Happy Birthday America
Posted by Andrew | Filed under Mainstream Media
You’re 233 years old today, but you don’t look a day past 176. Yes, when compared to the countries of Europe and Asia, you are but a young one, a teenager if you will, and an awfully noisy one at that. So, while I say Happy Birthday to the country of my birth, and the one that I have always called my home, I have one simple thing to say. Thanks.
Thanks for taking the Parliamentary system of our British parents and transforming it into a Democracy that allows us to choose our leaders. Thank you for guaranteeing the right to vote to all people and extending that right to African Americans, Women, and any citizen who wishes to vote. Thank you for being the model that would be the base for new Governments in France, Germany, and all around the world, even in Iran.
Yes, Iran, that backwards place with the crazy neo-Nazi looney tune as a President? I can pronounce his name, can you? You see, he was elected by a popular vote, and was unfortunately re-elected by a popular vote just recently. The re-election made quite a number of people in the cities of Tehran and Masshad quite upset, and caused riots and protests through out the country. Unfortunately, it would appear that the more conservative people in the rural farmlands are quite happy with the current government.
But, no one in America was paying attention, because apparently we are more concerned with the death of Michael Jackson. And, anyway you look at it, he was a child rapist, I don’t care what you think. Because, in America, we only care about things happening here, things that concern us. As far as we are concerned, Ahmadinejad is a tyrant equal to Kim Jong-Il and the now fallen Saddam Hussien. Because clearly, no country in the Middle East has democracy unless it is packaged and supplied by the United States.
That is a picture of the skyline of Tehran that I got from it’s Wikipedia article, it features high rises and modern buildings. Tehran is also home to the Milad Tower, which is like an Iranian Space Needle or CN Tower. They also have the Azadi Tower (Azadi means “Freedom” in Persian by the way), a number of Colleges and Universities, the world’s fourth largest Stadium, and they even have a ski resort. Think of it like a Middle Eastern Aspen if you will.
They are in almost every way just like us, and we don’t seem to care about them. They are a modern democracy and the most developed country in the region. And yet, people claim they are a part of the access of evil and to be in the same league as the North Koreans and al Quaeda. It is time to stop beating the war drum against these people, these human beings, who have rights, who are intelligent, and who are citizens of the world that we share.
