The 50's
Birmingham Jail has become a classic for good reason. Martin Luther King was an excellent writer and speaker, appealing not only to the logical side of most people, but also to their emotional side. He was an intelligent man, keeping up with all the current events of not only the nation but the world, and was well read in issues of the past. What he said and wrote came from deep inside him and was influenced by his belief in God and Jesus Christ. His essay took his knowledge and his talents of persuasion, and summed up what he was working for and what he believed in. When he stated, "Anyone who lives inside the U.S. can never be considered an outsider anywhere within its bounds..." he was saying that Americans are people made up of many cultures and backgrounds. He was celebrating America's diversity, which makes the United States such a wonderful place to live. He would be ashamed and sorrowful if he saw how citizens of The United States treated each other today. If we had to! take a million immigrants in, say, Zulus, next year, or Englishmen, and put them in Virginia, what group would be easier to assimilate? Patrick Buchanan is outspoken on many subjects, immigration is one of them. Buchanan believes that there should be a 20
tant militias and people overly paranoid about the government are creating outsiders within the U.S. Random acts of violence happen every day. A few women are raped, people are killed, someone is beaten. People are fearful of a person they see walking down the street. It is now a matter of personal safety not to help someone who is stranded alongside the road, you just do not know. Citizens of large cities, and even smaller sized communities, keep their doors locked at all times and talk to people through chains and bolts. What happened to the friendliness of the 50's where doors did not have to be locked, and people trusted each other? Fear seems to control the American life, all because of random acts of violence? It is shown in recent studies that more people will be killed by someone they have never met before then ever before. Rand end the Constitution, which they believe is being threatened by the government. Others simply talk about what they believe, either over local access stations, short wave radios, or nationally brodcasted AM radio shows, and TV stations. Mark Koernke and G. Gordon Liddy are classic examples. These people seem to make concerned people, concerned about water- and land-use policies, concerned about NAFTA and GATT as causes for lost jobs, concerned about the United Nations and the United States role in world-wide affairs, angry and afraid. There are militia groups who believe that the government has installed electronic devices in car ignitions to stall autos on the day the new world takes over, and that the U.N. plans to conquer the U.S. using the National Guard and L.A. gangs to disarm the public. These people are adamant about getting their points across and do so in any way they can, Timothy McVeigh bombed the Oklahoma City Federal Building so that his point would be heard. Mili! How can someone be religious and still go around declaring that some people are better then others? Supposedly our country was to have gotten rid of a
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