What is happening to this country?
Published: October 11, 2009
While visiting Washington, D.C., on Sept. 12, my wife and I found ourselves caught up in a massive crowd of overwhelmingly well-behaved, good-humored and average-looking Americans gathered on the Mall for a Tea Party to protest against government intrusion in their lives and the growing tax burden.
Imaging our shock when we learned the following week from many in the media that we had, in fact, been part of a motley assortment of political ideologues, anarchists and other extremists.
Upon reflection, I do recall see many violence-inciting signs, such as “No More Cash for These Clunkers” above photos of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and “Thank you, Mr. President. We’ll be forever in your debt!”
Then, On Oct. 4, we were part of another crowd packed into the martin Luther King Performing Arts Center at Charlottesville High School to hear the U.S. Air Force Band and the Singing Sergeants.
It looked to us that these were the same type of individuals who constituted the vast majority on the Mall a month earlier. Here they were, standing in respectful silence as the American flag was presented, loudly singing “The Star Spangled Banner” and (gasp!) expressing appreciation and affection for the members of our military.
We went home wondering about just what is happening to this nation.
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Gordie,
Whats anti-American is socialism, complete government control over the lives of its citizens. Trying to make people belive that guns kill, people dont, that a belief in anything but government is radical. If it were anyone but you using the word Nazi, I would take offence, but you have such a reputation as a wingnut, I wont bother.
What has happened to this country is around 20% of its’ citizens have gone wacky. And this is just the story that the media is looking for to make the news. It’s all about ratings, news and entertainment.
The Hammer and the Foe are out there knocking people over the head with their anti-american talk, their guns, religion, and their Nazi talk. They are there pushing the anti tax while none of them pay any taxes, so to speak.
Whats happening to this country is that the elite social progressives are slowly chipping away at everything that made this a great country.
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