Response to Mr. Obama’s Nobel letter.

Dear Mr. Obama,
This morning your minions sent me the following message over your signature:

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Stephen –

This morning, Michelle and I awoke to some surprising and humbling news. At 6 a.m., we received word that I’d been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 2009.

To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who’ve been honored by this prize — men and women who’ve inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace.

But I also know that throughout history the Nobel Peace Prize has not just been used to honor specific achievement; it’s also been used as a means to give momentum to a set of causes.

That is why I’ve said that I will accept this award as a call to action, a call for all nations and all peoples to confront the common challenges of the 21st century. These challenges won’t all be met during my presidency, or even my lifetime. But I know these challenges can be met so long as it’s recognized that they will not be met by one person or one nation alone.

This award — and the call to action that comes with it — does not belong simply to me or my administration; it belongs to all people around the world who have fought for justice and for peace. And most of all, it belongs to you, the men and women of America, who have dared to hope and have worked so hard to make our world a little better.

So today we humbly recommit to the important work that we’ve begun together. I’m grateful that you’ve stood with me thus far, and I’m honored to continue our vital work in the years to come.

Thank you,

President Barack Obama
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Mr. Obama, you have not been working with me, or millions of other Americans, nor have you promoted anything more than the peace of the grave for uncounted Afghan and Pakistani peasants. You call anybody who has fought for “justice and for peace” terrorists or insurgents. Anybody who objects to hegemony by the United States is either co-opted, killed or subverted.

On the home front, you and your bought and paid for lackeys in Congress pass ever more draconian laws to subvert our Constitution and destroy our privacy, our right to protest, our basic freedoms under the Bill of Rights. No law that is supposed to provide some sort of relief to We the People is passed until the lobbyists have gone over it with a fine tooth comb and made sure that the profits of the wealthy and the cartels are not touched.

This Winter, there may be a hundred million Americans living under cardboard in the streets, begging for food for their families. We are rapidly returning to the “Gilded Age” of the 1890’s where the wealthy rode their carriages from party to party, grinning at the hordes of people clutching their rags together, their hands out for a coin or two to buy some food for their families. This is what the people running this nation still consider the “natural order of things.”

More and wider wars, war crimes and crimes against humanity, billions more for the war machine and its profiteers, while the people suffer and starve, their jobs outsourced to places where people will work an eighteen hour day for a handful of rice. Health care is rapidly going down the tubes, mortgages are being foreclosed, and in some areas, banks and other financial institutions, who cannot sell the foreclosed homes are having them torn down, to prevent anybody from living in them.

Now, you are embarked on a program to spend still more money on new, advanced, nuclear weapons when we can destroy the planet twenty or thirty times over with the horrors already sitting in their silos on hair trigger alert. New weapons of pain and distress, to be used to disperse protestors of government policies are being developed and distributed to law enforcement. NorthCom is training combat brigades in “suppressing civil unrest.” So starving, homeless, sick people here in the United States will be dealt with, should they protest their plight under the American Oligarchy, of which you are apparently the poster boy.

When the war criminal Henry Kissinger got his Nobel Peace Prize, the whole thing became nothing but a public relations farce. The farce continues and will, apparently, as thousands or tens of thousands, here and abroad, die for the profits of the Oligarchy.

You said, “To be honest, I do not feel that I deserve to be in the company of so many of the transformative figures who’ve been honored by this prize — men and women who’ve inspired me and inspired the entire world through their courageous pursuit of peace.”

That was the only accurate statement in your letter to me. I would say, “For shame, Sir,” but you have none, so why bother.

With disgust and sadness,
Steve and Adrienne Osborn