ARTICULOS PERIODISTICOS ZOILA GLORIA BOLAÑOS PONS

Letter to Barack Obama, President of the United States of America

By Gloria Bolaños

Mr. President:

You know I'm a Republican by conviction. I wrote to you before and I knew I would not get a reply, either because some of those around you marginalize Republicans, or are racist. And because I am white and not of the Democratic Party, the letter I posted was thrown to the garbage by them. Today I am writing again and maybe I will get lucky and you will receive this letter, because sometimes blacks believe that whites are their enemies, but you know what? This is not true. Here I am, I am very often visited by black people, I do them favors when I am asked and I love them because they are children of God too. There are good and bad black people, just as there are good and bad white people, but anyway, I will dictate this letter which is addressed to you, to my black secretary, with the respect that I always have for a President of the United States of America, whether Republican , black, white or Democrat.

Mr. President of this great Nation which I love, please do not have mercy for those who want to see this country like an old rag without any respect. Establish a precedent, as each day that passes, which has twenty-four (24) hours, it seems like those hours spread sludge worldwide for this poor nation like a wildfire. The press is responsible for publishing the disasterthat happened and this is a success for the corrupt mafia, the murderers, and the destroyers of the prestige of this nation.

But if you order that the same amount of gunpowder be spread in the press regarding the punishment that will beimplemented to those who dare to do something negative again, such as to disrespect this nation. Anyone who is found in terrorist acts will be taken to the electric chair without trial Mr. President. Why not? They are beings who come to take thepeace from the people who suffer, who work tirelessly and pay their taxes with money which so often serves to save thelives of those even in enemy countries, and that is not fair. Take a good look at this old Constitution. Stop talking so much about democracy, when it is such democracy the one that requires us to follow laws that only take these men to court, where they have the luxury of having lawyers to defend the misdeeds they have done.

These lawyers are sometimes paid, and very well paid, by the mob without them even knowing it. But money is money and they fight and defend. What an irony: these killer snakes should not have lawyers defending their crimes.

Do not think I’m a dictator. Look at God’s justice, read the scriptures that he left as an example. I do not know what Bible you read, but Our Father, the only one who rules above us and to whom you and everyone else will give account of our actions when we leave this earth and go back to where we came from, we will ask you, what did you do with this country? And you cannot answer that democracy was applied and therefore you did not kill those who did not deserve to live. The saying that “Only God can give and take life” is false. God has his children and gives them power, not to lie, not to practice democracy, no sir. He empowers people to simply enjoy peace and that peace cannot be achieved in the United States of America as long as these kinds of snakes, which must be killed and not be considered, exist Mr. President.

Please stop bringing democracy to these cases. Give peace to the people who deserve it. Don’t appear in the future as indulgent of the actions taken by the same ones who destroyed our beautiful towers on September 11. Apply laws, talk toCongress. Change this Constitution, which is as old as Methuselah. Remind the people that Jesus killed thousands. Remind them how it was when He entered the house of his Father, which the merchants had turned into a market. Jesus took a whip and began hitting and throwing everything. But at that time there were whips and not firearms. But if it would have been today, how many would have Jesus killed? For instead of whips there had existed at least one weapon, right Mr. President?Talk about the example of the plague that God sent, when all died and only those who had a pure soul were saved byhaving a blood cross on every door of the good and there the plague did not enter. Lotus disobeyed the Lord and turned to see His fury and He punished her by turning her into a salt statue.

Mr. President, I lived in Santo Domingo. I was invited by General Simon Trujillo and both you and I know that he was a dictator, but with justice. In that country there were no prisons, people lived like queens, they had work, affordable food, joy and the people had no weapons. There was death for those who desecrated the ground, who stole, raped, smuggled drugs into the country, violated the law, and spit on the flag. You should have seen how beautiful it was, and now you cansee what it is: a poor country, but we talk about democracy. What awaits us Mr. President?

Gloria Bolanos Pons