Posted by
Cyberpip on Saturday, June 02, 2007 3:42:10 AM
Why are our politicians rushing to destroy our culture? And yes, even our country as it even today?
The beginnings of our country was as a result of an arrogant ruler refusing to listen to his subjects and forcing them to pay taxes on a basic commodity. A tax that was only paid by those of his subjects on this continent. A tax that was forced on the people of these colonies. A spark that was the beginnings of this great nation was the Boston Tea Party. I will not go into a description of it, but suffice to say it was the result of rumblings that grew into a revolution that threw off the shackles of a government that had grown arrogant and had stopped listening to its citizens, the common man.
I am hearing rumbling now. The refusal of our leaders to listen to a large percentage of the citizens. The arrogance of a president claiming those that put him into power and oppose his bill do not know or understand the situation and do not have the welfare of the nation at heart. A government that seems to care more for those that have broken our laws than its citizens. Politicians who have ceased representing those who elected them to do so. A so called representative government that has ceased to represent the interests of the majority of its citizens and instead representing the interests of a big business and a group that has broken the laws of this country.
That is the stuff of which revolutions are born.
It has happened once before after the birth of our nation. When a large part of this nation felt that its interests and people were not being fairly treated, the Civil War was born and tore this nation asunder. Could such a thing happen again? I believe it could. There are rumblings and the talk and the anger is growing. All that is needed is a spark. A spark that will flame the tinder which is the growing anger and frustration of many of the citizens of this great nation. Citizens who feel threatened by the growing loss of their culture and national identity.
This nation was founded upon immigration, yes. But after its birth, that immigration was controlled. The people who came were assimilated into our culture which took the best parts of the cultures of the immigrants for its own. But that is not happening now. The millions who are here illegally are not assimilating. They are NOT "doing jobs that Americans won't". Instead they are a burden on our welfare system. A burden on our schools. They pay no taxes. Yet they expect the same privileges as legal citizens. They broke our laws by coming here. They break our laws each day that they stay. They break our laws by working here. And we, as citizens, are being told by our "Representatives", that this does not matter. That we should just forget it. That we should just forget that the sudden influx of more illegals and increased immigration which will ultimately change or destroy our own unique culture. That the America that we knew yesterday and today will cease to exist in a very few years. We are supposed to sit idle and accept this.
This the stuff of which revolutions are born.
Do you still doubt that there could be another "Tea Party" and the resulting conflagration?
I don't! If our politicians continue in the course in which they have been traveling, then it could very well happen. When and how, I do not know. But I do believe that it is a very real danger for our country. One that we can ill afford with the current "War on Terrorism".
We can only hope that Washington comes to its senses. Let us pray that it does.