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by cyn.khoo | June 18, 2009 at 03:22 pm
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Janet Contreras is a woman from Arizona who wrote a letter titled "Open Letter to Our Nation's Leadership" to radio and TV talk show Glenn Beck, expressing her frustration with the current politics and two principle political parties, the Democrats and Republicans, in the United States. Beck read her letter out on both his radio and TV shows, and it has begun to be widely circulated across the Internet and other media outlets. Contreras has been described as "a lifelong Democrat who...just got fed up".
A lot of people are commenting and e-mailing to tell me about a letter read by radio talk show host Glenn Beck either today or yesterday (I don't listen to much talk radio, unfortunately). The letter was written by a woman named Janet Contreras. She's from Arizona, and is a lifelong Democrat who, like so many of us, just got fed up.
AN OPEN LETTER TO OUR NATION'S LEADERSHIP [by Janet Contreras]:
I'm a home grown American citizen, 53, registered Democrat all my life. Before the last presidential election I registered as a Republican because I no longer felt the Democratic Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. Now I no longer feel the Republican Party represents my views or works to pursue issues important to me. The fact is I no longer feel any political party or representative in Washington represents my views or works to pursue the issues important to me. There must be someone. Please tell me who you are. Please stand up and tell me that you are there and that you're willing to fight for our Constitution as it was written. Please stand up now. You might ask yourself what my views and issues are that I would horribly feel so disenfranchised by both major political parties. What kind of nut job am I? Will you please tell me?
Well, these are briefly my views and issues for which I seek representation:
One, illegal immigration. I want you to stop coddling illegal immigrants and secure our borders. Close the underground tunnels. Stop the violence and the trafficking in drugs and people. No amnesty, not again. Been there, done that, no resolution. P.S., I'm not a racist. This isn't to be confused with legal immigration.
Two, the TARP bill, I want it repealed and I want no further funding supplied to it. We told you no, but you did it anyway. I want the remaining unfunded 95% repealed. Freeze, repeal.
Three: Czars, I want the circumvention of our checks and balances stopped immediately. Fire the czars. No more czars. Government officials answer to the process, not to the president. Stop trampling on our Constitution and honor it.
Four, cap and trade. The debate on global warming is not over. There is more to say.
Five, universal healthcare. I will not be rushed into another expensive decision. Don't you dare try to pass this in the middle of the night and then go on break. Slow down!
Six, growing government control. I want states rights and sovereignty fully restored. I want less government in my life, not more. Shrink it down. Mind your own business. You have enough to take care of with your real obligations. Why don't you start there.
Seven, ACORN. I do not want ACORN and its affiliates in charge of our 2010 census. I want them investigated. I also do not want mandatory escrow fees contributed to them every time on every real estate deal that closes. Stop the funding to ACORN and its affiliates pending impartial audits and investigations. I do not trust them with taking the census over with our taxpayer money. I don't trust them with our taxpayer money. Face up to the allegations against them and get it resolved before taxpayers get any more involved with them. If it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, hello. Stop protecting your political buddies. You work for us, the people. Investigate.
Eight, redistribution of wealth. No, no, no. I work for my money. It is mine. I have always worked for people with more money than I have because they gave me jobs. That is the only redistribution of wealth that I will support. I never got a job from a poor person. Why do you want me to hate my employers? Why ‑‑ what do you have against shareholders making a profit?
Nine, charitable contributions. Although I never got a job from a poor person, I have helped many in need. Charity belongs in our local communities, where we know our needs best and can use our local talent and our local resources. Butt out, please. We want to do it ourselves.
Ten, corporate bailouts. Knock it off. Sink or swim like the rest of us. If there are hard times ahead, we'll be better off just getting into it and letting the strong survive. Quick and painful. Have you ever ripped off a Band‑Aid? We will pull together. Great things happen in America under great hardship. Give us the chance to innovate. We cannot disappoint you more than you have disappointed us.
Eleven, transparency and accountability. How about it? No, really, how about it? Let's have it. Let's say we give the buzzwords a rest and have some straight honest talk. Please try ‑‑ please stop manipulating and trying to appease me with clever wording. I am not the idiot you obviously take me for. Stop sneaking around and meeting in back rooms making deals with your friends. It will only be a prelude to your criminal investigation. Stop hiding things from me.
Twelve, unprecedented quick spending. Stop it now.
Take a breath. Listen to the people. Let's just slow down and get some input from some nonpoliticians on the subject. Stop making everything an emergency. Stop speed reading our bills into law. I am not an activist. I am not a community organizer. Nor am I a terrorist, a militant or a violent person. I am a parent and a grandparent. I work. I'm busy. I'm busy. I am busy, and I am tired. I thought we elected competent people to take care of the business of government so that we could work, raise our families, pay our bills, have a little recreation, complain about taxes, endure our hardships, pursue our personal goals, cut our lawn, wash our cars on the weekends and be responsible contributing members of society and teach our children to be the same all while living in the home of the free and land of the brave.
I entrusted you with upholding the Constitution. I believed in the checks and balances to keep from getting far off course. What happened? You are very far off course. Do you really think I find humor in the hiring of a speed reader to unintelligently ramble all through a bill that you signed into law without knowing what it contained? I do not. It is a mockery of the responsibility I have entrusted to you. It is a slap in the face. I am not laughing at your arrogance. Why is it that I feel as if you would not trust me to make a single decision about my own life and how I would live it but you should expect that I should trust you with the debt that you have laid on all of us and our children. We did not want the TARP bill. We said no. We would repeal it if we could. I am sure that we still cannot. There is such urgency and recklessness in all of the recent spending.
From my perspective, it seems that all of you have gone insane. I also know that I am far from alone in these feelings. Do you honestly feel that your current pursuits have merit to patriotic Americans? We want it to stop. We want to put the brakes on everything that is being rushed by us and forced upon us. We want our voice back. You have forced us to put our lives on hold to straighten out the mess that you are making. We will have to give up our vacations, our time spent with our children, any relaxation time we may have had and money we cannot afford to spend on you to bring our concerns to Washington. Our president often knows all the right buzzword is unsustainable. Well, no kidding. How many tens of thousands of dollars did the focus group cost to come up with that word? We don't want your overpriced words. Stop treating us like we're morons.
We want all of you to stop focusing on your reelection and do the job we want done, not the job you want done or the job your party wants done. You work for us and at this rate I guarantee you not for long because we are coming. We will be heard and we will be represented. You think we're so busy with our lives that we will never come for you? We are the formerly silent majority, all of us who quietly work , pay taxes, obey the law, vote, save money, keep our noses to the grindstone and we are now looking up at you. You have awakened us, the patriotic spirit so strong and so powerful that it had been sleeping too long. You have pushed us too far. Our numbers are great. They may surprise you. For every one of us who will be there, there will be hundreds more that could not come. Unlike you, we have their trust. We will represent them honestly, rest assured. They will be at the polls on voting day to usher you out of office. We have cancelled vacations. We will use our last few dollars saved. We will find the representation among us and a grassroots campaign will flourish. We didn't ask for this fight. But the gloves are coming off. We do not come in violence, but we are angry. You will represent us or you will be replaced with someone who will. There are candidates among us when hewill rise like a Phoenix from the ashes that you have made of our constitution.
Democrat, Republican, independent, libertarian. Understand this. We don't care. Political parties are meaningless to us. Patriotic Americans are willing to do right by us and our Constitution and that is all that matters to us now. We are going to fire all of you who abuse power and seek more. It is not your power. It is ours and we want it back. We entrusted you with it and you abused it. You are dishonorable. You are dishonest. As Americans we are ashamed of you. You have brought shame to us. If you are not representing the wants and needs of your constituency loudly and consistently, in spite of the objections of your party, you will be fired. Did you hear? We no longer care about your political parties. You need to be loyal to us, not to them. Because we will get you fired and they will not save you. If you do or can represent me, my issues, my views, please stand up. Make your identity known. You need to make some noise about it. Speak up. I need to know who you are. If you do not speak up, you will be herded out with the rest of the sheep and we will replace the whole damn congress if need be one by one. We are coming. Are we coming for you? Who do you represent? What do you represent? Listen. Because we are coming. We the people are coming.
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at 16:07 on June 18th, 2009
I AGREE WITH YOU, I HAVE WONDERED WHAT WE CAN DO TO STOP ALL OF THIS BULLSHIT WE HAVE GOING ON. WHY DON'T THEY SAY SOMETHING ABOUT THE HIGH PRICE OF GAS FOR THE COMMON PEOPLE, THEY PAY THERE BILLS. MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE ALWAYS PAID FOR OUR HEALTH INSURANCE. WE NOW HAVE MEDICARE PLUS EXPENSIVE BLUE CROSS. I DO NOT WANT TO HAVE TO PAY FOR PEOPLE THAT CAN GET HEALTH INSURANCE BUT THEY BUY OTHER STUFF. ALSO, THE ILLEGALS SHOULD HAVE TO PAY GOING TO THE ER WHEN THEY ARE IN CAR WRECK OR SICK.
at 16:36 on June 18th, 2009
The middle-class revolt will continue. :)
at 16:50 on June 18th, 2009
:) Similar sentiments are shared around the globe from many such as Janet Contreras. However, it is also a very small minded view in my opinion and fails to see the larger picture of our global dynamics and the reality of equations that no longer work.
It does also fail to see the abuse of 10% of the world population over the remaining 90% and that those are no longer willing to take it.
The US and other Supper powers or rather industrial Nations here on Earth, can only have this high and abusive live stile on the back of the rest of the Globe that is no longer willing to allow it.
at 17:26 on June 18th, 2009
The reason China was poor was because of its own corruption, not because the Europeans and the North American counterparts took resources from them.
They had the democratically elected government of Sun Yat-Sen and that got overthrown by Chiang Kai-Shek, who the US and the UK supported to help defeat the Japanese, while we also gave support to Mao, as well.
You can't guilt-mong us, Ewe, without reciting the litany of sins that your "poor, oppressed" nations committed on their way to self-destruction.
Right now, China itself looks to be sewing up the fourth-world nations to exploit them.
at 18:15 on June 18th, 2009
There is some truth to that Roy, however there is much more to it, such as the UK and US opium trade and wars as well as the Colonization by the UK.
North Africa was a leader once as well, until beaten and ravaged by European and Arab invaders.
The West had an advantage for a time, wish was overpopulation and Weapons superiority and they used it merciless to build up their empires and subdue as well as destroy cultures and political entities as well as economic systems that did work rather well in many cases before the West showed up.
Europe and North America has done much harm.
Africa is in large part in such a mess today because we invaded it, divided it up at random, destroying old Kingdoms and mixing all and every thing at random to please all colonial powers involved, then we left and them with a system that was not compatible with their history, cultures nor ethnical borders before the Colonization.
Remember Mali had a University long before Europe could read and their civilization has been hit over and over since Roman times. They managed to get up again and did rather well from the Middle age till 1870 when the French invaded them and burned every thing to the ground again, including a library with ancient text for long before Socrates.
at 18:46 on June 18th, 2009
Muslim armies burnt the library at Alexandria in Egypt to the ground. We lost manuscripts and we will never know what the ancient people knew because of that.
The Muslims did it deliberately.
North Africa "beaten and ravaged by European raiders"? Well, yes, but the opposite occurred as well.
The Europeans just managed to stop the invasion by Turkish Muslims outside of Vienna in 1683. At Lepanto we just managed to stop the Muslim navy, and even the Crusades were begun because the Patriarch of Constantinople had asked for help, and needed it, being that the Muslims had been trying to conquer Constantinople for 400 years at that point and had forced the conversion of Christians from Egypt, where they are still persecuted, through the Holy Land to Lebanon and Syria where every year there are fewer and fewer Christians because, even at this late date, they flee persecution.
The French invented the "croissant" to make fun of the Muslim crescent in honor of the victory of the Europeans at Vienna. It was the umpteenth time that Europeans had stopped Muslims invaders beginning in the 700s when Charles "the Hammer" Martel stopped the Muslims from taking over France.
Those invaders were North Africans. What about that?
Europe and North America have done more harm that the rest of them recently because technology magnified their power. Asia, with its Huns, Mongols, invading Chinese, who pushed around the Vietnamese for only about 2,000 years, and its fascist Japanese, has been a continent of imperial powers for thousands of years.
The North American and South American slave trade was just Europeans coming in to exploit a slave market well established by Africans themselves, not Europeans. And, Africa today is still full of Muslims killing Christians and tribal warfare, not all of which is our fault, and Africa still has slaves.
In fact, in the book, War Before Civilization, the percentages of the populations killed by ancient tribes was actually higher than WWII. Ancient warfare was actually more effective at genocide. It was constant and took out 15 to 30% of the tribe on every attack, and the attack might come half a dozen times in a year.
American Indians killed more American Indians than white men did all the way to 1860 or so.
You talked about the carpet bombing of Japan, but not of what Japan did to get carpet bombed, the rape of Nanking, for example, where millions were killed, beside the more well known Pearl Harbor.
Egypt was great and so was India. They all had slaves, and violently repressed people.The ancient Greeks were Asiatic Caucasians who enslaved the locals to do the work to create their "civilization". The Aztecs were hated by the surrounding Mexican tribes and joined Cortes to overthrow them.
Civilizations rise and fall and no one excuses the West for its share of damage. But you have idealized the victims, and that is a distortion of history.
at 02:39 on June 19th, 2009
Hum, If you read my postings and older once you will see that I do talk about Japan and what they did to China and so on. I just take it one issue at the time and would need to write a book rather then a post would i take all of it into account in one setting.
Arabs and European have been fighting each other for over a 1000 years. Invading and counter invading, However it was Europe that invaded first North Africa and last as well.
The Ottoman Empire was the last great Muslim Empire to this date and had as many faults as Europe did as well as good to it.
The Invaders of the Americas did kill far more Natives then the native managed to do among them self's though.
The point being we need to treat this world as one and view it as one, wish implies also justice for all. Japan's since are in no way excusable nor are the US or the UK theirs.
Why an international court for all war crimes need to be supported and obeyed by all, especially the super powers and the Industrial powers needing to lead by example and not do as I say but not as I do.
at 02:59 on June 19th, 2009
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at 07:53 on June 19th, 2009
Hello There Zichi/Marge/Laughing-Samurai or what other names you go by these days, You do like to twist things. Maybe why you are no longer a member.
Japan did commit some serious crimes as did Germany and many other Nations. The difference here and what I did try to get you to understand earlier in another thread is that Japan and Germany have been judged and all their war criminals have been sentenced to death or life in prison with out parole.
This has not been the case for the US for instance and war crimes committed in Vietnam or Korea and Iraq.
For instance just to bring back one war crime among many that still cries for justice to be served.
The My -lai Massacre was the mass murder conducted by U.S. Army forces on March 16, 1968 of 347 to 504 unarmed citizens in South Vietnam, all of whom were civilians and majority of whom were women, children, and elderly people.
Many of the victims were sexually abused, beaten, tortured, and some of the bodies were found mutilated. The massacre took place in the hamlets of Mỹ Lai and My Khe of Sơn Mỹ village during the Vietnam War. While 26 US soldiers were initially charged with criminal offenses for their actions at My Lai, only William Calley was convicted. He served only three years of an original life sentence, while on house arrest.
When the incident became public knowledge in 1969, it prompted widespread outrage around the world. The massacre also reduced U.S. support at home for the Vietnam War. Three U.S. servicemen who made an effort to halt the massacre and protect the wounded were denounced by U.S. Congressmen, received hate mail, death threats and mutilated animals on their doorsteps.Only 30 years after the event were their efforts honored.
Or the Native American Massacre. The Atom bomb used on Civilian in WWII.
And so on. THe point was and is that two wrong do not make it right. And that the offence of the one does not justify another offence of the other.
Has I said earlier, should you kill my families still does not give me the right to kill your in return, however I can demand that you as murdered be judged and sentenced.
Recent History, The Crimes committed by the LTTE in Sri Lanka do not give the Sri Lankan Government the right to commit similar crimes it self.
The Crimes the Japanese and German committed can not justify nor excuse the crimes committed by the US or others.
Maybe one day you understand.
at 09:18 on June 19th, 2009
sorry I don't know who you are referring to as zichi or laughing samurai, who are these people?
at 02:50 on June 19th, 2009
no American company sold opium to China, you mentioned that too on one of your own posts. It was the Dutch who first started selling opium to China who had been growing opium poppies for 1500 years, but the Dutch introduced smoking opium with tobacco.
at 06:23 on June 19th, 2009
No, Marge, I did not say this, I said that Opium trade in China in wish the UK was involved and the US as well since it bought Opium did influence Japans politic at the time since Opium was not welcome in Japan.
""Western traders, including those from the United States, had long sought a variety of Chinese products (including furniture, silk and tea), but found there were few products that China wanted from the West. American trade with China began as early as 1784, relying on North American exports such as furs, sandalwood, and ginseng, but American interest in Chinese products soon outstripped the Chinese appetite for these American exports. The British had already discovered a great market in southern China for smuggled opium, and American traders soon also turned to opium to supplement their exports to China. Beyond the health problems related to opium addiction, the increasing opium trade with the Western powers meant that for the first time, China imported more goods than it exported. Settling this financial problem eventually led to the First Opium War between Great Britain and China, from 1839 to 1942. After defeating the Chinese in a series of naval conflicts, the British were in a position to make a large number of demands from the weaker Qing Government of China, in the Anglo-Chinese Treaty of Nanjing. Not to be outdone, U.S. negotiators sought to conclude a similar treaty with the Chinese, to guarantee the United States many of the favorable terms awarded the British. The Chinese readily agreed in an effort to keep all foreigners on the same footing.""
at 09:22 on June 19th, 2009
please give one historical link that proves America or any American company never sold opium to the Chinese or Japanese? You frequently make these wild statements without any connection to a known source?
at 09:28 on June 19th, 2009
Ant opium trade between any British and China was over by signed agreement in 1907, according to your comment there was a 1st opium war from 1839 to 1942, where do you read this stuff? You have expressed anti-American sentiments on many of your own posts and are given to distort the history!
at 06:19 on June 19th, 2009
Excellent points, Roy. Where does it say that the whole world should bring itself down to the level of a minority of individuals ... the natural order of life on this planet is survival of the fittest! If one does not want to get eaten alive, then GET FIT!
China is grabbing all of the natural resources it needs for the next 100 years and this will have a dramatic effect on the survival of the fittest paradigm in the years to come - much to the injury of its citizens.
What the Open Letter points out is that Government action is the source of where self-reliance, self-preservation, and the pursuit of happiness are taken away. Governments screw up what normally would be a natural order to the process of life.
at 09:15 on June 19th, 2009
What nation on earth has the most abundant natural resources? Russia
What nation has been "civilized" the longest? China
What nation was the most economically advanced and the richest in the 16th century? The Netherlands (Spain and England were more powerful militarily.)
Which nation is more advanced: Saudi Arabia, which has billions of barrels of oil, or Japan which doesn't?
If you don't see a pattern, it's this: Any nation can be successful if the government and economics are suitable for growth and prosperity. The US isn't taking away from any other nation and we aren't holding anyone back. We aren't to blame for India or Pakistan or Syria being backwater countries; it's theirs. Africa isn't starving because we don't provide food from our abundant farmlands; they have enough land to feed their population. Corruption and bad economic policy have detracted from all of the nations' abilities. Except for Kenya which has a stable government and isn't so oppressive.
Indeed, because of our liberation of Germany and Japan from oppressive Fascist governments, those two nations have flourished. They should thank us, not vilify us.
You would do well to learn about the real global markets and how the US is a contributor to the wealth of other nations, and not blame America for any dearth of standard of living elsewhere.
at 10:50 on June 19th, 2009
I think someone need a history lesson!
at 18:02 on June 18th, 2009
I wanted to post this yesterday when I heard Beck reading this letter live. It is fantastic. Thank you for the story.
REVOLUTION FROM THE PEOPLE NOT THE PARTIES!! Perhaps this may demonstrate the "pen is more powerful than the sword". She does speak for many, many citizens. We are the sleeping giant awakening.
at 18:26 on June 18th, 2009
Janet Contreras is talking for all those that have been disenfranchised by their politicians around the globe. Too long has their been a silent majority, that trusted our politicians or rulers to do the right thing. They haven't and still aren't.
All you have to do is look around and you can see the arrogance of those that are supposedly our elected officials. They have a sense of entitlement that they don't wish us to have.
I tip my hat to Janet Contreras for her courage to write this letter in first place and to Glen Beck for making it public to ensure it circulates.
Janet's demands are simple, she wants our elected officials to realize they work for us. What a noble concept.
at 18:34 on June 18th, 2009
Well said ACP and I do agree with the plea and the principal. However as I said earlier there is a lot more to it and not simply in Politics, it is also with us the masses and our own arrogance and selfish attitude towards the rest of the Globe, that demands nothing less then Janet here, yet for all and not for some Middle class Westerner worried about loosing their high life stile.
Janet did not care as long as the system worked in her favour even if that meant that people in the Middle east will have to be discriminated and killed so the West may enjoy supremacy and sheep oil.
at 19:03 on June 18th, 2009
Janet is not worried about the world, I grant you that. She probably wishes America and her politicians spend more time worrying about her and listening to her what she wants. Heck a lot of them don.t even know where Iraq, Iran or Afghanistan are.
As far as arrogance goes, I know what poverty is, cause I.ve lived it in post war Germany. My parents worked very hard once they came to Canada and they never had much but they survived through hard work.
They made sure their children had a good start in life. They worried about their family, their friends and a few other acquaintances.
I suspect that.s where Janet is at. Doing the best that she can.
at 07:41 on June 19th, 2009
All that Janet is asking for is her freedom, and less government intrusion in her life. It is this freedom that we as Americans have enjoyed, that has allowed individuals to pursue their own interests, and has lead to some of the greatest innovations in the history of the world. The US is a superpower because they have allowed their citizens to reach their full potential through freedom.
I agree that the people of the Middle East should not be discriminated against. They should also be able to enjoy the freedoms that we have. However, they have time and time again when given the chance to select their leaders, made the same mistakes that I now fear that we are making by electing leaders who are too power hungry, and do not care about the interests of the people they represent.
Whether they got their positions through elections, coups or wars, leaders who are power hungry will do everything in their power to retain that power. This includes suppressing their citizens, which history has shown time and again leads to impoverished nations. People should be free, we should be doing everything in our power to share the freedoms that we enjoy.
at 09:22 on June 19th, 2009
That Shia and Sunni are killing each other is not our fault, except we removed one the bloodiest regimes in history. The Iraqis now enjoy a better life than before Saddam took over. There is more electric power, larger drinking water supplies and more schools & hospitals. Their standard of living is higher and the population is benfitting from the oil revenues, not just the Baathist regime. Your non sequitors are ideological and misguided. We don't seek supremacy in the Middle East, the US has not kept one inch of foreign soil it's conquered (well, for a little while there was the Panama Canal, the Philipines and - presently - Puerto Rico, but that was their choice.) The Iraqis can do as they please, and they have. We will be out of there soon enough. Pray tell where is "supremacy" you speak of? Saudi Arabia? The Wahhabist royal family would just as soon cut off our heads.
at 19:31 on June 18th, 2009
YES!!!!!!!!!! The government needs to back off! The constitution allows for us to take up arms up if need be!!!!!!!!
at 20:10 on June 18th, 2009
Well said... The country is hurting and needs the people to stand beside her and correct the injustices done. If we don't stand up for our country then who will? Surely not the world around us. I and all I know feel like this letter and more. The people are Coming and we will be heard and all those who don't follow the laws of the land will pay the price. I'm tired of hearing how bad the USA is, how we are the root of all evils in the world. Just take a few minutes and think about were the world would be without the USA. How many would have died at the hands of evil men. Where would freedom be... What people would be free without the USA. I'm tired of it all--- The president bowing to the King and then telling us he was just adjusting the height between the two men--how dumb do you think we are... This is insulting... This country is GREAT and has done GREAT things and has made the world a better place to live. This country is the leader of the FREE WORLD and the world looks up to us and is sicken by what this President is doing to this country and at the same time they are concerned about their country and what will happen to them if we don't STOP this evil that has infested our land at all levels. I will send the letter to all I know.
I pledge Allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America
and to the Republic for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible,
with Liberty and Justice for all.
God Bless the USA and its People to with stand the evils that have taken over.
at 04:45 on June 19th, 2009
there are some who would have us believe that America is responsible for all the evils of the world, past, present and probably future! This includes some anti-American editors on NP! Sad but true. So easy just to blame America for the bad stuff happening in the world. Even in the Pacific War, according to one editor here, it was the Japanese who were the victims and America the aggressor and opium dealing drug dealer to the Chinese. Of cause, this is only revisionist history!
Japan started the war, America ended it! And since that day the Japanese for over 60 years have lived in peace and prosperity.
America has given so much to the world, so many now live free and peaceful lives! Screw the revisionists, and the anti-America haters and "God Bless America!"
at 05:28 on June 19th, 2009
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at 05:39 on June 19th, 2009
I agree with Marge.. People don't know that the Japanese tortured and killed many Koreans and Chinese. The acts that the Japanese committed in this time is NOTHING compared to what Hitler did to the Jews. Of course, Like Marge said, to make the Japanese the victim and America the aggressor is TOTALLY trying to revise history. America is GREAT and hard working ppl with great dreams is what separates from all the other countries.
at 21:38 on June 18th, 2009
Stepping aside the debate over Janet's worldview or lack thereof, I have to say that either way that was one very, very well written letter. And I can imagine how much and how well it does speak for the "silent majority", as she put it, who just wants to live their lives without making trouble and be done right by the people they trusted to do so. Even if many don't agree with every one of her particular set of points, the main essence of the letter--that she does have things that are important to her and those supposed to represent her are failing their duty to do so--truly resonates.
It's a shame that there are so many people who feel this way--and I think it's similar in Canada--because if you think about it, who says that just because you agree with one "left/Democrat" or "right/Republican" value, you agree with all the rest of them, or vice versa? It's almost like forcing people to like and have to eat ALL vegetables if they're vegetarian or ALL types of meat if they're not, with no mixing and matching allowed. People tend to be more complicated than that, and the current political systems in North America don't seem to allow for that kind of natural complexity in values.
at 21:39 on June 18th, 2009
p.s. Thank you for the crowdsourcing! Good call!