Nothing personal meant, Paul. I was responding in my mind to an article
I had just read saying something about how if someone came knocking at
America's door looking for real Americans, the answer would have to be
"they don't live here anymore." And then the 500,000 people out in the
street to protest in L.A. reminded me of the months (years even?) of
silent ever-massing protest against the Communist regime in East
Germany. It's difficult from outside the United States to imagine why
there is not more protest. Bush and Cheney et al seem the founding
fathers' worst nightmare.
I remember the appalled voices in my American childhood classrooms about
how in Nazi Germany people were forced to carry identity cards and
police could stop anyone and demand to see them. And how in the Soviet
Union, people couldn't read books without the government reading along
over their shoulders. And how in Castro's Cuba, people could be
detained without trial at the whim of the government. America was the
bulwark against that kind of tyrrany. The Founding Fathers had built so
well, the story went, that all the world looked to America as the
example of freedom. Clearly it was never the entire truth, but I miss
the days when the government had to pretend to believe it.
For two generations the world has pondered the guilt of the German
people for unleashing Hitler on the world. Your children's children
will be asked similar questions.
There is something so dangerously wrong in your country. And the
whirlwind you are allowing to be sown might blow us all away.
Ursula Stange North Bay, ON
Robert Paul wrote:
Ursula wrote:
What I want to know is why aren't 500,000 people out on the street demanding Bush's resignation.
The peaceful crowds in East Germany brought down their government by this consistent witnessing.
Where are the real Americans?
Over 500,000 people demonstrated in Los Angeles today against more restrictive immigration laws. I really don't like the implication that because I'm not at the barricades I'm not a real American.
Yours faithfully,
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