rock paper gun

With the mass murder in Colorado, a short drive from where I live, all the calls for gun control and what not the talking heads keep repeating.  Guns do not kill any one, ever, people kill people.  A gun is a tool, no different then a hammer, cleaning products, and even a nice fist sized rock.  Any object can be used to snuf out the life of fragile creatures known as humans.  All the gun control in the world will never stop anyone that wishes to commit mass murder for doing so. (first off that leap of desire exempts your mind from a bunch of rules the rest of us are keeping, like all the people in the oh so safe gun free zone.) If even a few (even one) of the people in that movie theater where armed this whole situation would of ended with the joker dead  and many of the dead alive. I wonder if all the people calling for more gun control just see in themselves the inability to control them selves if they had access to a firearm. If you don't want one fine but leave my guns alone.

The sad truth

After SCOTUS ruled on the ACA, people have got all excited about appealing this and we will undo that.  The real truth is that now the SCOTUS has set a precedent that allows the feral federal government to tax us/fine us for any reason in the future.  Any subject that a future majority may want to force upon the rest of the nation is perfectly acceptable if it phrased as a tax.  All of this was done so one conservative justice could be popular with the 'in crowd', think about that for a bit.  He sacrificed 300+ million citizens liberty to be popular.  Oh Roberts you have some popularity now, to bad for you it is also called pariah as well.

SCOTUS burns the little people.

     Well it has now been established that our government can tax us for not doing a action they feel we should do.  Will the EPA now add a tax on me for every breath of co2 I add to the environment?  Will I have to pay a tax because I do not buy the next new thing, like a volt,(never mind my old car still runs and I can not afford to buy a new one.) that the government thinks I should?  The way I see this is now that the rich have been given the power live like they have always have, because they can afford to pay the fines/taxes.  The rest of us citizens will not be able to live like we have before.  So while I will be denied health care because I am to fat, not green enough, not what ever enough.  The wealthy will be able to pay the tax/fine and live like they wish.
     I will have to spend how much more, and more time doting every I and cross every T to avoid additional taxes/fines the wealthy will never worry about it because they will just have accountant pay the fine/tax.  God forbid the amount of paperwork this will make me responsible for, just to ovoid fines/taxes that I am sure the easy to work with IRS will have for me in a few years.
     I makes me think of the old days when you wanted to do a sin that every one else could be fined/jailed/killed for it you just popped into the Vatican and got a pardon for it.  As always the people who gave us this wonderful healthcare system have exempted them selves and there close buddy's from being subject to it too.

Guns and Lawyers

     So the operation Fast and Furious was to help illustrate how guns from America is used in drug lord battles/crimes.  By forcing gun dealers that, get this, did not want to sell or notified the ATF (as they are supposed to ie; law abiding) about sells that they found suspicious.  The powers that be then made them sell the guns when they would normally not have done so.  Then with no way to track the guns besides hope , end up in some very bad hands. (Some gps devices that would last a for a few days(72 hours) on some of the guns, some as in a few.  After all we all know that smuggling is done very quickly and we can be sure that smuggled guns will be at the drug lords bedroom in hours after being brought.  Because gun smugglers have magic unicorns to pack mule them across hundred of miles of the south west in a few hours.)
     How in the hell is this even close to how law enforcement operates?  Let me think about this in a different was, like pimps and hookers.  So we can say that pimps like to get young girls and make them hookers, and beat them, take their money ect.  So lets come up with a way to prove this, So I am going to let some one known  for human trafficking access to orphanages  to get several young girls. When the people running the orphanage gets concerned about the people here for the young lady's and call about it we will tell them to let the adoption happen regardless of failing background checks, multiple adoptions over time and general creepy mojo.  Then to make sure we keep track of the girls we give all the girls gps devices that will last for months so we can find them in a moments notice world wide, and have been tracking every movement to map out the web of human trafficking.  few of them a small gps device that will last for a few days, like 72 hours ( Don't forget travel in the south west can take days to travel down foot trails, and back roads to get to drug-lords hideout/armory. pimp brothels)  After losing track of all the girls, we wait to see if any get picked up for prostitution later, then deny that we had anything to do with it.
     The lie stands for months and months until  whistle blowers provide the info on the program, DOJ retract the lie and clam up so tight that diamonds should be shooting out of the DOJ.  This program sounds allot more like enabling gun smuggling then a interdiction effort to me.  With no way to track the guns beyond a few days, no notice to the Mexican government, and demoting/harassing whistle blowers (This program was so bad the local law enforcers are risking jobs and careers over this.)  I can only ask what was the point of this operation?  It surely was not to stop guns, or to make people safer.  So what else could be the reason be?

The fight ring

     I can hear the chanting coming from nations slowly ringing America and Syria, "Fight Fight Fight".  Like kids at a school yard all wanting to see a blood circus act, the nations that don't give a rats ass about America cheering us on are all our friends our power brokers say.  The fact of the mater is we felt no need to go after them for the many bombings, assassinations and terrorists funding programs they have been involved in, why now?  Is it because some nations, not much different from Syria claim we will BFF if we do?  Where we just not fighting some of our 'buddy's' that are now such good friends that we should send our young men into die for them?  What kind of multiple personality disorder diplomacy are we doing here?  This making war for other people who don't like us and very often speak how they wish we were dead is not sane.
     All these friends we are courting like some idiot rich kid, thinking that he is making friends with other kids by letting them drive his hot rod, and paying for parties.  You are not making friends, you are being used for your wealth and power for their own ends.  This juvenile thinking that our nation is doing out in the world will not lead to more safety, or respect.  You never respect some one that is easily manipulated or deceived.  
     America needs to back up and step out of the ring of chanters and take a deep breath.  The men and women that serve in our armed forces deserve the respect of not sending them into harms way for petty diplomatic du jour,  promises of BFF status later on, or nations wanting us to fight their wars for them.

Red vs Blue is screwing you.

     Some thing is rotten the land, I can feel it in the rhetoric the power brokers use to fire up the two sides of the same coin.  How the land of the free has the most prisoners in the world ever.  This alone is wrong on a scope that boggles the mind
     How the blue talk of freedom and tolerance yet stand for no dissent from their view.  How the red talk of morality yet don't wish to calmly convert the unbeliever but jail them instead.  Both sides spend so much time yelling at each other so that you can not hear how they are the same.  The war on drugs, blue says that it is immoral and needs to end, yet when they have the power to stop it it goes on like red.  Blue says wars are immoral and should not happen unless we are attacked, we topple nations and send drones like swarms of deadly bees' to kill from a list like red.  Red says we need to shrink the government and it swells like a cancer when they have the power like blue.  Red says we have to stop this spending, yet they to spend in groundbreaking ways when they have the power just like blue. Red and blue both say the other side blocks them from acting like they claim is a 'moral duty' in the many many speeches to our talking heads.  Yet when they are the majority nothing changes besides superficial  items.  Red and blue talk about how money is selling our rights away yet both wave a bags of cash at the other, screaming about how naughty the other is.  People who say our god commands us to kill you, are the people we have 'advising' us on how to stop them, that is enough to make you howl at the moon in madness.  I do not know what is wrong and who is pulling the strings but it is becoming plain to see that some one, group, agenda is doing the classic, lets have you two fight scam.  How is it that we keep falling for this ruse over and over year after year? I am tired of the red vs blue, and so should you.

This has been the year I discovered that my republic has died a long time ago.

     My first awareness of a president was Carter, and Terrorists holding people hostage in a land far away. Watching as my father quietly listened to the reports of the rescue mission crashing in the sands in flames, on the nightly news.  The feel of the strange helplessness and anger that just could not be resolved by anyone.  My teachers teaching all about the global cold that was inevitable due to ether our pollution or hydrogen bombs falling from our skies from the evil acronym U.S.S.R.  If that did not happen then we will soon all starve to death because we are over breeding and will need more food then can ever be grown.  I remember Hearing the worried sound in my parents voices talking quietly in the other room while my brother and sister played the Atari 2600 in blissful ignorance. Yes this was my first taste of anything beyond the three small town blocks I was allowed to roam in warm summer days.
     Then the Reagan began his bid and I was swept up with his hope and belief in our land, I distinctly remember drawing two tanks on a doodle page and drawing in USA on one, and blowing up the other with USSR drawn inside of it.  Frankly I was proud of our land and felt that we were the good guys, fighting the evil no mater where it could be found.  Not noticing the importance of my father going to the movie platoon by himself.  How he spent the rest of the night slowly shifting through is 'war chest' in the basement filled with strange pictures and odd trinkets that the rest of the family were never allowed to touch.  How simple, clean, and noble war was to a child.
     In my teens I drifted away from political information like most teens do, who liked who and the small betrayals of your peers was of utmost importance in my life.  Oliver North was on trial for selling the cocaine markets in the United States to fight the evil commies in the south. This all felt wrong and made me wonder who the good guys are.  I became a liberal at this point, how I switched is unknown to me at the time. I was concerned with being 'fair' and wanting a perfect government.  I started experimenting with various drugs (oh I inhaled all right, and I have tried almost all of them in almost every way you can.)  I was a rough time in my life and it was only to get much worse as I began culturing a ten year methamphetamine habit that dominated my life for far to long.  Arrests, destroyed credit, and a underestimation of my families value was the hallmarks of this time, with me blaming everyone but myself for what my life was.  Drugs were bad, they are bad now, however you can't have Prohibition in a free market, well any market, with out it becoming a black market item with violence and corruption following its coat tails.  I have been clean and sober for many years now, because I decided to become more or wiser in my choices.  I did not do this because of laws or treatment but by me deciding to be accountable for my life, good and bad.  I believe I am one of the lucky ones that survived draconian drug laws with out devastating damage to my life.  After this time a discovered I was not a liberal anymore, I was now thinking what works over what we wish the world was, and I found that I was nodding my head to what Republicans said on many issues, not all but many.Many of the people that I used to get high with and talk about how tolerant we are of everyone else, now will not speak to me because I was evidently a hater and a bigot now,  Funny how that worked out.
     The Twin towers fell and I was not immune to the surge of patriotic vengeance that swept our nation.  "We will get them for having the audacity to even think of harming us." was the best way to sum up how the nation felt to me.  Then the years of 2003-2005 (the years the republicans controlled all three sides of our government with a majority) happened while I was now reading new media, not watching the television, and much more aware of the world around me and our nation.  The party that had the same 'core' values I did showed that they in fact do not have them at all, its all talk and smoke much like political reefer to get the voters high on fixing our crumbling republic while the masons we have voted in chip away at the foundation instead of shoring it up as needed.  I am no longer a republican, both parties have shown me to be about power, money and lies.  I used to think our government was good with a few bad apples, now I know most are bad apples with a few good ones bound in chains and tempted continually with the lure of power.
    The warnings of our founders are all coming true.  I am full of fear and sadness of what the future will be and if I will see the day that I must die will it even help, to water the tree long withered and hanging on by one thin root to the cliff above the abyss of despotism.
       I was ignorant, blind, and a fool many will say.  I am what I am, I do not care what you eat, drink, smoke, screw or worship, I want the same for myself.  I will stand for life and liberty what ever the cost will be, I am a nobody, a small fish, but yet I am the small voice that, with others like me, can become the roar of defiance to hold back the tide of darkness sweeping in.  I am the poor, I am the uneducated, I am the one crushed by greed and power, I am the independent voter. I can see the darkness gathering around our flickering torch of liberty, while the power brokers smile and tell me darkness is light.
     This has been the year that I discovered that my republic died a long time ago.