoeven
(R-N.D.)
Senate
Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)
Sen. Mark
Begich (D-Alaska)
John
Barrasso (R-Wyo.)
Joe Donnelly
(D-Ind.)
John Boozman
(R-Ark.)
Kay Hagan
(D- N.C.)
John Cornyn
(R-Texas)
Heidi
Heitkamp (D-N.D.)
Orrin Hatch
(R-Utah)
Mary
Landrieu (D-La.)
Lisa
Murkowski (R-Alaska)
Joe Manchin
(D-W.Va.)
Rob Portman
(R-Ohio)
Mark Pryor
(D-Ark.)
Jeff
Sessions (R-Ala.)
Jon Tester
(D-Mont.)
David Vitter
(R-La.)
Mark Warner
(D-Va.)
"Failure"
by Sharee Anne Gorman
(annienomad-cyberpoet)
(annienomad-cyberpoet)
To defy
authority
and the
measure of its success.
To embrace
uniqueness
in a moment
of clarity.
To inhabit a
land
without
depleting its resources.
To love a
mate
and not take
your fill on the side.
To run for
office
only to
choose the People over Power.
To
understand,
that the
only way to “win”
is to simply not
play the game.
2/26/2013
©2013shareeannegorman
annienomad-cyberpoet
It appears more and more that in the halls of Congress, "success" is measured by what those in positions of power seek to exploit...but I reject that measure of success.
Tar Sands oil, and the mechanisms of its extraction, are toxic. Period.
Tar Sands oil, and the mechanisms of its extraction, are toxic. Period.
Whatever
your rationales are: whether it is commerce and profit, energy supremacy and/or
some death chess game with China…you have lost your way. Your strategies are NOT worth poisoning your people and the land that you and I are
charged with protecting.
EVOLUTION means MOVING FORWARD when we have DEVELOPED THE TECHNOLOGY to do so...for the BENEFIT of (and to PROTECT the FATE of) mankind.
Fossil fuels
are dead. And so too are our children if we do not acknowledge that wind, sun and
steam are alive, renewable, easily harnessed and non-toxic.
Stop digging
in the ground and embrace the sky. Elevate us out of the hole you have dug us into.
If this deal
goes through I’m afraid we, the people, must insist that you change your job description from
Civil Servants to Civil Sell-Outs.
But don’t
listen to me.
I’m just...a failure.
I’m just...a failure.
At least, that's the way it seems to me...
annienomad-cyberpoet
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