by Brandon Allen

Created on: March 05, 2009

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

As Americans, have we forgotten what the United States of America stands for?

In our darkest days of our nation from Pearl Harbor to the World Trade Center, Oklahoma City to Mathew Shepherd, blacklisting of Americans during times of war (even to date) to Proposition 8, to every meaningless murder to hate crime, to the Great Depression, to the current economic crisis.

We sit in our homes, we work our jobs and careers, but we walk past the homeless man or woman, we disgrace our fellow man and woman, with words like "FAG" and "Dyke". We hate people for being different, for not understanding what it is that they are about. Instead of opening our hearts and our eyes, we would rather spread hate and fear.

We teach our children as a society, that hate is ok. We teach our children that if they get pregnant that abortion is a form of birth control. We teach our children, that the more children they have, the more the government will assist them.

Drugs and alcohol are as simple to get a hold of as walking down the street. Parents hosting parties for their kids only provide a place for other people and children alike a place to go to get drunk.

Sex, is the equivalency now of a handshake, guys and girls alike having neither self pride nor self control.

In 2008 the CDC, The Center for Disease Control and Prevention let out a press release that stated, "1 in 4 teenage girls have an STD.".

In 2007, the FBI released a statement saying that there were 9,535 hate crimes reported in the United States. 52 percent of that was racial based. A little over 17 percent were religious based, 15.9 percent were based from sexual orientation, 14.1 percent was based from ethnicity and national origin, and .9 percent was based off of disabilities.

The FBI also stated that, "9 persons were murdered, and 2 were forcibly raped."

One instance in history that is forever embedded into the minds of many Americans was the night of October 7, 1998. A young student, who was leaving a bar, was offered a car ride by two male subjects. Later to be found that the two students had brutally attacked the student. Matthew Shepard then died of his injuries. After the trial, in many instances,

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