CIVIL SPEECH

The following is an op-ed piece I am proud to post here for your review.

by John Springston

What happened to this country? A country founded on freedom, as long as we do what the government tells us to do. I could be wrong but that's not the freedom I was told about when I was a kid. We're supposed to be the land of opportunity, and yet somehow we've fallen so far that opportunity only knocks on the doors of the rich. The middle class is slowly being erased, we give jobs to illegal immigrants and watch our own people live in tents on cnn.

We go to war with other countries not for self-preservation, but for distraction from the real issues. They turned Osama's face into Saddam's and the whole country sat idly by and let it all happen, while our so-called elected officials proved time and time again that they we're not competent enough to do the job that they deemed was necessary.

Last time I checked people who couldn't do the job they're paid to do lost that job.

Instead we pay these liars, and thieves, and pillagers of the American people with our tax dollars while they pass us back in blood from young kids who go to fight a war that has caused more problems than it's solved. I don't blame the American people for being uninformed, however, I think we are all acting a lot more dumb than we actually are.

We know the problems, we know the solutions, and yet we sit on our hands, close our eyes and spend all our time hoping that it will all go away. The government has been so successful at crushing the spirit of the American people, that all you hear anymore is that nothing can be done.

Well I'm here to tell you, or better yet to remind you of something you already know but you won't face, something can be done.

But the truth is, the American people don't want to hear that. We would rather remain ignorant than to make a valid attempt at getting our country back. That day will come, today, tomorrow, next week or next year, when we will have to fight for a better existence in our own back yard, against the very people who say that they are trying to protect us. And we can either walk into that battle willingly, with our heads held high and the whole spirit of the American people behind us, or we can be dragged in against our will, and watch our country falter and fall and the innocent bystanders, your children, your grandparents, your parents and your friends will suffer the consequences of idle indifference.

I've made my decision, and at 21 years old if I die tomorrow I die with the piece of mind that even if I'm the only person holding up that American flag I will hold it as high as my hands can reach, and speak in the loudest voice that this country has seen, and say no. We will not tolerate this non-sense anymore, we will not fear authority, we will not fold under pressure and we will make something of ourselves if we have to die trying.

The spirit of patriots have hit my soul so hard that my bones try to break under the weight that's on my shoulders and I will carry that weight proudly and never waver against the tyranny of a country that has forgotten it's own people.

Now is the time for action, now is the time for retribution, now is the time for the voice of the people to carry to the world that we do not fear, we persevere, we do not fall, we crawl and we walk and we run toward the fight of anyone who dares to try to keep us from living a life that every citizen, rich, poor, sick, or hungry deserves.

And we will do that not only for ourselves but to pay back the debt that our real soldiers and our real politicians and our real people have paid in tiredness, humiliation and blood.

It's time for a wake up call, so I say this to you, ALL of you, young, old, rich or poor, do SOMETHING NOW before our voices are ignored.