DON'T BELITTLE MY AMERICA

 

 

 

Dorothy A. Seese
September 15, 2005
NewsWithViews.com

Do I get sick and tired of our government boondoggles, meddling abroad and huge give-away programs? You bet I do and say so in print and in speech. It all boils down to "I love my country but I don't always trust my government." But folks abroad, you who have received from our tax dollars the bounty that some in America need, don't belittle this land from your country because you (whoever you are) have no idea what America is like if you judge us by what you see on the media.

There are some Americans who are tired of living here under the growing heavy hand of government bureaucracy, and they become expatriates. We let them go. Bye folks. They are the few among the 280 to 300 million people in the United States who want to leave. We have millions wanting to move here.

The patriots in America don't like the globalist bent of our government, we're struggling to protect the free America that our Constitution gives us. We know what the other countries of the world think of us, and in spite of their disdain American relief and foreign aid has poured into their nations for decades. Sorry if their own leaders and thugs steal it and sell it to the poor, or let the needy do without. That's their problem. We're not running their nation. And, by the way, you folks from other nations aren't running America and it is the patriot position that we never want you to do so.

For those who don't understand that Americans do help one another, especially in times of disaster, read the "help" sites furnished by the various networks and several counties/parishes. If you have access to the internet, read before you speak out. Individualists? Yes, we are. That's why we're Americans, it's why our forefathers threw off the yoke of King George III and set upon this continent a new nation. We wanted to be free to be ourselves and to have the opportunity to make the most of whatever God-given talents and assets we possess. Individualism doesn't make a person selfish. Some of the poorest in this land and others are selfish. Individualism simply allows people to make and follow their own spirit, rather than some vague collectivist theory, and it operates well in a land of freedom and free enterprise. Americans, even in the face of globalism, struggle to retain that freedom. Socialists want that freedom for themselves, but not for that faceless group they call "the masses." No thank you, I want no part of a socialistic order but sadly, the USA is headed that direction because of the influence of the globalists.

Patriots, conservatives, those who believe in the precepts of the Constitution and Bill of Rights, are striving to regain and maintain our heritage. We're constantly being reminded that there was a time when slavery was legal in the USA. Well, it was legal nearly everywhere, a cultural phenomenon that the Christians saw was evil and were fighting long before Mr. Lincoln grabbed onto it as a justification for his bloody war to crush the South. Racism isn't a one-way street either. When I was in Florida for five months I could not understand the rudeness with which blacks treated me, because I am a westerner and not used to racial discrimination against whites, and I thought we ended discrimination against people of color, any color, in 1965. An educated black lady for whom I worked at the law library for a couple of weeks enlightened me, because I told her that I came from a region where we took people by character rather than color. I don't like scum, any race, any color. Until our discussions, I had no idea how deeply ingrained racism was in the minds of blacks and whites in other regions. This lady and I found a lot of common ground, particularly since we are both Christian. We could agree that the souls of humans are colorless, only the skin has color. We also agreed that there is no way to force people to love one another if they are determined to harbor hate. It was an interesting experience.

But rather than focus on the issue of the slavery of another era, we need to focus on stopping the slavery now, in nations that hold political slaves, religious slaves, sex slaves, and others who cannot break free from their masters, even when it is occurring to some extent in America among the illegal invaders. The idea of reparations rather than a forward move to eliminate all slavery is simply reprehensible, since all parties to the fact of slavery in America, north and south, are long dead, and the offspring have more opportunity than millions in lands that have not made the same advancement as America.

It's one thing for me to mention to friends the things I think were wrong with some in my family. It's quite another to have someone else attack my family members. I take issue with that, and not too politely at times. Yes, my grandfather was a socialist. The people on my mother's side were poor Arizona homesteaders and knew poverty at a level that's been almost totally eliminated in America now.

I resent being sidelined by degenerative bone disease in my spine and its complications, because I can't do what I used to do. Perhaps at 70, I couldn't anyway, but I'd try.

There are probably as many views of America in this land as there are people. But some would meld this great nation into a one world socialist order that oppresses the people. Individualism can only be identified when there is freedom to exercise it.

Right now we still have quite a number of individualists in America. We want our nation back, we want out of the United Nations, we want no part of a global government, and we want limited central government. Some of us are "vocal" about it over the internet with our writing.

But if you live in Bogga-Bogga and just don't like America, please shut up. Nobody asked you. If you don't live here and work here, you don't know what you're talking about anyway.

This land is my land. That's what real Americans believe.

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