Open Letters Regarding Ongoing Evils

An Open Letter to My Federal Representation:

Ever since the election, we have been witnessing a slow-motion coup taking place,  one to replace our democratic government with a Trump dictatorship.  It comprises five things:

(1   (1) replacing government officials and federal judges in key positions with loyalists who will violate the law to do Trump’s bidding, 

(2   (2) mass firings and defundings to render many government agencies dysfunctional, 

(3   (3) incompetent leaders who will render their agencies dysfunctional, 

(4   (4) weaponizing the Justice Department and FBI to be Trump’s secret police,  and

(5   (5) hijacking the Republican Party by means of primarying and other retribution to force all in the party go along with this. 

Some of this began the first time he ran and served,  but it is much worse this time around.  And you,  my representation,  have aided and abetted this evil!  When you should have stood up against it for the sake of saving America.  For any responsible citizen,  protecting the country out-prioritizes any party advantage or personal advantage.  Apparently,  that is not true of you!

Trump’s goal here is twofold:  (1) create a government in which the executive holds all the power (effectively a dictatorship),  and (2) make this “acceptable” to those who voted for him,  as a functional alternative to a dysfunctional government.  At the very least,  this is entirely in defiance of the Constitution,  which you swore “to protect and defend against all enemies,  foreign and domestic”.  Which oath you have quite evidently repeatedly violated!

Now something even worse is coming,  and it is coming rather quickly:  treason of the “aid and comfort to the enemy” type!  This Trump “negotiation” with Putin to end the war in Ukraine is nothing but giving Ukraine to Putin “on a platter”,  when he could not reconquer it in 3 years of war.  How is that NOT “aid and comfort to the enemy”?  Especially since the very next day,  reports have it that officials in Putin’s Russia are already rejoicing about this. 

If you do not step up and stop this treason,  then you are complicit in it!  And it will lead to World War 3 with Russia and China,  with our alliances damaged by Trump!  You will be complicit in that,  too!  Just as you are already complicit in the ongoing coup to impose a dictatorship.

An Open Letter to the Broadcast TV News Media:

This is for the mainstream broadcast TV news,  which with one glaring exception has tried to tell the stories truthfully,  despite the labeling as “fake media” by the perpetrators of this coup.  Please read what I wrote to my federal representation just above.  I know that you know this coup is taking place,  and that treason is about to take place.  You must know,  even I can see it coming,  and your skills are far better than mine. 

This has absolutely nothing to do with “fairness” or “even-handedness” in reporting,  but it has everything to do with shouting the real truth from the rooftops to the public.  You are the “fourth estate”,  you need to be calling a spade a spade, to quote the old saying.  But you have not:  I have not seen the words “coup”,  “dictatorship”,  or “treason” in any reporting.  Yet those evils are right in front of you.

So,  why have you not been reporting this for what it really is?

Update 2-16-2025:  

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I wish to call your attention to an article titled “Open Letters Regarding Ongoing Evils” that was posted 13 Feb 2025 to http://exrocketman.blogspot.com. There are two letters in the one article, one to my federal representation, the other to the broadcast TV news companies, and by extension to the services like AP. These relate to the ongoing extreme over-reach by the Trump executive branch, and the risky chaos this has created. If you have questions or want to discuss this further, please contact the author (me) by email – G. W. Johnson

Sent to:

viewermail@pbs.org     2-14-2025

CBS evening news via their website 2-14-2025

NBC evening news via their website 2-14-2025

Unable to contact ABC evening news via their website 2-14-2025

AP news service via their website 2-14-2025

Update 2-18-2025:

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I want you to actually do the job you swore to do,  when you took office.  Stand up and stop the ongoing coup attempting to establish a Trump dictatorship.  Stop the impending treason of Trump handing victory in Ukraine to Putin.  If you want to know why I look at things this way,  then go see my article “Open Letters Regarding Ongoing Evils”,  posted 13 February 2025 at http://exrocketman.blogspot.com.  We can disagree about interpretation details,  but the facts speak for themselves!  Go and do your sworn job,  which is to “preserve,  protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies,  foreign and domestic”!

Sent to:  my two Senators and my Congressman

Update 3-1-2025:

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A news headline from the NBC News website:  Trump-Zelenskyy clash marks a defining turn away from U.S. defense of democracies,   with subhead:  The extraordinary clash featured an American president siding with an autocrat and longtime adversary, Russia, over a nascent democracy.

The treason has begun,  on live television in front of millions of witnesses!  Treason of the “aid and comfort to the enemy” type,  as defined in our Constitution,  which you swore to protect and defend. 

Ukraine is quite simply the West’s proxy stopping Putin from invading Europe.  And Trump so very clearly aligns instead with our adversary Putin,  wanting Ukraine to just surrender. 

And he has already alienated our NATO allies,  who now seem to think the NATO alliance is broken.  And with bloody good reason to think so.

This is treason,  plain and simple,  obvious to even the casual observer! 

Now get up off your duff and go do something constructive about it,  lest we the people find you complicit in that same treason!  

This message text was sent by email to my federal representation in response to the treason indicated by the mistreatment of Zelenskyy in the White House,  as seen by many millions on live TV.