Fucking, right-wing nutjobs
So, in the second edition of my school paper I wrote this:
Crossing the Line: United States of Hypocrisy
America is like the stuck up, prude from the church social, who claims to be a “liberated feminist.” Whenever I hear someone say something like, “America is the freest country in the word, and that’s why the terrorists hate us…” I want to scream.
America, while freer then a lot of countries, is by far not the freest. If the terrorists attacked countries based solely on how free they are then The Netherlands would have been blown off the face of the map by now, and Switzerland wouldn’t be to far behind them. Next to right wing, fundamentalist, Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran; America is the most sex-a-phobic country on the face of the planet.
In this country, the so-called “land of the free,” two men, or two women, who love each other very deeply, aren’t FREE to marry the person they love. Why? Because it might make other people uncomfortable? Who cares if it makes other people uncomfortable? I feel uncomfortable about kids who are 18 or 19 years old, who throw their lives away by getting married and have kids right out of high school, but I don’t think there should be a law to stop it.
Almost two years ago there was the famous Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction” involving Janette Jackson. Now stations fear to show the slightest thing that may be considered sexual, because the FCC will fine them. And this isn’t going to be limited to the network channels, which receive government funding, but to the cable and satellite stations that receive no government funding whatsoever.
So what it’s coming down to is the government telling us that we aren’t FREE to watch something, that we go out of our way to see by having to pay extra for it, because some people find it offensive. Well, I find those people offensive; if they don’t want to get offended then they should change the channel, because they are FREE to do just that.
If you want any idea just how sex-a-phobic this country is just look at the Justice Department’s top priority. In Miami, a FBI supervisor met with interim US Attorney Alex Acosta to find out the top law enforcement priority for the Department of Justice. Expecting to hear something like terrorism, drugs or illegal immigration he was shocked at the answer… pornography. And not child pornography, but pornography made with consenting adults and sold to consenting adults. What this tells me is that the George Bush administration thinks that a porno tape is more dangerous then a terrorist with a U-Haul full of ammonium nitrate, diesel fuel, and a match.
The first amendment gives us the right to peacefully assemble and to protest our government for their actions, yet when we do we get harassed and beat by the police. We get thrown to the ground and kicked and punched for doing something for which our founding fathers were praised for. We get tear gassed, and arrested for no reason but practicing our first amendment rights. My mom gets struck with a bike by an armed cop in Portland, leaving a bruise on her, and they say that she assaulted him? That is not freedom, that is a police state.
So the next time you hear someone say how “free” we are, ask them why is it that gay and lesbian couples aren’t FREE to get married? Or why is it that I’m not FREE to watch and listen to whatever I want in the freedom of my own home? Why is it that the police harass us for protesting our governments’ illegal actions, and nothing is done to stop them?
Being able to buy the latest fashion brand is not freedom. Being able to vote on people who listen more to the multi-national corporations then they do us is not freedom. And walking into a Wal-Mart and buying something made by 8 year-olds in Indonesia is not freedom. So, before we start bombing other countries into “freedom,” maybe we should try to find it here.
Now when I wrote this and put in the paper I thought that I may get a few angry responses. United States of Hypocrisy, America being a stuck up prude, ect... but last week I recieved this letter. now of all the things I expected, this was not one of them. when I first read it I thought that it was someones idea of a joke , or even sarcasim, but according to the teacher (she had aparently talked to him about it when he turned it in) he was VERY serious. this is what he had to say (this is word for word what he wrote, I havn't changed a single letter, except my name):
To the editor ***** *******,
I read your article titled United States of hypocrisy; I don’t want anything to do with you for writing on this topic because the only thing you were trying to say is that gays and lesbians should be free to get married.
I think you should lose your job as editor for writing on this topic. It doesn’t matter if you have good writing skills.
I’m glad that the Bush administration pays more attention to people who make pornography because pornography is the reason people turn gay. Porn is made to look nice, so if you watch movies or look at photos of nude people those pictures stay in your mind; when you actually try to have a man woman relationship it doesn’t work out because it doesn’t feel right. After that people start looking for love from the same sex which is wrong and you’ll go to hell for it.
Its better if you get married at 18 or 19 then you actually have a clean life, have kids and raise them. Try to say you can have kids with the same sex; the only way you Can do that is by adopting which is not having kids. The kids have to be your own flesh and blood something that can only be made between a man and a woman. The only way you throw your life away is by “falling deeply in love” with the same sex because you’ll go to hell. If you say you’re a Christian you’re lying because nowhere in the bible does it say to marry the same sex. If it says that in your bible that means you added to it which won’t get you eternal life.
I have nothing more to say to your, only that I hope you lose your job.
before I could read the name she had ripped it off so I have no clue as to who wrote it. I wanted to put it in the school paper and publish it, but they (Teacher and Editor-in-Chief) won't allow it. I think that more of this stuff should be seen by rational thinking people to show how crazy that these right-wing nutjobs really are.
xXx
PEACE!
Daniel Aries
Crossing the Line: United States of Hypocrisy
America is like the stuck up, prude from the church social, who claims to be a “liberated feminist.” Whenever I hear someone say something like, “America is the freest country in the word, and that’s why the terrorists hate us…” I want to scream.
America, while freer then a lot of countries, is by far not the freest. If the terrorists attacked countries based solely on how free they are then The Netherlands would have been blown off the face of the map by now, and Switzerland wouldn’t be to far behind them. Next to right wing, fundamentalist, Muslim countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran; America is the most sex-a-phobic country on the face of the planet.
In this country, the so-called “land of the free,” two men, or two women, who love each other very deeply, aren’t FREE to marry the person they love. Why? Because it might make other people uncomfortable? Who cares if it makes other people uncomfortable? I feel uncomfortable about kids who are 18 or 19 years old, who throw their lives away by getting married and have kids right out of high school, but I don’t think there should be a law to stop it.
Almost two years ago there was the famous Super Bowl “wardrobe malfunction” involving Janette Jackson. Now stations fear to show the slightest thing that may be considered sexual, because the FCC will fine them. And this isn’t going to be limited to the network channels, which receive government funding, but to the cable and satellite stations that receive no government funding whatsoever.
So what it’s coming down to is the government telling us that we aren’t FREE to watch something, that we go out of our way to see by having to pay extra for it, because some people find it offensive. Well, I find those people offensive; if they don’t want to get offended then they should change the channel, because they are FREE to do just that.
If you want any idea just how sex-a-phobic this country is just look at the Justice Department’s top priority. In Miami, a FBI supervisor met with interim US Attorney Alex Acosta to find out the top law enforcement priority for the Department of Justice. Expecting to hear something like terrorism, drugs or illegal immigration he was shocked at the answer… pornography. And not child pornography, but pornography made with consenting adults and sold to consenting adults. What this tells me is that the George Bush administration thinks that a porno tape is more dangerous then a terrorist with a U-Haul full of ammonium nitrate, diesel fuel, and a match.
The first amendment gives us the right to peacefully assemble and to protest our government for their actions, yet when we do we get harassed and beat by the police. We get thrown to the ground and kicked and punched for doing something for which our founding fathers were praised for. We get tear gassed, and arrested for no reason but practicing our first amendment rights. My mom gets struck with a bike by an armed cop in Portland, leaving a bruise on her, and they say that she assaulted him? That is not freedom, that is a police state.
So the next time you hear someone say how “free” we are, ask them why is it that gay and lesbian couples aren’t FREE to get married? Or why is it that I’m not FREE to watch and listen to whatever I want in the freedom of my own home? Why is it that the police harass us for protesting our governments’ illegal actions, and nothing is done to stop them?
Being able to buy the latest fashion brand is not freedom. Being able to vote on people who listen more to the multi-national corporations then they do us is not freedom. And walking into a Wal-Mart and buying something made by 8 year-olds in Indonesia is not freedom. So, before we start bombing other countries into “freedom,” maybe we should try to find it here.
Now when I wrote this and put in the paper I thought that I may get a few angry responses. United States of Hypocrisy, America being a stuck up prude, ect... but last week I recieved this letter. now of all the things I expected, this was not one of them. when I first read it I thought that it was someones idea of a joke , or even sarcasim, but according to the teacher (she had aparently talked to him about it when he turned it in) he was VERY serious. this is what he had to say (this is word for word what he wrote, I havn't changed a single letter, except my name):
To the editor ***** *******,
I read your article titled United States of hypocrisy; I don’t want anything to do with you for writing on this topic because the only thing you were trying to say is that gays and lesbians should be free to get married.
I think you should lose your job as editor for writing on this topic. It doesn’t matter if you have good writing skills.
I’m glad that the Bush administration pays more attention to people who make pornography because pornography is the reason people turn gay. Porn is made to look nice, so if you watch movies or look at photos of nude people those pictures stay in your mind; when you actually try to have a man woman relationship it doesn’t work out because it doesn’t feel right. After that people start looking for love from the same sex which is wrong and you’ll go to hell for it.
Its better if you get married at 18 or 19 then you actually have a clean life, have kids and raise them. Try to say you can have kids with the same sex; the only way you Can do that is by adopting which is not having kids. The kids have to be your own flesh and blood something that can only be made between a man and a woman. The only way you throw your life away is by “falling deeply in love” with the same sex because you’ll go to hell. If you say you’re a Christian you’re lying because nowhere in the bible does it say to marry the same sex. If it says that in your bible that means you added to it which won’t get you eternal life.
I have nothing more to say to your, only that I hope you lose your job.
before I could read the name she had ripped it off so I have no clue as to who wrote it. I wanted to put it in the school paper and publish it, but they (Teacher and Editor-in-Chief) won't allow it. I think that more of this stuff should be seen by rational thinking people to show how crazy that these right-wing nutjobs really are.
xXx
PEACE!
Daniel Aries