by Ken Huber, Tawas City, Michigan

Has America become the land of the special interest and the home of the double standard?

Let’s see: if we lie to Congress, it’s a felony and if Congress lies to us it’s just politics; if a white dislikes a black person, we’re racists but if a black person dislikes a white, it’s their First Amendment right; the government spends millions to rehabilitate criminals but they do almost nothing for the victims; in public schools you can teach that homosexuality is OK, but you better not use the word God in the process; you can kill an unborn child, but it’s wrong to execute a mass murderer; we don’t burn books in America, we now rewrite them; we got rid of the communist and socialist threat by renaming them progressives; we are unable to close our border with Mexico but we have no problem protecting the 38th parallel in Korea; if you protest against President Obama’s policies you’re a terrorist, but if you burned an American flag or George Bush in effigy, it was your First Amendment right.

You can have pornography on TV or the Internet, but you better not put a nativity scene is a public park during Christmas; we have eliminated all criminals in America, we now call them sick people; we can use a human fetus for medical research, but it’s wrong to use an animal.

We take money from those who work hard for it and give it to those who don’t want to work; we all support the Constitution, but only when it supports our political ideology; we still have freedom of speech, but only if we are being politically correct; we replaced parenting with Ritalin and video games; the land of opportunity is now the land of hand outs; the similarity between Hurricane Katrina and the gulf oil spill is that neither president did anything to help.

And how do we handle a major crisis today? The government appoints a committee to determine who’s at fault, then threatens them, passes a law, raises our taxes, tells us the problem is solved so they can get back to work on their reelection campaign.

What has happened to the land of the free and the home of the brave?