First, please allow me to congratulate all of you and your staff
members on your tremendous success and the welcomed triumph of our party in the
recent congressional midterm elections.
My trust and faith in government and the election process has been
restored. However, certain aspects of
the GOP culture of corruption survived the election and must be expeditiously
exposed and removed from political power, if we, as a nation are to restore our
once-enviable and prestigious position in the global political/economic
arena. With a Democratic-controlled
Congress, I am highly confident that you will be the leaders that forge the way
in this direction.
On a much more personal note, my parents and the Catholic nuns and
priests who taught me tried to instill in me a deep sense of honesty, fairness,
and compassion for my fellow human beings on this planet. In this regard, I
believe they were somewhat successful, as my embracement of these virtues has
placed me in my current legal/political dilemma. Unfortunately, my schooling in Civics 101 did
not include such issues as PAC money, extortion, bribes, deceit, illegal
collusion, and mob assassination contracts, all of which we have sadly observed
within the GOP culture-of-corruption the past several years.
I have included a copy of a letter that I recently sent to
Congressman Henry Waxman. For Senator
Durbin and Senator Obama, since criminal allegations made within this
correspondence implicate the Seventh Circuit Court system and also one of the
largest employers in your state, United Airlines, I felt both compelled and
obliged to at least provide you with a courtesy “heads up” on these serious
legal matters.
I personally am not an idealist; I recognize our current legal and
political system are both far from being perfect, but I also know that I should
not have had to put my family or myself through what has tragically transpired
the past few years since 9/11. Nor
should a respectable Chicago businessman, Mr. Michael Lynch, be forced to have
24-hour/day armed bodyguards to protect his family and himself while holed up
in his Lake Forest, Illinois home because there is a mob contract out on him.
His family has received death threats as well.
And why? All because he has been
honestly and actively attempting to help restore some semblance of “Civics 101”
in this country by exposing illegal governmental collusion, extortion, bribery
and a potentially corrupt judiciary.
Somewhere along the line our entire system has been derailed and
collectively, we are ALL to blame for passively allowing our system of checks
and balances to degenerate to this pathetic level.
Additionally, I have included a joint letter that I had mailed to
the Departments of Justice, Homeland Security, and Transportation in April
2006. There was no meaningful action on
their part. There have been many
agencies and news outlets the past several years that have ignored my plea to
hear the cry of airline employees and other industry workers with regard to
meaningful pension legislation and other issues. Our petitions have gone unheeded…till now.
A few nights ago, Mr. Lynch and myself had the good fortune of an
interested and sympathetic ear at CBS News.
We have both told our stories and presented meaningful legal evidence to
substantiate our claims. We are both
very optimistic with regard to federal grand jury potentiality in this
matter. We want the truth told and
justice served in an honest system of government. Additionally,
tens-of-thousands of airline industry and other workers have circulated
nationwide the letters that had been previously sent to both the cabinet
members and Congressman Waxman. Our army
of concerned workers and retirees is growing by the hour as is evidenced by
email responses we are receiving from every corner of the country and even
distant countries abroad. Our collective
voice will be heard; our story will be told; the truth will be exposed; justice
will be served. We need your help in
this matter.
Gentlemen, as you well know, there are 40-million workers in this
country who are covered by over 30,000 defined–benefit pension plans, all of
which are in jeopardy in the current legal/political scheme of things. The recent pension legislation passed into
law is not worth the paper it is written on, but was endorsed by the GOP
rubber-stamp Congress for obvious reasons.
There are much broader issues and concerns here than just the McCook
Metals and United Airlines ‘forced’ bankruptcies that resulted in the
distress-termination of employee pensions and the gutting of labor
contracts. There is an overlying immoral
stench that permeates throughout this entire travesty of justice and must be
corrected. You three distinguished
gentlemen have the power to effect the necessary changes in legislation to help
vaporize the stench.
Here is our heartfelt plea; kindly do not allow it to once again
fall on deaf ears. After a review of the
enclosed correspondence and your subsequent staff investigation into these
matters, and consultation with your distinguished colleagues in the Senate,
would you kindly give just consideration to a full Congressional inquiry into
these matters in the name of all that is good and honest in our government and
representative of the pristine dream our forefathers envisioned before we began
this death-spiral into our existing culture of corruption.
Your consideration of our plight is greatly appreciated by many
honest and hard-working American citizens.
I will patiently await your response.
