The American Way???

Well, I was hoping to get some feedback on the questions and answes posting. And I was hoping that would stir some conversation that I could use to write about ...but I guess not.  No problem.

I wonder if any of the people who have no problem with the Anthony verdict also don't have a problem with the fact that she will be making money off this case.  What a country we are kill your kid become rich; ain't that great.  Wonderfull justice system, let's all hold hands and sing "Koombya" now.

We have gone from fighting the the British taxation and freedom for this country. And this nation divided over state's right and getting rid of slavery but came back together to become united again.  We protested against the oppression of African Americans. We protested against an unjust war.

We fought back against terrorists who killed Americans on 9/11. And then many turned on the President Bush who was trying to do the right thing basically because it took too long.

But when a mother gets away with killing her daughter--we yawn and shrug our shoulders.

I am not trying to say that the Anthony case was as big of a deal as the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, the Civil Rights movement in the 50's or the protests of the Vietnam War in the late 60's early 70's.

The point is that this country used to stand up to wrongs and make them right. Of course, that was before Political Correctness and the wide national divide between liberals and conservatives.

And maybe that is a big part of the problem now. Maybe we are a land too divided along political lines that we have lost our sense of right and wrong. Maybe we are concentrating on the things that divide and not concentrating enough on what is right and wrong.

I believe that we have Amendments to the Constitution because we as a Nation recognized wrongs that needed to be righted. And I believe the System of Justice has evolved over the years to also right some wrongs. Maybe we were more united as a nation back then and we could focus on right and wrong.

Maybe now we are so divided that our focus is not too sharp.  Letting the guilty get away with her crime and then paying her for committing the crime should not be the American Way