What has America become?

Dear Editor,

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

Lets see: If we lie to Congress, it's a felony and if Congress lies to us its just politics; If we dislike a black person, we're racist and if a black person dislikes whites, it's their 1st Amendment rights; 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 work 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 the communist and socialist threat by renaming them progressives; we are unable to close our border with Mexico, but we 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 American right.

You can have pornogaphy on TV or the internet, but you better not put up 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 human fetus for medical research, but it's 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 idealogy; we still have freedom of speech, but only if we are 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 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, MI, is located about halfway up on the shoreline of Lake Huron. The Tawas City Newspaper Editorial... short and to the point...