Then something grabbed my attention as I was searching the Internet for religious nuts, I had an awaking while watching a video about people that protest fallen soldiers funerals. People call them nut jobs and all kind of filthy names, even I had the same reaction. Until, I thought a little deeper. I wasn’t about to excuse their behavior based on the fact that these people seem to have a lower I.Q. than Forrest Gump or by the fact that they may have experienced Stigmata. I understood that there is a need for religion. It gives these type of people something to do, something to focus on. It really scared me to think what they would be doing if they had no point of focus. What kind of carnage they could or would inflict upon mankind if not for some kind of guiding light to distract them from the realization that they have no purpose to exist. Then it all became clear to me, why and how they became who they are. I even started to understand why some dumb-asses blow themselves up in the name of Jihad, just as all the Jerry Falwell’s, Jim Baker’s and Profit Muhammad’s have figured out. I will tell you.

A long time ago, before education, cable television and the Internet, people were ignorant because they didn’t know any better. Witchcraft was against the law and during the Crusades, so was not being a Cristian. People were basically stupid and apparently still are. But we can change that and here is how.

What if I were to tell you that if I had created a colony in the middle of nowhere and convinced people to get away from the Right Wing “Call of Socialism” or the Left Wing’s “Spread the Wealth” programs? Do you think people would follow? But what if, just for a moment, you think about this. A new nation. One that is founded on morality, principle, goodness and everyone can get into heaven easily. I will give you an example.

If I were to take 400 young children along with their parents and cut them off from all the distractions of today’s society, put them in a self sufficient atmosphere. Teach them about goodness and morality. Do you think it would work? What if I told them that they were created by a being that contained itself with The Great Soda Can and did so that all would be able to share of it’s greatness? I would give them rules to live by so that we would have a just and righteous life, have them donate monetary goods to me in-order that I, their leader, would distribute them as the great one saw fit. That I was chosen to led them away from all the horrors of the world, into everlasting redistribution. That every time someone drank a soda, they would be rewarded. Do you think it would work? For those of you that say it couldn’t, just look around at all the different religions, with all the beginnings and tell me different. Children are brainwashed and indoctrinated everyday by different religions and they all say the same thing, “This is the only way and all others are false prophets.” They grow up believing in fairy tales that scientifically make no sense. I could even make them believe that if they sacrificed themselves in the name of the Great Soda Can, they would live forever; moreover, that if they destroyed the enemies of the Great Soda Can; they would rewarded beyond comprehension.

Mankind has been turned into sheep by religion and evil men. But I do not blame the evil men, there will always be those willing to take advantage of others. I blame the sheep for being too lazy to think for themselves or too scared to venture out of their years of repetitive rhetoric.

This is only the beginning of a series of articles that are aimed at waking people up from the prison that they have put themselves in. To free them from the bondage of evil men, books written by evil men in the name of a creator and to free their mind and heart.

The conversation follows:

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 8:33 AM, Jon Kelley wrote:

So, I’m curious. Before I get to my question, though, I thought I’d let you know first-off, that I am what you would term as a ‘right-wing nutjob’, and I haven’t listened to Sean Hannity for probably more than a year. He drives me nuts, and he’s become nothing more than a mouthpiece for the republican party. To him, the party can do no wrong. I don’t think that way.

Anyway, whenever you talk about our nations health care on the air, you always switch to your Hannity voice and mock, “we have the best health care system in the world.” By doing this, it seems to me that you believe that we DON’T, in fact, have the best health care system in the world. So I would like to ask, do you believe this, or are you just taking the opportunity to take another shot at Mr. Hannity? Or is it some other reason alltogether? If you do think this, I’d like to know why you think that socializing our system would help (if that is, indeed, what you think would help).

I’d just like to figure this out, because I think that we DO have the best health care in the world. Having been treated in other countries, and having friends that were treated in other countries (all of which were first world, highly industrialized nations), I have first-hand knowledge of this particular subject.

Thank you for your reply,

Jon Kelley
Cpl. U.S.M.C. (Hon. Discharged)

–To which the local DJ (I’m just going to call him Bob) replied:

Subject: Re: Health care

Here’s one statistic….35th on the list for infant mortality.  That is, there are 34 countries ahead of us who have lower rates of babies dying before the age of 1.

–Now, it seemed to me that Bob didn’t do his homework on this particular subject before he ran his mouth, and it turns out, after about 30 seconds of Googling, I was right.

I replied thusly:

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 10:31 AM, Jon Kelley wrote:
44th, actually ( https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2091rank.html#top ) but there are also 179 countries that have a higher infant mortality rate than we do.

Also, you didn’t mention how socializing our system is going to help.

From Wikipedia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infant_mortality )
A 2006 article in U.S. News & World Report claims that “First, it’s shaky ground to compare U.S. infant mortality with reports from other countries. The United States counts all births as live if they show any sign of life, regardless of prematurity or size. This includes what many other countries report as stillbirths. In Austria and Germany, fetal weight must be at least 500 grams (1 pound) to count as a live birth; in other parts of Europe, such as Switzerland, the fetus must be at least 30 centimeters (12 inches) long. In Belgium and France, births at less than 26 weeks of pregnancy are registered as lifeless.^[4] And some countries don’t reliably register babies who die within the first 24 hours of birth. Thus, the United States is sure to report higher infant mortality rates. For this very reason, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which collects the European numbers, warns of head-to-head comparisons by country.”  ( http://health.usnews.com/usnews/health/articles/060924/2healy.htm. )

–Sadly, this last paragraph seemed to flow in through his eyeballs, and out his ass.

Well, it seems pretty clear to me how socialized medicine helps this situation. However, if you’d like me to spell it out, I will.  The countries ahead of us, most of them, have very advanced medical techniques at their disposal…just like America.  With socialized medicine almost all (probably all) pregnant women have access to pre-natal care at no cost or low cost.  Okay?

–You think I hit a nerve there? He seems a little upset that I crushed his thoughts with facts, and managed to make his entire argument invalid.

Sadly, this was the end of our conversation, as the reply I sent to him went unanswered, and my e-mail ‘sent’ folder has deleted the letter. I remember I made mention about who would pay for said health care, as the rich will only shell out so much before they go away, and how China wouldn’t foot the bill for our deficits anymore, but beyond that, I don’t recall where I went with anything. Poor me.

–Jon Kelley