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This gal about covers it all! ----- Letter of Outrage
MUST READ!!!
This letter was sent to the Wall Street Journal on August 8, 2008 by Alisa
Wilson, Ph.D. Of Beverly Hills, CA. in response to the Wall Street Journal
article titled "Where's The Outrage?" that appeared July 31, 2008.
Really. I can tell you where the outrage is. The outrage is here, in this
middle-aged, well-educated, upper-middle class woman. The outrage is here, but
I have no representation, no voice. The outrage is here, but no one
is listening for who am I?
I am not a billionaire like George Soros that can fund an entire political
movement. I am not a celebrity like Barbra Streisand that can garner the
attention of the press to promote political candidates. I am not a film maker
like Michael Moore or Al Gore that can deliver misleading movies to the public.
The outrage is here, but unlike those with money or power, I don't know how
to reach those who feel similarly in order to effect change. Why am I
outraged? I am outraged that my country, the United States of America , is in
a state of moral and ethical decline. There is no right or wrong anymore, just
what's fair.
Is it fair that millions of Americans who overreached and borrowed more than
they could afford are now being bailed out by the government and lending
institutions to stave off foreclosure? Why shouldn't these people be made to
pay the consequences for their poor judgment?
When my husband and I purchased our home, we were careful to purchase only
what we could afford. Believe me, there are much larger, much nicer homes that
I would have loved to have purchased. But, taking responsibility for my
behavior and my life, I went with the house that we could afford, not the house
that we could not afford. The notion of personal responsibility has all but
died in our country.
I am outraged, that the country that welcomed my mother as an immigrant from
Hitler's Nazi Germany and required that she and her family learn English now
allows itself to be overrun with illegal immigrants and worse, caters to those
illegal immigrants.
I am outraged that my hard-earned taxes help support those here illegally.
That the Los Angeles Public School District is in such disarray that I felt it
incumbent to send my child to private school, that every time I go to the ATM,
I see "do you want to continue in English or Spanish?", that every time I call
the bank, the phone company, or similar business, I hear "press 1 for English
or press 2 for Spanish". WHY? This is America , our common language is English
and attempts to promote a bi- or multi-lingual society are sure to fail and to
marginalize those who cannot communicate in English.
I am outraged at our country's weakness in the face of new threats on
American traditions from Muslims. Just this week, Tyson's Food negotiated with
its union to permit Muslims to have Eid-al-Fitr as a holiday instead of Labor
Day. What am I missing? Yes, there is a large Somali Muslim population working
at the Tyson's plant in Tennessee . Tennessee , last I checked, is still part
of the United States . If Muslims want to live and work here they should be
required to live and work by our American Laws and not impose their will on our
long history.
In the same week, Random House announced that they had indefinitely delayed
the publication of The Jewel of Medina, by Sherry Jones, a book about the life
of Mohammed's wife, Aisha due to fear of retribution and violence by Muslims.
When did we become a nation ruled by fear of what other immigrant groups want?
It makes me so sad to see large corporations cave rather than stand proudly on
the principles that built this country.
I am outraged because appeasement has never worked as a political policy,
yet appeasing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is exactly what we are trying to do. An
excellent article, also published recently in the Wall Street Journal, went
through over 20 years of history and why talking with Iran has been and will
continue to be ineffective. Yet talk, with a madman no less, we continue to do.
Have we so lost our moral compass and its ability to detect evil that we will
not go in and destroy Iran 's nuclear program? Would we rather wait for
another Holocaust for the Jews - one which they would be unlikely to survive?!
When does it end?
As if the battle for good and evil isn't enough, now come the
Environmentalists who are so afraid of global warming that they want to put a
Bag tax on grocery bags in California ; to eliminate Mylar balloons; to
establish something as insidious as the recycle police in San Francisco. I do
my share for the environment: I recycle, I use water wisely, I installed an
energy efficient air conditioning unit but when and where does the
lunacy stop? Ahmadinejad wants to wipe Israel off the map, the California
economy is being overrun by illegal immigrants, and the United States of Am
erica no longer knows right from wrong, good from evil.. So what does
California do? Tax grocery bags.
So, America , although I can tell you where the outrage is, this one
middle-aged, well-educated, upper middle class woman is powerless to do
anything about it. I don't even feel like my vote counts because I am so
outnumbered by those who disagree with me.
Alisa Wilson, Ph.D. Beverly Hills, California
**There are a lot more out there who think just like,
Alisa Wilson, the only difference, she put her thoughts in an email that will
reach thousands.
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