Dear People in Charge

Dear People in Charge,

This is not a rant, nor a compilation of dissent, nor a complete alienation of your mishaps or your faults or what you do wrong. I do wrong quite often. Your wrongs are simply more readily publicized than mine. But I do beseech upon you one minor, yet revolutionary piece of paramount action: To refrain from using this "GOD" term in your call of duty as you address the present public. Why, you ask, would you ever want to take GOD out of the minds and hearts of our leaders? This God to whom they acknowledge is being misrepresented! We flippantly throw around the phrases such as "God Bless America" and "In God We Trust." And yes, you can't deny or dissipate the growing warmth and comfort that these phrases bring. Yes, we are people that can unite in this thing known as God. But what GOD? And to whom defines him? I understand--church and state are separated. But we are left hanging here! This God to whom we are told to trust is unknown, constitutionally esoteric, incomprehensible and vague! You want us to be founded on this deeply spiritual faith-- but what of your present policies even encourage us to seek forth this truth? By using this "GOD" you simply want to tame our public behavior, and yet you forgo the most important thing about us: our founded private truths. As long as people somehow make a decree to a higher power, they are subdued, toned down, internally obliged to perform their duties. We were not meant to be contained, bottled up, harneesed, repressed and stifled! Enacting policies using "GOD" as you wrenchedly implant fear in our hearts if we do not constitutionally comply! Do you even care about us, people? Are we more than a commodity to manipulate, brainwash, and morph into a product of some exploitative sameness? Do you care about the truth that prevails within and enables us to become ALIVE? Or would you rather have us safe, tamed, weak, wimpy, pacified and domesticated? Please, instigate such that makes us come alive instead of eliciting your power as a another hidden tool of fear and social control. Look at your people--we so badly want to LIVE.