Mr. Obama on Baltimore: Noble Sentiments but Leave it to Me to Find Something Ignoble in it.
“If our society really wanted to solve the problem, we could; it’s just that it would require everybody saying, ‘this is important; this is significant.’ And, that we don’t just pay attention to these communities when a CVS burns, and we don’t just pay attention when a young man gets shot or has his spine snapped, but we’re paying attention all the time because we consider those kids our kids.” —President Obama on the situation in Baltimore
That's what our President said and I commend him for speaking out quickly on an issue that will only result in more and more out-of-desperation riots. [WOR radio dimwits (not you, G.N., for you do the best you can to present orators on behalf of the people although you too couldn't help yourself with this one) are quick to try and latch onto the so-called witness that is saying that Mr. Gray tried to injure himself as if that's all the excuse necessary to move on. But let us remember that bastard woman who was allowed to be a prime witness for P.O. Wilson and let us remember that the vast majority of us have a fire in our belly born of eons of evolution that will never be quenched no matter how much goody-two shoes think we should allow ourselves to lose every semblance of self-respect because we are a nation of laws irrespective of whether or not we can afford to have a lawyer in our pocket.)
However, I'd like to point out a few things to Mr. Obama. During one of the last world wars, it was discovered that a very high percentage of soldiers never fired their weapons at the enemy--killing was abhorrent to them or self-preservation (not drawing enemy fire to themselves) was paramount. Even as late as the Vietnam War, many soldiers had a need to light up rather than bomb villages.
Today, based on whistleblowing by Chelsea Manning and others, we find that the U.S. military has found a way to increase psychopathy. Couple that with the fact that 70 percent of police officers are veterans (heard on CoasttoCoastAM this morning) and I am led to propose that perhaps we should investigate if the military is turning psychopaths loose on our society.
I've proposed that our corporations be taxed on their job creation ability and I've suggested that salaries of teachers (lower grades) and tuition increases only be permitted if the institutions actually get our kids hired. For every kid who ends up in the criminal justice system, take money away from those that failed the innocent. Those who argue that the parents are partly responsible should understand that those parents were themselves failed by our institutions.
What irks me about the President's message is that he is apparently throwing responsibility on society--the people at large, so to speak. But do the people have the ability to modify the MIC and stop them from creating psychopaths; do the people have the power to stand up to a corrupt system of justice; do we have the power to stand up to the PBA's that have managed to give their members rights that no one else has; do we have the power to curtail tuition increases for bogus degrees; do we have the power to tax outsourcing corporations?
No, Mr. President the people have very limited power, if any. I sign multiple petitions almost on a daily basis and some succeed but hardly ever do they create the paradigm shifts that you and all of us non-psychopaths know we need. If you think that the voices of citizens--drowned out and divided and conquered by the very medium that held so much promise to stop disenfranchisement--well, then, respectfully, sir, we are back to square one. It may come as a surprise, Mr. President, but isn't that why the people hire and give power to their elected representatives--to do that which we can't do on our own?
By the way, I'd like to thank the President for his great work vis-a-vis Iran and Cuba--work which we could never have done on our own (see what you can do if you stuck to our Constitution? Sorry, couldn't help myself--just finished watching dour-faced Blitzer on W.H. Correspondent's Dinner although you did zing them, didn't you. How was Brook looking--I couldn't spot her.)
That's what our President said and I commend him for speaking out quickly on an issue that will only result in more and more out-of-desperation riots. [WOR radio dimwits (not you, G.N., for you do the best you can to present orators on behalf of the people although you too couldn't help yourself with this one) are quick to try and latch onto the so-called witness that is saying that Mr. Gray tried to injure himself as if that's all the excuse necessary to move on. But let us remember that bastard woman who was allowed to be a prime witness for P.O. Wilson and let us remember that the vast majority of us have a fire in our belly born of eons of evolution that will never be quenched no matter how much goody-two shoes think we should allow ourselves to lose every semblance of self-respect because we are a nation of laws irrespective of whether or not we can afford to have a lawyer in our pocket.)
However, I'd like to point out a few things to Mr. Obama. During one of the last world wars, it was discovered that a very high percentage of soldiers never fired their weapons at the enemy--killing was abhorrent to them or self-preservation (not drawing enemy fire to themselves) was paramount. Even as late as the Vietnam War, many soldiers had a need to light up rather than bomb villages.
Today, based on whistleblowing by Chelsea Manning and others, we find that the U.S. military has found a way to increase psychopathy. Couple that with the fact that 70 percent of police officers are veterans (heard on CoasttoCoastAM this morning) and I am led to propose that perhaps we should investigate if the military is turning psychopaths loose on our society.
I've proposed that our corporations be taxed on their job creation ability and I've suggested that salaries of teachers (lower grades) and tuition increases only be permitted if the institutions actually get our kids hired. For every kid who ends up in the criminal justice system, take money away from those that failed the innocent. Those who argue that the parents are partly responsible should understand that those parents were themselves failed by our institutions.
What irks me about the President's message is that he is apparently throwing responsibility on society--the people at large, so to speak. But do the people have the ability to modify the MIC and stop them from creating psychopaths; do the people have the power to stand up to a corrupt system of justice; do we have the power to stand up to the PBA's that have managed to give their members rights that no one else has; do we have the power to curtail tuition increases for bogus degrees; do we have the power to tax outsourcing corporations?
No, Mr. President the people have very limited power, if any. I sign multiple petitions almost on a daily basis and some succeed but hardly ever do they create the paradigm shifts that you and all of us non-psychopaths know we need. If you think that the voices of citizens--drowned out and divided and conquered by the very medium that held so much promise to stop disenfranchisement--well, then, respectfully, sir, we are back to square one. It may come as a surprise, Mr. President, but isn't that why the people hire and give power to their elected representatives--to do that which we can't do on our own?
By the way, I'd like to thank the President for his great work vis-a-vis Iran and Cuba--work which we could never have done on our own (see what you can do if you stuck to our Constitution? Sorry, couldn't help myself--just finished watching dour-faced Blitzer on W.H. Correspondent's Dinner although you did zing them, didn't you. How was Brook looking--I couldn't spot her.)
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