BE AN AMERICAN

I'M MAD AS HELL AND I WON'T TAKE IT ANYMORE, WHAT ABOUT YOU? THE NEW MOVIE, SUPERMAN RETURNS, HAS PREMIERED AROUND THE FOURTH OF JULY. SO FAR, IN 5 DAYS, IT HAS GROSSED 84.5 MILLION DOLLARS. HOW STUPID DOES HOLLYWOOD THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE? STUPID ENOUGH TO PAY MONEY TO HEAR FROM ONE OF THE MOVIE’S CHARACTERS THAT THEIR NATIONAL HERO, SUPERMAN, HAS CHANGED HIS MISSION TO FIGHT FOR "TRUTH, JUSTICE AND THE AMERICAN WAY" TO "TRUTH, JUSTICE AND ALL THAT?" STUPID ENOUGH TO BE SUBLIMINALLY INFLUENCED BY ANTI-AMERICAN MESSAGES FROM 5TH COLUMNIST FILM MAKERS, WRITERS, DIRECTORS AND PERFORMERS WITHOUT THE BACKBONE TO REFUSE "TO TAKE IT ANYMORE?" STUPID ENOUGH TO THROUGH MONEY AT THOSE WHO DERIVE PLEASURE FROM TRIUMPHING OVER MASS STUPIDITY?

ORDINARY CITIZENS IN A LOCAL PAPER WERE ASKED WHAT IS THE 'AMERICAN WAY?' AND THEIR RESPONSES WERE PRINTED. BOTH SIDES OF THE POLITICAL FENCE WERE REPRESENTED, LIBERAL AND THE CONSERVATIVE, BUT THE COMMON DENOMINATOR WAS RESPECT FOR EACH OTHERS’ RIGHTS. THE AMERICAN WAY IS NOT THE WAY OF CIVIL STRIFE LIKE IN IRAQ; IT IS NOT A DAILY GRIND OF TERRORIST VIOLENCE.

A LIBERAL RESPONDENT - A PROFESSOR NATURALLY- ADMITS TO THE OUR BEING BLESSED WITH MANY RIGHTS, BUT HE WARNS US TO "THINK CAREFULLY ABOUT OUR CHOICES FOR LEADERSHIP." (A DIG AGAINST PRESIDENT BUSH). ANOTHER LIBERAL MAN IS NOT PROUD OF OUR "POWERFUL MILITARY, RATHER HE TAKES PRIDE IN SEEING PEOPLE COME TOGETHER IN TIMES OF CRISIS. HE ALSO POINTS OUT THAT WHEN ABORTION IS WRONG "DON'T HAVE ONE" AND "TEACH YOUR CHILDREN ...THAT." HE THEN CONTRADICTS HIMSELF SAYING THAT NO "PERSON SHOULD EVER IMPOSE HIS VIEWS." A THIRD MAN, A PSYCHOLOGIST, IS ALSO NOT PROUD WHEN HE SEES "SMALL-MINDEDNESS, PREJUDICE, STINGINESS AND INCONSISTENCY TODAY. IN HIS YOUTH, DURING MID 20TH CENTURY, OUR NATION CARED, HE SAYS, WITH TRUE PRINCIPLES OF "MERCY, TOLERANCE AND SHARING." THIS LIBERAL TYPICALLY LOOKS BACKWARD UNABLE TO LIFT THE BLINDS AND FACE REALITY.

IN CONTRAST, THE CONSERVATIVE RESPONDERS WAVE THEIR PATRIOTIC COLORS. A WOMAN TELLS THAT HER SON, A YOUTH OF EIGHTEEN, TOLD A EUROPEAN WHO ASKED IF AN AMERICAN FLAG COULD BE BURNED IN PROTEST (YES THE SUPREME COURT JUST RULED), "YOU'LL HAVE TO BURN IT WITH ME WRAPPED IN IT." AN ELDERLY MAN BELIEVES THAT "AMERICA STILL MEANS THAT IT IS THE BEST THERE IS! NOW LET'S GO MAKE IT BETTER." HIS RESPONSE OBVIOUSLY REFLECTS HIS PRIDE. LASTLY, THE QUESTION WAS ASKED OF A SOLDIER WHO PRESENTLY SERVES TO PROTECT HIS COUNTRY'S AMERICAN WAY. HE SAID THAT "IT DEFIES ALL LOGIC" THAT OUR DIVERSE NATION HAS THRIVED. THE SECRET TO OUR SURVIVAL IS OUR SHARED IDEALS. THEY MUST BE PRESERVED.

A LIBERAL PROBABLY WOULD STAND AS A SPECTATOR AND ALLOW A REPORTER TO REPORT AND A PHOTOGRAPHER TO FILM A FLAG BURNING. A CONSERVATIVE WOULD RUN UP TO THE PROTESTOR WAGGING A FIST WITH WHICH TO REMEDY THE DISGRACE. BUT BOTH AMERICANS, EACH WITH OPPOSING POLITICAL PERSUASIONS, WOULD SIT SIDE BY SIDE WATCHING AN ORCHESTRATED FIREWORKS DISPLAY. THE AMERICAN WAY IS RESPECT FOR OUR DIFFERENCES.

OF COURSE, SUPERMAN, RETURNS IS ONLY A MOVIE AND THE PUBLIC PAYS FIRST AND FOREMOST TO BE ENTERTAINED. WITHOUT JUDGMENT OR CONSCIENCE, HOWEVER, THE AGENDA OF ANTI-AMERICANISM WINS. STUPIDITY WINS. I FACED MY ANGER YEARS AGO. THE MADNESS, I CONCLUDED, RESIDED IN LOUSY, UNREWARDING, IMMORAL AND AGENDA-DRIVEN FILMS WHICH WOULDN'T ADVANCE MY CAUSE FOR TRUTH, JUSTICE OR THE AMERICAN WAY. I DIDN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE. I WALKED OUT OF THE MOVIES. AND THAT WAS OVER TWO SCORE YEARS AGO.