dmcauliffe09
30th September 2008, 18:26
As a young member of our society, it is very apparent to me that a majority of my peers have been led into believing that there is only on set standard that is acceptable for them to follow: go to college, get a job that pays a high salary, be patriotic and support the government, etc. Furthermore, as a young member of our society who happens to be the dependent of a military member, it is even more apparent to me how the government succeeds in perpetuating this one path. We are losing our rights by the minute, but we are led to believe that this loss is necessary in order to fight "terrorism." All the government has to do is to say that word and all of a sudden they are handed a key to our private lives. We are led to believe that we must sacrifice our so-called "rights" (which are really just priviliges) in order to promote freedom and justice. This is completely oxymoronic and hypocritical. In order to protect our "rights," we have to give them up? Does anyone else see the hypocricy here? We are becoming an imperial capitalist nation whose only priority is to spread our version of the so-called "democracy" in which we live, i.e., we only care about making other nations do what we want them to do, which is to accept the capitalist ideology, including its social and economic aspects, and live happily under it so that we may in the future rape those nations of their natural resources. In short, we the people have to give up our "certain inaliable rights" in order to further the cause of a government whose only desire is to enforce its unequal status and class system upon other nations in order to gain profit. Any thoughts?