Land of the free, home of the brave???

What has America come to? If America had to be defined today, what would the definition be? It would definitely not be land of the free, home of the brave.

Land of the wealthy, home of the complacent

Land of the scared, home of the weak

Land of the leaderless, home of the sheep

Land of the corporations, home of the consumers

Land of the incumbents, home of the lobbyist

Land of the dieing, home of darkness

Land of pollution, home of the unconcerned

Land of the obese, home of the super-sized

Land of religion, home of hypocrisy

Land of pandering politicians, home of the unreliable leaders

Land of the one issue voter, home of the pandered

Land of the corrupt, home of the fake

Land of the Decider, home of the left behind

Why is it that we are more concerned about ourselves than we are about the future of America? Why is it that we can be scared into giving up our freedoms so easily? Do we not realize how hard it will be to get them back? Do we no longer believe that it is better that 10 guilty people go free than 1 innocent person is put in jail? One might argue that this does not apply to the search for terrorist, but with extreme renditions and torture doesn’t it apply more than ever.
If I was a Muslim in America I would be very afraid. Imagine for 1 minute that your father was from Afghanistan. He did not come home from work one night. These are the kinds of things that are happening in our once proud America. We are allowing our Executive branch to go unchecked in their powers and the act as if he is the Legislative branch and bypass the Judicial branch altogether.
I realize that the poll of Americans asked about their phone records was flawed but what does it say about us that 64% do not care if the government listens in. What does it say about us?

Who are WE?

Pat Roberts, Senator from Kansas, says when you are dead you have no liberties. One of our founding fathers had a different take on liberty.


Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!—Patrick Henry


Oh by the way, you want to see a picture of the definiton of failure? Go to google and type in failure and hit the button I'm feeling lucky.