Wake Up
We are approaching the point of no return, in terms of what makes this nation great. Now, we have already leaped grossly past the barrier or morality and decency in our society, but one of the few things that we have always been able to depend on is slowly slipping out of our grasp. Am I crazy? That's a possibility but let's leave that for another time. Every little disjointed, fragmented thought from Donald "Rummy" Rumsfeld or from our drug-enthusiast president (soon to be dictator) sickens me. We are following blindly into the shadows of the unknown. Every reporter is labeled unpatriotic and purposely not allowed to do their jobs by reporting from the front lines. We believe every single lie that is spoon-fed to us by the military and the US government. WE HAVE LATE BREAKING NEWS from the pulpit of MIGHT, known as the White House: There is another stem added to the already corrupted governmental system. This one is called the Department of Strategic Influence, which states that the government can and will whimsically decide whether it will lie or tell us the truth on matters of importance to us.(Point of mention: this is why Daniel Pearle had to go into Pakistan on his own to find his story) We are to the
I'm not saying things are bad, I'm merely saying things will get worse if we allow them to. We have arrived to a time in history where I could never have imagined, but if we fail to portray the ideals that have amassed our wealth and influence, in the world, then who's to say what will happen next? I will admit I am not the most optimistic person you have met, but I sense the things that I value in the world the most falling away very fast. I would say I have a worldly perspective and am not like most at this university, who can not see things from the point of view of the blue collared workers that make this nation as great as it is or even that inner-city family struggling to get by while others generalize about their lives. I am a realist, I am a person that derives my optimism from seeing someone arrive at his or her goal, rather than seeing my objective accomplished. That is why I cannot measure success by money or fame or even number of casualties, innocent and otherwise, but as an intangible ideal that may not arrive but still you grasp for that chance that it is there. point of the 50's with McCarthyism, but now instead of being in fear of being called Communist, we have to cower in the presence being unpatriotic. We are perpetuating things that don't need to be prolonge
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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