Imperialism, as defined by The Dictionary of Human Geography, is "the creation and maintenance of an unequal economic, cultural and territorial relationship, usually between states and often in the form of an empire, based on domination and subordination."   [Wikipedia]

I think the Republican Party has moved from the party of "NO" to the party of Imperialism.  In response to the thought of retaking the house of representative Bachmann made this proclamation against the current administration on Thursday at the GOP Youth Convention in Washington:

"I think all we should do is issue subpoenas and have one hearing after another and expose all the nonsense that has gone on,"

Bachmann is not alone in her remarks; Boehner has gone on record to say he would repeal the Health Care Bill along with the Wall Street Reform Bill should the Republicans take back the house this November. 

In their quest for power, the Republican Party has used every trick in the book to keep America's economy from recovering.  They believe in handouts for the rich (Bush tax cuts) while telling the poor and unemployed to go to hell (not extending unemployment benefits).  The Republican Party wants to further the divide between the rich and the poor and totally eliminate the middle class.  Already, the top 95% of Americana's economy wealth is controlled by less than 1% of America's population.  How much more of an unequal economic advantage does the Republican Party want to give to the 1% of its population?  How much more financial burden can the poor and middle class take?  

In Arizona, the Republican Party is redefining the cultural and territorial relationships between states.  Arizona's S.B. 1070 would require every American living or traveling through Arizona who did not look, act, speak, dress, or even smell like an ordinary  American(if there is such one) provide proof that they ARE AN AMERICAN.  The bill goes as far as to make it a crime if a police officer did not ask you for proof of citizenship should they suspect otherwise.  While immigration reform is desperately needed, the burden of proof this law places on ALL Americans goes way beyond the limits of the states authority as outlined in the U. S. Constitution.  In Arizona, you are no longer innocent until proven guilty, S.B. 1070 finds you guilty until you prove your innocence.  

Since the fall of the Republican Party in 2008, they have done everything they can in their attempt to regain control and power.  Their lust for power has come at an enormous price to the American people.  They have done very thing they can to keep the economy from growing.  Based on their domination and subordination of the American, they portray themselves as the only true saviors of American's economy.  This comes from a party that under the last two Republican Presidents the deficit had grown by over 270%.  Not to mention the last Republican President squandered a 1 Trillion Dollar ($1,000,000,000,000) annul surplus.  With their attempt at domination and subordination of the American people, the Republican Party is banking on your help to return them to power to further enslave you.  The Republican Party calms that it is the Democratic Party who are trying to enslave your children to the federal government, all the while they are selling you out to the top 1% of the richest Americans. 

Would the people of the United States never allow the federal government to enslave them? NO, but, if you were slowly enslaved by the richest 1% of this population would you even know it?  Think about this: if you drop a frog into a pot of boiling water the frog will try to get out before he is cooked, but if you put a frog into a pot of cold water and slowly increase the temperature, he does not realize he is being cooked alive.  This is how the Republican Party is enslaving the American people, by slowly giving the top 1% of America's population total economic control over the remaining 99%.  So the question is "Do you want control to remain with a government controlled by the people, or to the top 1% of its population controlled by greed, power, and money?

Dear Mr. President:

With all due respect Sir, you have not walked a mile in my shoes, nor have I walked a mile in yours.  But, I do believe we both would agree ALL Americans deserve the same respect and opportunities this nation has to offer.  That is why I am writing you today to ask you to repeal the "Don't Ask; Don't Tell" policy.

As a black man, would you ever consider hiding the color of your skin in order to have the same opportunities as a white man?  NO? So why, why would a nation, a nation that prides itself on equality and equal opportunities, ask a segment of its people to hide who they are in order to benefit from the same opportunities?  I can think of only one driving force behind this type of discrimination and it's called "Fear".  Back in 1948 this type fear was met head on by President Truman when he issued an executive order to end racial desegregation in the military.  Now the time has come for you as President to meet the same fear head on with an executive order to end the "Don't ask: Don't tell" policy.

For over twenty years as homosexual men severing in this Nations military my partner and I have lived in fear.  Fear that all we have worked for, all we have achieved could be taken away from us at a moment's notice.  To ask someone to hide who they are is worse than to discriminate based on the color of the skin.  My mother told me stories of the culture shook she experienced in the 1940ies when she moved to St. Louis after marrying my father.  As a city girl growing up in Detroit, she was not accustomed to black people moving off the sidewalk as she walked by, nor having to sit in the front of the Bus. On one such experience, she sat in the back of a city bus, at the next stop everyone black and white got off.  Even with such segregation the black man was never asked to hide who he was.  He could walk on the sidewalks openly and take the bus openly as a black man and not as a black man pretending to be white.  So why, why does this great nation ask that of me?

Today, I ask you to end that cycle of fear.  I ask that you, the president of this great nation, give respect dignity and equal opportunity to all the people you serve.  Repeal the "Don't Ask; Don't Tell" policy.

Sincerely,