This letter was sent to the Wall Street Journal on August 8, 2008 by
Alisa Wilson, Ph.D. Of Beverly Hills , CA . in response to the Wall
Street Journal article titled "Where's The Outrage?" that appeared
July 31, 2008.

Really. I can tell you where the outrage is. The outrage is here, in
this middle-aged, well-educated, upper-middle class woman. The
outrage is here, but I have no representation, no voice. The outrage
is here, but no one is listening for who am I?

I am not a billionaire like George Soros that can fund an entire
political movement..
I am not a celebrity like Barbra Streisand that can garner the
attention of the press to promote political candidates. I am not a
film maker like Michael Moore or Al Gore that can deliver misleading
movies to the public.

The outrage is here, but unlike those with money or power, I don't
know how to reach those who feel similarly in order to effect
change.


Why am I outraged? I am outraged that my country, the United States
of America , is in a state of moral and ethical decline. There is no
right or wrong anymore, just what's fair.

Is it fair that millions of Americans who overreached and borrowed
more than they could afford are now being bailed out by the
government and lending institutions to stave off foreclosure? Why
shouldn't these people be made to pay the consequences for their poor
judgment?

When my husband and I purchased our home, we were careful to purchase
only what we could afford. Believe me, there are much larger, much
nicer homes that I would have loved to have purchased. But, taking
responsibility for my behavior and my life, I went with the house
that we could afford, not the house that we could not afford. The
notion of personal responsibility has all but died in our country.

I am outraged, that the country that welcomed my mother as an
immigrant from Hitler's Nazi Germany and required that she and her
family learn English now allows itself to be overrun with illegal
immigrants and worse, caters to those illegal immigrants.

I am outraged that my hard-earned taxes help support those here
illegally. That the Los Angeles Public School District is in such
disarray that I felt it incumbent to send my child to private school,
that every time I go to the ATM, I see "do you want to continue in
English or Spanish?", that every time I call the bank, the phone
company , or similar business, I hear "press 1 for English or press 2
for Spanish." WHY? This is America , our common language is English
and attempts to promote a bi- or multi-lingual society are sure to
fail and to marginalize those who cannot communicate in English.

I am outraged at our country's weakness in the face of new threats
on American traditions from Muslims. Just this week, Tyson's Food
negotiated with its union to permit Muslims to have Eid-al-Fitr as a
holiday instead of Labor Day. What am I missing? Yes, there is a
large Somali Muslim population working at the Tyson's plant in
Tennessee . Tennessee , last I checked, is still part of the United
States . If Muslims want to live and work here, they should be
required to live and work by our American Laws and not impose their
will on our long history.

In the same week, Random House announced that they had indefinitely
delayed the publication of The Jewel of Medina, by Sherry Jones, a
book about the life of Mohammed's wife, Aisha due to fear of
retribution and violence by Muslims. When did we become a nation
ruled by fear of what other immigrant groups want? It makes me so sad
to see large corporations cave rather than stand proudly on the
principles that built this country.

I am outraged because appeasement has never worked as a political
policy, yet appeasing Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is exactly what we are
trying to do. An excellent article, also published recently in the
Wall Street Journal, went through over 20 years of history and why
talking with Iran has been and will continue to be ineffective. Yet
talk, with a madman no less, we continue to do. Have we so lost our
moral compass and its ability to detect evil that we will not go in
and destroy Iran 's nuclear program? Would we rather wait for another
Holocaust for the Jews - one which they would be unlikely to survive?
When does it end?

As if the battle for good and evil isn't enough, now come the
Environmentalists who are so afraid of global warming that they want
to put a Bag tax on grocery bags in California; to eliminate Mylar
balloons; to establish something as insidious as the recycle police
in San Francisco. I do my share for the environment: I recycle, I use
water wisely, I installed an energy efficient air conditioning unit.
But when and where does the lunacy stop?Ahmadinejad wants to wipe
Israel off the map, the California economy is being overrun by
illegal immigrants, and the United States of America no longer knows
right from wrong, good from evil. So what does California do? Tax
grocery bags.

So, America , although I can tell you where the outrage is, this one
middle-aged, well-educated, upper middle class woman is powerless to
do anything about it. I don't even feel like my vote counts because I
am so outnumbered by those who disagree with me.

Alisa Wilson, Ph.D. Beverly Hills , California


There are a lot more out there, including myself, who think just
like Alisa Wilson. The only difference is that she put her thoughts
in an email that will reach thousands. I would like to keep this
going in the hope that, eventually, WE will again become the
Majority and help to return our nation to being "One Nation Under
God". How about YOU ????

COUNT ME IN !!! IT'S TIME WE TAKE BACK THE UNITED STATES OF
AMERICA, ONE NATION UNDER GOD!!! TEACH THE CHILDREN MORALS
AND TO RESPECT ONE ANOTHER!!!
Sarah Schuman, Toledo, OH