We are U.S.

The citizens of the United States are splintered, arguing, afraid and angry. We generate convictions of empty traditions when we rely on what was told to us to believe, when the faces that taught us benefited financially and wielded power over the weak. We cannot have any beliefs of SUBSTANCE until they are our own. WE must WATCH and SEE, and THINK and CHOOSE. If we do not, our choices will continue to be made for us.

Why do I conjecture that it is time for America to WAKE UP? Look at what we do with our TIME. Look at what we do with our MINDS. Look at how we treat our children, our seniors, our homeless, our immigrants, our poor, and our people of color. Who do you think is causing all the suffering? Who do you think is ignoring the problems because the mention of the unsettling is considered a social faux pas? Our social gatherings are intended, too many times, to help us ESCAPE the trials of life, instead of taking responsibility for turning the direction of the tides in the favor of We the People. America was not intended to be built for the 1%'s comfort. It wasn't intended to give power to the hateful hand of control that crushes people for wanting to LOVE whom they choose. God's name is invoked every time the HATERS try to justify their actions. Why do the people of God allow such lie to drown out truth?

WE rush to the fast food places to feed ourselves and our families, even when we KNOW it is not healthy, it is not cheap, and it is not the best we can do. TIME is stolen from us by the many demands placed on us for the benefit of those who own the country. Fast food, Walmart, and other low paying jobs have changed everything about our order of life with scattered and constantly changing hours of employ. How do you think this helps America when our diets, our sleep, our time with our families are splintered and changing, upsetting our balances on a wide scale. And when we get upset, we become medicated IF we let it happen. And yet, we funnel the already too little money we have into the continued support of such bloated empires.

We watched the schools be destroyed in the still poisoned unfolding of the "No Child Left Behind," a system in which ALL children are left behind as monies are cut, teachers are forced to "teach the test" instead of basic ideas. An educated populace is required to make informed decisions. There were many who fought and died for U.S. to have the right to even teach our children how to read. Where are the books now? Where are the ideas that can teach us that this perverse age is creeping up on us, even while we are looking, where ignorance is PRIZED and the VOTE is under attack even for those who do watch the issues and events. Charter schools strip us of the Federal protections against discrimination, that support the integration of ALL American children looked upon as being worthy of being treated equally under the Law. And what of higher education? What do the degrees even mean when we are told what we can and cannot learn, what is important and what is not, and even after the award of which people cannot often find any job better than those who didn't go to school at all? Do you READ the news about how the assurance of work for even GRADUATE SCHOOL degrees does not guarantee work--while it does still guaranteed deep debt. When has even attending higher education been so fraught with high risk just for the undertaking?

America, we are not asking the RIGHT questions! Elevate your questions, and you will elevate the expectations of better answers. WHO was behind the 9/11 attacks REALLY? Why did we allow Bush to pardon all of his administration from ANY prosecution, now and in the future? Why does even bringing up the question make us into "Conspiracy Theorists" when the wars started under Bush are STILL RAGING? Hundreds of Thousands of people have died. Who was behind the chemical warfare waged against the Syrian civilians? Who is profiting from the wars and able to convince us all that America has any right for patriotism in this regard? It is shameful not only that it is happening, but that we have become so complacent that we DO NOT ask, AND we have become in the habit of denying others the right to ask. Why are we on the brink of yet another war and who is even behind Assad? Who is going to profit from this continued war? Not you! Not me! Who is getting paid for the weapons that will be bought? Who are the  people that will die as a result? Who are WE REALLY FIGHTING HERE? How can we become patriotic about wars NONE OF US UNDERSTAND?

Why is the origin of AIDS still in dispute when the name Hillary Kaprowski has already been demonstrated to be at its source, along with the witness for this progenator of one of the biggest eugenics programs that has ever existed? Bigger than Hitler's attack against Jews, bigger than the Institution of Slavery in America's history, the eugenics program out of which AIDS was spawned has killed and infected many more. Why do you not find out about it...many in the world know...except the complacent Americans who think by ignoring dark thoughts that they are living America's dream! We are in a nightmare of Catastrophic Distraction that bleeds FREEDOM and JUSTICE from us daily and all we do is turn on each other? GAY PEOPLE DID NOT START AIDS, and if you look at who IS profiting from AIDS, it is the pharmaceutical companies more than anyone else! Why did the United States back the former NAZI Hillary Kaprowski, Eugenics leader and all his "research" when the disease was first INVENTED and then SPREAD first through the region in Africa where it originated, and next the rest of the world? Why did these questions get silenced when the Rolling Stones Magazine first brought it to light many years ago?

Why are the races being pitted against each other again, with the freedoms BY LAW and BY ENFORCEMENT to assail our black youth AGAIN and AGAIN, while the spin of blaming the victims continues to be an uncomfortably popular American past-time? Why is the homeless population growing and instead of stopping it, reversing it, and helping OUR PEOPLE TO HEAL FROM IT, we are instead legislating against their very existence now? Why do we fear each other so much when we are all suffering? Why do we listen to the carefully manicured faces that continue to spew hate and derision every night on most of our network news channels, and why are we paying for the service of being lied to through cable televison?

I have many more questions, questions about importing chickens from China, even as we are exporting so much of our own meat? Why are we genetically altering our food when we had enough farmers not too long ago, who could bring the food out of our own land? Why are we allowing our waters to become so polluted, killing off so much potential food sources, even as the world populations continue to swell? Why are we so concerned with the celebrities lives and so little concerned about our own? WE ARE OUR BROTHERS' KEEPERS!

I have many more questions, and they keep me searching for explanations. But most of all, I question WHY there are not more of us questioning. I may not have the answers, but I most assuredly have my questions. In fact, my questions are the ONLY THING that makes me realize I am still paying attention. Are you?

America's complacency only hurts WE THE PEOPLE. WAKE UP America. We were once called, "The Sleeping Dragon," and when we awoke, we fought to hold onto all that we valued as a nation, and World War II was ended. Where is that sleeping dragon now that it is U.S. doing the attacking? It is NOT a time to sleep!!! Wake up America. JUSTICE and FREEDOM is calling to you!