As an American born and raised here for 44 years, I can honestly say I have never in my whole existence heard of or witnessed such a mockery of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, due process of law and the collapse of the pledge of allegiance.
I think we need to retake American history and remember what our forefathers died for to give us.
This isn’t about “what color of skin” lives matter, this is about humanity and human life matters. This isn’t about getting caught up in the moment so I am going to desecrate the capital where my forefathers were shot down to give me liberty so I can be disgraceful and whine and complain that my life is unfair.
They fought and died to give us the liberties that they didn’t have because it was a matter of humanity so that future generations will no longer have to fight and die for inalienable rights. They wanted to build a country where everyone is created equal in a world were nothing was equal. They came together and wrote a Constitution and Bill of Rights to ensure that the generations ahead would carry on this brave new world of independence and fight against taxation without representation and fight for the freedom of religion and speech with the right to vote and bear arms to anyone that threated to take away these inalienable rights that they blead and died for. Why have we forgotten this?
Our human history is filled with atrocities of human life being taken for selfish reasons, greed and fear. We cannot forget the history of the atrocities done by man against man because this serves a point of reference that we need to always have in the forefront of mind as a reminder to love one another not hate our fellow man regardless of color, creed or nationality.
When will this hate stop and forgiveness began? When will we see the humanity and unity that was born out of these atrocities which brought us together to form this once great nation? When will our own government and leaders of congress remember to do the right thing for the people by people, not for themselves and all the money that they can get for themselves to push their own agendas down our throat?
Franklin Roosevelt said, “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” He didn’t say anything about fearing our own government and leaders because the threat was never there.
Must we again fall victim to repeated history and stand by as our leaders try to control us under their hidden agenda while militant groups take matters into their own hands as their actions cause our inalienable rights to be taken away from us because we are incapable of governing ourselves? Will our nation not be happy until we have completely destroyed our Democracy/ Republic nation and turn it into a socialistic/communistic regime?
This is where we are headed. Perhaps this is the flaw in human nature, that we are hell bent on destruction only to be half extinct before we realize what we are doing to ourselves.
Andrea Wagner
Warsaw, via email
Editor’s Note: This letter was edited to conform more closely to the 500-word limit as stated in our letters policy.
