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Letter Of Outrage
This letter was sent to the Wall Street Journal on August 8, 2008 by
Alisa Wilson, Ph.D., Of Beverly Hills, CA in response to the Wall
Street Journal article titled "Where's The Outrage?" that appeared July
31,
2008.
Really. I can tell you where the outrage is. The outrage is here, in
this middle-aged, well-educated, upper-middle class woman. The outrage
is here, but I have no representation, no voice. The outrage is here,
but no one is listening for who am I?
I am not a billionaire like George Soros that can fund an entire
political movement. I am not a celebrity like Barbra Streisand that can
garner the attention of the press to promote political candidates. I am
not a film maker like Michael Moore or Al Gore that can deliver
misleading movies to the public.
The outrage is here, but unlike those with money or power, I don't know
how to reach those who feel similarly in order to effect change. Why am
I outraged? I am outraged that my country, the United States of
America, is in a state of moral and ethical decline. There is no right
or wrong anymore, just what's fair.
Is it fair that millions of Americans who overreached and borrowed more
than they could afford are now being bailed out by the government and
lending institutions to stave off foreclosure? Why shouldn't these
people be made to pay the consequences for their poor judgment?
When my husband and I purchased our home, we were careful to purchase
only what we could afford. Believe me, there are much larger, much
nicer homes that I would have loved to have purchased. But, taking
responsibility for my behavior and my life, I went with the house that
we could afford, not the house that we could not afford. The notion of
personal responsibility has all but died in our country.
I am outraged, that the country that welcomed my mother as an immigrant
from Hitler's Nazi Germany and required that she and her family learn
English now allows itself to be overrun with illegal immigrants and
worse, caters to those illegal immigrants.
I am outraged that my hard-earned taxes help support those here
illegally. That the Los Angeles Public School District is in such
disarray that I felt it incumbent to send my child to private school,
that every time I go to the ATM, I see "do you want to continue in
English or Spanish?", that every time I call the bank, the phone
company, or similar business, I hear "press 1 for English or press 2
for Spanish." WHY? This is America, our common language is English and
attempts to promote a bi- or multi-lingual society are sure to fail and
to marginalize those who cannot communicate in English.
I am outraged at our country's weakness in the face of new threats on
American traditions from Muslims. Just this week, Tyson's Food
negotiated with its union to permit Muslims to have Eid-al-Fitr as a
holiday instead of Labor Day. What am I missing? Yes, there is a large
Somali Muslim population working at the Tyson's plant in Tennessee.
Tennessee, last I checked, is still part of the United States. If
Muslims want to live and work here they should be required to live and
work by our American Laws and not impose their will on our long
history.
In the same week, Random House announced that they had indefinitely
delayed the publication of The Jewel of Medina, by Sherry Jones, a book
about the life of Mohammed's wife, Aisha due to fear of retribution and
violence by Muslims. When did we become a nation ruled by fear of what
other immigrant groups want? It makes me so sad to see large
corporations cave rather than stand proudly on the principles that
built
this country.
I am outraged because appeasement has never worked as a political
policy, yet appeasing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is exactly what we are trying
to do. An excellent article, also published recently in the Wall Street
Journal, went through over 20 years of history and why talking with
Iran has been and will continue to be ineffective. Yet talk, with a
madman no less, we continue to do. Have we so lost our moral compass
and its ability to detect evil that we will not go in and destroy
Iran's nuclear program? Would we rather wait for another Holocaust for
the Jews - one which they would be unlikely to survive? When does it
end?
As if the battle for good and evil isn't enough, now come the
Environmentalists who are so afraid of global warming that they want to
put a Bag tax on grocery bags in California; to eliminate Mylar
balloons; to establish something as insidious as the recycle police in
San Francisco. I do my share for the environment: I recycle, I use
water wisely, I installed an energy efficient air conditioning unit.
But when and where does the lunacy stop? Ahmadinejad wants to wipe
Israel off the map, the California economy is being overrun by illegal
immigrants, and the United States of America no longer knows right from
wrong, good from evil. So what does California do? Tax grocery bags.
So, America, although I can tell you where the outrage is, this one
middle-aged, well-educated, upper middle class woman is powerless to do
anything about it. I don't even feel like my vote counts because I am
so outnumbered by those who disagree with me.
