Is America Dying?
By Jim E. Reames (02/05/04)
A few weeks ago a URL was propagated via the Internet, which showed the MPEG footage of three Iraqi insurgents being shot to death with 30mm cannon fire, from an Apache helicopter. The footage (see below) lasted about one minute, during which time one human target after another was taken out with military precision. Not only did I witness the actual kills, I saw something far more disturbing. It was the awesome power of military superiority being used in the field.
Then, the other day, I was sent the URL to a testimonial written by a highly educated computer engineer (see below), which very accurately describes what I perceive as a growing “negative mood” on the part of those individuals who depend upon high tech for a professional living here in America.
The subjects of globalism, cybernetic automation, the World Wide Web, mass media, downsizing, outsourcing, and NAFTA troubles me very much. Perhaps it is because I still remember the negative impact we Americans felt back in the 1960s, when our steel industry got exported. I remember closure of our natural resources, our lumber mills, our mines, and then the recession of 1982. We Americans woke up unable to compete with Japan’s emerging automobile industry, a spotted owl got saved, and the price of lumber skyrocketed. Very rapidly, then, just about everything that used to be produced by American hands was being produced elsewhere. Even our sawdust got exported! We saw economic growth and extreme wealth through the 80s and most of the 90s, primarily because of the personal computer market that is, now, also exported. Today companies like Dell Computers, Hewlett-Packard, and other high tech industries are outsourcing to cheap labor found in countries like India, China, and even Russia. Meanwhile, back here in the United States there are those with master’s degrees in engineering, computer technology, and even in mathematics who have become self-employed handymen and gardeners. They barely eke a living, which brings to mind one provocative question that has already been asked by too many Blacks and Hispanics for decades, and now by America’s white middle class: Why bother?
Our medical doctors go on strike because of the high cost of mal-practice suits. The medicine we invent is sold to citizens of other nations for pennies compared to the billions of dollars we pay here. Politically correct laws like Affirmative Action has placed idiots in top government positions. The cells of our jails and prisons are all over populated. We read of hepatitis outbreaks because of imported food. Assault, battery, and road rage is common in all states. People litigate with the breakage of a toenail. The innocent victims of crime get treated as criminals, while priests and so-called men of God are church-protected pedophiles! Our federal, state, and local governments are all under enormous financial strain. We have embraced the worship of diversity to the point of losing national identity in some cities. We can no longer identify true citizens from illegal immigrants. True political leadership is hard to find. Our politically active courts have usurped the United States Constitution. Our rule of law has been handed over to the politically correct. Truth and discernment have become strangers. Our currency gets counterfeited. Are you getting the pictures? Do you recall the question of Pontus Pilot, “Truth? What is truth?” compared to the mockery of Bill Clinton’s “What is the meaning of is?”
What do these all have in common at a time when even our military suppliers can no longer produce enough ammunition to satisfy the demand of supply, to the point that the Pentagon is now having to purchase small arms ammunition on the market from other countries? The reality, as I see it, is not a pretty picture.
Perhaps I am too much of a realist to deny the possibility we Americans may one day wake up on the wrong end of the gun. We may discover ourselves being shot at…and mortally wounded…by some new WMD we do not technically understand, against which we have no defense. Remember Hiroshima? Go look at the MPEG footage of the three Iraqi insurgents and try to envision us as the target. Think about it. We have successfully exported our academics along with the advantage of our once tightly held technical know-how, and now even our jobs.
So I ask you. What major employment is there left in the United States except for government service, low wage service related work, medical professions, entertainment, and legal battles? How many Americans now ask: Where is there hope, except to win the lottery? What comfort is there except sex and more sex? What perversion is worse than homosexuality? What replacement to the high cost of alcohol is there except for the low cost of first level illegal drugs? Is it truly easier to hate than to love? Is social apathy a weapon of choice? Does money guarantee happiness?
Moreover, I feel compelled to ask: Is there really much difference between America’s pop culture and pornography compared to the alcoholism of communist nations? Communists and dictators have their statues just as “shock and aw” pop culture has its living idols. They publicly flaunt all that is decent, moral, and pure, sometimes during half time. This is at a time when China is preparing to take on outer space, when North Korea still wants to sale nuclear warheads on the black market, when most members of the United Nations distains us, and when the average American does not know how to use a computer unless they depend upon software that has been designed, written, tested, and debugged by someone else, somewhere else. Upon the foundation of our intellect we are becoming slave-dependant upon the knowledge and skills that come to us from abroad, when many Americans barely know how to reason. They are told what to think and how to vote. With those facts in mind, how much longer will America be free? Is it no wonder we have a drug problem? Is it no wonder we have political polarization? Is it no wonder our morals plummet?
Our boarders are being overrun by illegals. Our culture of Christian values is under continuous attack by the news media, our courts, and by the Hollywood elite. People like Michael Jackson and the ex-CEO of Enron openly mock our criminal justice system. In her own MaDonna-styled “Shock and Aw” sub-culture of profanity Janet Jackson is the latest hero, while in other sub-cultures hackers and writers of computer viruses pride themselves with victories. Meanwhile, our nation’s capitol is enduring another terrorist attack (read below).
What I find of interest is how those who have spent the last four decades getting extraordinarily rich and media powerful by tearing down the moral fibers of this great nation, and attacking what used to be conservative values, are the very same individuals who convincingly point accusing fingers at President George Bush as being the cause of our many problems, when in reality the problem is within the hearts of us all. We Americans have serious issues to face. One of them is whether or not we truly intend to remain a nation that places trust in God and obeys His principals of moral conduct? Or whether we will become like all the other nations around us? Theirs are worlds of corruption, violence, murder, injustice, taxation, and cruelty to the extreme while the trend of globalism seems to be aimed at the destruction of International boarders, the dissolving of private property rights, and the siphoning away of America’s strength and wealth.
The saber of Hell itself is being thrust into the heart of America and we have paved the road for that attack by our own materialism and greed. In the Old Testament days it became known as a period of “Laminations” that which America may soon endure.
I do not pretend to have all the answers. But I do know this. When Israel turned its back on God, God turned his back on Israel (First Samuel). The same thing can happen to the United States of America if we ignore the call for us to yield to the passion of Christ. The good news is sometimes Israel had sense enough to turn around and to kneel before the Lord. My prayer is that America will once again become “…One nation, under God.”
For the MPEG footage showing the three December 1, 2003 kills in Iraq go to:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/military/apache.asp
For the testimonial of how hard it is for college degreed engineers to find work go to:
http://lonewolfreviews.tripod.com/edit_unemployment.htm
For information about the ammunition shortage being faced by our military go to:
http://www.hackworth.com/archive.html
For information about the crisis on our boarders go to:
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/usatoday/20040202/pl_usatoday/borderpatrolcatchesthenreleasesillegals&e=3
For information on the latest terrorist attacks, go to:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20040203/D80FPVG00.html
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