I write this as my given constitutional right to freedom of speech. I in no way am anti-America, nor am I simply trying to attack President Bush or the American government. Many people, especially those who believe they are not affected by the war (though they are) choose to remain quiet when it comes to problems with their nation. Though no one likes to admit it, I feel the need to. America is the land of opportunities to many, but it seems as if those opportunities are now only given to a select few, to be strait forward, rich white men. It’s the sad truth that after all we have achieved with “ending” racial discrimination, and providing “freedom” America is no longer the land of opportunities.
Who are we to say that Americans live in a free world, with a free life, living on constitutional rights to religion and opinions and speech to whom ever we choose to converse with. What right do we have to barge into other countries suspected under charges of nothing other than their ethnicity their race their un-chosen heritage, and kill people who are as we see terrorist, men and women and children threats to our society every day. Yet in this land of unending opportunity how it is that no one man can speak out against these charges of our government. No one person or group of people is ever presented the chance to say, no this war is wrong, without being shot down by our governmental leaders who say NO. Keep it quiet they say. Don’t let people know their families are dying every day and being struck with injustice because one man chose to invade a nation unlike our own. One with similar values but different traditions and appearance and lives than that of our own. How does that give any right, follow any right, present that we are a forgiving nation, a nation of freedom. In truth it does everything but that. We steal lives of those who fight for peace. We create destruction in trying to produce the rebirth of a nation. We stop those who have skin darker or hair more scruffy than ours and charge them of terror, in our air ports, on our roads, in business, on the street. Find me a man who has never once seen trace of discrimination, a person never shot down when fighting for what they believe. Find this and the war will be over. The war of a nation who hopes against hope that it’s people don’t see their rights disappearing, that don’t see the constitution slowly be torn, that are defined in society by their loyalty to the government’s choice and not their own. A nation that does not choose to kill but is forced to kill.
