Do you feel safe knowing the second amendment protects your rights to bear arms so you can protect your family and belongs? Do you like your second amendment rights? I don't.
If you do, know that Larynzo Johnson, who shot the two police officers in Louisville, KY, on Thursday, September 24, 2020, also likes the second amendment and his rights to purchase a lethal weapon. Johnson was a law-abiding gun owner for a few hours after having just acquired a lethal weapon, until he wasn't a law-abiding gun owner anymore.
Now there are countless young men, clad in body armor, some concealing lethal weapons, some not, who identify with the Black Lives Matter movement, the leaders of which have roots in the Black Liberation movement, the Nation of Islam and going way back, the Black Panther movement. The Black Liberation movement seeks to create a sovereign black state within the U.S. through violence if necessary. I suspect you will not find a portrait of Martin Luther King amongst the homes of these individuals. MLK (and his ideas of judging people not for the color in their skin but rather for the content of their character) is not their guy. These people do judge people by the color of their skin first and foremost.
I do not think you will find anyone opposed to the idea that human life matters? So, why do we cater to violent, Marxist movements couched in virtue signaling, and praise the BLM fist icon? Systematic racism was effective eliminated from legislation during the Johnson administration in 1965 or thereabouts. BLM is confusing equality of opportunity with equality of outcome.
The BLM fist icon is sprouting up all over Washington, DC. You cannot even take the Capitol Crescent Trail without seeing a BLM fist icon every mile spray painted on the pavement. Is the BLM fist icon something endearing? Does it warm your heart when you see an angry fist? Do you immediately think of love and peace when you see a fist icon?
In my mind the BLM fist icon is a symbol of violence. It scares me. I would like to see it go away, but there are people out there actively chanting the slogan "silence is violence". I am not sure about the logic in that reasoning. I suppose it means they see it as I have a choice. I can either join them and go participate in the riots, arsen and looting we have all witnessed in the media since the death of George Floyd while in police custody or alternatively they will see me as the enemy, a presumed fascist, who must be stripped of all speech rights and properly dealt with later.
These marauding groups, which are reportedly well funded by left wing billionaires, including George Soros, are something akin to the paramilitary groups that were in support of Mao Zedong during the cultural revolution. These paramilitary groups ultimately killed and slaughtered their fellow citizens, largely on impulse and when the cultural revolution concluded upwards of 50 million Chinese nationals had died.
The Louisville matter with Breonna Taylor is troubling. The crowd clearly does not believe in concepts like due process or the presumption of innocence. They want the three officers hanged on the spot. These mobs chant, "No justice no peace", but what does that mean exactly? What type of justice are they referring to? If these mobs of broken individuals get their way, the doomed police officers involved in Taylor's death would be paraded to what are drumhead trials, convictions would be handed down, appeals denied, punishments harsh.
The mob in Louisville, KY, and those that are protesting in more than ten cities throughout the US are demanding that all police offices be thrown in jail and that all criminals who are currently incarcerated at these same institutions be set free. Go and figure that out. There seems to be a flaw in the logic. Who is going to watch over the incarcerated police offices while the jails are being dismantled?
Further, these mobs of broken individuals are demanding the dismantling and eradication of all police services and immigration control and enforcement services. Studies show that 50% of all adolescent males would rape a woman if it were legal and there was no punishment involved. That's figure is consistently true when the same study is repeated over and over again.
Does the defund the police thing sound like a great idea to you?
If you happen to live in the relative calm of the suburbs, just how long do you think it will be that the streets in your neighbor will begin to see men and women clad in body armor torching residences?
Robin Diangelo, the author of White Fragility, is of no help. Diangelo, who doubles as a diversity training specialist, advances the opinion in her book, White Fragility, that only white people, meaning caucasians, are racist. Diangelo further advances that white people are born racist. If you are white and think you are not racist, you are racist. If you are woke to your inherent racism, then you are at least aware of your racism and white privledge. You are still rascist. Critical race theory, based on Diangelo's ideas is now being taught in the schools of hundreds of school districts and the cirriculum is spreading.
Sadly, supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died this past week. Ginsburg left explicit instructions as to how she is to be replaced on the Supreme Court. It is unclear how Ginsburg's opinion on how she is to be replaced matters. The constitution clears delineates the authority of nominating a supreme court justice to the executive branch. The constitution also delineates the authority of confirming a supreme court justice to the legislative branch and in particular the Senate. One would think Ginsburg, who is familiar with the separation of powers would know that. However, the talking points now show that after being informed she had hours to live, who would replace her was the most important thing on Ginsburg's mind.
On Saturday, September 26, 2020 President Trump, who is still the president no matter what happens on November 3, 2020, has nominated Amy Coney Barrett, who happens to be a practising Catholic. The democrats led by minority leader, Chuck Schumer believe Barrett is incapable of separating her faith from her opinions while serving as a Supreme Court justice. Faith is belief in the adsence of evidence. One would presume that justices can make decisions solely on the evidence and legal precedence. Not Chuck. Several left of center leaning cable news contributors, like Reza Aslan, as well as left of center professors are calling for the everything to be burned down if Ginsburg's replacement is not left of center.
I think the people, including left of center cable media contributors, who call for violence, who call for everything to be burned down, should be identified and the George Soros ANTIFA groups should begin with their property, with their possessions, and assault, rape and kill their family members first. People who call to burn everything down, cannot be opposed to their own property burned down. They cannot be opposed to their own family members being raped and killed. Can they?
If we allow this to continue and fail to stand with our laws and governance by casting our vote in how we want our society to function, we simply will not have a country left when a vaccine to the plague is available. Unfortunately, the only political party that has consistently called for law and order is the Republican party. For some reason high profile politicians within the democrat party, including vice presidential candidate, Kamala Harris, who have been backing foundations, like the MMF foundation, to bail out violent protesters so they can continue their assault against our way of life, are not so inclined. The democrat party is quite busy these days leading up to 2020 election, exposing racists and misogynists in every nook and cranny in the country. Anyone who is not a registered Democrat is by definition a racist it seems.
Should the democrats pull out the miracle on November 3, 2020 and successfully elect Joe Biden as president, a man who is still recovering from two brain aneurysms, there is still no guarantee that they will be able to persaud ANTIFA to stop the violence in Portland, Oregon. These people are on a roll and care little about what Joe would have to say.
Perhaps Marty Shecter was right afterall when he wasn't hurling insults at a number of his opponents in his candidate introduction on September 19, 2020, when referring to those with a desire to contribute and give back, when he said "Unfortunately, not everyone feels this way".
Maybe just maybe, Shecter is more astute than anyone gives him credit for.
God help us.