Is America becoming a police state?

I live 8 miles south of the White House in Prince George’s county, MD. It’s literally the armpit of Washington, DC. What follows is a very recent county event.

This horror story is seemingly from a newspaper of one of the 3rd world countries our military constantly terrorizes.

These people are far too calm and reserved after what happened to them. There is no way I would be as restrained after that went down. Frame me, break down my door and SHOOT MY DOGS?!! No fucking way! Handcuff my family members and track my dogs’ blood throughout my house! Again, no fucking way!
Worse yet, the guy is the Mayor of the town. The county police and sheriff’s department as well as officials on the federal level have no apologies for them.
I am glad some of us cherish the second amendment to the Constitution. An intruder in your home, thief or police officer, is target practice. In the Calvo case, those police officers were murdering terrorists as well as trespassers. Why they choose to shoot down family pets is going too far. The ASPCA needs to pay these officers a visit and fine them heavily.
Remember the second amendment…”A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
I feel those under attack by the ever growing police state will need to protect themselves from those we entrust to oversee us. The various National Guards are now yet another branch of the US Armed Forces and can no longer be there to protect the citizenry from which it comes. Therefore, WE, THE PEOPLE have to form our own militia to secure our free state. Does that sound too revolutionary? Maybe, but it is also Constitutional. Those that stray from the ideals of the Constitution also stray from Patriotism.

Are we quite ready for this kind of police activity in our nation? These people were intentionally framed for a package of pot. It wasn’t explosives, heroin, or even a whoopee cushion. It was a package of plant matter that was sent to their house and that delivery was insured by policing officials.
I am 50 and I know most people in my generation and younger has smoked it or still do. Nazi Gestapo action practiced in the mindset of the old television program “Dragnet” over marijuana is senseless. The federal government won’t make tobacco illegal because they can tax it. There are far too many people that have died from that plant than would ever from pot. Has anyone ever died from smoking pot?

The Baltimore Sun story tells of a family terrorized and their dogs murdered because of the ludicrous laws that waste public funds, police time, tie up the court systems and house far too many “felons” in this country – send those cops to Iraq if they need something to do.
If I was Calvo I would find a doctor to prescribe me medical marijuana, grown by the feds, to control my frazzled nerves and constant nightmares. They better be getting a home makeover at the cost of the DEA – they are the ones that pushed this through.

The case involving the 92 year old woman is that of nightmares. Why did the rogue police officers shoot the old woman 39 times?! Now you know why we have 2nd amendment rights. The police become our enemy at times like this, Waco or Ruby Ridge.

The one thing that stays with me…why shoot the family pets? The report of another family who suffered the same fate pushes the entire matter over the edge. Is this a real life version of the television program “The Shield” which features renegade cops that make their own laws to suit themselves?

Shoot my dog? It will be a gunfight.

Legalize Marijuana – and grow more pot.

Pearl Harbor Day

I have met a few Pearl Harbor survivors in my life, one lived next door to me until the day he died.
Today marks the 66th anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor and the start of Japan’s role in WWII.

Here’s to all of the people that lost their lives that day.

Sean Taylor – how society treats celebrity versus others that have fallen

Ever since this young man was gunned down by some punk hoping to clean up opportunistically on what was supposed abandoned cash I have been curious if any other 24 year old black men were shot to ultimately die by another on Nov. 26. The odds favor it but are any of them being honored as a fallen US soldier never has within the last 7 years? Pat Tillman doesn’t count as he was another of NFL celebrity.

Taylor was an NFL football player for a very short while. Dale Earnhardt drove race cars for a long time. These two were celebrity sports figures, nothing more. Heroes to some but millionaire sports figures don’t play into the moral fabric of everyday life as the memorials of these two might suggest. All that can be gleaned by putting them on that pedestal is learning of their lives, which we needn’t do. I don’t know if America really needs to grieve over FATHEADS as we are given over to. What does it say about our priorities when soldiers come home dead in body bags and go nameless – minus the fanfare of nationwide memorials that would put their names and faces on news channels as well as newspapers and other periodicals? How many periodicals will Sean Taylor’s face grace the cover of? As was with Dale Earnhardt it becomes macabre.
How many names and faces of the victims of crimes such as the VA Tech shooting or the DC snipers can we readily identify? Who cares? They aren’t celebrity sports figures are they?
Maybe it’s the fact that the media constantly spotlights highly paid sports figures so we may live vicariously through their excesses. Does that cause us to hold them above all others in life? I think the media itself teaches us who to hold in esteem. Hours upon hours of news stories and exposes puts them foremost in the minds of society.
Paris Hilton, not a sports figure, is a celebrity for no reason at all. The world bent a knee and wept when Princess Diana died in an automobile accident while the death of Mother Teresa was barely noticed. Paris would have a leg up on Teresa as well as we know far too much about her than is necessary. I think Teresa was glossed over by the media in its efforts to discuss Di, Di, Di.

The 4 youths that wanted to steal from Taylor are a product of the mindset I have described. They were out to take another’s valuables – steal – no doubt thinking the rich sports figure might have the best goods. They no doubt had an inside line as to what was where.
Shooting Sean Taylor was probably as easy as playing a video game for the trigger man. He has probably played enough games where he has shot another in the game. What is the sense of playing if you don’t shoot someone?
Breaking and entering with a handgun was far too easy. The 4 in question supposedly didn’t know someone was home and planned on ransacking the home to get money to blow within week to further their stupidity.

 

So goes society.

PROFESSIONAL BASKETBALL (NBA)

I have thrown a ball through hoops many times in my life and always found it enjoyable. I sprained my ankles in junior high and quit team activities.
I have always enjoyed the mechanics of baseball, basketball and football as the relationship to accuracy with the ball lies with one’s touch on the ball. Throw one and it is apparent.

However much I, or anyone else may like them, these are simple games that receive far too much notice with players that are paid far too much money for doing that which every kid in America does for fun.
These are considered professional sports played by multimillionaires that are worshiped by young and old alike.
Wake up people! It is high stakes entertainment and nothing more.

Why are Olympians told to “let the games begin” as they commence? Are track and field events mere games?
Why does the umpire say “play ball” at the beginning of a baseball game? When a football or basketball team is through playing the players say they had a good or bad “game”, correct?

The reason I place basketball in the title is because their finals are taking place. The overall favorite, the San Antonio Spurs, are somewhat of a dynasty. I don’t know how long Duncan can last but the rest of the team keeps going. Too bad they didn’t turn on the championship mode while Robinson was a young man. He and Duncan were fun to watch.
The Cleveland Cavaliers overpay Lebron Who? and I have thought that to be one of the fallacies of the game.

Of the three – baseball, football and basketball – basketball is the least demanding. Sure, the players have to sprint back and forth from bucket to bucket but other than drinking Gatorade that’s it.

Ya know what? I have never seen football or baseball played by paraplegics in wheelchairs. Those games are far more demanding. A right fielder may have a slow night in a baseball game but the distances he has to cover at speed offensively as well as defensively are beyond that of basketball. Basketball is a lot of faked fouls – those guys can milk it.
Baseball is hit, catch, run; period. And everyone has to be able to do it. The American league has the designated hitter rule for the pitcher that the National league doesn’t but big whoop-dee-do.

Football is a whole different story. I played with full armor in school – it is fun and it hurts. I played left D tackle in a south Texas school. Basketball (guard) was a breeze and baseball (1st base) was sheer joy. Football was fun because I got to wear pads and hit for real. Think “Friday Night Lights” and you have it because that is the way it is.
I did all of this for free. I have a classmate that played for the Raiders and now wears a Superbowl ring. They gave him steroids in college as well as at the pro level.

I find it appalling that people will pay $100 to watch millionaires play games. I find it even more so that some owner will pay a player millions of dollars to play a game.

I am troubled by the fact school teachers are paid so little while the heroes of school hoodlums are millionaires that play games.

My sister is a teacher. Does she do it for the money?
It is an honorable profession that far too many parents take for granted. She doesn’t earn what educators should and that is near criminal. Children are sent to schools to hopefully gain some education and an insight to life from those such as my sister. She does it because she likes it and has for years.
She doesn’t have a FATHEAD commercial nor are her daily exploits on highlight reels for fanfare. She doesn’t have a jersey with a number nor does she do commercials that would double her salary.
She attends BSU at present and I had an opportunity to walk on the BLUE football field.

Whatever happened to PROFESSIONAL TEACHERS, POLICEMAN, FIREMEN, EMTs, PLUMBERS and slew of other people that actually get us through the day?
PROFESSIONAL ATHLETES are paid more than enough to do so, how about making them do the jobs once a week?

Conspiracy Theories

I love the tone implied by those that refer to any that mention what is equal to conspiracy as THEORISTS – basically nuts with no idea of what is wrong or right.
I am in that sector and sure, there are some that are really out there. For the most part, those that look for explanations and reasonings other than that which is digested so readily by the masses, are exercising their God given right of questioning the hidden agenda of their fellow man. Remember “The X-Files?”
I am not one to “stay the course” as the president of the US suggests. I don’t know who OUR “enemies” are. He and those that follow his mantra love to use that expression but, who are our enemies? Who are HIS enemies?

I can take an educated guess and say the $500,000,000,000.00 that has been spent enabling a civil war on the other side of the world was more than military funding. Some entity of the world wanted to transfer a large amount of cash from one hand to another. Was the USA blackmailed or are we OWNED?
Just 40 years ago we were in a war in Vietnam and the troops did for themselves there. There were no multi-million dollar contracts for housing, feeding, laundry, or the other parts of a soldiers life that are performed by others as in Iraq. I am a military brat, my father was a training instructor/war veteran and I have seen how the military has changed. I have also watched the change in the governmental policies that dictate how we are to live our lives.
In his 1961 inaugural speech JFK said -
“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you–ask what you can do for your country.”
That was cool but, then he opened his mouth and continued -
“My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.”

Further, this heartfelt speech also held the prelude of the goal of our country to go forth and meddle -
” Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required–not because the communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.”

With those words he well paved the way for the ideals held by those that put us into any of the following wars such as Vietnam as well as the middle eastern foibles of today. JFK had the good sense to back down during the “Bay of Pigs” incident but, was that his downfall?

We will never know the truth concerning his death – I for one, do not believe Oswald was the lone trigger man. I suppose that is a conspiracy for the ages. The Zapruder film, held by the government for a long time is very telling for me. JFK was shaking up the system as did RFK and MLK. They were 3 high profile figures that were to be more than prominent in the cause for civil rights. Then, as now, there is a ruling class that has the final say. Ultimately, it comes down to one’s holdings or a status of class – in this case it is the have’s and the havenots.
That’s more conspiracy talk, right?

Ask yourself honestly….Why does a lot of the evidence point to the side of the theorists whereas the Bush supporters are prone to speaking like Bush and repeating themselves over and over?

I just saw “Fahrenheit 9/11″ for the first time tonight and thought it brilliant. Combine that with “Loose Change” and the Bush administration smells like SHIT - and rightfully so.
I wasn’t born yesterday; I know much of World/USA political history and the way in which individuals think. Why any man or woman thinks their 60 years of life on this planet is so important is a laughing joke.
Here are some questions that may lead to conspiracy theories.
What does W think he can accomplish in the middle east other than steal oil from another country? What does it matter after he is dead?
Bush rallied the “Religious Right” for his last campaign didn’t he? He had all of the red states.
If he was truly a Christian – he claims to be – he would know that efforts to provoke a “religious” war is not in his realm. If he had read his bible he would know better.
BTW – That’s not a theory.
Michael Moore’s film exposes so much of the entire Bush family I wonder how any of them can hold a public office. Any close to them are tainted.

Any man, woman or child that claps as a seal in support of the man’s insanity are as those that supported Hitler to his rise as Der Feurher.
How far from that level of ruling is he?

Soylent Green – 2007

Remember the futuristic movie Soylent Green, starring the great Charlton Heston, who learns what the foodstuff of the future is and warns us all by telling us “Soylent Green is people, it’s people!”

That is a very timely thought as in these days we are being told that inanimate objects are responsible for the violence committed by people. There are people that will argue irrationally that “GUNS kill people”.
Actually, that is base propaganda. I will be one that will speak out as did Charlton Heston:
“VIOLENT guns is people, it’s people.”

I suppose many of you have seen the television commercials for some credit card company where dozens of pairs of scissors are depicted as piranha waiting to cut up credit cards.
WAIT!! Aren’t scissors merely inanimate objects that need a human hand to perform that action?
So are weapons of any kind. They are designed to be implemented by a human hand with a human thought.

• Fist
• Club
• Knife
• Spear
• Ax
• Mind
• Paper, Rock , Scissors
• Gun
• Bomb
• Missile

We are violent by nature and rather than just act on instinct we have the ability to think, scheme, plan and ruin everything.
Grizzly bears go to a river when salmon are running to spawn to get something to eat in the here and now. Humans go there with the thought in mind to take 1000 times what we need so we can sell it.
Bears may run each other off of the fishing hole they are at but rarely is the outcome death . Humans would kill each other over the same fact.
Case in point – I have been to Maine a few times in midsummer and along the coastal areas a native plant, the low blueberry bush is producing blueberries that have to be experienced to believe. I have filled my knapsack several times while eating them at the same time.
These plants love the coastal region and people pull over onto the side of the road to pick them.
There are those that now guard these plants while armed so they can make a profit and run people off at gunpoint.

Violent Guns is people folks, Its People!