This past summer we visited the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center in Atlanta Georgia and then drove the historic route from Montgomery to Selma. It was humbling to drive on that road where so many courageous men, women and children braved the opposition of hatred and bigotry [photos 1 and 2].
We have come so far as a nation and I am proud of our progress. The evidence of that progress is the overwhelming support for the election of our first black president. There were strange alliances [photo 3] as Americans moved toward a more racially harmonious society. Unfortunately, I have come to the conclusion that my vote for Barack Obama was the wrong choice – the change that I hoped for is disappointing and quite different.
Nancy Pelosi, in her "New Direction for America", in 2006, promised tough and smart national security policies for America's freedom and protection [p. 6]. The Black Panthers who intimidated voters in Philadelphia [photo 4], the extremist positions [photo 5] and the White House web site that urged citizens to report others whose free-speech expressions could be considered "fishy" indicates that her policies failed.
The killings at Fort Hood by terrorist, Malik Hasan, and the attacks on Kenneth Gladney by SEIU members in St. Louis [photo 6] and Weekly Standard reporter John McCormack by White House appointee Michael P. Meehan in Washington [photo 7] are frightening. The security that Pelosi promised sounds wonderful – but I don't feel safer.
The reality is that the failure of Attorney General Eric Holder to prosecute Kenneth Gladney's attackers as well as Obama's and Holder's interference in the Black Panther's voter intimidation case makes the tragedy of the assignation of Martin Luther King, Jr. even sadder. The administration's actions showing favoritism for the Black Panther terrorists will only lead to escalating racial tensions – tensions that could tear us apart and reverse the sacrifices of Dr. King and other black and white patriots.
Holder called us a nation of "cowards" in regard to his perception of Americans and the ways that we interact with each other across racial lines. He said, "…we have to be able to accept criticism where that is justified." I hope that he and the rest of the administration and congress will accept this criticism with the goal of protecting the prosperity and security of our citizens and the nation.
"As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending." -Andrew Jackson
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