What has happened to the land of the free and home of the brave?

Has America become the land of the special interest and home of the double standard? YOU BETCHA!

To prove my point, consider the following: If we lie to Congress, it's a felony but if Congress lies to the people who pay their salaries well, that's just politics; if we dislike a black or hispanic person, we are racist but if a black or hispanic person dislikes whites well they are utilizing their 1st Amendment rights; the government, using OUR hard earned tax dollars, spends millions to rehabilitate criminals and almost NOTHING to help the victims; in public schools socialism, homosexuality, etc can be taught but you cannot use the word God in the process; you can kill an unborn child, even in the third trimester, but it is wrong to execute a mass murderer, serial rapist or pedophile; we don't burn books in America, we now simply rewrite them (without the authors permission); we got rid of the communist and socialist threat by renaming them progressives; we are unable to close our border to Mexico but have NO problem protecting the 38th parellel in Korea; if you protest against President Obama's policies you are a racist AND a terrorist, but if you burn an American flag or George Bush in effigy it is your 1st Amendment right.

You can have pornography on the internet and disgusting television shows utilizing teenagers in sexual positions or using drugs, but you cannot put a nativity scene or a star of david in a public park or place during special holiday seasons; we have eliminated all criminals in America, now they are called sick people; we can use a human fetus for medical research, but its wrong to use an animal.

We take money from those who work hard for it and give it to those who don't want to work (I did not say were not able to work); we all support the Constitution, but only when it supports our political ideology; we still have freedom of speech, but ONLY if we are being politically correct; parenting has been replaced with psychobabble, Ritalin, video games and tv; the land of opportunity is now the land of hand outs; the similarity between Hurricane Katrina and the gulf oil spill is that NEITHER president did a damned thing to help.

And how do we handle a major crisis today? The government appoints a committe to determine who's at fault, then threatens them (with no backbone or intent to back it up), pases a law, raises our taxes, tell us the problem is solved so they can get back to their white house dinners and drinking, and reelection campaigns.

What has happened to the land of the free and home of the brave?