Overcoming the Iraq War Fall-Out . . .

I just received an e-mail from a Battalion Chaplain who is of the Southern Baptist persuasion. This Army Chaplain, a former missionary to Brazil and other places, is quite astute at noticing subtle cultural dynamics at play in world events.

In fact, this Chaplain was our "intel" person when I was in attendance recently at Chaplain's Officer Basic Training. Not compromising any type of National Security interests, I can still nonetheless state, without equivocation, that this "intel" Chaplain friend is seeing what the mainline media is also seeing, that is a gradual erosion of American identity as caused by the War in Iraq.

Whereas at the founding of the Great American Republic, the freedom of the press, freedom of religion and freedom of speech were highly valued by men such as Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and even my own "great, great, great uncle on my grandma's side," the late George Walton a signer of the Declaration of Independence, now American cultural identity is extinct.

To be American no longer means things like "due process under law" or "respect for intrinsic inalienable rights such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness." No, American identity is essentially a hodge-podge of pop culture shaped as much by Mr. T, Dora the Explorer, the Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, Guess jeans and New York the Big Apple where no one wants to live, but everyone actually claims as the "American City."

Truly, fractured times that we are now facing as a people called Americans. George Orwell wrote 1984 concerning "Big Brother," and sure enough "Big Brother" is always watching. From eye retina scans at check-cashing places or surveillance cameras in Ybor City (a historic party-town area of Tampa, FL), we are a Nation that is no longer truly American.

Now is the time, therefore, to reclaim our distinctively American heritage. Let us reclaim the right of the press to report events freely, and without bias, nor government and corporate surveillance! Let us reclaim freedom of religion. Let us reclaim the right to LIFE, the most fundamental of human rights, and oppose DEATH in all of its forms, whether it is the killing of babies (abortion), the killing of the mentally ill (the slippery slope of physician-assisted suicide laws) or the use of capital punishment when other options are more readily available such as life internment, the official Life Ethic of the 1 billion member Catholic communion by the way.

Let us reclaim America!

God Bless,
Rob J King, Republican Political Voice