view of America

I have to disagree with you there. It's an obvious statement against capitalism which would make America the perfect setting.

Oh come on, I live in America and don't tell me that this story could never happen. Poor working conditions, not getting the health care you need, the death penalty; are all part of America's landscape.

I was born and raised here in the U.S.A., and I too went to Elementary School and graduated the 12th grade, in a public school education where students are brainwashed that America rules the world, and our way is the only right way in the world, and our so-called "Democracy" is the law of all enlightened humankind. I dread America and agree with other people in the world who share the view that this is an evil country. America proclaims freedom of religion and speech, but persecutes people who try to practice either, with impunity and torture of barbaric proportions. The poor here are confronted with, or surrounded by wealth beyond belief every day, with no hope of ever sharing any of the spoils of wealth we are tempted to labor away our lives for, like slaves. Our disabled and elder adults live in squalor beyond belief, with medical care that encourages an enourmous suicide culture. Our entertainment and news keeps us docile and indoctrinated, repeating stupid phrases over and over which mean nothing, like, "they hate us for our freedom."

Here's one dumb American who would gladly leave these borders, but I live with life-threatening illness which makes such a journey impossible. Now all the patriots will respond to this my post with vile hate and pitiful sayings which they get from propaganda videos played on "news" television and war movies, quoted by their fictional heros. They will think they are clever and self-important for repeating this thoughtless drivel. They are too stupid to create a response which they used a creative process to manufacture themself. That's why all of our art looks like paint by number garbage.

Before the Democratic National Convention in Denver Colorado, the Denver Police went to several art galleries who were on the route presidential nominee Barack Obama would pass on his way to the Pepsi Center, where the convention was held August 2008. The police spray-painted on the sides of at least three or four art gallery buildings I know of, which had art painted on the outside walls, totally concealing the walls under spray-paint, what took days to create, destroyed in a matter of minutes. They spray-painted over the art to protect Barack Obama from seeing it while traveling in his limousine to the convention. The art would harm Obama and Democratic Convention attendees how? After the Convention, the City Council told the police they had to use tax funds to compensate the art gallery owners for destroying their art. Now this is a small example, and the victims were not seriously harmed. But it is one story that the news will quickly bury, you better Google it, check the Denver Post, Rocky Mountain News, Denver Daily News, or Denver's television station websites, before their printed stories and videos are deleted from the news archives. The propaganda machine will try to bury this story before it can be etched on to everyone's memory.

I am embarrassed what people around the world must think when they consider America, and the people like myself who live here. We all don't think and act the same, I wish people would know that, but we will likely all be disliked the same, it's just in our human nature to do that when evaluating people living in a different region from ourselves. I am ashamed to admit I behave American a lot of the time, it is how I was brainwashed all of my life. I take comfort in the fact that most Americans (and people in general) don't like me anymore, so I know I must be doing something right.