Thursday, October 16, 2008

Mailbag

In the latest selection from the mailbag, concerned citizen Guy Montag asks:

“Is it because we’re having so much fun at home we’ve forgotten the rest of the world? Is it because we’re so rich and the rest of the world’s so poor and we just don’t care if they are? I’ve heard rumours; the world is starving, but we’re well-fed. Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we’re hated so much?”

Johnny answers:

No, the real reason the world hates America is because of our Freedom.

Don’t listen to anyone who says that it is because of our economic policies; our interventionalist foreign policy; our corruption; our lying to the United Nations. The only reason we are hated is because of our Freedom. Anyone who says anything different is speaking out of hate. Hate for our Freedom.

In this country you are free not to have gay marriages. You are free to be persecuted for having the sex of your choice in the many states that have ignored the 2003 Supreme Court ruling that declared sodomy laws unconstitutional. You are free to have your phone tapped and your library borrowing record examined. You are free to be detained in a foreign country without trial, and tortured. You are free to be taught that evolution is a lie. You are free to have an unwanted child in the eighty-seven counties of the United States that have no abortion-providers. You are free to have your organisation denied funding unless you are a faith-based program.

And the best thing?

You’re free to enjoy it.

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