Furthermore...to be an 'American' vs the world...

I hope that we start requiring some cultural and historical education be a component of the lives of our representatives, so that we can realize that other cultures don’t necessarily believe that equality for all in law is desireable, or that all people are as valuable to God as THEY are. Other cultures don’t necessarily believe in treating another as you would like to be treated, that God prefers peace to destruction, or that God hates lying, and other typically western habitual ideas. Even if we aren’t religious in America, we have all grown up with King Arthur and Robin Hood.

Let us remember that most of the people that left their home countries to come to America before the early 1900’ came to escape religious or economic laws that restricted their ability to become ‘healthy, wealthy and wise‘. The laws in Europe were protectivist to the already wealthy ruling class. As an example you can check. In those days it was a physical life or death risk to come over the ocean to start again in a place where you had no ‘village’ connection for the most part. Our ancestors were, apparently extremely motivated to experience our freedom. May I point out that the people who stayed overseas, were not motivated and were, perhaps, less gregarious. They were definitely more accepting of the existing Empire governments.

They certainly were more accepting of Big Daddy Government. And we all know the statement “if you’re going to live in my house, you must live by my rules…” or something to that effect when we go from being a child to an adult in our parents’ houses! This culture, handed down from the parents, as in everything is apparent in the super change that has occurred in the acceptance of the idea that Government has the right to interfere in the home lives of the public. This in America SINCE the mass influx of eastern Europe after ‘the wall’ came down. If you’re used to big brother you are not aware of his presence as an insult. It used to be that litigation would occur ONLY IF there was a problem. Now we try to read the future and prevent things that go bump in the night, assuming the worst, and yet we cover our ears and eyes when it comes to enemies jealous of our prosperity and kudos of the past. It always seems easier to blame and fix ourselves, than to blame and have no power to fix others, without brute force. But if we don’t admit that there still are mean and greedy people in the world who need to be stopped, we will finally be stopped by those armed mean and greedy people. Remember we started WWII denying the horror, and only joined the fight after we had a direct hit!