What has America Become

I recently ran across this letter to the editor.  I don't know the gentleman who wrote it, but in my opinion, he is spot on and expresses much better than I can the thoughts I have had since I stopped looking at the world through rose colored glasses and started paying attention to what is going on around us.

"What has America Become?

Editor,

Has America become the land of the 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 dislikes whites, it's 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 of God in the process;  you can kill an unborn child, but its wrong to execute a mass murderer;  we don't burn books in America, we now rewrite them;  we got rid of the communist and socialist threat by renaming them progressives;  we are unable 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 its 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 and 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"

I'm not sure just when this was written, but in light of the many government scandals of late, I'm thinking that the rabbit hole into which we are falling has been dug much deeper recently.  God help us all.