Hello Everyone. So this will be the first post on on my blog. This blog is intended to be a commentary on things going on in America and around the world, politically, as well as socially. Feel free to comment and discuss anything, but please keep it respectful.

So I was listening to talk radio today, and someone made a comment about being an American citizen. The person (his name slips my mind at the moment) says that being an American doesn't mean you moved over here and stayed for ten years so you deserve citizenship, he said being an American means you respect and understand the values and freedom on which this country was formed. To me, this is more the definition of a Patriot than an American.

So I was thinking about this, and I realized that by that definition, the majority of the people living in America aren't "Patriots". We take for granted all the things we have. Millions of people happily live off of Government handouts. We give up our security and freedom willingly for our "protection". We allow the Government to get away with stuff, not because we can't stop them, but because the majority of Americans are ignorant. The American people have quietly let the Government slowly strip away at our Constitution, infringing on the Tenth, Fourth, and making attacks on the Second amendment.

I fear that the people in this country consider their rights and freedom as things that can never be taken away or suppressed. But the fact of the matter is, we have already started to head down the road towards practical enslavement.

It's not that people don't have access to what they need to know, or that the government is even trying to hide what they do, it's that The American people wish to be willfully ignorant. So I ask this question of you, are you just an American? or are you a Patriot?