What Has America Become by Ken Huber of Tawas City July 20th, 2010 2:53 pm CT
What has America become? by Ken Huber of Tawas City
"What Has America Become" was the title of a letter to the editior written by Ken Huber of Tawas City, Michigan. It contains a series of comparisons and contrasts which causes one to think about the double-standards and conditions under which we now live here in America.
A reprint of the article has been circulating online (see photo with this article) finding its way to Fort Worth and possibly all over the nation. It was originally printed in the Iosco County News Herald on June 9, 2010, published in the Opinion column. Please read, post your thoughts, and as always feel free to subscribe for future articles and/or share with others.
Has America become the land of special interest and home of the double standard?
Lets see: if we lie to the Congress, it's a felony and if the Congress lies to us its just politics; if we dislike a black person, we're racist and if a black person dislikes whites, its their 1st Amendment right; the government spends millions to rehabilitate criminals and they do almost nothing for the victims; in public schools you can teach that homosexuality is OK, but you better not use the word God in the process; you can kill an unborn child, but it is wrong to execute a mass murderer; we don't burn books in America, we now rewrite them; we got rid of communist and socialist threats by renaming them progressive; we are unable to close our border with Mexico, but have no problem protecting the 38th parallel in Korea; if you protest against President Obama's policies you're a terrorist, but if you burned an American flag or George Bush in effigy it was your 1st Amendment right.
You can have pornography on TV or the internet, but you better not put a nativity scene in a public park during Christmas; we have eliminated all criminals in America, they are now called sick people; we can use a human fetus for medical research, but it is wrong to use an animal.
We take money from those who work hard for it and give it to those who don't want to work; we all support the Constitution, but only when it supports our political ideology; we still have freedom of speech, but only if we are being politically correct; parenting has been replaced with Ritalin and video games; the land of opportunity is now the land of hand outs; the similarity between Hurricane Katrina and the gulf oil spill is that neither president did anything to help.
And how do we handle a major crisis today? The government appoints a committee to determine who's at fault, then threatens them, passes a law, raises our taxes; tells us the problem is solved so they can get back to their reelection campaign.
What has happened to the land of the free and home of the brave?
If America has become the land of the special interest and the double standards, please refer to this country’s entire history, which is nothing but a recount of both since its first immigrants lawlessly invaded this land and its territories uninvited in the name of “exploration,” civility, religion and civilization, freedom and bravery, while making up the rules for immigration for the next ones to come under their permission.
Those who only desire to control others. Is that his definition republican definition of “bravery?” The inability to include another point of view than your own is a recipe for all the misfit definitions of racism, discrimination, xenophobia and the perverse oppression of opinions and controlling of others in the name of freedom and liberty.
If America has become the land of the special interest and the double standards, please refer to this country’s entire history, which is nothing but a recount of both since its first immigrants lawlessly invaded this land and its territories uninvited in the name of “exploration,” civility, religion and civilization, freedom and bravery, while making up the rules for immigration for the next ones to come under their permission.
Those who only desire to control others. Is that his definition republican definition of “bravery?” The inability to include another point of view than your own is a recipe for all the misfit definitions of racism, discrimination, xenophobia and the perverse oppression of opinions and controlling of others in the name of freedom and liberty.
Wow. You just don't learn. And now you're plagiarizing another source to get your comments here. Do you even know what the words you lifted from another site MEAN?