By Philip S. Chua, MD
IN 1936 in Manila when I was born, my parents knew I was a boy and that I was a he, for people then had common sense and cerebral lucidity.
Today, in America, there is a debate about him and her, and he and she, amidst the confusion and fear of when and what to say, where even a US Supreme Court Justice nominee was ignorant of her own gender identity.
Indeed, the destructive vulture of wokeism has infested so many,
the radicals with impunity spreading havoc and chaos to society.
And there are revisionist calls for historical monuments to fall,
a movement to defund the Police and abolish ICE, an insanity of lawlessness, cancel culture, and Black, White, Muslim, and Asian hate, a prolific demand for infants-not-to-be as barren couples in anxious despair wait, and mutilation of children behind their parents’ back.
Racism, sexism, massive abuse of the freedom of speech, injustice from weaponized government hounds, and the quake of national fragmentation in our midst, abridging individual and societal amendment rights, creating a sad, tilted, and dangerous world for all: a broken family, a broken home, a broken America.
The nation’s borders purposedly agape, pregnant with unvetted illegals more than 10 million crashing in, two million “got-aways”:
Cartel’s killers, rapists, drug and sex traffickers, child molester and terrorists, who might even now are plotting an Armageddon from within, all this burden on the taxpayers’ shoulders and at the nation’s peril – robbing citizens of their privacy, resources, security, and peace.
There is wanton murder of policemen, senseless killings on the streets, mugging of young and old, open destruction and looting of stores and burning flags and properties in various cities, as justice intentionally looks the other way and continues its slumber in woke and liberal lunacy.
The thunderous chants of misguided, history-anemic, ivy-league students and other seditious ignorant bigots “Death to America, Death to Israel,” the provocative evil cry to annihilate all the Jews to erase Israel and singing praises no less to those barbaric bin Laden monsters who behead babies, rape women, burn people alive, and kill innocent seniors and children, are deafening, gruesome, nauseating.
Can anyone think of any justification for these diabolical acts?
Chaos and stupidity grip the nation, and its people confused, scared, and on their knees.
Those who hate America, all the thankless ingrates, should leave its gracious shores and noble land.
This insanity also threatens our way of life, liberties, and survival.
This madness must stop!
Where is the America of yesteryears, where godliness, respect for law and order, compassion, love of fellowmen, tolerance, and kindness abound, and where integrity and dignity were sacred, sometimes chosen more valuable than life itself?
I miss America, land of the wise and noble free, during its golden years of greatness, and the wonders of all its tenderhearted people.
In supplication, gripped by sadness, buoyed by a ray of hope,
I pray for God to shake us up and save my homeland from this repulsive and horrifying nightmare, and bless all of us with wisdom, compassion, and tolerance to fulfill our common aspirations and dream for the best eons yet to come for the world, for America, and for my Sintang Pilipinas na sakdal ganda. (Reprinted with author’s permission. First printed in Malaya on Nov. 24, 2023.)
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The author, Philip S. Chua, MD, FACS, FPCS, is a Cardiac Surgeon Emeritus based in Northwest Indiana and Las Vegas, Nevada. He is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, Philippine College of Surgeons, an international medical lecturer/author, medical missionary, Health Advocate, newspaper columnist, and chairman of the Filipino United Network-USA, a 501(c)3 humanitarian foundation in the United States. He was a decorated recipient of the Indiana Sagamore of the Wabash Award in 1995, conferred by then Indiana Governor, later Senator, and then-presidential candidate, Evan Bayh.
