I woke up in the middle of the night after having a nightmare that the country of my birth, the country that I love had changed from a God fearing, free market, freedom loving country called the United States of America into a communist State, controlled by bad politicians, an ineffective police force, and a pissant media hell bent on demonizing traditional values.

My nightmare consisted of the following:

An innocent little old lady defending traditional marriage, being pushed around and encircled by a gang of thugs, with no one around to help her, crying because several men, at least twice her size, stomped on her cross of Christ Jesus, the world’s true Savior.

A presidential administration being excoriated for allegedly permitting torture of captured terrorists trying to kill American soldiers on a battlefield, and an organization purporting to protect American civil liberties claiming that these prisoners of War should be granted constitutional rights afforded to American citizens, that in effect will set all 250 of them free.

Meanwhile, just on the other side of the wall of this grand prison, in a communist country called Cuba that imprisons indefinitely those who disagree with government policy as a means to silence freedom of speech, in jails unfit for rats, not a peep from so called international peace keepers or civil rights defenders.

A place where school children are indoctrinated by school teachers to believe that America is evil, and recitation of our beloved Pledge of Allegiance should be banned, or relegated to a school gymnasium, where recitation of the same would be tolerated.

College students that happily wear t-shirts of the late Che Guevara, a murderous dictator, who killed innocent people for fun, yet that same college student is ridiculed for forming a pro-life group that defends innocent unborn life.

A group of college grads that do not have a clue what the United States Constitution entails, who ignore history and believe that socialism is a good thing, and that Republicans are evil.

Where an unrepentant terrorist who formed a group that made bombs and attempted to kill innocent Americans is a respected college professor who blames a semi-fair and balanced news organization for calling him the unrepentant terrorist that he is.

A country that thinks it can “fix” the free market economy by borrowing money from future tax payers and giving it to failed companies whereby rewarding bad economic behavior and punishing good economic behavior, and are surprised when the market crashes because of such intervention.

A country that purchases billions of dollars for oil from countries that hate America, but refuses to drill for oil on our own shores, because the “environmentalists& rdquo; who donate large sums of money to ineffective politicians have a stranglehold on public policy.

A country that seeks to spread freedom across the globe is looked upon as evil and intolerant, but spreading chemical contraception, abortion and sterilization to countries that may not agree with America’s socio economic policies is good for the world and should be forced upon them.

Will America take a huge step towards socialism, successfully remove God from society, and create a double standard between elitist liberals, and traditional conservatives, whereby the former group of citizens is free from criticism and the latter group of citizens is deemed brutish, or has this already happened while America was sleeping?

Raquel Okyay