Letters to the Editor
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Ah, sysprog
what a quote: "One colleague said to me, "I studied in the U.S. I loved and learned from your country. But you've given peace a bad name, democracy a bad name - what else will you destroy?""
Is that not exactly it? That is exactly how I feel too, with the one difference that I was born here. I loved and learned from my country. But now? What is next?
Someone or other up the thread mentioned folks being so negative. But an accurate asessment of a bad situation is not negativity for the mere sake of it, but represents a fine sense of reality. We must accurately gauge our situation and face up to it if we wish to have of chance of doing some good (even if the only good we can do is to refuse to be a part of something monstrous). Silence really is a form of complicity. The smallest thing we can do is speak up when we have the chance--of course not just here on blogs, but at work and in our everyday lives. There have been times like this before, and we can look back at them. Take a look at the congressional records on the debate on the Indian Removal Act (which lead to the Cherokee being displaced from Georgia). There were those who spoke up against it, and those who spoke for it, and those who were merely silent. I would rather be dead then to have been one of those who spoke for it, or one of those who were silent. The littlest, the least we can do is not be silent about all this. We will at least continue to remind ourselves of the truth and help hold on to our humanity.