Dakota Beacon

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Samuel Johnson

The following is an excerpt from a recent newsletter from Congressman Tom Emmer:

Updates from Ukraine’s fight for democracy

Every day, we see painful footage coming from Ukraine as the Ukrainian people continue their fight against Russian invaders. Between reports that Russia has used hypersonic missiles to stories of pointed attacks against innocent Ukrainian men, women and children, the world has been fixated on the tragic events unfolding in Eastern Europe.

In Congress, we have kept a close eye on this evolving crisis. Last week, Ukrainian President Zelenskyy addressed members of the House and Senate. His message was heartbreaking, but clear: the Ukrainian people are suffering, and they need our help.

His words didn’t fall on deaf ears. Right now, we are mobilizing to send lifesaving supplies and critical weapons to Ukraine. Earlier this month, I supported legislation to provide additional resources and aid to Ukraine. This funding will go towards a combination of military aid and support for refugees escaping the Russian invasion.

We have also been working to ensure that donations of critical supplies like ammunition are able to make it to those fighting in Ukraine without delay. Last week, I announced that the Anoka-based Vista Outdoors, which includes the Federal, CCI, Remington and Speer ammunition brands, would be able to successfully donate one million rounds of ammunition to Ukrainian forces. My office worked closely with the Departments of State and Commerce to expedite these donations, which are now en-route to Ukraine. Last week, I also cosponsored the American Ammo in Defense of Ukraine Act. This bill, led by my colleagues, Representative Richard Hudson (R-NC) and Representative Victoria Spartz (R-IN), will simplify the donation process to help American ammunition reach Ukrainian forces when they need it most.

The Ukrainian people are in a fight for their lives. These types of donations will help defend their families and their country from Putin’s invasion.

I found this to be profoundly disappointing.  We should expect critical thinking and openness to debate on a matter such as the events in the Ukraine.  Sadly, we seem doomed to be thrust into this mess, even at great cost to the people of Ukraine whom we might well wish to spare.  I have sent this response to Mr. Emmer on his website email page.

I have read you newsletter and thank you for sending them.  I am keenly interested in what our MN delegation says and does in Washington!  

However, as to Ukraine, I would strongly urge the US government to stay well away from it.  In the first place, you characterized this conflict as the Ukrainians' "fight for democracy".  (Technically speaking, should we hope for "democracy" for any nation?  It is basically mob rule.)  There is nothing democratic about Zelenskyy or his government.  He is a puppet of Klaus Schwab and of George Soros.  This is not something that the US should get behind.  

I do not support any nation invading another, but we should have expected this.  The US has not been a "good actor" in that our government has established bio weapons labs all over the world.  This is not in the character of a "good neighbor" or a "good country".  We should be ashamed of this activity.  We should stop it.  When we find out our government has  been doing this kind of covert thing we should all stand together to condemn it.  

One could say we “invaded” Ukraine first by setting these labs up in their country.  It is an act of war, after all.We cannot lead the world in the right direction if this is the behavior we model for others.  We cannot "call the kettle black" as it were.  We, as a nation, have been a bad actor in all of this.  Pushing for expansion of NATO was a hostile gesture when with the exception of Afghanistan (which WE ALSO invaded) and the Crimea (where the people there supported the annexation - and no wonder when you look at the corruption in Ukraine), Russia has been almost totally dormant.  Why not let them alone?  Instead we kept opening the door at one end (Biden's allowing the Nordstream 2 pipeline to go forward) , encouraging Putin's bravado by doing so, and then giving a strong excuse for his lashing out against Ukraine when he sensed a threat of NATO arms and US bio weapons on his own doorstep. 

When you add to this the fact that Ukraine has, in its modern incarnation, exhibited the most corrupt government in the entire world, with a national expertise in human and drug trafficking, money laundering  and the like, and the climate which made the Biden family millions of dollars, plus an anti-democratic reality and a government which has been known to kill its own people, shelling them in their homes in the Donbas, and you have a government completely unworthy of one drop of American blood or one penny of American revenue, America should not support it.  I strongly oppose any connection at all with the government of Ukraine at this time.  When we suspected Assad of killing his own people we called it "genocide" and a "war crime".  When Saddam Hussein did it we also censured his government - such as it was.  When the Ukraine government does so, what do we do?  We call them heroes.  

I note you were impressed by the speech beamed in by Zelenskyy.  He is an actor, which does not necessarily mean he cannot be a good leader and honest if he chooses.  Reagan was an actor.  However, Reagan did not pose falsely in front of green screens pretending to be in war zones.  He - unlike Zelenskyy - did not react to criticism in the press by banning the press.  Unlike Zelenskyy, he did not outlaw other political parties or activists, he did not throw his opponents in jail - did he?  Zelenskyy models his behavior more along the lines of a Maduro than a Coolidge.  

Our behavior in this has been wrong - but worst of all has been the lockstep the Republican senators and congessmen have been in with the Biden crime family.  This "war" is nothing but a distraction from what Americans should be concerned with - election fraud OVER HERE, abuse of our Constitution in the guise of "covid response", forced vaccination - which is still going on, by the way, our own border left totally open and undefended, a government policy of flying illegal aliens all over the US and depositing them in cities around the country to deal with (some of them terrorists), American citizens left to rot in prison for simply attending a rally and listening to a speech - without even being charged!  Our own laws are ignored by our own government while our people are victimized in a thousand ways.  China is buying up our country an acre at a time.  In your back yard, a Belt and Road project threatens the Grand Forks Air Force Base.  Have you bothered to find out about that?  Or are your time and thoughts consumed by the drama queen who is running Ukraine into the ground?  

Did you and your colleagues bother to listen to Putin's speech?  Or was he banned there as well as in the western media?  I am disappointed in your lack of independent, critical thinking in this.  You are like the oysters in Alice in Wonderland down there in Washington.  It would be SOOOO refreshing if SOMEONE there stood up and said "We haven't heard the whole story yet.  None of us is a fan of Putin but he does things for reasons.  Let's hear them."  You didn't and sadly no one else is.  I would say there is something highly suspect when anyone's message is banned or censored.  You should be suspicious of this.  You are not stupid.  Those who blindly follow this stuff either are stupid or they are willing to hide things for whatever reasons.  Friendship?  Guilt?  Fear?  I do not think you and your fellows in Congress are thinking critically - and that is your job there.  You are not sent there as a cheerleading team, but as loyal opposition.  

Your loyalty should be first to decency, then to the United States, then to Minnesota, then to your district.  The United States' behavior in Ukraine has not been decent for a long time.  It has constituted war crimes.  Decency has been breached and you and others should bring our government back on track.  We should not have to argue a defense for immoral activities there.  The US interests - other than covering up our indecent behavior there - are not served by involvement in this conflict.  Our behavior in goading Putin by opening the pathway forward for him to act out and then giving him a million excuses to shut down our labs there and stop the NATO incursion, has been designed I would speculate, by those behind Biden's administration - possibly Barack Obama and others.  Why are you, of all people, supporting this?   It is covering up the Biden family's illegal dealings, our CIA's bio-weapons lab activity (and we have seen the damage that has done - we cannot tolerate any more of this) and props up a corrupt, un-democratic country.  We simply have no business there.  

I am sending this as an open letter.  I do invite an actual response.  I would, indeed, like to hear your reasons for supporting the Joe Biden side of this and not even hearing Putin's reasons for his actions.  The least we should strive to do is find out why the "other side" does what it does - we should communicate.  It could save a lot of lives.    In fact, everything we do to prop up Zelenskyy is carrying a terrible cost in people's lives, in loss of their homes, their ability to earn a living and support themselves, in cost to their culture.  We are harming the people of Ukraine at least as much as Putin and perhaps even more, because we are a factor in their government's corruption.    Please write back and tell me why you are taking these positions.  The ammunition you are eager to supply to Ukraine will as likely be used to kill their own people as to shoot at Russians.  We should also be mindful that more than once we have found our own soldiers shot with ammunition we have provided to someone to fight a proxy war for us.  

And were you aware, Mr. Emmer, that Zelenskyy has ordered that NO PRISONERS BE TAKEN ALIVE?    This is a war crime, but then, so is shelling your own people.  His military spokesman has also announced that any Russian soldiers captured would be castrated.  I don't know which is true.  Perhaps the intention is to castrate them first and then kill them?  The other would make no sense, really.  I believe desecrating a body is also a war crime.  But then, I guess America is all in with war crimes these days.  Its more sophisticated than our old-timey aversion to them.  Maybe, since you are empowering this, you know - if so please share it with me.  As a taxpayer who will be  footing the bill for your generosity, I have a right to know.  

If we want the best outcome at this point for Ukrainian people we should rather encourage Zelenskyy to sit down and negotiate with Putin about how they can both get out of this and stop the shooting.  Zelenskyy will have to make some accommodation - which is why he should never have provoked Putin in the first place - but there is no other option unless we are willing to play brinksman with nulear war.  Anything Zelenskyy could "win" at this point would not be worth the loss in life and property.  He should be guided by wiser people rather than supplied with bullets.  That is, unless we want this war to continue as people die - for nothing.

Sincerely,

Sally Morris

I promise to keep you informed should I receive a response.

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