The American Spectator

br> Blacksburg, Virginia /p> p> OUR GLASS HOUSE br> Re: Jacob Laksin’s A More Humble Euro-Basher : /p>

While reading Jacob Laksin’s excellent article, I couldn’t help but reflect how pathetic we Americans are at pointing fingers. How ridiculous the Europeans look with their ineffectual efforts against terrorism! All the while, our own TSA, responsible for keeping our airlines safe, will fine any airline which questions more than two Arab fliers on any one flight. The Homeland Security Department’s other watchdog, the Border Patrol, cannot prevent the invasion of people, drugs, or who knows what else, from flowing across our borders with Mexico and Canada, due to woeful undermanning, and over-regulation.

The Western world is caught up in globalization. One of its most dangerous manifestations is the hijacking of an already militant religion by the modern day terrorist. We smugly point to how amazingly destructive our modern, hi-tech military is, and delude ourselves that we are safer now than we were on September 11. I submit that only time will tell.

We have become a litigious society, no longer able to keep a common core of values, because expression of any one of them is certain to offend someone else. Our courts routinely dispense politically correct, legally incoherent decisions, trampling the basic underpinnings of decency, common sense and our economy.

We have been invaded by an army of illegals, whom the PC crowd insists on referring to as ‘“undocumented” immigrants. This same army, and its sympathizers, insists on all the rights of U.S. citizens, medical care under Medicaid, driver’s licenses, the same tuition as any in-state resident, in our state funded colleges and universities, etc., without any understanding that the first responsibility of a citizen is to obey the law.

p>People in glass houses.. .., but keep throwing them anyway. Maybe the crash of falling glass will wake up the residents before it is too late. br> — Ralph Goodson