Dear Mr. President:
As you know, the leftist mainstream media is still doing their best to demonize you and your cabinet. They are slanderously mislabeling you as “fascists.” This is of course a totally unfounded slur. The insult has repeatedly been blithely bandied about by countless guests and even newscasters themselves on mainstream television news shows. This slander if hateful and hurtful to the image of your administration. They keep using the word fascist word without knowing what it means.
I am writing to propose that you blunt these accusations by issuing Presidential pardons and sentence commutations to hundreds and perhaps thousands of Federal prisoners. These are men and women who are deserving of the benefit of the doubt that their initial prosecutions, their sentencing, and/or their subsequent denials of parole were politically motivated, or were used to punish acts of conscience. While it might be a stretch to call them political prisoners, in many cases there were indeed political, religious, class, or racial biases in their cases.
Rather than waiting until the end of your first term as President–as is traditional–I recommend that you issue clemency, pardons, and sentence commutations, soon after the upcoming mid-term elections. (But not before, to avoid making it look like political grandstanding.)
Continue reading“An Open Letter To President Trump: Time for More Pardons”
