May be a little political but I grew up in a neighboring town to where
this author is from and had to publish:
The following is a transcript of a letter to
the editor that first appeared on June 9, 2010, in the Iosco County News
Herald. It is attributed to someone by the name of Ken Huber from
Tawas City, Michigan. I feel that is equally relevant 6 months later.
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
Tawas City
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