America, Born?

These United States of America were conquered and colonized. This fact, seemingly simple, yet insidiously profound, may in fact dictate our foreign relations. We are at the core a nation of stolen landscapes and evangelicals. We brought alien diseases and plagues to this continent while attempting to "civilize" a people more deeply connected with their environment and spirituality than their would-be conquerors.
Our federal doctrine of law, while brilliant in theory, is based on a system of beliefs originally alien to this lands original inhabitants. Perhaps this was both the beginning and the end to true freedom. What we have, these many years later, is differing levels of freedom that has been fragmented into classifications of race, religion, and other characteristics.



Continued on 8/14/08:

The written laws are a reflection of the beliefs and values held dear by the authors. How can any such doctrine truly include and consider those whose heritage and lifestyle exist wholly separate and outside of the inherent cultural considerations of the lawmakers? Not to say that our founding fathers had no such right to dictate our laws, for their intentions were grand in scope, and mighty in reaching. We need to believe they had the greatest concern for all citizens, and this is seemingly so, according to the majority of written accounts of those times. However, and this is merely a point of consideration (something to ponder), these laws were written in accordance with the current state of the country. Has our nation not changed, and evolved (some would argue the opposite I realize) drastically since their pens met that sacred paper?