Submitted by: Elaine Karsner
This letter was sent to the Wall Street Journal on August 8, 2008 by Alisa
Wilson, Ph.D. Of Beverly Hills , CA .

On July 31, 2008 the Wall Street Journal had an article titled ‘Where’s The
Outrage?’ Here is Dr Wilson’s reply:

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 wi
ll 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