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Thank you for addressing this crisis, sir. When the wealthiest begin to “obey in advance,” they are showing us that wealth does not buy courage or moral values.

Jeff Bezos was smart enough to see the power of going from selling books online to selling literally everything and anything online. And that made him incredibly wealthy. I also happen to know he’s a lifelong fan of Star Trek. But somehow he is not smart enough to have learned the core values that show has tried to teach us since 1966, including the value of Resisting Domination By Authoritarians (from Trelane to Apollo to Vol to Landrau to Khan in the original series to The Borg in modern day Trek). Bezos has demonstrated he’s willing to be assimilated by The Borg freely. I can only imagine what he would’ve done, had he been alive during the early days of Hitler’s rise to power. He is a disgrace as an American and as a human being.

I had previously canceled my WaPost subscription. Today, I will cancel my Amazon account (which I first opened when all Amazon was selling was books). Bye bye Bezos!

And also thank you for coming to Full Circle Bookstore in OKC last night. It was an honor to meet you!

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