Though America still has its defenders, it has become harder and harder to ignore our country’s obvious decline. All too often, our once great nation displays its tragic willingness to discard the values that took it to the top.
The recent beginning of a fraud trial against military body armor contractor David H. Brooks is one such case.
Prosecutors are attempting to charge Mr. Brooks with fraud just because he used money from Pentagon contracts to buy “gifts for his family, including pornographic videos for his son, plastic surgery for his wife…luxury cars, country club memberships, stable of racehorses.
In other words, while we once celebrated all the things that made our nation SPECIAL AND GREAT AND ASS-KICKINGLY AWESOME, we are now apparently willing to punish a man for THE EXACT SAME THINGS. What has this world come to?