This thread makes my head hurt... So much fighting so many things that are inaccurate. I am an American, and I am proud to be an American as a member of the society, yet not so proud of my country, if that makes sense at all. You point fingers at the guy who said he was a mohawk and flame him for stating what he feels. Yes it is your right to flame, but don't tell him what opinion he can or cannot have. When settlers came to the Americas they brought sickness and destruction. The natives viewed the land as a place shared by all, so when people purchased the land the concept made no sense. They got screwed. Then America gave them land set aside specifically for them, yet when the government found that land to be useful they took it back and gave the natives worse land. Have you been to a reservation? Its like a third world country you can't say that to be a native american is extremely rewarding.
America is based on freedom, well the idea of freedom, but when did it become ok to hold people without trial for an indefinite amount of time. Its in the freaking constitution that people deserve a fair trial, yet when the patriot act passed it took that right away. The government can seize you, your posessions, tap your phone, on a whim. I love my country but the government is going to shit. We are losing our rights, and anymore the principles that guided it in the first place are no longer in effect. We point fingers at other countries and look down our noses at them, but what makes us so great? We are all humans on this earth trying to live. Yes America helped in ww1 and ww2, but there are just as bad atrocities going on in the world now that America turns a blind eye to. There is still ethnic cleansing going on in places, but those places don't affect us so we leave them be. Out of sight out of mind. I'm not saying we should be policing them but don't go saying that we are so grand at helping people around the world when some who really need it are getting a cold shoulder.
Also it is nice that we have charities for other counties, yet we still have a huge homeless problem here. The education is lacking, and the economy is down as well. People can only take so much before they have had enough. The value of the dollar is falling and the only thing backing it up is the government. I can agree with america being an experiment though, its been around less time than other empires and countries. Look at rome for example. People will only put up with so much. I will quote v for vendetta by saying "people should not be afraid of their governments, governments should be afraid of their people."
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