This is not the first time I am appalled by the actions of my country. I am appalled because I actually believe in those principles I was taught as a child, ideals that are supposed to represent the ethos of my country: freedom, equal rights, liberty. Of course these ideals have never been achieved, but always leaders gave lip service to them, because the people mostly believed in them. Naive, like me. What horrifies me is that the lip service is gone. No one is pretending to live up to the ideals that are supposed to represent the country I grew up in. Has the culture of the country changed so much that we can be the 'bad' guys, and that's OK?