To: Mr/Mrs President of all countries
From: We, the People
Dear Mr/Mrs President:
We have placed you at the head of our country. Of course, we have
done this upon what appeared to us to be sufficient reasons, and yet
we think it best for you to know that there are some things in regard
to which we are not quite satisfied with you.
We believe you to be a brave and skillful leader, which, of course,
we like. We also believe you do not mix personal preferences with
politics, in which you are right. You have confidence in yourself,
which is a valuable if not an indispensable quality.
You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather
than harm. But we think that during the ten year Y2K repairs time
period you have taken counsel of your ambition and thwarted the normal
repairs proceedings, procrastinating as much as you could, in which
you did a great wrong to the country and to humankind.
We have heard, in such a way as to believe it, of your having
partially solved the Y2K computer shut-down problem we had just before
the turn of the century by secretly turning the computers' internal
clock back by 10 years. We understand that discarding these older
computers was not an option, as they were and are an integral part of
critical military defense mechanisms and/or industrial equipment, and
that it was with the best of intentions that you meant to replace or
overhaul them completely during the following decade.
We, the People will support you to the utmost of our ability, which
is neither more nor less than we have done and will do for all our
Presidents. We much fear that the spirit which you have aided to
infuse into our country, of keeping secret the importance of such a
potential crisis and withholding confidence from us, will now turn
upon you. We shall assist you, as far as we can, to put it down.
Neither you nor the greatest leader alive could get any good out of
us while such a spirit prevails, and now beware of rashness. Beware of
rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give
us victory over the imminent danger of an accidental nuclear war.
We, the People.
(c) 2008 Alberto Feliciano
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