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Insecure Americans
By Virginia E. Atkinson
March 08, 2006
Wednesday PM
Why are Americans so insecure these days? Everyone is so paranoid
over everything that's going on in this country. If you people
pay any attention to the news at all, Americans aren't even safe
from our own people, open your eyes wider and see that most of
the news is focused on our own kind. No one is safe walking
down the streets in our own country, innocent people are getting
shot in their own homes and by their own people, hit and run
by a drunk driver, murder/suicides, and everyone is making such
a big fuss over outsiders taking over seaports here in America.
I'm trying to make sense of American's paranoid attitude but
I can't. Because America is more terrorized by our own people
than by outsiders, practically everyday, and no one seems concerned
about that.
If you people realize how much
the media focuses on all the bad things that happen, like I've
always said before, that the media is doing more harm that good
by focusing too much on bad news that happens in this country
and abroad. The bad news the media airs everyday is a bad influence
on people that are already a mental case, and only making matters
worst for anyone that can easily be influenced by the media.
To make matters even worst, the media over dramatizes every issue
that comes along, watching the news now days is like watching
a horror movie. It's no wonder some people are frightened out
of their mind and always thinking negative thoughts about everything.
You see it on the news everyday, people are being killed by
'our own' American citizens, yeah, that makes me feel a whole
lot better.
Virginia E. Atkinson
Metlakatla, AK - USA
About: Virginia E. Atkinson
is a long time resident of Metlakatla, Alaska.
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