Greetings ATS,
First, I will say that I, as I was born and raised American am very proud of my heritage, my tradition and my values taught by my father, grandfather
and those before them. I have a unique and special admiration for the way this country was founded, the way it was envisioned and have the utmost
respect for those that lost their lives in the revolutionary war and also the civil war to create and maintain the ideals that our country was founded
upon.
This America, the one that you who read this and I live in, is not the America that was wrestled from the british to provide freedom to the people.
Before any debate happens about this point of contention I will offer evidence to that point.
This from the Declaration of Independance.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights,
that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.--That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their
just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People
to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to
them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
The sole purpose of creation, operation and function of our American government is to ENSURE our guaranteed rights, that is the sole purpose of it's
existence, it is in essence the reason it was created in the first place. That being an undisputable fact, how exactly has it become something so
foreign and out of step with what it was created to do?
When you can answer that question, honestly, without shame for your complicent part in it, you will understand why much of the rest of the world
shares disdain and comical relief about American citizens. You see, the rest of world in their history classes are taught about our foundation as a
nation and taught how we came to be a country and won our independence from the British. It's a great story to teach and is very largely accurate.
The discrepancy comes into play when those outside of the United States learn about the foundation of our country and what we have currently become.
The difference in governance, law and practice is nothing short of extraordinary and ironically almost everyone else in the world can see it except
Americans that are too fat and happy to realize the rug was pulled out from under them decades ago.
To the rest of the world, Americans are the first to spout off about their freedom, their independence, their liberty and actually believe it and what
is happening is that others without the influence of the behemoth that is the western mainstream media machine that could only be compared to North
Korean state run TV see that America has become a predator. It has become a bankrupt nation with incredible might that is more interested in hiding
it's failure through violence and war than it is with change.
Our leaders, republican or democrat know that our financial situation, fueled by paranoid agenda is approaching a level that can not be understated,
lied about or mis represented. Despite countless unjust wars, invasions, occupations and killing, our national debt continues to balloon to
unfashionable rates. All the while, the justification for the killing of women, children and unarmed civilians has been sold and largely digested as a
need to thwart "terrorism" the great western lie of the 21st century.
Americans, your government doesn't care about you, it doesn't care if you live or die. It doesn't care if it creates genocide on cultures outside
of America. It doesn't care about anything else other than that who control the government and it's military might continue to make money, hold
power and perpetuate the status quo. It will do anything and everything to achieve this, nothing is too much, no loss too great, no lie too big. It is
tyranny in a well formed package smiling at you on your doorstep.
Change isn't easy, admitting there is a very serious problem is hard. Admitting that your government, the one you pay taxes too and the one who
controls the school your children attend is even harder. Take a good look around you. Is what we are doing as a country gel with what we were founded
to do? Are we free as Americans? Do we retain our guaranteed rights, our GUARANTEED rights......... This is why the Constitution was fought over,
hammered out and finally approved after all. We have inalienable right under nature but the very reason we drafted the Constitution and Bill of Rights
was to ensure without question or doubt that we as Americans had GUARANTEED rights that were non negotiable and absolute.
Despite this, we have a government now that states that we can be relieved of those rights at will, sometimes because of executive order or because of
ad hoc legislation that is non compliance with our supreme law, the Constitution. No matter what they say, no matter what they do, if they violate
your guaranteed rights as Americans, they are criminals.
The very reason the rest of the world views us as spineless, as a laughing stock is because we tote our American ideals, values and traditions, which
are GREAT as current truths but they know unlike most of us that those values are nowhere to be found in America today. Our government is rogue,
authoritarian, violent, manipulative and bought and paid for without any thought for true law. It in point of indisputable fact is a government
without ANY regard to law.
The simple fact that 300 million people let such a shallow and inept few run this country and much of the rest of world into the ground and in a state
of constant violence and misery is why they laugh at how naive most Americans have become. It's sad.