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Against the Grain

The Future of South Carolina

I recently took my wife to get her passport renewed at the Philippine Embassy in Washington, DC. Even though we could not afford it the trip was well worth the cost because of the history we saw. At the memorial to the US Marines of Iwo Jima is an inscription, it reads “Uncommon valor was a common virtue”. Just the thought of what these brave Americans experienced humbled me. The statue of those six Marines raising the Stars and Stripes on Mount Suribachi pays tribute and honor to the sacrifice of a generation of Americans that is sadly missed today. They went into combat knowing that the American people and our government were solidly behind them.

Today we live in a different America. Instead of a country that values freedom and liberty and justice we live in a nation that has forsaken those ideals. We live in a nation where you will be put on a watch list if you speak out against the oppression. Free speech is dying along with the World War II generation because most Americans today have been cowed into silence. Instead of a government that stands up for the freedom of American citizens and the rule of law we have politicians that actively encourage millions of illegal aliens to invade our shores.

Instead of reading about the sacrifices of millions of this country's finest, our newspapers elect to print the sob stories of people that do not have any idea of what it is to be an American. Instead of speaking the truth our newspapers decide what their version of the truth is. Is it any wonder that they are going bankrupt? Twenty five million Americans are out of work and our politicians scheme to give amnesty to criminals that have stolen our jobs and businesses. Is this what those Marines on Iwo Jima died for? Did we invade Normandy in 1944 so that sixty five years later we could in turn be invaded? Where are the heroes of today that will protect the American people?

I attended the tea party at the Statehouse in Columbia, SC, in April. Across the street was a construction site where illegal aliens were hard at work. While I listened to Governor Mark Sanford speak glowing words of my state's future, I turned my head and looked across the street and saw my future going straight down the drain. My politicians are liars, they do not represent average citizens like me, they represent whatever will keep them in office. The politicians of South Carolina have forsaken the construction workers of this state. The evidence is staring them in the face right across the street. I have not had any work in three weeks to support my family yet my politicians have no problem with criminals working next door to them. While my family is forced to go without, these criminals and the businesses employing them have the full support of my leaders and justice system.

Is this the America that my forefathers died to create? Did those Americans on Normandy and Iwo Jima sacrifice everything so that freedom and liberty can be stolen from me by my politicians and bestowed onto criminals? Did they die so that corrupt leaders might remain in office in perpetuity? I do not think so.

Free speech is being assaulted today by the same people that are supposed to protect it. The Department of Homeland Security classifies American patriots as domestic terrorists while millions of invaders are allowed to steal into our country. Instead of protecting the homeland this organization has become something monstrous like out of Nazi Germany. Today our freedoms are in more danger than at any time in the past. We have permitted our leaders to bankrupt this country without a whimper from us. Sixty five years after the greatest generation gave their all America has become a pale shadow of itself.

Lone Protester
07/06/09