Why do I love/hate America?

People often ask me, why do you want to live here? What do you like about America? Is it not better in the UK? It is amazing that many Americans who have never lived or worked in the UK, really believe that life is much easier and better. The same thing goes for many Brits who ask me the same thing, the ones who have never lived or worked in the US often ask similar questions, let me try and explain a few things.

1, Freedom of Speech, it is true that on paper, the British really do have a freedom of speech, however in practice when compared with America, it is apples and oranges. Here are some examples: there is no huge talk radio movement in the UK where conservatives get free airtime to deliver their message to a market audience. Political TV adverts are actually banned in the UK which may sound nice to some, but is actually a form of tolerated censor ship. The overwhelming slant in the UK media is anti-American, anti-Israeli, anti-capitalist and soft-left center. You very rarely hear an opposing view anywhere. In the US, liberal politicians do not get away with comments any more, the mainstream media may cover for them, but the free speech radio and internet is unforgiving and allows regular folk to hear balance.

2, Student bashing does not exist in America, in Britain when I was a student, hatred and resentment of students was rampant in all sections of society including workers, unemployed, celebrities and comedians. This helped fuel the huge crimewaves against students in many cities where there were student targetted assaults, muggings, burglaries and auto theft for almost a decade. I have never heard of or seen anything like this in the many "college towns" in America, it simply does not exist, I have worked many many blue collar jobs in the US and have never ever heard a derogatory word said about "students" in 7 years. When I left a factory job in the US to go back to school, every colleague was totally encouraging and positive about it. When I think back to my factory job after High School before college in the UK, it was nothing but negative discouragement about going to college, except for the few Indians who had been themselves who were encouraging, I am glad that I listened to them more than the tattooed skinheads, drug dealers and deadbeats.

3, Second Amendment rights, despite attemps to link crime to guns, it has been proven time and time again that banning guns does not reduce crime, infact the opposite is true, gun crme in Britain is up 40% despite strict laws, violent crimes are up to a record high in 2006. A law abiding citizen should be allowed to carry a gun and defend themselves, their property and family from aggression. After being victimized many times in the UK with no defence I will defend the second amendment to the end so that they can take my gun "from my cold dead hands!". The problem in the US is simply stopping the criminals and messed up kids from getting them.

4,I hate the drug commercials on TV, it makes too many people neurotic and has resulted in massive unnecessary use of prescription drugs and a record addiction level to prescription pain killers.

5, I hate the "refuse to walk" culture, so many Americans will not even walk five minutes to a shop or to buy a pizza. I watched my neighbors the other day literally drive a 2 minute drive up the street in fine weather, with no heavy bags or carrying anything. Some people in rural remote maine have a legitimate excuse, but even so, there are many towns and cities with areas to walk, not utilized.

6, I hate politically correct wimpy nonsense that has replaced common sense, not racially profiling, airport security, school textbooks, the removal of all christian symbols, with complete tolerance of non-christian symbols. Pandering to muslims in schools and colleges, while banning christians from expressing themselves.

7, Accessibilty to the common man, if you go out hunting in the woods in any state in the USA, you will meet plumbers, electricians, nurses, fireman, cops, doctors, lawyers and businessmen. The only hunting done in the UK is by very wealthy elites on private land. I like the fact that regular folk have access to outdoor pursuits in the USA, also if you go to a lake you will find regular folk driving boats and owning camps on lakes, another pass time reserved for the elites in the UK. Also personalized number plates in the US are dirt cheap compared to the UK, so again regular folk have access, when in the UK it is only the wealthy.

8, I am not sure exactly how the prescription drug abuse problem is in the UK, but I can tell you in the US, it is rampant and out of control, every emergency room and doctors office sees people addicted to prescription narcotics. People will spend hours waiting in ER's to try and obtain narcotics, while people with genuine sickness and injury have to wait even longer because of these idiots.

Mel Gibson

While we are on the subject of Mel Gibson, does anyone remember the tolerant, balanced and non-violent reaction from the Jewish community over his anti-semetic drunken rants in the back of a taxi? There were NO death threats, no riots, no killings, no burning effegies, no smashing buildings and no attacks on Australians or people named Mel. Some Rabbis even invited him for dialogue and gave him an opportunity to discuss and apologize, so they could forgive him.

Compare this to the many many reactions in the islamic world to similar events, killings, riots, death threats, burning flags of denmark, assassinations of film makers and journalists. Threats to boycott all Danish companies. Smashing embassies all over the world.

When you compare these two different approaches, ask yourselves should we really view Hamas and Hezbollah as similar to the Israeli defence forces? Should we really view them equally as two legitimate opponents in a territorial dispute?

Of course the answer is no, the Israelis will not come after Europe or America, if the Palestinians dissapear. However, if Israel is destroyed WE (the west) are next.

Apocalypto

Another great movie by Mel Gibson with many comparisons that can be made with todays world.

1, The total lack of respect for human life by the savage tribe can be a comparison to the 40 million humans killed by abortion or the hard push by the atheist left to experiment on humans for stem cell research. This kind of disrespect in the name of "progressiveness" is the beginning of the down fall of a great civilization.

2, The total denial of fear or the imminent threat by the Father of the civilized tribe in order to "protect" his village can easily be an analogy for the US government before 9/11 or the UK govt before 7/7 or the mindset of the left in Britain or the US who want us to return to a state of denial and go back on defence as was the failed policy before 911. It is the militant left in the UK who are in collaboration with militant islam who have prevented any counterterrorism measures being implemented by Tony Blair that are necessary to save lives in the UK. That last plot by the terrorist doctors in the UK only failed because of their incompetence it was not stopped by the efficieny of the UK govt or intelligence agencies.

3, Another analogy can be that the infighting between the tribes in Apocalypto kept them divided and made them weak and easily defeated by the arriving Spanish. This is like the totally polarized political climate in the US, where the democrats have put their careers ahead of US security and victory. The US democrats are completely invested in defeat in Iraq and many of them have been caught on tape saying that "success in iraq would be bad for us", this is sedition and treason of the highest order. It exposes the real reason behind them trying to undercut the effort and stab the US troops in the back, as well as the Iraqi people and moderate muslims in the Middle East. The deep division in American and British society has kept us weak and ineffective, the radical islamists know this and use it to their advantage. It is the US left who are trying to undercut surveillance and "kill the patriot act" which puts more lives in danger. Policies put in place by The Bush admin have prevented any more attacks on US soil since 911, the British have had another attack since 7/7 and more are coming, because of leftist scum collaborating with radical islam, the likes of Galloway and Livingstone come to mind.

4, Then there are the mass graves that the "chosen one" fell into while trying to escape from the savages, anyone who does not immediately think of Saddam Hussein's graves when they see this must live in a cave or be a staunch Liberal. You remember the mass graves that the European and US media is trying to make you forget? If you forget about them maybe you will believe the lies being pushed that the Iraqis were better off under Saddam. Then you will become even more anti American and anti Bush.
The common liberal thought seems to be that when Saddam was killing people quietly without a world news media watching, that was somehow better than now. Like saying the South African blacks were better off under Apartheid? HOGWASH!!!!!!

Another great bit about this movie was the fact that he did not try and sugarcoat or romanticize the ancient tribes, he showed their savagery. This is unlike many portrayals of tribes by many who paint them as peaceful and perfect and only white christian settlers are evil.

Iowa Straw Poll

Mike Huckabee shows that you can win votes simply by being a nice guy and making people laugh, despite having very little funding or a solid platform of radical ideas. At the previous debates, he has made the most people laugh and has been probably the least controversial or confrontational with his other contenders. He has limited his personal attacks to humerous mild jokes about only democrats. This seems to have paid off immensely, it is no surprise that Mitt Romney won, he has raised the most dollars and can afford to bus in the most people. Let us not forget though that the 2nd, 3rd and 4th places were very close with only 626 votes separating 2nd and 4th. That is 626 votes between radical, controversial Tom Tancredo and nice mild mannered Mike Huckabee. Unfortunately, like Bush and McCain, nice guys fail to get much done in the way of the big reforms that the American public are demanding on such things as spending and immigration. I fear that Mike Huckabee would be too nice to cut the programs necessary to reform spending or to enforce immigration law. America needs an aggressive radical Thatcherite personality such as Tom Tancredo to stand up to lobbyists, illegal aliens, education department, government bureaucracies and let us not forget terrorists and their sponsors as well as the Chinese.

Rudy Guiliani has a proven track record of standing tough against criminals and reducing crime, Mike Huckabee does have a great track record of cutting taxes and reforming healthcare in Arkansas, but other than a democratic congress, where were his tough adversaries that he defeated?