Saturday, December 20, 2014

Let Me Count The Ways


His and their opportunities (you do know who I'm talking about here) to embarrass, offend, repress, divide, baffle, confuse we the people, appears unending. With countless critical issues to be addressed/resolved; fences to be mended, bridges to be built-,  our illustrious politicians choose to dwell on social, international and diplomatic diversions of negligible consequences in the grand scheme of preserving the productivity, sovereignty and reputation of this great republic of ours. This regime, as alleged here before, are masters at deflection and deception. We become so embroiled in political theater minutiae, that the end-game in play escapes us! Again, we simply don't get it, we are being subverted! A blatant strategy to subvert our democratic government is afoot and our attention is being successively diverted by debilitating masking tactics! A Washington cabal of unsavory elected and appointed officials of all political persuasions are in the process of intentionally or unintentionally wresting away our inalienable rights as citizens of the United States to constitutionally reining in these rogue politicians and their acolytes. It appears by the time we come to our senses; assure the separation and sanctity of our three branches of government and restore their order of practice and balance, the prevailing laws of the land will be unrecognizable! This behemoth of a government we have created has a life of its own, not easily deterred from clinging to it by any means possible. Our window of opportunity to do anything about it is slowly but ever so steadily closing.

I'm going to give it a rest for the holidays. I've told my antagonists who essentially prompt these blogs-my redundant whining is starting to get on my nerves. Hopefully it's all paranoia on my part and the new year will some how promote fathomable liberal issues of meaningful substance and consequences in themselves for future accord, debate and/ or comment, sans a hidden agenda. Yea right! Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Cops and Criminals

For starters, just to know we are all on the same page, definition wise: Cops in their many forms and guises are essentially purposed to enforce the law. Those laws levied by our duly elected and/or appointed legislators and/or officials. Criminals are the ones who break those laws. Ipso facto the catalyst that brings the cops and the criminals together is the suspicion or commission of a crime, the breaking of a law. For emphasis, the cops don't make the laws... As said, those laws are ostensibly made by we the people, through our elected and/or appointed legislators, as is the practice of our jurisprudence system. To this point I can't imagine our opinions being at odds with one another. That said I for one am having difficulty with the appraisal of many of you in the much publicized resent committed crimes in Missouri and New York, their enforcement, in turn their subsequent adjudication. No question "our" laws such as they are were broken, the cops duty bound to enforce those laws were directed to do so, did; the legal procedure to process the results of the apprehension of the criminals, grand jury decided. In knowing what that grand jury was changed with judging i.e the apprehending cop's motivation at the time of the confrontation, was it appropriate or inappropriate by the prescribed rules of engagement-, decided it was appropriate. To this point the required legal protocol adhered to was apparently observed and carried out, right? Now, were the laws broken, in themselves appropriate-, the force used in the apprehension of the criminals in itself appropriate? Therein lies the rub! And, I note our judicial system provides for resolution of those questions beyond the grand jury's verdicts going forward. Change the law; change the rules of engagement and punishment of the criminals to be apprehended and tried in breaking those laws; try the case itself in Civil Court for thought to be appropriate reparation of the crime allegedly committed. Again that said, I persist in feeling these crimes and the criminals apprehension, as unjust and tragic as they might appear, were not racially motivated but criminally instigated and dealt with accordingly. Ask yourself, what if both of these young men said...." You've got me Officer, I got caught up in the moment.."  What do you think would have happen? I can't imagine them being shot or asphyxiated......And don't get me wrong, I have difficulty in dealing with our sometimes over zealous, storm trooper garbed, military armed policemen that have replacing the once affable neighborhood beat cop of yesteryear. But, times have dramatically changed, criminals more violent, seemingly more of them, and far less tolerant of police intervention of any kind. I know the prevailing statistics on the subject are an anathema to the black community, but they are what they are!

Wednesday, December 3, 2014

I'm In Free-fall


Pushed over the edge by Ferguson, not so much by Ferguson itself, but by our standing government's response to Ferguson! When Al Sharpton of Towana Browley infamy can command a seat next to our President and Attorney General to inflame this travesty to our judicial system our sensibilities, I blanch! To add yet further insult to injury when across the nation mindless supportive demonstrations with smoldering racial overtones take to our streets, our places of business, our media with reckless abandon and malicious intent-, my spirit falters! I've witnessed the likes of Watts, Newark and a host of other racially incited civil unrest, feeling they were perpetrated largely by lawless malcontents on both sides of those ginned-up so called protests, that they knew not what they were doing. That, in light of conspicuous progress being made here in the United States on racial relations before and after, felt in the foreseeable future such foment would be negated. In fact the election of Barack Obama, aside from politics would surely have signaled the extent of the progress being made, certain to dissuade the likelihood of such racial strife in the future. No need to tell you this president, this administration has not only failed us economically, perhaps irreparably damaged our reputation as a world leader, but has divided our society to the near point of irreconcilable differences. Under their aegis civil disobedience has never been so distorted, manipulated, unproductive, violence masked and condoned-, the dreams and intent of Reverend Martin Luther King so trampled. It's beyond me, my white, black, beige, brown and assorted other complexioned friends have more common ground than uncommon ground, how can we be the exception, we are so atypical! Could it be we are being propagandized to best serve a hidden agenda.There I go again with my conspiracy paranoia. What else can explain this multifaceted, diverse attack on all things once so American! I wait impatiently for a sign that this too shall pass. Regretting these niggling little whimpers of frustration, telling you what you already know, sharing my frustrations with the choir, affording our detractors whoever they might be the satisfaction of knowing we are in disarray as what to do.