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Can Someone Tell Me Why?

 
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Douglas Bower

Can someone tell me why:

1. Robert Redford is at the 2007’s Sundance Film Festival demanding in the opening speech that President Bush apologize to the American people for everything that has happened since 9/11? Why, tell me, does anyone give a rat’s fundament what Robert Redford thinks about anything much less politics? Can someone tell me why people who make movies in America are seen to be smarter and have a higher political acumen that God Himself? For that matter, why is anyone in this country revering some schmuck who appears on TV or film to the point where these “stars” are virtually deified about everything from their opinions on life itself to what brand of underwear they wear?

2. There is such a proliferation of sex-crazed fiends living in America who routinely take other people’s kids for their dastardly and horrid schemes? Can someone tell me why this seems so prevalent now? Is it better reporting or is indeed the moral fabric of American society now broken beyond repair? Does anyone have a clue? Those of whom I asked this question, those who grew up in the 30’s, 40’s, and 50’s, are not able to recall from distant memory such a preponderance of these cases in the news media. I, for one, cannot believe for one minute that if these events were happening anytime in the past, and in such abundance, the news media of any era would have ignored them. And, can someone tell me why, in the recent case where two Missouri minors were recovered safely from the Freak-a-zoid maniac who stole them from their families, no one in their apartment building bothered to report the strange events that went on in that apartment? Neighbors heard this madman slapping the Hornbeck boy; they noticed the child did not attend school, and more…DUH! Do not let the fact escape you that strangeness was noticed and no one bothered to drop a dime to call the authorities. Can someone tell me why Bill O’Reilly, and other knuckleheads, would dare to ask why this Hornbeck child did not escape his captor? (How dare them!) Can someone tell me why they say such things without an apparent thought in their empty heads? They know nothing of what this child went through or what torture he had to endure. Can someone tell me why there is not absolute compassion and understanding for this boy—and he is a boy—and his family? Compassion would not motivate someone to ask such stupid questions!

3. In a NAFTA-inspired trade deal, within the next two years, Mexico will buy its chickens from American farmers? Can someone tell me why Minuteman founder Chris Simcox and his cronies, are not crying to the heavens about this? Can someone tell me why they aren’t getting the picture that this deal will effectively destroy the livelihood of thousand of Mexican farm workers who will, in turn, head for the border looking for the lost jobs? Can someone tell me why this is what NAFTA has done on a whole-scale basis throughout Mexico? Can someone tell me why anti-Mexican loonies condemn Mexico as the totally responsible party in the immigration debacle when America is pulling this stunt? America steals jobs that could keep Mexicans in Mexico and it is all Mexico’s fault? Can someone explain this one to me?

4. I ask about the “moral fabric of American society” in point #2…well, I used to write more articles like the one you are reading but have limited them in recent months. I tired of getting all those well thought out, critically reasoned responses that ranged from name-calling, suggestions about my sexuality, and outright threats to my physical safety. These logical readers who responded all defined themselves as members of the party that was supporting massive and strict control of the “brown plague” coming across the border—don’t you just love the compassion with which they term Mexicans? How special is that? Can someone tell me, please, why those who are on the side of Chris Simcox and his band of merry men resort to name-calling and threats when one dares offer a difference of opinion? Why? Do they not want to reason critically about this issue, or is it they cannot? Can someone tell me why?

5. I leave you with this: Can someone tell me why that according to The A to Z Encyclopedia of Serial Killers, the United States produces 76% of the world's serial murderers—some sources put it at more than 85%.

Can someone tell me why? All critically reasoned responses can be directed to me:

“theolog {at} hotmail.com”

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