Is This the Portrait of the Real America, Rather Than The Self-Proclaimed Image
Of the Land of Freedom and Justice For All?

Are the actions of large numbers of its people in the United States indicative of the real, rather than self-portrayed, culture of the country? What do such common traits by large numbers of people, and tolerated by others, indicate about the culture of America today?

·       The many who enjoy killing animals, including the hunting of deer, birds, etc.

 ·       The many who enjoy watching boxing matches and martial art bouts where people beat on each other.
 

·       The many who enjoy watching Pit Bulls mauling and killing each other.
 

·       The many members of police forces who kill citizens at the slightest provocation, when such force is totally unnecessary under the circumstances, and being excused as authorized by position. Is this another form of pleasure, such as killing animals?
 

·       Widespread gang violence and killings, including random street murders, with some cities approaching the violence of war zones.
 

·       Willingness of most of the American public to kill thousands of Iraqis, including children and infants, that they knew would be killed by using America’s immense military against an almost defenseless country. And then continuing to support the invasion after recognizing that hundreds of thousands of Iraqis killed and maimed. That is, until they start suffering the consequences.
 

·       Members of Congress legislating years in prison for citizens committing relatively minor acts, with no protest from the public.
 

·       The widespread practice of local, state, and federal prosecutors prosecuting people they know to be innocent, planting evidence, using perjured testimony, withholding exculpatory evidence.
 

·       The large number of its citizens either in prison, formerly in prison, or on probation, for violent crimes.
 

·       The widespread overt and covert bribing of members of Congress, and the public’s acceptance of such offenses.
 

·       The widespread seizing of assets from people innocent of any crime, and sometimes, never charged.
 

·       The widespread corruption in the bankruptcy courts involving federal judges, federal trustees, lawyers and law firms, and those acting in concert with them, the unlawful and unconstitutional taking from people their life assets after exercising the statutory protections of Chapter 11.
 

·       Decades of killing of thousands of often-destitute people in countries invaded by the U.S. military, including Korea, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Panama, Grenada, Iraq. Includes the slaughter of women and children, some cluttered in groups, machine-gunned into bloody pulps by murdering American soldiers.
 

·       Widespread corruption throughout high positions in government, with public indifference.
 

·       The blatant pattern of serial lying by White House and other politicians, with deadly consequences, and the toleration, and even support, by many citizens.
 

·       Refusal of its citizens to show outrage when courageous insiders expose corruption and even subversive actions in overt and covert government operations.
 

·       Widespread media cover-ups, deception, and even support, for the arrogant and corrupt acts of high government officials. The most classic example being the support of the citizens for President George Bush and the members of Congress who served as a platform for the lying. Media includes the political pundits that almost entirely supported the serial lying that plunged the United States into a bloody quagmire that will continue for generations.
 

And these are only a few examples. Many books have been written on these matters, which are read by only a minute fraction of the American public, a public that is sometimes too lazy, too indifferent, to care.

There are, of course, many good Americans. Affecting their ability to react to these conditions are such factors as:

• Media cover-ups, disinformation.
   

• Political pundits lying for those perpetrating the wrongful acts.
   

• The almost total cover-ups and even support by virtually every government check and balance for the corruption.
   

• The almost total cover-ups and support by media people and media groups.
   

• The lack of knowledge of the many books written by government and other insiders seeking to inform the public of these matters.
   

• The false impression gained by many people who rely upon television, and the political pundits, to be "informed" of important matters.
   

• A person's lack of time to find out about these matters due to the need to earn a living.

But regardless of these excuses, thousands of deaths and great human tragedies are occurring, in and out of the United States. the people in control of the system are so corrupt that only an informed and determined group of people can correct this. America is being subverted from within, like multiple Trojan horses. With the general deterioration in the American culture, this will probably never happen.