An Open Letter to America

Dear America,Happy Labor Day. I hope you're all enjoying the beer and barbecue and spending time with your kids before they go back to school. Be sure not to ruin their day by telling them that we're sinking their future into a pit of war debt. Don't tell them we're spending more money to kill Muslims than we'll ever dedicate to their education. Don't tell them over 3,500 dedicated soldiers have died needlessly in a war that is nothing but lies for profit and oil...and fueled by religious undertones. Please don't kill their last day of summer fun with the truth.Instead, tell them that we live in the greatest country on earth, but don't get too detailed. Don't tell them about things like no-bid contracts, Halliburton, DynCorp, Raytheon, General Dynamics, or The Carlyle Group. Tell them we're at war merely to protect ourselves because Muslims hate America. It's so much easier than saying we're actually there because we killed their leader to install a government that seemed more suitable and now we're stuck cleaning up the clusterfuck we created. Please don't let them know that Iraq and Al Qaeda aren't the same thing.Don't tell them that our founders enlightened vision of freedom has now been reduced to tattered shreds and that through all of this the general majority still couldn't care less. Don't tell them that freedom of speech is now regulated and that people who disagree are labelled as crazy liberals who are totally disregarded, unless they're too loud, then they're contained to "first amendment zones" because they hate America.Don't tell them that the right to a fair trial no longer applies to everyone. Tell them there's no such thing as torture while crossing your fingers behind your back. Tell them it's all right to deny equal rights to people if you use religion as an excuse. Tell them it's ok for the government to spy on its citizens, because if you're not a bad guy you have nothing to worry about.Don't ask questions or concern yourself with things that haven't yet directly affected you, because if you do then you're a bad American. Make sure you have a popular opinion. Be complacent. These days complacency is the patriotic trait of a good American. Asking for answers is for nutjobs like Cindy Sheehan and just makes people think you don't support the troops.Happy Labor Day America!Kind regards,Shannon SparksU.S. Citizen