Good Morning Everyone!
I don't have a lot of time this morning, ha!, when do I ever have a lot of time?! Anyway, I do need to start waking up children pretty soon.
I think today I am going to talk about something I have been hearing a lot on the radio talk shows and I think it needs to be addressed.
Why do we feel like we need to apologize as a country to so many people? What changed in our country that we have decided no one is to blame for crimes they commit, no one is to blame when they bomb our country, we must have done something to make them upset, and when an Army Major shoots his fellow Army men and women it isn't his fault and we should understand because those people were getting ready to go and fight against Islam.
Really, I just heard a snip of an interview from the BBC of an American that actually BLAMED the shot and dead soldiers because they were getting ready to fight Islam and it was their fault they got shot. Hold on here bucko!!! What?!!!!
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Then yesterday when I was listening to another show I heard that after 9/11 we actually had a committee that investigated, not who did this to us but, why they did it to us and what we did wrong to them to make them want to hurt us. Plain and simple people...they HATE our freedom, they hate our religions, they hate us! However, they hate us yet, many of them leave their oppressive countries to come to America, a country they supposedly 'hate' and raise their children here, attend our schools for terrific educations, take advantage of our great health care system(Oh sorry people, really looking around the world, we have a GREAT health care system) and they work great American jobs for great American wages. I can see why they hate America so much.
Ok now, calm down!! I don't think ALL Muslims or people of Islam hate us, I believe most actually like us and our troops. It is the extremists. But my question is why do they come here then and why do they raise their children in America but, raise their children to hate America? And WHY as Americans are we allowing this to happen and we are for some reason taking the blame?
It almost sounds to me we are one of two things as a country, we are either bleeding hearts and believe we can create a Utopia in our world and everyone can live in peace and harmony. Hey...if we can't get it to work in our own country, what makes us arrogantly believe we can do it around the world?!!!! My second deal is we sound like we are an abuse victim making excuses for our abuser. It is the ole, "Oh, you don't know what they are like when we are alone, they really are nice to me..." act!!!
So, are we the Utopia country or the abuse victim country? Either way, we need therapy and counseling immediately!
It is never ok to shoot our people at our Army bases, it is never ok to fly planes into buildings, it is never ok to gun down innocent people anywhere! People that do that have issues, don't make excuses for them! I remember when the Oklahoma City bombings happened, we were angry as a nation, we were upset, we cried together and we didn't make excuses for those losers! We put them in jail and we threw the book at them! Was it because they were 'one of us' and that made it worse? Are we now to a point where if you are white and American you are going to get the book thrown at you for Terrorism (which yes, I believe the Ft. Hood tragedy is) but, if you are an immigrant or you aren't 'white' or you aren't a Christian you can get away with terrorism on our soil? It feels like it to me.
It seems like we have become so overly politically correct that we are now becoming a joke of a society where hate to say it but, it is the cause of us starting to lose our freedom, lose our sense of safety and we are becoming the butt of jokes around the world. We are causing this to ourselves.
I wish life could be fair, I really do! I wish everyone could all have the same opportunities...hey WAIT, we live in America we all do have the same opportunities! We all have free public education, we have the freedom to go anywhere in the country we please and you can get any type of job you like, here is the kicker...as long as you are willing to work hard to get it! OH>....now it makes sense to me, we have created a politically correct country that doesn't feel people should have to 'work' for their opportunities anymore.
I have been the red-headed step/child my whole life(literally) and now, I feel like I am again only because I am a Christian woman, married to a Christian man, we are both ugh, gasp Caucasian, we are both college educated, my husband is a business owner and we are upper middle class. We are the people that suck in this country all of a sudden because we have worked hard, our parents worked hard, our grandparents worked hard and now...we are being punished by our own government for that. We need to stop giving to the people in our country that aren't willing to work hard including the people that HATE our country.
I have a love for my country that brings me to tears every time I sing the National Anthem at a ball game, I stand with my hand on my heart, I sing the song by heart, and I tear up thinking of all the sacrifices our founding fathers, mothers, sisters, brothers, and children made for MY freedom.
Now, I feel like that freedom they all shed blood for is slowly going away and as a mother, it scares me. What sort of country am I leaving for my children?
Stop making excuses for people, stop making excuses for criminals, stop making excuses for terrorists, stop making excuses.....period!
It is Veteran's Day today, take the time to thank, really thank a veteran and take the time to think about what your life would be if you didn't have your freedom that they so gallantly fought for!!!
If you don't like America good news, you can always leave America...if America sucks so bad...there are plenty of other countries in the world that you might find a lot more enjoyable, more like the Utopia you so crave. Hey....if you have a wife, or a daughter, why don't you head over to Afghanistan or Iraq...I have heard women are treated very fairly over there.
I am sorry this is so negative today but, come on people! It needs to be said, that is why I call this blog the "Outspoken Mom Blog" not the "I bury my head in the sand blog".
Blessings to all of you ESPECIALLY our troops both here and elsewhere! Blessings to all of you veterans!
-Liza
