February 10, 1999
Dear
United States Senator/Congress Member
I
write this letter as a request to you to vote to end Mr. Clinton’s time as
President of the United States. (Mr. Clinton should have resigned his office
voluntarily and failing that should have been encouraged to resign by
congressmen, congresswomen, and senators.)
There
is no doubt that the present day United States can survive the Clinton
presidency. The most damaging impact, however, of any decision not to expel Mr.
Clinton from the highest office in the land will not really be felt until the
next generation, maybe not for fifteen or twenty years, when today’s children
will be the nation’s educational, business, and political leaders. These
children, who are now building their entire system of ethics and values, will
have had as one of their ultimate models a President who not only indulged in
morally repugnant behaviour but who lied to his family, deceived the American
people, lied to the courts, and committed a felony by virtue of his perjury and
yet was allowed to remain in office.
Any
school principal, college president, military officer, court judge, or
corporate company president would be immediately discharged from office for
similar conduct. Certainly the President of the United States must be held to a
higher standard, not a lower standard! Honesty, integrity, self-discipline, sexual
purity, and respect for authority should reign supreme in each of our lives,
but most especially in the life of the President. This President has fallen
desperately short in each of these fundamental areas.
Mr.
Clinton does not believe that he should be removed from office because his
actions do not jeopardize the liberties of the people and do not cause great
damage to the nation. Quite to the contrary, Mr. Clinton’s conduct is likely
more damaging than most acts of treason. No message could be more wrong or more
long term damaging to the nation than to allow Mr. Clinton to remain in office.
It
is farcical to have Mr. Clinton paraded on the world stage, an absolute
embarrassment to himself and the nation, with all the world aware of his
disgusting and reprehensible conduct. Sadly, Mr. Clinton has shown that no man
could rightfully even trust his own daughter or wife to Mr. Clinton’s care and
yet the welfare of the entire nation is entrusted to this man. There is indeed
something seriously wrong! He has violated all normal trusts.
Mr.
Clinton has always cast himself as the pro-woman, pro-family advocate and yet
his adultery and deception dishonour not only his own wife and daughter and
Miss Lewinsky, but all families, daughters, and women everywhere.
For
Mr. Clinton to remain in office makes a mockery of the Office of the President,
the justice system, the rule of law, and any basic sense of morality. If there
is any constitutional impediment whatsoever to Mr. Clinton’s removal from
office, it will only be because the framers of the Constitution could never
have imagined conduct as abhorrent and disgraceful as that of Mr. Clinton in
the highest office in the nation. The precedent that would be set by allowing
Mr. Clinton to remain in office is truly horrifying. Lying, cheating, adultery,
perjury, and other related conduct behaviour become the new and approved
standard for husbands, fathers, and leaders everywhere.
If
Mr. Clinton is not removed from office, another appalling precedent will be that
there will never again ever be an impeachment of any President. The “hurdle”
for performance, behaviour and conduct will have been set so low that even the
most pathetic figure could get over it.
To
their credit, we should not lose sight of the tremendous graciousness of the
American people to forgive Mr. Clinton, but such forgiveness should not nullify
the consequence of disqualification from national leadership.
I
encourage you, as would millions of others around the world, to do what may not
at the outset appear to be politically popular or expedient, but that which is
right and proper and for the long term benefit and honour of the nation, to
discharge Mr. Clinton from the Office of the President. I believe that
ultimately all Americans will be winners as a result of such a decision! Please
exercise the necessary leadership for your nation at this important time.
These
comments are respectfully submitted for your consideration.
Yours
truly
Randall
F. More, P. Eng.
