Inmate No. 28301-016

It is late I should be sleeping, but as I sit here hands shaking, tears filling my eyes I wonder how I will ever get a good nights sleep again. I am in shock and disbelief that the President saw fit to commute the sentence of Scooter Libby. W. stated that the sentence of 30 months in prison was too harsh. Too harsh, for a man that obstructed justice in a case that put a woman's life in grave danger in order to get back at her husband. According to W. the felony conviction, fine, and probation are sufficient. On what planet is that sufficient? And since he is in such a forgiving mood why has he not pardoned or commuted the sentences of the soldiers convicted in the Abu Ghraib scandal. Soldiers who by the way were only following orders - doing their jobs. Isn't that the reason behind commuting Libby's sentence. Does the president think that the whole country is so stupid as to believe that this is not simply payment for services rendered. Come on the man took the fall for Cheney and Rove. He probably found out who the CIA operative was at the same time everyone else did. Unfortunately the people don't have to be stupid anymore, we are so distracted by stories of heiresses in and out of prison, so called "stars" in various states of intoxication in and out of rehab and the paternity scandal of a woman who died tragically yes but is all this newsworthy. The media has become a never ending episode of the Jerry Springer Show. So because we are so distracted by this nonsense we don't notice what is really important. Even respected newsman Larry King lowered his standards to include Larry Birkhead the world famous "Baby Daddy" and Paris Hilton. Not only that but when news people don't want to cover such mularky they are ridiculed and held as public fodder on You Tube. I am deeply saddened by the unfolding events, the war, the commutation of sentences, secrets, lies, and misdirection that has become the country that I LOVE. In closing a quote from Benjamin Franklin "The man who trades FREEDOM for security, does not deserve, nor will he receive either."