What Has
America Become by Ken Huber of Tawas City
Editor,
Has America become the land
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