Reply #28: Amen to that one. [View All]

[mwooldri]

I chose America. I had a choice and I chose to leave my life - mainly because of love for my then fiance and now wife. I chose to build a life here. I want some kind of semblence of life, liberty and freedom. I was born in the UK. I know how the constitution works there (even though it is unwritten) and was politically active as a Liberal Democrat (yes, a card carrying member, and I paid my dues). I've seen the evils of conservatism and what it did to my family during the 80's and early 90's. Even though Tony Blair supported the war in Iraq, he's a darn sight better guy in my eyes than the person presidently entitled the President of the United States of America.

I want to become a citizen here, but the way the country is going, I don't know if there will be an America to be a citizen of. These are dark days in the country I call home right now, and I am (I believe) rightly scared. I was scared before the invasion of Iraq. In 2000 I naievely supported Bush. I should have listened to my friend and co-worker that Bush wants to go back into Iraq (for revenge) and I see that Iraq was a "revenge war" to finish off what daddy didn't do in the late 80's and early 90's.

From a guest here at your liberty - and I know I have the right to be removed at any time - I ask anyone who reads this and is a citizen to vote to get some checks and balances to put the Administration in its place. I know that there is some semblence of freedom. Keith Olberman, Air America, the more reasoned press, the non-filtering of the Internet - all these signs show that there is dissent and the voice is getting louder and louder. America will come back.. or there will be civil strife, turmoil and ultimately war. I know and trust my homelands "state media", namely the BBC, because it has kept its editorial independence through World War 2, through things such as the Suez crisis, has criticized the government on a number of occasions and got away with it. I know that they are mandated to be fair and even handed... but still if BBC journalists think things are getting more extreme in the USA they are reporting it in a way that I understand between the "neutralspeak".

May America bless God (or the deity of your own choice). I'll stand by those whowant to protect Americas liberties and freedoms.

My name is Mark Wooldridge and I stand with you all.