WAR
REPARATION
(FRAZER
CHRONICLE)
(All
the News That Nobody Else Will Print)
I never gave much thought to
“war reparation”, whether it
was the United States paying for a country’s rebuilding efforts at the end of a
military intrusion by the United States and her allies. I would suppose that
dumping scads of taxpayer funds into countries that the U.S. preemptively
engaged in military action might be justified. However in the aftermath of the
2nd World War when the United States forked over $17 billion which would be about $120 billion in its
worth today, to rebuild Europe, that has always kind of been a thorn in my
bonnet.
I never fully understood
that mentality of rebuilding what had been
torn down, or bombed to smithereens. I was kind of under the naïve thinking
process that when a country invades, and acquires property, natural elements
and people, that once the dust of war cleared the offenders (if they’d been
defeated) would have to pony up the
dough. Having to rebuild their land as well as those that they invaded was
kind of like punishment for causing the war, or so I feel.
Oh, I understand that after
Germany was defeated in World War II, they did not have the funds necessary for
the extensive rebuilding efforts. Still the country should still be held
responsible for the cost of rebuilding what they ripped apart. People must have
thought that the money that the United States Government used in reconstructing
Europe grew on trees.
I understand that decades
after the European Recovery Program (ERP) or the Marshall Plan ran its four
year course of spending that $17 billion dollars it is almost silly to question
the veracity of what went down more than 68 years ago, but I’d really like for
somebody to justify spending taxpayer dollars to help boost the European
economy, to rebuild war devastated regions, remove trade barriers, modernize
industry, make Europe prosperous, and prevent the spread of communism. However
I have a strong feeling that stopping the spread of communism was of paramount
importance to the program.
Does anybody believe here in
the 21st century that that $17 billion dollars all went to Europe for a rebuilding and humanitarian
effort…..I didn’t think so. The debacle that Iraq and Afghanistan have been
with regards to the suit-cases and cardboard boxes full of American taxpayer
dollars disappearing, I’m sure happened after 1945 in Europe.
You see, “we get the old cattle prod when we come
into this life and when we leave”. What our slick authority figures do is
to cajole the American taxpayers into a war which costs trillions, with mostly
our young people possibly being shot to death…..and when hostilities are at an
end, these same war hawk authority figures suddenly turn humanitarian and dish
out American taxpayer money to rebuild what they’ve crushed. It’s really a
sweet situation for the current authority figures, and the next general of these
people.
HOWEVER
IT’S NOT ONLY EUROPE THAT NEEDS REBUILDING BY U.S. TAXPAYERS
We don’t usually equate war
reparations payouts here in the United States, no, it’s usually some little
Iraq, or Afghani village that we’ve never heard of and much less can say.
However that has all changed, and we have us
to thank for what seems to be
happening with greater frequency here in the U.S.
Some U.S. cities seem to be
addressing police brutality the same way that our high ranking governmental
authority figures do with rebuilding our war torn military escapades around the
world…..using tax dollars to repay victims who have been wronged with regards
to how their lives were torn apart.
I read several articles
about these reparations, and I sat bolt upright during my morning coffee and
bananas and knew exactly what I’d have to blog about today. Seems like American
citizens are a little like all of those innocent German’s during World War II
that had absolutely no idea about Hitler’s genocide of the Jewish people.
Those’s right, right here in
the United States helpless imprisoned people, mostly black, are subjected to
all sorts of physical degradation. Come on, we know that this happens all of
the time, and that the vast majority of these people (like I mentioned) are
black.
Let’s get this straight, in
war the United States and her allies invade a country because there is a
feeling that the country invaded MIGHT
be planning some sort of attack against the U.S. or one of her allies…..in the
future. So our authority figures figure it’s better to strike first and ask
questions later…..and then, when the answers to the questions don’t quite fit
the reason for the sorties that U.S. taxpayers have just paid for…..our
authority figures decide that we have to partake in the rebuilding process
because they made an oops. And where does that money come from…..well ladies
and gentlemen, get to diggin once again, cause we just got another tax bill.
Sadly the exact same thing
is happening right here in the United States, this time in the form of the
country’s policing agencies. Yup those big bellied, muscle-bound, red-necked
peace officers are overstepping their bounds again…..actually still! You didn’t really think
that today’s law-enforcement agencies invented brutal and rough treatment to
the people that they arrest…..did you?
Chi-town will be paying a
cool $5.5 million to victims that have had the crap kicked out of them by
Chicago’s finest for decades. Milwaukee will be paying almost half a million
dollars for illegal strip searches. Los Angeles has millions of dollars pending
in court battles with dozens of men and women who have been rousted by LA cops.
And those victims who have
lost their lives as the result of police brutality numbers in the thousands,
and the pending lawsuit settlements are astronomical…..try in the hundreds of
millions of dollars.
I have always had a problem
with public employees saying that they “serve
the public”, it has just never rang true for me. Cops, firefighters, street
sweepers, sanitation department people, dog catchers usually feel that they’ve
gotten themselves a pretty good gig. Benefits are great, the pay is raised in
increments and retirement is dynamite.
Oh sure cops and firefighters
have a tough, and sometimes dangerous job, but it still usually beats working
for a living. I speak from experience here also, my wife was one of those
public servants and retired from her job a couple of years ago with some pretty
impressive benefits…..I’m not complaining.
BUT NOW
WE GET TO THE REAL NITTY-GRITTY
We still have time, not
much, but time none-the-less, there are some good and decent cops out there,
and I’m sure that they are like me and you, abhorred to what they see on their
jobs every day. For them to stand up and point fingers has always been a ridiculous
statement for the hierarchy of police authority figures to say.
You’ve heard of the blue wall, well it goes deeper than any
wall of silence that ordinary people have ever encountered. You see cops are a
different breed of kitty-cat, they covet their authority, and they seem to have
an extra load of testosterone surging through their bodies. A goodly number of
cops are control freaks, who must be in charge…..and usually do not
make mistakes.
There are several things
that the common citizens (us) need to do to retake our streets, number one is
to realize that all black people, or people of color, are bad people. Actually
they’re just about like white people…..(white, just another color) and we need
to come to grips with that fact.
Police forces are bankrolled
by…..guess who, us taxpayers, so we can actually dictate to them what we want
done, and how it needs to be accomplished. Non-violence needs to be the order
of the day.
And finally, possibly the
hardest part of this equation is the fact that we need to govern ourselves,
and the way we think, say and do. Involvement is paramount to success here,
instead of selfies, be taking pictures of cops doing what they perceive as
their jobs. What we have, in the final analyses is a responsibility to
ourselves, and our kids. We need to be checking our so called authority figures to ensure that they
are doing the jobs that we hired them to do.
HAVE
A NICE DAY!
