America

If someone were to ask you whether you love America, it would be quite logical to ask "Which America?" Do you mean the America that I and my neighbors create everyday from scratch; from getting up in the morning and going to work or school, trying to do our best, and coming home to eat, to recreate, to sleep? Do you mean America that has been created by the global media on tv, and by the special interests to which they are beholden? Do you mean America created by big, big business; not the small businesses, owned by individuals and people we know who try to make a profit and a living for their neighbors, but the Big Businesses which have grown up over the past century whose motives are profit alone? Do you mean America created by those people who cannot even conceive of some corporate objective other than profit alone? Do you mean America by the purveyors of violence, the minds afflicted by road rage and other rages, the priests of mayhem, the haters, the portrayers of hatred, and the children of the gun...of Columbine and Virginia Tech? Do you mean the America where religious freedom is guaranteed, where freedom of speech is guaranteed, and where a presidential candidate is slandered by the false imputation of religious affiliation?

Do you mean the America of the War Makers or the War Avoiders? Is it the America of Lincoln, where war is the last and most tragic resort, or is it the America of the past 6 years, where war for us is a picnic on a summer day on a blanket laid out on the green grass, and that same war is a blasted wedding party for those unavoidably in the way on the carpet of the bombs. Do you mean the America of Washington, of Lincoln? The America of Jesse Helms? Do you mean America of the churches of the beatitudes or that of the churches of Armageddon? Find your America, and love it.