The simplicity, with which one could pick up a book, read an article or watch the History and Discovery channel to find out about the past of human kind, is relatively simple. However, trying to decipher and organize this information can be quite challenging. Nevertheless, a sincere search will lead the seeker to truths that perhaps will leave one wondering how so many people could possibly be ignorant to facts so readily available. Try to remember that if you wanted a lie to become the truth, all you need do is repeat it often enough. Therefore, when searching for answers and the truth keep an open mind and avoid preconceived notions that favor your inner beliefs. Make a list of both sides of the quest and then remember Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s character Sherlock Holmes famous quote, "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

I read an article were the Comptroller General David Walker compared America’s future to that of Rome, or more so, to the fall of Rome. And if you’re familiar with that once powerful empire that ruled the world for more than five hundred years, was founded around 753 BC and conquered the known world until the last of the Caesars in 476 AD. It is unquestionable that an empire whose dominance, which lasted so long, should be looked at and compared to other nations both past and present. And one should wonder how such a once mighty empire could have become so inconsequential. And since America herself has risen from a vast wilderness of ideas to the most powerful nation in the world with envious enemies who would relish in the fall of our great nation, we Americans need to take a long look at who we are and where we plan to be in the future. Fore I guarantee you that those who founded this nation cared greatly about her future, whereas many of those residing in this country today are focused more on self-centeredness and the instantaneous, caring little about what the future holds outside of their immediate desires. Sounds Roman, doesn’t it?

With all that said, remember what I said earlier, that if you wanted a lie to become the truth, all you need do is repeat it often enough? Well that leads me into my topic about ‘The Right's and Rome's’ (wrongs). Bear in mind that I am referring to Mr. Walkers comparison of America to Rome in its death throws.

Great empires that establish themselves on the battlefield time and time again can be beaten eventually, but their defeat can always be traced back to an inner problem which weakened their military to the point that defeat was inevitable. When that empire forgets the things that made it what it became and ventures off into detrimental areas, there is always the possibility of doom befalling the mighty. Granted, change is to be anticipated, but an intelligent individual will allow the past to be its guide as to what changes are beneficial and which are harmful. And, if the past has no reference on which to plan your next move then a smart calculated guess will have to suffice, and I stress the word, calculated.

The American and the world’s judgment are being called into question.

We are a society who can’t accurately predict tomorrow’s weather but we warn people that in ten years or so, our weather is going to drastically change and mankind is doomed if we don’t change our ways. Yet, these same individuals refuse to tell you that our weather has been constantly changing since the dawn of time and will continue to do so. Where there was at one time a single mass of land and un-breathable air, freezing temperatures and heat unbearable, we now have prospering societies on a planet that will do what she pleases as it pleases her. She is an old place whose time will eventually run out but a mother that cares enough to provide its inhabitants with what is needed to survive in spite of her temperament.

The American judgment on the life of a child can’t even be decided. The same people who tell you that a woman alone has a right to choose whether or not to have an abortion are the same people who can’t decide when life begins in a woman’s womb. Is it not true that where there is a struggle to survive therein lays life? For example, is there not a struggle to survive when a sperm cell, in most cases one out of thousands, attempts to reach the egg and implant itself? What about when the egg struggles to attach itself to the woman’s uterus? Could that not be described as an instinctual struggle to live? How much more of a struggle needs to take place before we deem it life?

The American judgment on who is a man and who is a woman has become so blurred and distorted that regardless of the facts, scientists have spent millions on ways to prove that homosexuals are born to be what they are. Despite the fact that science has proven nothing of the sort, I ask, is not life a series of choices that lead us to become what we become? Some choices are forced upon us while others are made out of self-satisfying needs.

The sexual desires running through the human mind and body are very powerful and often times uncontrollable. It is the one thing the human body can do without the aid of a drug that gives pleasure beyond words. How this urge is activated is a product of life experiences starting from the beginning of our being. Something in our lives, sometimes passing unnoticed, often triggers a gravitational pull towards what will become the satisfaction of this powerful urge.

To call the acts of homosexuality normal is disingenuous, unless you can reasonably explain to me what could possibly be normal about how the sexual acts performed between two men is normal when an organ used for reproduction is interacting with another bodies waste disposal. The only thing possibly normal about such an act is the need to self-satisfy and the inability of a species to control the most powerful and natural urge on the planet.

It would appear that mankind is ready to walk away from that which made us the dominate species, perhaps our intellect has allowed us to transcend beyond the belief that we actually need to procreate in the old fashioned way. Two men need not be able to reproduce as long as there is adoption or a possible future where we can grow a baby in a test tube. Two women need not produce a child together as long as one or both can go to a sperm bank and impregnate themselves. Countless studies have shown that offspring do better in a traditional home setting where there is a loving mother and father whose sole purpose is the well-being of their children, but what does that matter? As long as the individual is happy, who cares?

Now think about this, we already live in a society that has begun to place the value of family and even life as something secondary to self-satisfaction. With crime and violence on the rise, how much further downward do you think our society would fall if the norm became where two men adopted a child and claimed to love them dearly but could never, not ever, pass on the value and understanding of blood ties between family? How much easier will it become for one to pull away from the ‘well being’ of society if that understanding eroded? A society of one parent being a step-parent and the other blood is noble and works in many cases, but are statistically very troubling. If I have to explain to any of you who read this that, the bond between family runs deeper than even love, then I doubt that you’ve understood anything I written.

The American freedom is a noble thing and wields great power, but remember what Peter Parker’s grandfather told him, “With great power comes great responsibility.”

America has an opportunity to show the world that great societies can stand the test of time, but not without limits. It is a glorious thing to be granted the freedom to be whom and what you want to be, but never forget that if society as a whole fails to stand, we all fall. Every time a powerful nation falls, the chance for hope and freedom has to start all over again.

I beg you; let it be here, in America where people of all races have gathered to build one voice in the call for freedom and understanding for all. A place where the sky’s the limit, but there are limits on how one chooses to reach the sky, safely yet daringly.

No matter what many might say, there are right ways to go about a thing and there are wrong ways. Humanity thinks itself so smart, so intelligent, yet we constantly duplicate our mistakes. I think the other animals roaming the planet have a better understanding about life than us, yet we look upon them as uncivilized, animalistic. They understand the need for survival and no doubt wake every day with that goal in mind. But not humankind, so empires are built and torn down because humankind can’t seem to accept life as it is, as it should be. Our evolutionary process that brought us from our humble beginnings to our age of enlightenment should be the reminder of what we are, who we are.

We could uncover the secrets of the universe should we choose to do so, or we could become fossils for another growing species to wonder, just who the hell were they?

Should America fall, it won’t be solely because we are defeated outwardly, but our demise will be because we were too smart to realize how dumb we truly were.