Truth from America…

I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.
Ned Vizzini

Letter to U.S. Senator Charles Shumer

Dear Mr. Shumer:

This morning I read a suicide letter of an Iraqi/ Afghanistan veteran. His name was David Somers, and his letter is an eloquent argument for the complete failure of politicians in Washington to uphold the intent of the Declaration of Independence. You should read Mr. Somers’ letter for it underscores the real reason why twenty-two veterans a day chose to terminate their lives. Simply stated, the policies of the United States of America’s government destroy the possibility of perceived personal goodness in those who see the mockery of human conscience exhibited by our government.

You and everyone else in Washington is accused and in reality convicted of acute transgressions against not only the enemy but also against the conscience of this veteran and all humanity you think you represent.

I sat in stunned silence after reading the letter and remained some six hours later in stunned silence propelled to write to you only because you represent to me the epitome of man’s downfall, the locus of all that is wrong with the human race. The adherence to the ethics of me-first and might-makes-right. Everything you do is designed to get Charles Shumer reelected, not because of the principles you follow, but because you know how to pander. You know how to fool the public. You know how to corrupt in the name of goodness. You have no understanding of the word principled.

In an expression that warrants reiteration, Mr. Somers chose to commit suicide, not because of his failure, but because he was compelled by our government to violate everything good inside himself. Twenty-two soldiers a day kill themselves because of this travesty, this unconscionable perversion of life by you and all others in Washington, and you sit in your gilded cage figuring out the next pandering to public acceptance.

You bring this perversion of human life to your office. I continue to sit in stunned silence. There is no rapport between you and me. None! And still you claim to represent me which only reveals the sloth and depravity you and every representative in Washington accept as normal and necessary.

The next morning: Should I send this missive? Frankly nothing in many years has struck me as powerfully as this lucid suicide of Mr. Somers at the hands of my government, but in expressing this observation I feel I risk disappearance, marginalization, trivialization, condemnation, surveillance of my family and friends and interferences in travel and business. They are the modern solutions of madness exposed.

Jerry Hewes

Phoenix New Times

Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country.
Theodore Roosevelt

July 2, 2013

Dear President Obama,

I'm planning to move my family and extended family into Mexico for my health, and I would like to ask you to assist me. We're planning to simply walk across the border from the U.S. into Mexico and we'll need your help to make a few arrangements. We plan to skip all the legal stuff like visas, passports, immigration quotas and laws. I'm sure they handle those things the same way you do here. So, would you mind telling your buddy, the President of Mexico, that I'm on my way over? Please let him know that I will be expecting the following:

1. Free medical care for my entire family.
2. English-speaking government bureaucrats for all services I might need, whether I use them or not.
3. Please print all Mexican Government forms in English.
4. I want my grand kids to be taught Spanish by English-speaking (bi-lingual) teachers.
5. Tell their schools they need to include classes on American culture and history.
6. I want my grand kids to see the American flag on one of the flag poles at their school.
7. Please plan to feed my grand kids at school for both breakfast and lunch.
8. I will need a local Mexican driver's license so I can get easy access to government services.
9. I do plan to get a car and drive in Mexico, but I don't plan to purchase car insurance, and I probably won't make any special effort to learn local traffic laws.
10. In case one of the Mexican police officers does not get the memo from their president to leave me alone, please be sure that every patrol car has at least one English-speaking officer.
11. I plan to fly the U.S. flag from my housetop, put U.S. flag decals on my car, and have a gigantic celebration on July 4th. I do not want any complaints or negative comments from the locals.
12. I would also like to have a nice job without paying any taxes, or have any labor or tax laws enforced on any business I may start.
13. Please have the President tell all the Mexican people to be extremely nice and never say critical things about me or my family, or about the strain we might place on their economy.
14. I want to receive free food stamps.
15. Naturally, I'll expect free rent subsidies.
16. I'll need income tax credits so that, although I don't pay Mexican taxes, I'll receive money from the government.
17. Please arrange it so that the Mexican Government pays $4,500.00 to help me buy a new car.
18. Oh yes, I almost forgot, please enroll me free into the Mexican Social Security program so that I'll get a monthly income in retirement.

I know this is an easy request, because you do all these things for all his people who walk over to the U.S. from Mexico. I am sure that the President of Mexico won't mind returning the favor if you ask him nicely.

Melanie

June 29, 2013

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Yo no soy mexicano. Yo no soy gringo. Yo no soy chicano. No soy gringo en USA y mexicano en Mexico. Soy chicano en todas partes. No tengo que asimilarme a nada. Tengo mi propia historia.  [I'm not Mexican. I'm not a gringo. I'm not Chicano. I'm not US and Mexican in Mexico. Chicano's are everywhere. I do have not to assimilate into anything. I have my own story]

To call me anti-American is a stupendous lie, a calumny. I grew up in this country. When I was a little boy I shook the hand of Franklin Roosevelt and I haven’t washed it since.”

Carlos Fuentes

But in the end one needs more courage to live than to kill himself.
Albert Camus