[Mb-civic] Fw: Letter

[Ian]

FYI - sent to the Times by me today.

Peace.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Ian 
To: letters at nytimes.com 
Sent: Saturday, January 07, 2006 1:54 PM
Subject: Letter


In calling for a repeal of the 22nd Amendment, which limits presidents to two terms, James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn suggest that the possibility of a bad president remaining in office would be checked by voters who would "repudiate a failed president at the polls" (Op-Ed, Jan. 5).  I believe this is naive.

Given the debacle of the 2000 election, questions that remain about the 2004 election, the imminent national change-over to electronic voting - which recent news stories have indicated is far from accurate, and possibly even highly manipulatable - and the power of the often spin-driven, corporate-owned major media to determine what the public sees as the "truth" about possible executive branch chicanery, the repeal of the 22nd Amendment would go a long way to creating the atmosphere for a truly "imperial" presidency.

Rev. Ian Alterman
New York City
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