Obama bill-signing smacks of secrecy

My compliments to the Daily Herald for covering President Obama's signing of an executive order funding and promoting international abortions with our tax dollars.

Contrary to campaign promises of transparency and openness, the president signed the bill secretly in the late hours on a Friday at a time without the news media present. Such an eleventh-hour action leading into the weekend seems deliberately orchestrated to avoid media attention and avoid critical reaction. There is no doubt that Obama is adept at controlling media response. Because of the late hour, most newspapers had to fit a limited story in somewhere other than page 1.

Obama's actions remind me of a secretive meeting cloaked in darkness of Brutus and the other conspirators in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar" as they plotted to kill an innocent man. The resemblance to the eleventh-hour meeting where the fates of countless innocents would be signed away without witnesses present is equally chilling.

Once again, thanks to the Daily Herald for finding a place for the story. It allows us to echo the words of the creator to Cain in Genesis: "What have you done?"

Thomas A. Smith

Naperville