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America Has Gone Crazy

Posted by on 11/26/2009 Leave a comment (5) Go to comments

Yes, I said it: The United States of America as it is today has in a lot of ways gone crazy. No, this is not an attack on President Obama or on the Democrat-controlled Washington. It is simply a review of what the USA has come to, some things under the banner of freedom and democracy.

Here is a partial list:

• Way back we knew that Americans have equal rights. Somehow today, equality means Women First.

• Civil Rights were transformed into Affirmative Action, and have brought endless instances of Reverse Discrimination.

• Freedom of Speech is your right as long someone does not take you to court for libel, defamation, or go figure whatever crazy law lawmakers on all levels of governments voted into the books since 1789.

• Way back, Americans knew they had the right of privacy. In these days, however, under the banner of Freedom, everything needs to be made public record, including any Police-reported domestic dispute or traffic arrest you once had. Go figure where your privacy disappeared.

• Officially you have s right of self-defense. But… when using this right make sure not to go too far, because you might land up in jail as a result of a government prosecution against you, or you will likely get sued for millions as a result of assault charges brought to you by the person who intruded your property and privacy.

• It is illegal to write today a check, dated for today, if there is not enough money in the bank to cover it. Yet, in 2009, US banks will earn a total of $40 billion-plus in over-draft fees, including banks that charge you $35 for over-drafting despite that they don’t cover your check.

• Under the name of a “right to choose,” discovered by the courts only close to 200 hundred years after the Bill of Rights was written, doctors may do a procedure on a fetus that others get charged with murder if they do the same. Yes America: Decide if destroying a fetus is a matter of choice, or a matter of murder.

• If you are a Navy SEAL who arrested a terrorist that killed, mutilated, and hung on a bridge American contractors in Iraq, you might stand trial on assault charges for punching this madman in his face. Worse, your own Department of Defense will lead the charges against you. Not enough? If you didn’t commit this act, yet you didn’t report your colleague either (same goes if you don’t want to give up information to the government about a criminal family member), you can be charged with “aiding and abetting” a criminal.

I am certain that more things might come to mind regarding where America has gone crazy, a craziness which is mostly rooted in political correctness, and/or pure stupidity.

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  • Peter

    You might add to your list of crazy stuff, 2 Border Patrolmen in Texas went to jail, convicted for shooting a twice convicted drug dealer in the butt as he escaped back to Mexico after he shot at them. There were finally pardoned as Bush left office but their careers are ruined.

  • Shlomo

    I respect your right to post your opinions but disagree with many of your comments.
    Discrimination against minorities and women has been a problem for a long time. It’s only in the past few decades that the US has addressed discrimination.

    To argue that “way back we knew that Americans have equal rights” is easily rebutted. Blacks were 3/5 of a man, only land owners had the right to vote, and women had no right to vote and limited rights to own property.
    In the past few decades, as a society, we’ve tried to address discrimination. Has it been fully successful or without mistakes? No. But it is better (I’m old enough to remember “Whites Only” signs). Women have more rights but are not “first.” The rights have to do with jobs, property, and autonomy. But, on average, a woman still makes only about 80% of what a man makes for the same job.

  • Vox Populi

    I don’t think I understand you.

    >Way back we knew that Americans have equal rights. Somehow today, equality means Women First.

    Way back when? The Equal Pay Act, which made it illegal for employers to pay women less than men for doing the same job, only passed in 1963. The Civil Rights Act, which actually made it so that African Americans could vote (!), and barred employment discrimination in hiring, was just in 1964. President Johnson only really started affirmative action in the executive branch of government in 1967. So, sometime in the last 45 years, there was this magic period of “equal rights” before we quickly switched to a matriarchal society? Around 1967? What exactly is your chronology? When did our era of equal rights begin, and when did it end? Also, see if you can work in there why women still only make about 75-80 cents on the dollar, compared to men.

    >Civil Rights were transformed into Affirmative Action, and have brought endless instances of Reverse Discrimination.

    Again, when did this happen? When were civil rights so good in this country? I would rather have the problems of “reverse racism” and affirmative action, then the old-fashioned actual racism. You know, when people were lynched, and not allowed to go to the same schools as white people.

    >Freedom of Speech is your right as long someone does not take you to court for libel, defamation, or go figure whatever crazy law lawmakers on all levels of governments voted into the books since 1789.

    Again, your chronology confuses me. As you so aptly note, there have been limitations on free speech in this country, at all levels of government since 1789. Did freedom of speech begin and end in the first days of our republic? I’m sure you also know that defamation and libel have been a part of the common law since at least the Edwardian era, and in America since probably the Mayflower. There is a famous 1734 case. It was only in 1925 that the Supreme Court ruled that the freedom of speech clause in the First Amendment restricted state governments from limiting their citizens freedom of speech as well.

    >Way back, Americans knew they had the right of privacy.

    Well, the Supreme Court only discovered that this applied to state actors in 1965.

    >Under the name of a “right to choose,” discovered by the courts only close to 200 hundred years after the Bill of Rights was written, doctors may do a procedure on a fetus that others get charged with murder if they do the same.

    Yeah, this is because of the aforementioned right to privacy. That right was found in 1965. Isn’t that the one you like?

  • Yossi Gestetner

    With the words “way back,” I do not reffer to 100′s of years ago. It was a few decades ago or more that equal and civil right meant sticking up for African Americans, Women, etc. Today, these things stand on its head to the other extreme.

    Regarding women’s pay: statitics show that women who have the same work record as men, i.e. They don’t take or have maternity leave, get paid the same as men. The main reason why women are paid 15-25 percent less than men, is due to the fact that a lot women are in work less than men, thus a pay gap takes place as the years go on.

    You tell me: when was the last time that major US firms hired men on an entery level with a pay 15-25 better than women who came to the table with the same work record and background as the men? Well, you said it: these things don’t have much place these days in the USA workforce. It is only after years of work, that the men-women gap grows.

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