What has America become?

[basskiller]

What has America become?

Editor,

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?

- Ken Huber
Tawas City

special thanks to blackdream for posting the image of this article prompting me to find it in text form~ basskiller

 

[Big Smoothy]

Has America become the land of special interest and home of the double standard?

Yeah.

Many, many, decades ago.

 

[Zaphod]

Most of that is just GOP drivel. Some truth to it, but not enough to make it memorable.

 

[Shillelagh]

You can have pornography on TV or the internet, but you better not put a nativity scene in a public park during Christmas;

Amen to that. You can get way more miles out of porn than baby jesus...

 

[LAM]

Most of that is just GOP drivel. Some truth to it, but not enough to make it memorable.

lol at the far right for pitching a bitch about the effects of their own policy's which set the stage for the NWO.

 

[GFR]

When exactly was America good?

When it was committing genocide on the native Americans?
When it was enslaving the Africans?
When it was starting illegal wars with Mexico, England or it's self?


LMAO at the idiots who think America was ever anything then a shit hole.

 

[HialeahChico305]

When exactly was America good?

When it was committing genocide on the native Americans?
When it was enslaving the Africans?
When it was starting illegal wars with Mexico, England or it's self?




LMAO at the idiots who think America was ever anything then a shit hole.

This is the part where we label you a anti patriotic prick

 

[OfficerFarva]

When exactly was America good?

When it was committing genocide on the native Americans?
When it was enslaving the Africans?
When it was starting illegal wars with Mexico, England or it's self?


LMAO at the idiots who think America was ever anything then a shit hole.

Yah but compared to all of the other shit holes out there, it has always been one of the better ones to be in.

 

[OfficerFarva]

This is the part where we label you a anti patriotic prick

They'd most likely label him a terrorist in this day and age. They could legally bag him and hold him indefinitely with no questions asked

 

[Gissurjon]

Yah but compared to all of the other shit holes out there, it has always been one of the better ones to be in.

True, except for the natives, women, blacks, and the occasional deer.

Oh yea, don't forget about when they rounded up the Asians and stuck them inside a fence, add them to the list too.

 

[DOMS]

True, except for the natives, women, blacks, and the occasional deer.

Oh yea, don't forget about when they rounded up the Asians and stuck them inside a fence, add them to the list too.

He didn't say perfect, he said better.

Relevant:

You're selling black people short*.

You're forgetting their great strides in infant rape. And, while whites are waging wars to steal oil (which explains the lowering price of gas), blacks are killing other blacks, to the sum of one million, for the incredibly inventive reason of the others being a lighter shade of black. Bonus points for using only small arms and machetes. While whites in the USA have seen the HIV infection rate drop to .6%, Swaziland had made the major achievement of a 26% HIV infection rate. And while the whites in the USA struggle with national health care, Mozambique has achieved a maximum life expectancy of 39 years.

Don't you ever study during Black History Month?


* This sounds like something an options trader would do back in the days of slavery.

 

[HialeahChico305]

True, except for the natives, women, blacks, and the occasional deer.

Oh yea, don't forget about when they rounded up the Asians and stuck them inside a fence, add them to the list too.

I feel so bad, poor deers!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Big Smoothy]

True, except for the natives, women, blacks, and the occasional deer.

Oh yea, don't forget about when they rounded up the Asians and stuck them inside a fence, add them to the list too.

Mistakes made, yes. They should be examined and reflected on. Americans do this - many other countries do not.

How do African Blacks, Mexicans, and Asian treat us in their own countries? Awful.

I know.

I've lived abroad for 12 years.

White Americans have no reason to be apologetic.

 

[troubador]

He didn't say perfect, he said better.

Damn you for putting things in perspective!

I feel so bad, poor deers!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope he's joking... because the chipmunks are really the oppressed woodland creature.

 

[DOMS]

Damn you for putting things in perspective!

Not to mention that quite a bit of what he's bitching about is old. Everything I posted is current...and only the tip of the iceberg.

 

[NVRBDR]

When exactly was America good?

When it was committing genocide on the native Americans?
When it was enslaving the Africans?
When it was starting illegal wars with Mexico, England or it's self?


LMAO at the idiots who think America was ever anything then a shit hole.

the coolest thing about living in a country that still values your freedom, you can exercise that freedom and leave if you don't like it...

 

[LAM]

When exactly was America good?

cause that's what the people on tv have been saying for decades. are you implying that tv was wrong?

 

[basskiller]

When exactly was America good?

When it was committing genocide on the native Americans?
When it was enslaving the Africans?
When it was starting illegal wars with Mexico, England or it's self?


LMAO at the idiots who think America was ever anything then a shit hole.

that was the most assinine statement ever to be uttered

Illegal wars.. when does legality factor into the start of a war? Does someone draw up a draft before hand and both sides agree on it?? Geeesh..

enslaving??? Almost every country in the world has done this this.. Hell even the africans did it when warring with other tribes in africa.. They intergrated those that weren't killed into their own tribe.. Now that was the more lienant tribes.. Other killed all other male members of the tribes they warred with.

Genocide (by definition) happens every day in almost every country
The germans did it, The english did it, The romans did it.. The freaking cave men did it.. Now exactly how far do you want to go back..

 

[basskiller]

 

[EARL]

that was the most assinine statement ever to be uttered

Illegal wars.. when does legality factor into the start of a war? Does someone draw up a draft before hand and both sides agree on it?? Geeesh..

enslaving??? Almost every country in the world has done this this.. Hell even the africans did it when warring with other tribes in africa.. They intergrated those that weren't killed into their own tribe.. Now that was the more lienant tribes.. Other killed all other male members of the tribes they warred with.

Genocide (by definition) happens every day in almost every country
The germans did it, The english did it, The romans did it.. The freaking cave men did it.. Now exactly how far do you want to go back..

Most humans in general are ridiculous. Has very little to do with country.

The world will not become drastically better anytime soon, so deal with it.

 

[HialeahChico305]

that was the most assinine statement ever to be uttered

Illegal wars.. when does legality factor into the start of a war? Does someone draw up a draft before hand and both sides agree on it?? Geeesh..

enslaving??? Almost every country in the world has done this this.. Hell even the africans did it when warring with other tribes in africa.. They intergrated those that weren't killed into their own tribe.. Now that was the more lienant tribes.. Other killed all other male members of the tribes they warred with.

Genocide (by definition) happens every day in almost every country
The germans did it, The english did it, The romans did it.. The freaking cave men did it.. Now exactly how far do you want to go back..

You make valid points, but truth of the matter is there is no higher level of hypocrisy then america.

 

[DOMS]

You make valid points, but truth of the matter is there is no higher level of hypocrisy then america.

Still doesn't change the fact that the US is better than the majority of the world.

 

[HialeahChico305]

Still doesn't change the fact that the US is better than the majority of the world.

Globalization is changing that little by little, don't worry .

 

[DOMS]

Globalization is changing that little by little, don't worry .

Globalization: trying to improve substandard third-world countries at the cost of first world nations.

See also: shitty third-world people flooding into first-world countries and bringing them down to third-world standards.

 

[HialeahChico305]

Actually globalization shall solve the flooding issue also, the flooding is slowly decreasing in intensity.

 

[maniclion]

When exactly was America good?

When it was committing genocide on the native Americans?
When it was enslaving the Africans?
When it was starting illegal wars with Mexico, England or it's self?


LMAO at the idiots who think America was ever anything then a shit hole.

Don't forget when the Irish were treated like Mexicans today, or Italian immigrants were considered enemy aliens, Japanese were caged, Okies were abused during the dust bowl, etc...

 

[withoutrulers]

 

[LAM]

Still doesn't change the fact that the US is better than the majority of the world.

it is but every day it gets worst and worst, the only way to correct bad legislation is to reverse that legislation. can't remember when the last time that was done in the US.

you don't see any other country making a new "industry" out of incarcerating people for marijuana offenses, you don't see any other country where it's police force routinely kills it's own citizens, and you definitely don't see any other country preparing to suspend the constitution of that country for protection against an invisible and manufactured enemy by one of our own "security" agency's.

in another 100 years the US of today will be nothing but a distant memory, at best it will be like the 1800's at worst something more like a scene from Escape from New York.

 

[Big Smoothy]

Basskiller Post #19

Keep piece by Stossel.

We live in a Nanny State.

The State - unelected bureaucrats a lot of the time - tell us what we can and cannot do.

We are children. We need to be controlled. While at the same time, the state just takes more and more of our money out of our pockets.

 

[LAM]

Basskiller Post #19

While at the same time, the state just takes more and more of our money out of our pockets.

but not by taxation like most think the US is one of the least taxed country's in the world. the theft occurs via inflation and intentional caused recessions which cause permanent wealth transfers.