“What Has America Become?” Letter Becomes Internet Sensation
A letter to the editor, titled “What has America become?” to a small newspaper in Michigan has become an internet sensation because it spells out so many simple, unanswerable truths.
From Facebook to email circulars and from blogs through to other mainstream websites, the simple letter, written by one Ken Huber of Tawas City, Michigan, is an example of the sort of vox populi anger which is boiling below the surface in our country today.
Here is the full unexpurgated text of the letter. It requires no further comment.
“What has America become?
Editor,
Has America become the land of special interest and home of the double standard?
Let’s see: if we lie to the Congress, it’s a felony and if the Congress lies to us it’s just politics; if we dislike a black person, we’re racist and if a black person 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 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 communist and socialist threats by renaming them progressive; we are unable to 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 it is 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 handouts; 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; 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”
Category: Establishment News
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Tens of millions of us believe that a collection of cells that has not developed the capacity to feel and to be aware takes priority over the health and welfare of a sentient human being, that a doctor who refuses to give emergency contraception to a rape victim is a principled hero rather than a sadistic lunatic, that Israel is our friend and a "light unto the world," that WW 2 was a wonderful and necessary war waged between absolute good and absolute evil, that Ronald Reagan was one of our wisest and greatest leaders, that our country would vastly improve if only a sycophant of Milton Friedman was in the White House, that all cultures and peoples are equally evolved, that pollution has no significant impact on the atmosphere and the environment, that ghosts and aliens walk among us, that the 'evil' of family planning is a more important 'issue' than massive unemployment and poverty, etc.
Unless we correct this rather bizarre aspect of our national character, we will continue to fail, and we (and Israel) will continue to be a menace to the world.
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This letter to the editor starts off well enough. It then goes on to reveal something about us that contributes to America's present, contemptible, dangerous and pathetic direction: Our love affair with what is explicitly anti-Reason.
This country is off the chart when compared to the rest of the developed world in its continuing embrace of the flagrantly irrational. This trait is nowhere as strongly reflected as in the widespread adherence to religious beliefs and historical myths that are ridiculous and harmful.
I think we as Americans need to be Americans first and foremost. I think we must be loyal to only ONE flag. I think ENGLISH is our language and EVERYONE must learn it.I think press 2 for anything should be abolished.And I think We the People better start voting Congress OUT or we deserve what we get.
Lets stop talking about whites taking back our country here and in Europe and start doing it. And lets not forget our brothers and sisters in our countries of Europe. All White countries need to unite. And the United States is a good place to start.
That's the problem with having a first world country thats inhabited by third world people!
Good essay, but they forgot the most disturbing double standard. If you want to wear a picture of an american flag or fly one at school you could get in trouble for disrupting the diverse atmosphere, but down south if you want to fly a Mexican flag above an American flag that is your first amendment right.
John, you are correct. There were other countries that were successful under socialism but since they let in 3rd world people, esp. Muslims and Africans, that success no longer applies. When a country is 100% pure in its ethnic makeup (or nearly so), socialism can be a good thing. The rich who benefit from a Capitalist country love to bad mouth socialism, but it does have many positive aspects.
The fact is that no system is without its flaws, since humans are the ones who create and maintain the way a society is run. When the majority of a country is, to all extents and purposes, an extended family of sorts and look out for each other, the extremes of Capitalism can be avoided. The latter promotes the success of a small minority at the expense of the majority.
Eh, I don't personally think socialism is a bad idea when you have a White community. Look at Denmark, which is 90% Danish. People are more willing to work together and contribute to the system when they share a common ethnicity. Add millions of foreigners to the mix, and I personally no longer have any interest in continuing these handouts.
Could it just be the size, John? Denmark is so wonderfully, governably SMALL.
Having a population of 310 million and a continental land mass gives the USA a loud voice in international affairs, but internally it complicates things, alienates people from one another, makes us a ponderous dinosaur unable to react quickly to threats and dangers.
If it could be done peacefully I'd like to see this country divided in at least three, maybe four sovereign regions. That way, if the State of Florida thinks it's ok to sell a high firepower handgun to any lunatic with a motel room and three hundred dollars, he won't be able to come up to New York and kill half a dozen innocent people coming home from work on the Long Island Railroad.
I don't discount the fact that Socialism does have a few good ideas ,but I believe that over all a Capitalist system would best serve a predominately white nation. A Capitalist system provides the incentive to work harder and recieve the benefits of one's individual labor, but we must acknowledge that the Capitalist system is not without its flaws as we've witnessed over the last couple years here in the U.S. But you do make a good point that socialim itself would work better within a mostly white nation because those recieving the benefits would be minimized. That's one of the characteristics of a political Third Position in that it's not restrained by economic dogma that makes it impossible to at the very least consider other positions and ideas that would best serve our people and nation. Under our present conditions and socialist policies you have a relatively small number of highly productive workers taking care of a multitude of lazy unproductive people whose main motivation in life is to exploit the nations workers for their own selfish benefit .
The fact that this letter has become so popular should give hope to our people that we can still fight and resist the Socialist and foreign influence that now has such a grip on our government, our media, our public education, and even many of our churches thought-out this country.
This letter represents a growing dissatisfaction among our people that they are no longer willing to ignore the obvious injustices being perpetrated against them in the name of Multiculturalism, Diversity, and so-called fairness that's literally destroying our nation and gives hope that we can still fight and succeed in our mission of national liberation.
It almost sound like a letter about South Africa??????
Welcome in becoming a third world country..
It has become a dreary example of what multicultural hell European Americans do not want to live under, and should dismantle with vigor.
The essence of cultural marxism – take everything "normal" and turn it upside down and inside out.
Not a Bush fan at all; he clearly sucked on the education issue (cozying up to Ted Kennedy), immigration (pushed for a form of amnesty with McCain), and was a profligate spender the likes that made even Clinton envious. But in fairness, the debacle of Katrina/New Orleans belongs squarely in the hands of Mayor Ray "Chocolate City" Nagin (what, use school buses?), and that bumbling moron Governor Kathleen "2 days notice is not enough" Blanco. That and the fact that FEMA is a government bureaucracy and that under ANY administration, was bound to screw up a large disaster anyway.
You folks probably probably don't want to hear this, but Amerika has become exactly the corrupt and decadent dystopia that Herbert Marcuse said it would become.