Yostivanich

Glen Beck not too long ago did a silly lit­tle thing in which he posted a list of 9 state­ments and said that if you believe in them to send in a pic­ture for him to do dis­play them or some­thing.

This is my response to the list.

1. Amer­ica is good. Right a coun­try is now a per­son and is good. And that per­son has never over­thrown mul­ti­ple gov­ern­ments that torture/murder/enslave/eliminate due process all so that they sup­port us and not Rus­sia? And what the heck does good even mean?
2. I believe in God and He is the Cen­ter of my Life. — Please, I don’t believe in Santa or the Easter Bunny but I believe in a man 2,000 yrs ago that some­one how died and rose again. And just hap­pens that half of the belief struc­ture of my faith has been writ­ten in the past 500 yrs. Or the now 15% who are athe­ists.
3. I must always try to be a more hon­est per­son than I was yes­ter­day. Well at least more hon­est than the last time I cheated on my taxes or the last time I work on per­sonal stuff while on com­pany time.
4. The fam­ily is sacred. My spouse and I are the ulti­mate author­ity, not the gov­ern­ment. Right, I get to beat my kids, my hus­band gets to rape me and my daugh­ter, con­trol what my kids think, because I know bet­ter than thou­sands of other peo­ple that really hav­ing a house that is about to fall apart is good sur­vival instict, oh and teach­ing my kids that the earth is the cen­ter of the uni­verse is what I want to do. We wouldn’t want the gov­ern­ment try­ing to pro­vide for a more just and edu­cated soci­ety, much more fun teach­ing kids to hate and not under­stand or lis­ten to logic and reason.
5. If you break the law you pay the penalty. Jus­tice is blind and no one is above it. Except for the pres­i­dent, you know because he is allowed to break the law at will and not be held account­able for it. Oh and the peo­ple who help him break the law they get medals. Or if you are rich enough and have a really good rea­son for doing what you did, then it’s all cool.
6. I have a right to life, lib­erty and pur­suit of hap­pi­ness, but there is no guar­an­tee of equal results. Except if you are gay, female, black, trans-gender, bisex­ual, or really just think or act dif­fer­ent, then you have no equal free­doms and thus defi­antly no equal results. Oh and just because you were raised in a poor school dis­trict and thus received a poor edu­ca­tion means you should some how mag­i­cally over­come a lim­ited edu­ca­tion expect there are no libraries for you to edu­cate your­self at because:
7. I work hard for what I have and I will share it with who I want to. Gov­ern­ment can­not force me to be char­i­ta­ble. Yes they can it’s called taxes, and next time you feel reluc­tant to pay taxes because you want to hold onto what’s yours we’ll go back to pre-government days and let you fight to hold onto it and see how that works out. I really only want my friends to get the ben­e­fits of what I make and I really don’t want to try and help soci­ety advance by pro­vid­ing edu­ca­tion, or help for peo­ple who are less well off than I am, unless they go to one of my pre-approved char­i­ties will they will be told they have to believe in God to get a warm bed and meal.
8. It is not un-American for me to dis­agree with author­ity or to share my per­sonal opin­ion. — Unless you dis­agree with me, or with what Amer­ica does or what the Pres­i­dent (unless he’s a Demo­c­rat), or you can make stu­pid jokes about it and call the per­son fat, ugly, stu­pid, claim they should fail, etc.
9. The gov­ern­ment works for me. I do not answer to them, they answer to me. Unless they lie their way into a war, tor­ture inno­cent peo­ple, tap my phone and record what I do online and where I travel overseas.