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America doesn't resemble Founding Fathers' vision J. Gordon Maule / The Morning Call | March 26 2006 I feel as if I am living in a foreign land. When I was a young man, African Americans, Native Americans, Hispanics, homosexuals and women were looking forward to civil rights that reflected the promises of the Declaration of Independence. We were working for an America where truth and justice could truly be part of the American way. Sadly, that is all in the past. Fundamentalists are moving to dominate legislatures, the courts and education, as in Iran. Without warrant, the government may have access to my computer search-engine files and can bug my telephone, as in Red China. My government uses torture and imprisons aliens without writs of habeas corpus, as in Burma. Pre-emptive war and capital punishment are as acceptable here as they are in Pakistan. Cronyism and corruption are as common as they are in Russia and Syria. As in much of Latin America, taxation of the working poor supports the lavish life-style of the wealthy. As we claim to be striving against the powers of repression and terrorism, we look less like the nation our Founding Fathers envisioned in the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights — and more like the nations we hope to change. --------------------------------------------------- Please help our fight against the New World Order by giving a donation. As bandwidth costs increase, the only way we can stay online and expand is with your support. Please consider giving a monthly or one-off donation for whatever you can afford. You can pay securely by either credit card or Paypal. Click here to donate. |
