Reply #63: How has my life been impacted? Let me count the ways! [View All]

[holboz]

1) July 2001: Paranoia sets in when I received news that my friend and anti-* author James Hatfield was found dead in a hotel room. Death was ruled a suicide but I have always thought otherwise. This was 2 weeks after James wrote an article about the connections between Bush and the bin Linden families.

2) August 30, 2001: My British fiance comes over to US so we can work on wedding plans together, which we have slated for April 20, 2002. Originally he planned to stay for 3 weeks, but then Sept. 11th happened. At the time his father had a job in which he received high level security briefings and he strongly cautioned against flying back to the UK at the time.

3) October 16, 2001: My fiance and I get a "quickie marriage" performed by a JP the day before his visa expired. This was done under the advice of a government official who said our fiance visa would not be processed in time for our April 2002 wedding date due to the overhaul of the INS. He said if we got married then our family petition would go to the front of the line for processing.

4) January 2004: The birth of my daughter has my husband and I increasingly concerned about the state of affairs in this country and the instability in the world as a result of *'s reckless agenda. I've become more active since becoming a mom because I see her generation paying for the mess Bushco is creating now. I worry so much about the future of the average working-class joes and janes in this country. This administration seems intent on destroying the middle class and that really scares me.

The delimma I feel is this: I am disgusted with what is going on in my country...it's an outright disaster. I think it's important to make a stand and fight for what is right, but at the same time I want my daughter to have the best opportunity that I can provide. I can't ignore that we're in the fortunate position that we can pick up and move out of this country if we want to since my husband is British. We have the UK, Ireland, and Europe at our disposal.

As I was growing up, i never would have imagined that this country would be in the mess that it's in and that I would consider taking my children to another country for a shot at a better life, better security, and better opportunites than the United States of America could provide. But that's what I feel right now.