Grodin article

Another Grodin article

Personal note (dated prior to 10/27/98):
Our president has been attacked using more money than it takes to get into office. Almost four times more. What a waste of time and money. President Clinton's personal issues, that never had to be lied about, but more importantly, should never have been pried into publicly, are being criminalized. Starr and those who support him are the ones who should be investigated, as well as the media that continues to pay for this biased, seemingly endless air-time, media barrage. Our constitution is at stake here and if the extreme right gets their way, all of our personal lives can be exposed or pried into, in this near-Orwellian circus of republican and conservative bias. These past years of investigating nothing related to the original issues of the investigation, all the money, and the increasing fervor is clearly an attempt to destabilize the United States Government and the Presidency. All under the guise of public mandate and constitutional powers to counter-balance the executive branch. The now iridic nature of the world's finances, recent notorious acts of terrorism, and other civil issues showing concern and doubt are direct results of this protracted attack on our twice duly elected, most successful President. In spite of this, President Clinton is strong and persevering. The public is confident and getting ready to direct Criticisms against these misguided attackers. This is scaring and frustrating the President's attackers to no end. So now they choose to release of the video tapes, on the Jewish people's, high holy day of Rosh Hashanah,and continue this stone throwing and mud slinging toward the President to keep embarrassing him to the United States and the world. A clearly partisan decision of the judiciary committee. The nations of the world, who concern themselves with our smooth functioning because it helps them if the strongest country in the world appears strong, are laughing at us and/or are perplexed at this lunacy and insistence of this protracted onslaught. How can americans let a fellow citizen and our leader, who is so clearly successful, be dragged through the mud? WHEN WILL WE DEFEND OUR OWN PRESIDENT?

This was a preliminary, confidential draft (as much as things can be...)

Investigate all our private lives...?
by
Charles Alexander Zorn, M.A.
©1998

An open letter of appeal to the sensibilities of our nation, my fellow citizens, those who govern us, and the concerned world.

August 12, 1998

Why not just investigate all our private lives. Is it just the stuff of scary utopian novels,
when no one will be protected, not for any reason, not even because he is our President?
What a horrid antithesis to the rights guaranteed to us under our countries highest doctrine.
Any higher and it would be assumed, by most standards, a matter of divine resolution and justice.
Has a crime that great been committed by our President and do we have the right to apply unchecked,
divine-like justice? Is it not completely ridiculous to pry open our private lives by investigative entrapment?
It is clear that all people, as citizens, and especially the President, cannot have extracted from them,
information that is private and not criminal. In this case, the issues are initially and fundamentally,
only personal and sadly embarrassing. It is no crime to fall from a place of metaphorical perfection. Our President tries to fulfill our expectations but is not all powerful, not in power or morality. He is to be allowed mistakes that do not affect his performance as our highest protector of the land. He is just a symbol and expression of our humanity and is just as fallible as we all are. Therefore, he is expected to have human weaknesses, albeit as few as possible. Our right to succumb to temptation, if no one is hurt but ourselves and sometimes those who know and love us, is a sometimes sad or joyful legacy, and privilege we all share. Such a threat to our President and country is paramount to treason, tantamount to rebellion.
These are the misguided actions of a tyrannical and deliberately vicious, Judge Starr. To protect our
loved ones, our family. and our beloved country, is a reflexive, heroic act and among the highest expressions
of Presidential responsibility. It is our common cry as Americans, is it not? ³Protect our country!
Protect out family! Protect our freedoms from those who seek undermine them!¹ Any American,including the President,
may be expected to lie, when put in a position to protect one¹s dignity, that of himself
and the country. This is seemingly paradoxical and unique to the position of President,
as are the responsibilities of those who protect our President. It is a responsibility of our President¹s
office, to include the hopefully rare practice of lying, to preserve. In the case of a chopped down cherry tree,
lying on the earth before us, there is nothing left to preserve but that lose and knowledge of all those whose hand mishandled the ax. Whose garden, whose tree and whose ax? It is far greater threat to attack all our liberties than to make appear, after more than four years, that only one citizen is being attacked. As a result of this protracted confrontation, it did not form the circumstances of but forced the less than wise, use of a presumed lie, one toward self- and national preservation. What about the damage and embarrassment caused to our first lady, Ms. Clinton and our First daughter,
and all those dragged before this relentless process? This arguably treasonous, $40,000,000.00+ barrage,
has only proven to be a process of failure to unearth real illegalities, only a history of admittedly
embarrassing actions by and to both sides. The special prosecutor, and those who support his attacks
on the President, are providing a clearly greater crime in this persistence of lunacy,
as to even damage our culture and it's governance. That is to say, undermining the safety, stability,
and future of our country and it's fair governance. After years of expense and digging to indite
our approved of, duly-elected highest representative, a weak position was established through a questionable
investigation and it¹s motivations, of not an impeachable offense, but of sad, unwise actions.
These allegations have nothing to do with the original subject of investigation and continues
to be pursued to dangerous, perverse disproportion¹s.

Note: I intended a section here on the media's bias and the polls
to strengthen the concept of conspiratorial overtones and intent.
Paragraph here on the media bias and the polls...

Could this be why it now seems a convenient time in the eyes of many of our enemies in the world,
to attack our embassies? When we are weakened by these feverish distractions from the world and
it's real issues, that our President, in the face of this strain, and of what is not a crime,
still contends with the unfortunate toils of his position and our time. Are we not all weakened,
the President especially? Our President is the hero to endure the indignities of this illegal investigation,
as an abuse of the house of representatives and the trust we put in it¹s checks and balances,
as well as a personal attack. Is this also why other just countries laugh at the insistence and pretension
of some Americans to dictate morals to those who have them already and have the human sanction
to differ in opinion, rather than on recognizing the common ground of ethics and getting on with the business
of a civil world? With our attacked and lessened image as a guide, providing our long-standing standard
of freedom and of it¹s worldly protection, should not all fear this concerted diminution as an attack
on our constitution and the future laid out by many great forbearers of freedom? For with these distractions and petty political games, the rest of the world sees a weakened hero
to follow under a tainted flag and the presumption of a faltering protector of freedom for all,
but still our President is resilient. We all will endure until this loose cannon of ridicule
has ended and our vastly approved of, apparently dear to many, President, can let even his freedom ring
by doing his job again, unhindered and heal his personal life, in peace. Is this to be the beginning of the breakdown of all those freedoms we have collectively striven to create
and have held so dear? Is this an attempt to start an avalanche of loss, with our freedoms and right to keep them private sliding down into the hands of awaiting glass-house,
stone-throwers? Will the next step be the prying open of our hearts, our bodies and our minds
at the discretion and whim of specially appointed, government prosecutors, and even the constitution
will have no provision to protect it's citizens? Please stop this madness, this foolishness,
this folly and indite those who are clearly abusive, to the point of criminality:
Special Prosecutor, Judge Starr and those behind him. And then maybe all will find a conspiring,
anti-American, dictatorial den of wolves, not a saddened, beleaguered President.

With the greatest urgency and sincerity,

Charles Alexander Zorn, M.A.
Educator/Producer/Neuroscientist

C.c.:
President Bill Clinton
Chief Justice
Members of the congress
The New York Times
Charles Grodin
Geraldo Rivera
Others... Etc....

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