In an excellent piece Ben Stein shares the views and frustrations of I believe a large majority of the American people. He can’t say it all. Nobody has the time to say it all, but he covers a great deal of the current sources of concern, frustration, and fear many Americans feel.
I can only excerpt enough to wet your appetite for more, every paragraph is worthy.
Do I Feel Sick
I am sick that our President spent more time justifying the murders than eulogizing the slain.
Ha! I bet you wonder why you haven’t heard from me for a while. It’s because I have been sick.
I’m sick of athletes who are paid millions of dollars per month to run up and down a wooden court and throw a ball blasting, slandering, sliming police officers who get paid in a year what the athletes get paid for a few minutes. The athletes are superbly well trained and skillful and their performances sell a lot or cars and soap. And beer.
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I have been sick, still am sick, at the idea that the thin blue line who stand between decent people and murderers and rapists and thugs gets slandered by the Beautiful People in sports and Hollywood and politics and the media while the slanderers eat their caviar and ride in their Bentleys and pretend to be brave fighters for social justice.
I have news for you, gentlemen. There is only one group consistently offering up their lives for social justice and decency — and they are called the POLICE.
I have been sick to death that when our President, Mr. Obama, spoke at a memorial for five police officers murdered by a black psychopathic racist, the President of all of the people spent far more time trying to justify the murders than to eulogize the slain. . . .
There is more “sickness” in the article – but a worthy read.
DLH
