SHOOT ‘EM UP IN AMERICA

SHOOT ‘EM UP IN AMERICA

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I think that I am weird, I think about all of the carnage in the world, and I look for ways to stem the tide, and make things better for everybody. And without exception, when I get into one of these moods, I end up with more queries then answers. The reason… I still have faith in humanity, even though I’m usually disappointed with the final outcome. People it seems tend to think short term, and many of the world’s problems need long term answers.

 

My latest soap-box issue is gunshot deaths in the United States, and how completely asinine the problem is here in the United States. Baltimore, Maryland is number 40 in the world with regards to gunshot deaths with an average of 33.92 deaths per 100,000 citizens. New Orleans is number 28 as 39.61 people out of a 100,000 die by gun. Detroit comes in at number 22 with 44.87 deaths per 100,000, followed by St. Louis, Missouri with an astounding 49.93 deaths in 100,000 citizens.

 

South American countries dominate cities with the most gunshot deaths, and without exception crime, low household income and the rate of people living below a countries published poverty line are huge contributing factors. Many of the cities and countries on the list that I used for this blog were in a civil disorder…but I can tell you this, Baltimore, Maryland, New Orleans, Louisiana, Detroit, Michigan and St. Louis, Missouri are “not” in any sort of civil disobedience, yet each made the list of the top deadliest cities in the world.

 

So what’s the problem here in the United States, or as some call “Camelot,” maybe it’s the water. I read an article in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel about homicides in the first six months, and how they had doubled from last year’s count…going from 37 in 2014 to 74.

 

Lost in all of the bloodshed is the impact that a shooting death has on the decedent’s family, the void most probably, is almost unbearable. Not ever having been around the gunshot death of a family member, I have no clue, as does the average person on the street.

 

SEVERAL ISSUES INVOLVED HERE

The political community comes out of the woodwork in full force, as does the authority figures, each wanting answers, and offering solutions to the human carnage. Almost without exception their words have a hollow ring to them, and the problem solving suggestions are little more than window dressing.

 

There is talk about the families of the victims, of how a community is being robbed of the possible potential of a gunshot death. How the level of violence is “totally unacceptable,” how many political and city leaders are angered by the deaths.

 

What these authority figures initiate is little more than feel-good initiatives, with absolutely little chance of doing anything about the core problems. The overall problems can be directly traced to color, employment, education, and neighborhood of a victim’s residence.

 

Let’s face the hard cold facts of a victim’s race, education, and station in life…come on now, most victims are black…and most of the shooters are black, at least here in the United States. What is so hard for people of political clout, or position of authority have with admitting the obvious?

 

I’M A WHITE GUY AND IT STILL EMBARRASSES ME

I don’t have a brother, so I don’t understand how black people figure that some black guy on the street is their brother, even when they are only related by color. But let me jog a person’s thinking a bit, if I considered all white men my brother, if the average shooting in Baltimore or Detroit was committed by a white guy, it would embarrass me to know that my brother was shooting another white brother.

 

I suppose that some will view the above paragraph as the rants of a racist…and I don’t care, my point is simple, if more brothers found that blacks shooting blacks was not only embarrassing, but completely unacceptable, maybe then things would start a slow change.

 

To allow the numbers of people that are being shot to death to continue is what I call “enabling and it’s got to stop. Nobody can depend on a community’s political leaders, or civic leaders, or the authority figures.

 

Like always…meaningful change has to come from local citizen effort, it’s always been that way and probably always will be…and for good reason. When there is civil unrest, and people finally come to a decision that something is completely unacceptable…that thing is eradicated, it’s how a society works, at least in the United States.

 

It is time for the average citizen to get involved before some loon-owl orders military response to the stupidity and carnage that is going on in the streets and neighborhoods of America. Education, employment opportunities, and a resurrection of “my brothers keeping” is now in order before its too late for all of us.

Have a nice day!

 

WHAT’S THE BIG HUB BUB ABOUT THE CONFEDERATE FLAG

WHAT’S THE BIG HUB BUB ABOUT THE CONFEDERATE FLAG

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President Obama used the “N” word, Confederate flag flies on South Carolina Statehouse grounds, skin-heads, supremacists groups advocate people of color (especially blacks) return to wherever they came from, and many in the United States are upset by racially motivated killings, and harassment by authority figures (cops) against people of color (mostly blacks.)

 

And the United States is the greatest country that the world has ever seen…hum, maybe we’d better stop here for a moment and evaluate that belief. I am patriotic, red-white and blue all the way baby, I love my country, however I am perceptive enough to understand that the country is made up of many different people, with different ethnic backgrounds, values, and traditions. It’s one of the things, this diversity, that makes the United States so unique and neat to live in.

 

We are supposed to have freedom of speech, be able to pursue health, happiness, and be able to make enough money to live comfortably on. Oh I know, the last part of the previous sentence, “making enough money to live comfortably on” isn’t written down in any preamble, or the US Constitution, but I think that’s what many people believe, want to see and experience.

 

Right now the country is all “het up” about that stupid, sick individual who shot all of those people in that South Carolina church. Sadly that punk’s actions were simply the tip of the iceberg, and there’ll be more to come.

 

I make my home in Green Bay, Wisconsin, home of the Green Bay Packers, and about 103,000 people. The percentage of blacks, Hispanics, Orientals and Native Americans is probably around 15%, not considered enough to make the overall population of the city diverse.

 

You can go into almost any tavern, any day of the week and listen to the conversation that’s going on between patrons and catch the racial slurs, especially on a Packers game day. It is not uncommon for people to use the “N” word…nigger…throughout the game, and in fact get worse as more alcohol is consumed and the game nears the finish.

 

Racial tension here in little ole Green Bay is not heightened depending on a situation, or whatever event is going on. As one guy I know has said to me, “our niggers know how to act,” what a sad, sad commentary.

 

There is an element here in the United States that figures that the black man-women needs to be cared for, like the old attitude of paternalism. Blacks are stupid, by and large, and therefore need to be cared for. The attitude sickens me, and is part of the reason that hate groups seem to thrive in certain parts of the United States.

 

THERE ARE THREE THINGS THAT NEED TO HAPPEN

Number one, US citizens need to come to grips with the fact that the United States is a racist society. In the workplace, in neighborhoods, at the super-market, and on our streets, with little exception black people are not safe.

 

Whether its blacks shooting blacks, or whites shooting blacks, or mostly white cops shooting blacks…black people might need to consider themselves an endangered species. I don’t know how many black people are shot every year, but I know that it’s more than any other race.

 

And those blacks that are shot in neighborhoods, on street corners, on their porches, or while they are watching television in their homes knows no identity. Old, young, man, women, and sadly children, these killings are at an epidemic pace, if they were white people, the US Government would have stepped in long decades ago.

 

Number two, no matter the statute or law, no matter the issue or event, racism needs to be dealt with swiftly and aggressively. Old laws that favor the “Jim Crow” thinking need to be jettisoned from society.

 

And finally number three, an extensive background check for every potential gun purchaser needs to be in place as quickly as possible. The mandate should come from the Federal Government, should be all inclusive, and enacted within 90 days.

 

There should be a moratorium throughout the country until this background check becomes the law of the land. In addition every single gun shop would come under heavy scrutiny, and those that do not meet government standards will be shuttered…forever.

 

The United States has a problem, and when a country, any country, has a problem…every single citizen has the problem. It’ll take work and due-diligence by government, local, state and federal, gun owners, and those of us who do not own a weapon. It’s time for the human carnage to stop!

 

HAVE A NICE DAY!

    

THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT A PERSON IN UNIFORM

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It’s true, I know for a fact that women seem to be attracted to a man in uniform, I can remember that…and it was neat. Of course I’m talking about a military uniform, not a cop, or a janitor, or garbage collector, but a sailor, or soldier. I don’t know how it is for women in uniform; I can only speak for me…”women in uniform never did a single thing for me.”

 

And now we come to a new troop deployment to Iraq, a war that ended on December 31 2011, hooray, and hooray. Personally I never figured that Iraq was over; there was simply way to many loose ends. And now the president is going to order more troops back into the country and retired and serving US mucky mucks are heralding the president’s requests.

 

The US waged war in Iraq for parts of at least nine years with varying degrees of success as well as failures…and through it all not a single sole learned a damned thing. Am I the only one speaking truth and reason…I sure hope not.

 

The United States does not belong in Iraq, the US was responsible for getting rid of Saddam Hussein, the United States is responsible for leaving the country in turmoil, and the US is responsible well over 100,000 civilian casualties…minimum. And now we’re going right back in there with 500 military troops to train Iraqi military and police…”like that’s going to work like it did during the Bush administration”.

 

Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said that Iraqi Security Forces “showed no will to fight,” at least in Ramadi from falling to ISIL. If that is true, which I’m sure it is, what in the world is the Obama Administration sending more American troops to train Iraqi’s. If they won’t fight…any matter the reason, no amount of training or weapons is going to change that kind of attitude.

 

HERE WE GO AGAIN

While Americans suffer here in the greatest country ever devised in the history of man, “it’s what many conservative fools think and say,” our president is strongly thinking about adding military bases in Iraq! Correct me if I’m wrong, but didn’t the United States military dismantle a whole bunch of military facilities at a cost of millions to taxpayers?

 

Call me silly, but I got to ask the question, “who exactly is running the loony bin,” I want to get this issue crystal clear in my feeble 71 year old mind, “we build um, we use um, and then we tear them down…and then we re-erect them?” Sounds like somebody with a whole lot of time on his/her hands is running the country; so much for financial conciseness, and the best interest of us taxpayers.

 

I guess that price tag for close to $2 trillion dollars for the war on terror hasn’t made a dent in those hard headed authority figures that are running this country. It’s why, for me, it’s getting harder and harder to vote for a president to operate our country. I’m not endorsing isolationism…yet, but I guess I’ve got to ask the question of “how much longer are we going to allow our elected officials to run rampant with our tax dollars.”

 

We have a national debt that is out of control, we have people who are uninsured, “even with the Affordable Care Act,” and we have people living out of card-board boxes under bridges, and we have people living from hand to mouth…no money, and a majority of US citizens continue to turn a blind eye towards our massive military force and buildup.

 

STEPPING ON TOES

I’m going to lose some readers, and possibly even some friends, but this needs to be said…the United States is an aggressive military state who fancies itself as the world’s policeman. This feeling surfaced during WWI and was further developed on the run-up to World War II, and has been refined during the 1950’s through the 1990’s.

 

September 11, 2001 was a wake-up call for this country’s leaders and how woeful the country’s intelligence was. The wars that have raged since that date have taken hundreds of thousands of lives. The blood-bath has marked this period in human history, given the fact that many countries and citizens have supposed to have moved on from the butchery and carnage that man does to man, has been extraordinary.

 

With the amount of secret situations that are going on right here in the United States, with the huge amounts of money that is being misappropriated, and the people who are foolhardily signing up to protect America’s freedom and way of life to me is ridiculous. Talk about your misguided individuals…they’ve swallowed the bait “hook, line, and sinker.”

 

That bait; that these people are protecting US citizens from terrorists, or as they like to phrase it…”from bad people” is complete crap. We need to look at ourselves in the mirror, the United States is not lily white, there are ulterior motives as to why the US has meddled so much in the Middle East…one word sums it up…petroleum.

 

The people that have the most to gain from any military action in the area are those petroleum related industries and the military industrial complex. I understand that using the phrase “military industrial complex” all sorts of visions of the late 1950’s and 1960’s, but the phrase is still spot on in explaining who is pushing.

 

THERE IS A REASON UNIFORMS SHOULDN’T RUN A COUNTRY

The United States needs a military presence…in the United States, like the National Guard, however unlike the National Guard; the country needs full time military forces to deal with all sorts of domestic issues, forest fires, floods, weather events, and actually helping the police departments around the country.

 

There is a reason why the United States has been run by a civilian individual, because a military type person mostly knows just one way, confrontation. With little exception, military individuals are used to getting their way which can be very bad for a country.

 

I am not say in any way, shape, or form that the United States is the best country in the world, or that it has the best pattern for building a governing body. I am saying however that the country does give a citizen a chance to grab at the ring of individualism. How important that chance is, is pretty much beyond me.

HAVE A NICE DAY!