After following the flood of evidence of election thievery in 2020, Prudence leads one to wonder many things, posit many questions. These are questions to Americans who love our nation, our history, our traditions and the ideals embraced by the Constitution. Asking the same questions of people who are willing to riot, loot, burn and destroy the properties of others, or who are so consumed by hatred for any individual or group that they are unable to consider any ideas with which the objects of their hatreds may agree, or of those who think they are communists and Marxists or fundamentalist Muslims or anyone else whose core beliefs and loyalties are antithetical to our constitutionally limited democratic republic, will result not in thoughtful response or discussion, but in restated hatreds. Let us not waste that time. Prudence dictates that we place these concerns before those who want to strengthen our present, defend our heritage and who will build a better future than what appears to be gathering force, as I write, against our highest ideals.
With these caveats in mind, then, a question: given the growing list of sworn witnesses to malfeasance in the prosecution of elections of presidential electors in multiple states, and given the corollary existence, therefore, of dozens or hundreds of electoral criminals, should not the worst and most significant bad actors be prosecuted?
In other words, crimes against state, county and federal interests – defined by laws at each level – and against states’ and the U. S. Constitutions, were committed. This fact means that there are criminals guilty of committing those crimes. Neither Jonah Goldberg nor Joe Biden nor Chief Justice, John Roberts can deny those simple facts. By some sleight of magic, however, the three Jays and a host of lower-court judges, elected and appointed, are able to determine without reviewing evidentiary specifics, that none of the witnessed crimes – civil rights violations of the highest order – were of sufficient consequence to matter to the declared outcomes of the states’ electoral votes. Maybe there is a perspective to this that escapes the hapless U. S. citizen who trusts the upholding of his or her Constitution, state or federal.
It’s Friday at 3:00 PM in downtown Philadelphia (or Milwaukee, Atlanta, Pittsburgh, Las Vegas, Phoenix or Raleigh) and people are streaming out of the city for the weekend. A well-planned robbery of the Republic Bank branch at 1601 Walnut Street is executed with the perpetrators making off with six bags of cash just delivered by the armored-car service at 2:54. They exit by a rear door, setting off alarms, and they casually drive away in a sedan, changing cars at Franklin Hospital visitors’ parking and disappear. Total take: $510,000, all insured.
City police and the Philadelphia FBI “SAC” are all over the case. The Bank, which handles several millions of dollars every week, is deeply concerned and cooperates in every way possible, sharing video tape and testimony from every person who witnessed anything of the event. Bank personnel are carefully questioned, since these crimes often have an “inside” component. Newspapers publish articles and photos, local radio and TV decry the ease with which the terrible criminals made off with, well… money. By 6:00 PM the insurance carrier has been alerted, coverage processes begun and it sends its own investigator to check out the nature of the incident. For a while, the whole city seems concerned.
On Monday morning, however, the FBI and City police make a joint statement that since the acquisition of the cash was so very important to the thieves, and since the amount of money is not enough to threaten the continuation of the bank, itself, they have decided to drop the case and congratulate the criminals.
Another question: What sort of reaction would other banks, the Department of Justice, the FBI Director and the governor of Pennsylvania have to that announcement? Do you think they would accept that since the investigators didn’t have all the evidence or “proof” necessary to win a case in court, that the matter should be dropped and the thieves congratulated for such a smooth operation? Do you suppose that someone, a Republic Bank depositor, say, could file suit in state court demanding that the various investigatory authorities be enjoined from dropping the case?
Another question: If tens of thousands of votes, not dollars, were questioned by witnesses to their tabulation being performed illegally, possibly disenfranchising the same number of legal voters – effectively stealing their fundamental, unalienable right – is not an investigation that might restore their rights and provide the evidence for a trial of criminals who stole them be justified? Should not the co-conspirators be enjoined from destroying evidence or from dropping the investigation, the theft being so well-executed, after all?
And, if the bank robbers were to use their ill-gotten gains to buy a beautiful, white house with servants, do you think they should be allowed to keep it? No?
So, if dishonest people steal money we will chase them to the ends of the earth and convict them, but if dishonest people steal as many as a Million votes in an election we should let them keep them and enjoy all the fruits of their crime?
We wished Allison Paige Hawkes Godspeed, yesterday. Pollard’s Funeral Home, Methuen, Massachusetts, U. S. A., planet Earth, Milky Way, was very good to our family and to all who came to commiserate with us and to celebrate the wonderful and wonder-filled life of Allie Hawkes. She passed on Sunday, the sixth of December, less than a week ago. It was just after 8 in the morning. Her mother held her as she slept. She stirred enough to struggle to tell Christen that she loved her. Christen had her hand upon Allie’s heart as she left the painful, cancerous bonds of Earth. There could be no better way to finish one’s journey.
We compiled our photos, and Allie’s, and all the newspaper articles that Christen had saved. There were thousands of the former, dozens of the latter, and millions of memories. Christen, Allie’s dad, Gavin Hawkes, her sister-in-law, Kim Andon (brother Joe Wescott’s wife for 20+ years), Kim’s daughter, Sarah, “Grammie” Gretchen Wescott and I, her “Grampa” Bob, sorted and printed and distilled hundreds of photo’s to display during funeral services. Allie’s girlfriends created yet another “photo-board.” We were researching someone known more by others than by us; the breadth and depth of her people-rich life was, in part, news to all of us, even to her most-connected mother, Christen.
During Allie’s brief life, many days, weeks and months were consumed by cancer treatments and effects. Virtually all of those hours were shared, in person, by the world’s greatest mother. Christen became Allie’s primary nurse and watchful angel, more than once conveying the instructions of physicians and the applications of potent drugs, more accurately than nurses, themselves, remembered. Allie and her mother built a bond of mother-daughter love that is rare. Christen had not a burden, but an opportunity to do more mothering than most mothers have. We all tried to be involved, but it was truly a matter of learning from Christen what Allie had just gone through or, thankfully, what she had just done. She was a do-er, most effectively as a creator of friends.
At the funeral home most of the three families gathered to greet the hundreds of friends on whom Allie had left her impact. She didn’t have any casual friends, it seemed, but hundreds of good ones. They, and we, all felt a loss when her light faded out. Indeed, as her Camp Otter, YMCA, Wheelock, Marsh School, Methuen High and, so heartbreakingly, many of her nurses from the Floating Hospital, Children’s Hospital and Dana Farber explained, she was nowhere “just” another student, another friend or another patient. The “Allison Effect” is large on everyone she knew.
Ostensibly, funeral preparations included having her cousin, Sarah Wescott, speak about her lifetime friend. Sarah worked hard to get her words and feelings exactly as she wished to express them. I, Grampa Bob, was also going to say a few words, and though mine were not written in advance, I too had prepared what I wanted to say. In fact, my erstwhile comments were much modified as the afternoon of meeting so many of those who also loved Allie Hawkes. They changed what I knew about my granddaughter. So, I want to share what I had decided to say Friday evening, though could not.
Good evening and thank you all for sharing your love for Allie Hawkes. Before she died I thought I knew her pretty well. You, all, have told me so much more about her; culling the hundreds and hundreds of photos she and others took of the many places she went and events she attended, has made her even more wondrous in my heart and my memories so much richer.
When she was first diagnosed my first reaction was to tell her mother that she would be okay, and I believed it. For the following 19 years that belief was justified as she beat cancer back again, again and again… until she could not. My second reaction, as I would walk each morning, was to pray for a miracle essentially every day, and often, twice a day. I was trying to tell God what the correct miracle for Him to effect was, and exactly when to manifest it. I realize that a lot of our prayers are like that: giving God and Jesus instructions… as if we knew.
What I should have prayed for is mercy and understanding.
Each time our relatively crude medical tools brought her back to remission my conviction that I was issuing the correct instructions was reinforced. Every time cancer came back, I would feel that my miracle-instructions were flawed, somehow, or not specific enough, and I would redouble my efforts and word my supplications to be much more specific as to what I wanted God to do. I hope that what I did helped Allie in some way. I know that as the end approached she became more of a believer, ready to pass through that awesome door alone, always part of my prayers.
So, I had been praying for a miracle for most of her life rather blindly, it turns out. But I recognize, now, that the miracle was right here with us, all along.
There are many words that once were in more common parlance – back when schoolchildren had to learn English and how to read and write in that very language – and readers of Prudence’ thoughts are all too aware that those “old fashioned” words are a great strength when expressing thoughts deeper than MSNBC commenters like to share. Ooops, hold on a moment, there was a Prudent word right there: commenter. A commenter is a person who comments. Somehow we’ve all adopted the habit of saying, “commentator” instead of commenter because it sounds as if the speaker might be perceived as just a little smarter for using an extra syllable. In the opinion of your correspondent, not many commenters achieve the erudite status of commentator, unless they come from Idaho.
Anyway, in the “old” days one might encounter a word like “scurrilous,” a gem of an adjective. It really means to describe someone foul-mouthed and coarse in language. But it came to be used to describe someone of the lowest morals, particularly in terms of failing to live up to one’s promises. Scurrilous. Often there are overtones of hypocrisy relative to the person who is described as scurrilous, since he or she probably held a position of some prominence, pretending to be among our betters.
Mendacious is another good one, and its cousin, mendacity. In a simple way it means untruthful, or the quality of telling lies, yet it is so much more robust than simple lying. Everyone tells lies at some level: “How’s everything at home?” a close friend might ask, to which you answer, “Oh fine, fine. Thanks for asking.” Or, the querulous, “Does this pant-suit make me look fat?” “Absolutely not,” is the answer, in case you weren’t sure. Still, a ‘mendacious’ person is not just telling lies, he or she is adjudged to be virtually unable to tell the truth.
The British used to make common use of the epithet, “knave:” a deceitful, untrustworthy person. We rarely use it in American English as it doesn’t sound bad enough to convey the hatred or derogation required to belittle the object of one’s contempt. Americans of late are wont to include the ever-popular eff-word, variously applied as adverb, adjective, verb, or noun. There is no need to further define “the eff-word.” Even women, erstwhile civilizers of us, all, are fully aware and conversant with it. ‘Knave,’ however, does convey a patine of intended depravity to the person so targeted.
Let’s summarize: scurrilous, mendacious knave. Such a person really must be the worst in any group. But, wait! There’s more!
A fairly common, but somewhat underappreciated personification is that of “degenerate.” It implies a person who is not only useless to others or to society, but who interferes with the advancement of others. In other words, a person no right-thinking person would want to engage with at any level. Indeed, such a person, a ‘degenerate,’ often appears to have regressed in his or her own humanity. Not even “reprobate” conveys those depths.
We could go on and on but it wouldn’t be Prudent. Most readers will process no more than four or five descriptives at the very most, some balking at just three. So our last pejorative is a bit less obscure, the sharp and finely pointed: “odious.” To be considered odious is to be considered offensive and even disgusting. Thankfully, few are such, but when deserved, the term is also obvious in its application.
When so many calumnies are applicable to one person, it is rare that Prudence would waste our collective minutes in order to apply them. Today however, there is a special case. Imagine, if you can, referring to an individual as follows: “____ ______ is no more than a scurrilous, mendacious knave, degenerate in his personal character and odious to those who know his practices.” Gracious! What must someone do to earn such an uniquely low status?
In Prudence view, he would have to hold a public trust and totally besmirch it by enriching himself and his family thereby and, subsequently, with unbridled mendacity toward that public, engage in treasonous behavior in the form of altering his nation’s foreign policy for still greater personal emoluments obtained from potential enemies in exchange for that action. In the processes of those thefts of trust and monies, he would also have to suborn depravity within his family in furtherance of financial greed. That person would earn all of the above outlined contempts and that person has been found. Indeed he is spoken of commonly in both high and low regard although lately, the latter has gained the greater frequency. Simply place the name, “Joe Biden” in the blanks and the fulfillment of every accusation will be achieved.
We have developed, in our vapid superficiality, a habit of judging politicians and one another on the basis of who our secular judges are, most particularly who are on the Supreme Court. What escapes most of us is that those judgments extend to ourselves.
President Trump has taken perhaps the best step in his first term in the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett to our highest court. One can learn from the reactions to her new status… and likelihood that she will help decide the course of America’s future. The nation that became the United States was formed by religious people – mostly Christians and some Jews – men, and probably more importantly, women: their hands rocked the cradles.
While our comprehension of Biblical and other somewhat contemporaneous texts has certainly changed, the essential value of religious morality to the strength and success of the U. S. of A., can be denied only in ignorance. Ignorance, sadly, doesn’t inhibit that class of “deniers” to any great degree. In other words, a strong moral code, passed from generation to generation, is both crucial and comforting.
Enter Amy Coney Barrett, who has attracted vitriol – not political difference, vitriol – for what those somewhat aligned with her worldview can see no justification in the slightest. Where does it come from? How is it that half of the polity apparently distrusts or resents – if not hates – a thoroughly moral and honest person?
A large component of that vitriol comes from women. Those like Senators Diane Feinstein, Elizabeth Warren, Amy Klobuchar, Kirsten Gillibrand, Kamala Harris and the legendary Masi Hirono, are unable to avoid nonsensical, disdain-laden questions or comments that leads one to deduce, it is Prudent to say, that they not only hate her politically, but are, in fact, envious of her. But, envy aimed at what, exactly?
Moral rectitude. Females who have spent decades denying their crucial roles of both civilizing – moralizing – their men, and of keeping their children on a morally straight path as they (ostensibly) learn to become adults in charge of cultural norms applied to economics, commerce, production and defense of family and community, find themselves so uncomfortable with the responsibilities of woman-hood, that a woman who has no reason for such discomfort is to be deeply resented.
Inherently there is a threat to many women that Amy Barrett, and not they, will be a best example of American woman- and mother-hood. Even her college sorority has virtually disavowed her and her extraordinary success. The “sisterhood” apparently depends not on gender, a reactionary concept, but on the purity of one’s rejection of religious-based morals.
Barrett doesn’t waver; her moral pillar requires neither comparison nor negotiation. It need not be measured against fads or trends or popular opinion. Whether one shares her complete philosophy or not, he or she ought to have the wisdom to respect it… and her. That sort of respect has not been – and is not being – inculcated through the institutions of society that are its only source: parents (mothers AND fathers), churches and, as reinforcement, schools. Barrett exemplifies and makes real, the superiority of the two-parent, responsible family model… and it is frightening.
If a society wished, freely and collectively, to restore and strengthen the one form of foundational social engineering proven successful: two-parent, economically independent families, that society would formalize through government and every reinforcing institution, every possible encouragement of that structure. The question, automatically posed by the stark and living color example of Amy Coney Barrett’s family, to those who wonder about the future of the United States, is whether we have the collective sense to shift our policies toward her model of success?
We’ll have to cleanse our education and purge public schools of socialist teachers and administrators. We’ll have to teach our children all of American history, both bad and good, and pass along the best of our founding philosophy so that our next generations recognize how to repair, adjust correct, improve the application of those ideals to inevitable problems of complex civilization.
We’ll have to change our entire approach and process of delivering public assistance such that the worst tendencies of human nature are not rewarded, and the desire – or ability – to attain to better lives is rewarded. By itself, this change to public policy holds the greatest promise for the quality of life and continuation of the American dream for ourselves and all other nations who aspire to freedom and the end of poverty.
Trump has placed the American success model at center stage. One hopes those who feel badly or resentful can examine their own philosophies, perhaps to reform them.
The encroaching divide of America into “Constitutionalist” and “Socialist” camps, is proceeding apace. At no time in our history has the nation and its culture been so threatened, not even at the time of the secession of the Confederacy. Then both “North” and “South” shared nearly all moral beliefs and religious ones, economic practices, and the honesty in contracts that underpins our ability to cooperate as a civilization. The exception, alone, was on the matters of slavery and racial differences and prejudice.
Wrenchingly, courageously, the slavery error has been solved. During the civil War, reconstruction and segregation, the nation held together and made progress on virtually all fronts, including for the economic success and educational advancement of non-white peoples within the United States. Black families were strong and growing stronger all the way through “Jim Crow” laws and post-war awakening and struggles, as was the nation as a whole. This, only because the moral values and their religious underpinnings were widely shared across all strata of American society.
Today, not so much. The first 60 years of socialist, globalist intrusion had paved a path but few were taking to it… at least until Lyndon Johnson took over from JFK. Under the guise of “fulfilling Kennedy’s dream,” the Great Society was foisted on a relatively balanced government, federalizing welfare for “the poor” and “minorities,” mainly blacks. Johnson’s famous prediction, “…I’ll have those n***ers voting Democrat for 100 years” exposed the cynical plantation-mentality of Johnson’s Democrats, and the base, gutter-snipe qualities of Johnson, himself.
At the same time Johnson plunged the U. S. into a meaningless war… er, U.N.-sanctioned conflict, in Viet-Nam, that split the nation politically and for the first time, split youth from parents. With the advent of drugs and drug-infected music, the revolution was under way: “the Sixties.” Nixon was our last attempt to reign in alien culture, and they got rid of him in the most politically destructive way. Meanwhile, welfare was corroding black families and dissociating old morals from “modernity.” Feminism aggressively began to destroy both manhood and motherhood and education commenced to dissolve Christian thought as rapidly as new socialist-trained and unionized teachers could be installed in supposedly “public” schools. Clever lawyers, psychologists, judges and justices found ways to parse common sense and conscientiousness into never-imagined “constitutional” rights.
Even so, with Ronald Reagan’s election patriotic Americans were renewed in belief in the “American Way:” that together, with right leadership, Americans could restore the nation they loved and pull back from the rot that was slipping past common sense everywhere. We even vanquished Soviet Communism without a nuclear war; “History is over,” pundits declared. Even Bill Clinton seemed rational for a while as his Alinskyite wife plotted “communitarianism” and socialized medicine. Rational people seemed to be back in control of our freedom-loving destiny. But the left never rests.
Gore almost pulled it off. The Democratic party was, haltingly, inquiringly trying not just voting for the temporarily deceased, but here and there, voting for the imaginary. Bush stopped them in Florida and waltzed into the September 11th attacks. For a few hours the congress was unified and appeared to be patriotic. We’ll be damned if some backward Islamists are going to attack us on our home turf! That’s OUR job, after all.
Americans still largely believe that we can “fix” things. Problems are solvable and resolvable in fair and rational ways or, as we’ve shown the world for 300 years, with technical skill and innovation. Along the way we have spread wealth to more poor people than any other society on earth or in history. But, we’re slipping: concerted efforts to change our shared beliefs have taught millions of us to distrust and even hate, our own nation. The most effective poison? Charges of racism… and hateful or just confused racism, itself.
The source of these changes is Marxism-socialism. Those of you who are not willing to correct the flaws of poorly regulated capitalists, and who believe that distorting history and historic figures will somehow make life better in 2020, should step away from the next planned “protest” and consider your own role in the destruction of the best system yet devised for the betterment of the most lives possible. To reach back to the only governing system that has NEVER succeeded to replace the Constitutional democratic republic that always has, is to prove yourself a fool. Please wake up.
Nevertheless, the plan to divide and dissolve the United States is working. States are now practicing what then-future Confederate states employed prior to secession: “nullification.” With “Sanctuary” status being self-declared by cities and states, the federal system is under assault. Politically useful illegal immigration is used as a “humanitarian” reason to disavow proper immigration regulations and restrictions, while still accepting federal welfare payments to even illegal recipients. To date, the political will to stop this trend and restore primacy of federal law over international border control, has not been found. Division.
Covid-19 has played neatly into the hands of socialist control-agents. Economic and religious lock-downs both fit their innate desires to impose superior ways of living and doing than those chosen by free citizens. Dictating how many free citizens can buy the services and products of other free citizens is a reach of executive whim that would seem impossible in an individual-freedom-and-responsibility, Constitutionally limited governance system. Yet we have acquiesced to it rather sheepishly. But, not everyone, by a wide margin. Division is the greatest impact of the 2020 lock-downs. Disease-prevention is a far-distant secondary effect. The United States and China are the only major industrialized nations still hampered by this misguided theory. The United States, ostensibly a “free” nation, is the only one damaged by it. Division.
The tools of division are mostly forms of lying, whether about the efficacy of Covid lockdowns or of switching America’s high-energy-density economy to a low-energy-density one based on sunlight and windmills, or of “systemic” racism or tremendous racial progress and tolerance. Those who would divide us are, practically speaking, anti-Christian and anti-Judaic. Those who would divide our peoples wish most of all to divide us from our past… at least from the good parts. In their views all that came before right now is so rotten as to be worthless, including the people and philosophies that created it. Their Marxism is the only true philosophy (religion) and there shall be no other religions before it.
One wonders if they ever listen to the things they say. Do you?
Aside from violent politics and anti-Americanism, there are even larger forces at work, and psychologies behind or in front of them, that are shaping the World. Politics, which has caused these forces to build strength, can barely affect them, now. Every four years we become hotly exercised over “who will lead the free world,” but the crucial differences we perceive between candidates, are rarely so significant that they will materially impact the inexorable forces already underway. “It’s the economy, stupid.” Even James Carville had little understanding of what he had actually said in 1992. It is the economy… of the world.
Even the mighty United States is barely able, now, to chart its own course, economically.
It is an interesting game, for some, to dredge up what a nickel used to buy compared to today, or what used to be a “damn good weeks pay” for 60 hours of labor. We created the mis-named “Federal” Reserve System in 1913 to supposedly prevent the excesses and crashes of the banking system, and populated the member banks with the same thieves who had helped crash the economy more than once, but who also finally came up with the right price to purchase Congress’ acquiescence to the Federal Reserve act. Supposedly the penalties of interest costs would keep Congress from spending beyond its means.
That worked wonders.
The flaw was and is that there’s no profit to be made without a loan being lent. Lending to business isn’t profitable enough; big profit comes from lending to countries – especially this one. There simply needs to be enough crises to justify deficit spending. That works, too.
An ounce of gold sells lately for nearly $2,000. In 1932, before FDR stole Americans’ gold by law for $20.50 an ounce, it sold for 1/100th as much. In other words, in fewer than 90 years the purchasing power vis a’ vis gold declined by 99%. FDR adjusted that ratio by declaring that gold cost $35 an ounce now that the government owned it, and picked up a few billion dollars with which to “fix” the depressed economy. Controlling the price of commodities is a useful tool in controlling people. Many commodities define the whole economies of nations. Oil, for example, finances several, like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Iran, Russia and many others. How belligerent they are towards their “enemies” is often tied to the market price of that single commodity.
Kings and Emperors are bought and sold on some continents for oil, gold or diamonds. The companies that own or control those commodities, or their banks, are international these days, and tied to any nation only for tax advantage rather than for any sense of tradition or patriotism. Indeed, the money system is virtually global, not national. That’s our money, as well. It’s the economy, stupid.
But the problems that will swamp virtually every nation are global and non-national. So-called “national” banks form a web of global management – financial management, financing governments. Our own “Federal” Reserve sits at that table, not at ours.
Global financiers are not like other people. Their outlook on life is divorced from money worries, mortgages, keeping tight schedules or shopping. Tailors or dressmakers come to them, employees / servants obtain food and prepare it and clean up after meals. “Average” people are nearly an alien species to them, useful only for work and taxes. Morally they are not bound by our concepts of right and wrong: actions are either profitable or not profitable, which is to say, good or bad, including wars… the sides don’t really matter.
For pastimes, nothing is out of reach… or bounds. Tales of extraordinary sexual pleasures and the worst imaginable, even orgiastic parties, gatherings, have surfaced. Who can stop them when they practically own everything? Politicians like to join them. There is an animal attraction to “forbidden” pleasures in a non-judgmental arena, one that only religious and honest people will resist or avoid. The “lords” of money have a lot more to say about how and how well the population of this planet will live than any elected official, much as we’d like to believe otherwise.
Of financial national powers, only the United States has the potential to constrain or reverse the utter control by shadowy international oligarchs. That brings us tremendous opposition from sometimes unexpected quarters. For oligarchs, socialism is an easier system of governance to deal with. Both abject fealty to money and socialism / communism are anti-religious, “satanic” forces. Western civilization became dominant thanks to Judeo-Christianity, no matter how many fools passionately deny it.
Our economics are based on money as a form of barter: value for value. This is ultimate fairness and helped form the fundaments of our legal contracts in all areas of interaction, not just financial. Honest, enforceable agreements – contracts – have been crucial for the growth of economies and for the creation of a middle class and upward mobility for those willing to work hard enough or intelligently enough. The United States was made strong by virtue of fundamental honesty in our economy and in our business AND social “contracts.” The Bible requires those ethics.
Yet we need look no further than our astronomical debt to see that our own nation is not nearly as “independent” as we’d like to think. Every dollar of debt is a measure of slavery; every dollar of tax is a loss of freedom.
The alert observer can see how most countries are in alignment financially. Those that are not are outliers and not likely to create substantial profits for bankers. The moment they are so likely, loans start flowing in for development of various kinds, never least of which is of natural resources. Lately the largest source of such loan-debt-control actions is China. Are they independently seeking hegemony, or acting in concert with the global banking oligarchy? We’ll never find out by asking them: they are communists and dis-information is an automatic defense of their utterly secular “infallibility.”
A small example of the control of governments and people by banks, can be seen here in Washington. When the Federal Reserve was created – by bankers – the legislation allowed it to “lend” money that did not exist, to the government. What a terrible tool to hand to bankers; what a far more terrible tool to hand to politicians. In a single Act politicians created both a choke-collar on the American people and a PRIVATE bank that owns the levers of economic power just relinquished by Congress through the same Act. When the Chairman of the “Fed” testifies to Congress, he or she doesn’t come to learn what financial policy should be, but to partially inform our elected representatives how things financial are going to be.
Covid-19 and recent actions of the “Fed” should make this clear to those with eyes to see. Following a questionable lockdown of most businesses the Congress was impelled to provide expanded “unemployment” funds and various bailouts, small and large, including forgivable loans to small businesses… TRILLIONS of dollars worth. Where did the Federal Reserve obtain that money, an American taxpaying citizen might ask? Where?
Thin air is where. Sitting behind desks the 17 governors of the Federal Reserve agreed to write the world’s largest fraudulent, un-backed check, drawn on an account with barely 5% of the funds on deposit for which the check is written. Well, that’s OK, it’s legal. Orwell was right: debt is prosperity. That same “Board of Governors” just voted to keep interest rates close to zero for at least another year. While we might celebrate this good news, it exposes its own threat to the nation: these same private bankers can later vote to raise interest rates, obligating the elected Federal government and its elected representatives, to pay those higher rates.
Wait just a minute, baab-a-loo, baab-a-loo, it says in the Constitution that only the Congress can initiate “bills” of “Appropriation” including, as stated in Section 9 of Article I, “No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account….” Yet here is the so-called Federal Reserve Bank able to impose financial obligation upon the country by agreement among 17 largely unknown private bankers, and not by the Congress.
If the “Treasury Notes” that the Federal Reserve “buys” with thin air are good instruments of obligation, why can’t the Congress simply authorize the printing of “money” without paying interest to anyone? It’s the same “full faith and credit of the United States.” What an awful position for an earlier Congress to put itself and the nation into. What a dramatic reform and sanitization of government for an imminent Congress to perform: nationalize the Federal Reserve, a creation of the Congress in the first place. It’s all a matter of the value of United States dollars – the U. S. should control it. Indeed, we should no longer be beholden to international financiers. The fact that Americans still have sufficient power to restore our true independence is why international socialism keeps attacking our system, processes and the Constitution, itself.
Can we see where this is happening? Well, the federal Reserve was created; the dollar was separated from gold or silver backing; the dollar was shifted from U. S. currency to Federal Reserve Notes; the act of voting has been made looser and looser, with barely managed voting lists despite Federal law to the contrary; vote harvesting has been allowed; vote-by-mail has been suddenly instituted due to questionable fears of Covid-19, promising severe electoral confusion on election night; our own census has been prevented from asking about citizenship status, confusing further the apportionment of representation in Congress; and, not to overlook, leftists, communists (BLM and others) are rioting, vandalizing and burning and promising more if their candidate doesn’t win or the wrong person is confirmed to the Supreme Court. The Left never rests.
This election year there is a knife-edge election. The virulent left has read some marijuana leaves and discerns that the time to strike is 2020. Thanks to President Obama the concept of compromise is gone from politics, and the freedom to actually display socialist beliefs is absolute. The left judges that there are enough ignorant, mis-educated young fools to swing the direction of history toward socialism and communism. Electing a virtually socialist government (anyone who is counting on Joe Biden to maintain a “centrist” direction is in immediate need of deep therapy) will effectively dissolve the United States as an independent, freedom-based, democratic republic. The consequences will touch every one of us.
The concept of value for value, mentioned earlier, is vital to our commerce and contracts and a constant restatement of honesty in our dealings with one another. But it also underlies our basic justice system, and requires that punishments should fit the crimes invoking them. In both commerce and individual transactions we have slipped far away from value for value. Our currency is backed only by our confidence and an international finance system that is willing to accept dollars in trade for commodities, a system under great international pressure for replacement. Trust in the fundamental honesty of the United States’ government is what supports dollars as measures of value for the rest of the World. That and the taxing power of Congress.
We are also slipping, precipitously, far down from the pinnacle of even-handed justice that guarantees our survival as a republic. Laws governing “hate crimes” for example, shift investigations and charges from wholly evidentiary to semi-subjective, politically correct charges. Laws that are passed under duress to satisfy threats of violence, to suggest a year 2020 example, also indicate how far we are willing to diverge from actual justice to “justice” as defined by seditious insurrectionists. What can the future of “blind” justice possibly be?
If we are prepared, because of an onslaught of Marxist-inspired lies about crime events, and in thrall of weak politicians who have come to believe in the foggy utopianism of socialism, to relinquish truth-based, evidence-based justice, and to relinquish complete control of our weakened finances, then we deserve to lose America. Loss of an independent United States will lead to the end of Western civilization and the demise of Judeo-Christian ethics-based culture.
We live in interesting times… and dangerous. Living in our nation are, incredibly, thousands of parents who managed either through active inculcation of an utter hatred of the United States by their children, or of white people, or of capitalism, or of Christianity or of anyone who is succeeding within our system… or of all these aspects of “Western civilization,” or through utter disregard of what their children were being taught by socialist, even Marxist teachers and/or college professors. However the hate-filled mindset was acquired, it took a lot of work over many years of formative growth.
No one is born with such distorted emotions, ideas, hatreds. Hatred takes a lot of energy – much more than love or even acceptance or tolerance. It doesn’t get developed by accident. Educating innocent children into modes of hatred needs planning and programming. A single mistake or poor choice of words won’t cause virulent hatred. One must be guided to belief of the worst possible injustices and that those who commit said injustices are going without punishment or “justice.” Takes intentional work.
So to all you parents and educators (terms used loosely), you succeeded beyond your wildest dreams… or beyond your vapid ignorance. Your offspring have become active, hate-filled “enemies of the state,” so to speak, and enemies of thousands of innocent individuals and businesses and those employed by or served by those businesses. Some are arsonists or simple (term used accurately) thugs, rioters, vandals and racists of the worst order. Congratulations.
Some of these knuckleheads think they are “Marxists.” This single claim indicts their ignorance better than any litany of sociopathic acts. Marx was a virulent racist and anti-Semite, and a Satanist of sorts, who hated religion – sound familiar? Are your kids talking like this? Are they caught up in “protesting” police brutality against hundreds of innocent, unarmed young black people? Do you, parents, have the foggiest idea of what in Hell your own children are doing? How unfortunately sad.
Some blacks have abandoned processes built into our legal and political systems. They have also accumulated abundant hatreds for “white” society for, primarily, economic, welfare-fueled reasons. These same are susceptible to the lying blandishments of Marxists, that the miracle of social justice may be realized only by destroying capitalism and the hated white power structure with it. We can start with burning down local businesses.
At the same time, burn those hated police who are all racists ready at the drop of a hat to kill an innocent black man. Seeking social justice will never succeed while police are defending the capitalist, white power structure. We must defund police departments as we demoralize them and make them quit. Concentrate on ultra-liberal cities where politicians already agree with us.
Failed parents of America, your sons and daughters, mostly white it turns out, are maximizing the useless college educations you sacrificed for, by helping Black Lives Matter tear down your standards of living, destroying the business you own or work for, if not your house, itself. Sounds like a big fat “L” in the loss column.
A presidential election isn’t going to fix this racist, corrosive mindset – no election is. But, an election, the very next and imminent one, can make it a Hell of a lot worse. Your vote matters.
Joe Biden is not a candidate for president, nor is he a “shoo-in,” as some might hope, but he is a shoe-HORN, able to slip the actual next president – currently known as Vice-Presidential candidate, Kamala Harris – into office when she doesn’t actually fit very well. If Biden, that erstwhile “moderate” bag of partial memories, does manage to win in November, a countdown will commence: how many weeks, if not days, until he is declared non-compos mentis and eased into retirement as a hero – the public servant who never gave up the fight for the average guy, the middle class, the working families. Thanks, Joe, so sad to see it end this way; don’t let the iron gate onto West Executive Avenue hit your ass. There are pools ready to start selling squares on November 4th.
Kamala Harris is not like the other children: she’s a communist at heart, and a nihilist, ready to tear down our democratic republic and all of the practices and ethics of western civilization. Sound familiar? She agrees with “Black Lives Matter,” the Marxist organization, not the lives of black people that matter as much as any other. She is remarkably fluid in her stated beliefs, which is how she got to where her rock-hard beliefs could place her in the White House. Your vote, and your innate suspicions, matter. People don’t really like her fluid nature very much, as could be seen in her paltry support in the primaries for president. George Soros likes her, and here we are.
Anyone who likes or accepts support from George Soros is anti-American and deserves a vote from no one who loves this country. Lots of Democrats – and Antifa, and Black Lives Matter – solicit his financial support; they’re fellow travelers on the hate-America-train. Soros is an international socialist, using his mysterious billions to foment anti-freedom movements in dozens of countries. He never rests. Like others on the left, including our strange Democrat bedfellows, he doesn’t recognize the legitimacy of a “NO!” from any plebiscite, election, ballot question or referendum; “NO!” simply means “later.”
Any democratic or judicial decision against the far left is simply an instruction as to how the same goal may be achieved with an alternate fight; any such decision in favor of the left, may never be questioned by anyone. Heads, we win; tails, you lose. Your vote matters.
Donald Trump and a relative handful of allies AND YOU, are the only patriots standing in the way of the most foul socialist takeover the world could experience. There is no one to our west who will send troops to restore our freedom.
In Methuen, Massachusetts a young woman is trying to prepare for a very early death. It’s not her fault; she’s done nothing wrong in her nearly 27 years. Indeed, from the very first she has been a bright, delightful person, quick to learn, quick to love pretty much everybody.
Inside her genes, however, something is not the same as most people’s. She can’t fight off dysfunctional cell growth. Her first cancer arrived when she was about 6, it’s not completely certain when, but she had been complaining of “back pain” for months before her mom finally got her to a “pediatric gastroenterologist” whose connections at Tufts Floating Hospital for Children found and diagnosed neuroblastoma. There can be no worse day for a mother, unless it’s the one approaching inexorably, almost exactly 20 years afterwards.
That’s a short dash, 27 years. In between those dates were 5 big battles with cancer, excellence in school, swim team, graduation from High School, excellence in college that included trips to New Orleans to help repair Katrina-damaged homes, trips to England and Ireland, visit to Paris through the Chunnel, Graduation from Wheelock College, Masters degree through Merrimack College, friends’ weddings, even one she coordinated, a trip to Peru and Machu Picchu only to run headlong into the fifth cancer struggle, now stretching into the last. Loving teaching, early childhood and special needs, was not enough. There never will be the full-time teaching position of which she dreamed.
How does one prepare for death? I don’t know. My good friend, Tony Fusco, prepared for his when an undiagnosed tumor in his brain stem proved inoperable, impossible to biopsy and ultimately fatal. I got to sit with him the last Sunday afternoon before he re-entered the hospital to try some other treatments multiple neurologists had only the faintest idea might help. I’d brought some nice scotch thinking we might enjoy a sip together but his gag reflex was so impaired he dared to sip only water. It was a good afternoon and I expected he’d be home again.
When the only option of a feeding tube was offered, Tony realized – decided – that it was a tube too far: no further treatments, thank you. His world shrank to a room at a beautiful hospice facility that was always busy with visitors and family. He had a huge heart; it took a couple of weeks for it to go to sleep.
Clearly he’d prepared for the end. He was 71. At his funeral I told him that I knew where to hide a flask for when I’d join him on a porch where he now lived, where we could enjoy a sip and analyze the world situation. He was a year younger than me.
How does one prepare at age twenty-six and three-quarters? Without an abiding religious faith it is hard to imagine. She believes in God, but hasn’t had a lot of religious education. I try to explain, but it is uncomfortable, certainly it was a year ago when the lung cancer appeared. It represented a third kind of cancer, and her tiny body could tolerate no chemotherapy. They operated and radiated, but the treatment was still a variation of repair and destroy with the overarching hope that the cancerous cells might be killed before the patient, herself. Her breathing hasn’t been very good – or comfortable – since then. Within a couple of months lesions were found in multiple places: brain, bones, pancreas and more. Now at Dana Farber, they’ve radiated as many places as possible and she’s been taking an oral chemo pill with side effects. It tended to slow down the growth, but never stopped it and now isn’t slowing it much, either.
There’s only one door open to her… to a place where the weaknesses of her body will no longer be a problem – a place where her health will become perfect. One needs a reason to hope in order to contemplate passing through that door, alone. Observers might say that she has no choice so “…she just has to deal with it.”
What does that mean: deal with it? If one has any trust in God it should be clear that trying to pass through when angry and bitter is probably not the right approach. One school of thought is that when you pass you’ll find exactly what you believed you’d find. If that is a fade-to-black scenario, and hopeless, then that is what it will appear to be. I believe that there is an eventual judgment, an audit if you will, of how well your tests were passed – tests you knew were coming when you agreed to accept the lifetime just ending. Your “you” or your soul, may or may not have aced everything. The life just ended may or may not be the last one you need to make your ascension, but Redemption is the unfailing lesson of the Bible. It doesn’t make sense that in the matter of life and death itself, that the opportunity to redeem oneself would be absent.
For the soul, the agreement to accept a new life that includes the needed tests, is the greatest act of love expressable.
Another path of spiritual guidance says that not only are we responsible for our un-passed tests, or “karma,” but also for our reason for being, our “dharma.” Both are part of judgment. The more aware we are while on this side of that door, the more likely we are to meet and exceed the reasons for this life. Life is not a knife-edge: Hell on one side and the gift of Heaven on the other; it is a path made broad by our free will. The choices we make have meaning.
When someone passes very young, there has been little time to make bad choices, which is to say, few sins have been committed. At the same time, few opportunities have presented for passing tests. Maybe a life that ends in youth is lived sacrificially so that those around you can pass their tests. Living that life is your test: a unique expression of love.
From the limited, somewhat fuzzy understandings of a human lifetime, this is my most comforting perception of the young lady’s life: one of sacrifice. Neither I nor anyone else on this side of the door is privy to the purposes of the lives of others, and barely able to grasp the meanings of our own. Still, this observer has recorded no imperfections in our young patient’s life.
Is she comforted thereby? Does she perceive the success of her life? Or does she feel she’s been punished or singled out for “bad luck?” I try to tell her to not fall into those ideas, but to approach the door with an open heart and mind, accepting of the possibilities of immense love on the other side.
We live in an age of what is called, REASON. Supposedly we have become so very smart that there is no longer a need for faith in any God or gods, no need for superstition or even wishful thinking. We have the handmaid of reason: SCIENCE. No one can confuse us with un-testable “mumbo-jumbo.” We can rely on science, and science is based on evidence, experimentation and repeatable observations. No mysteries for us; all of our beliefs and decisions are science-based, evidence-based, expert-based. Since we aren’t all scientists or mathematicians, EXPERTS hold an important place in our reason-fed society.
Yes, we still honor some religious leaders and we still respect the ancient founders of religions… well, some of them: the ones that science can prove actually existed. And we still revere the great teachings of these ancient religion-founders… at least the ones that science can prove were actually taught by the scientifically-accepted founders. Reason teaches all of us that questioning the fables that surround Mohammed could result in damages or death. Muslims not only believe but take offense, too.
In any case, we don’t have to accept the mythologies of other religions, especially Christianity, until science confirms them.
Science, one can easily see, is connected intimately with TRUTH. This makes so much sense that reasonable people think that science and truth are obviously the same thing. Basing our decisions, our votes, our very governance on truth will certainly avoid a host of problems that derive from lies and myths and false ideas. We’ve seen a whole lot of that in our political history. The political movement that is based on truth, evidence and science is unquestionably the one to follow and support.
Truth, however, has proven elusive, science notwithstanding. How can this be so? People who believe in science and truth would never lie, would they? The fly in that ointment is that science, during its best efforts, can only approach truth. Truthful scientists never claim to understand absolute truth; science is the quest for truth. Granted, there are a lot of things scientists are pretty sure of, sometimes so much so that very little additional research is done on those matters. But, every day, and particularly when a new disease is encountered, there are more questions than answers, and scientists are generally very careful to not proclaim answers that may soon be rendered untrue. Lies can creep in. Well, there are advantages to lying, as humans have learned, and this truth has found its way into political planning and campaigns… and even into science. Who knew?
The basic difference between individual freedom and responsibility as a governing philosophy, and all the other governing models, is that the alternatives to freedom can only gain ascendancy by convincing people of lies. The greatest of these is the fundament of what we know as socialism: that controlled people will be MORE free if they can shuck off the burdens of responsibility, merit, attainment and, interestingly, religion.
The above is a bold claim. There had better be some proven truth that backs up such a claim. All that defenders of freedom have is the history of socialism since it appeared. It always fails and, in every case, manifests the deaths of millions of people it controls in order to install ever-“purer” forms of the revolution that installed socialists into power. Only then will the planned future the people were promised, be possible. Unfortunately, socialist regimes never run out of enemies of the “people” who are preventing the completion of the revolution. This is due, in no small part, to the inability of planned economies to produce sufficient productive surplus to finance the growth and improved standards of living necessary to serve everyone and defend the nation. There is always too little surplus to destroy debt – also known as “investment in the future” – as well.
Eventually, socialism consumes all of its people’s money and a lot of other people’s money. This, unfortunately, is where the United States is, now. We have swallowed a lot of socialist bull-bleep and find ourselves $27 Trillion in debt. As we argue over Covid-19, our time is spent expanding the socialist aspects of government, and expanding that debt. Fortunately, there is still enough freedom in the American system to encourage and allow substantial productive surplus. In theory our economy can destroy that debt. Unfortunately, we are politically unable to stop outspending our productive surplus… socialistically.
Truth exists, known or not, and science, if honestly applied, will keep approaching it. The rest of us will, according to those so enamored, keep running our lives, our personal economics and our government accordingly. That scenario is superior to how we do those things, now. It’s because of competing belief structures. Truth… reality… is dashed on the rocks of belief every day. Worse, we seem to be able to consider COMPETING TRUTHS!
A perfect example is the current fascination and promulgation of trans-genderism. Our august politicians have created legal structures around the theory that believing in transgenderism makes it true, or real in some way. It is not, of course, although the feelings – emotions – that cause someone to deny the responsibilities of his or her biology are certainly real. Yet those who oppose encouraging transgenderism are held to be “deny-ers” and literally on the wrong side of the law. The same happens with socialism and anti-Americanism. Both modes of belief are replete with untruths and distortions so skewed as to be utter lies. Yet their adherents believe their “facts” (beliefs) are true.
There is no compromise. We have cleverly talked ourselves into legislating official defense of competing “truths.”
Politicians, elected mayors, governors, district attorneys, certain presidential and vice-presidential candidates and more, defend anarchists’ “right” to riot in proclamation of their “truths.” It’s a stretch, and illegal. The destruction of civil rights now defends civil rights of certain others. These same bemoan the “fact” that the Trump administration failed to follow “the science” at the beginning of the Covid-19 crisis.
And so, the left has managed to weaponize truth. Once abortion was converted from ending the life of a baby to promoting the lives of women, we were solidly on this path. Our tax dollars pay for much of it and the wealthiest people and corporations in the world “donate” huge sums to subsidize the only movements who ACT on hatreds, and who promote the destruction of America and of the idea of America.
What is wrong with this picture? What is wrong with us?
Hatred, anyone can see, is imPrudent. In some circumstances one can understand anger, as when a person of color appears to have been mistreated or, God forbid, killed by police for no good reason. Obviously his or her family has good reason to be angry in such a case. His or her friends have a “right” to be angry, too, one could allow. “Justice” is the correct call… in every instance, but lately by some process that translates into destruction of American culture and political existence. How? Prudence wonders.
It takes a long-term plan, a lot of work… like a political campaign, and money – it takes money. People are not born haters, we must be carefully taught. Part of our social troubles… or dissolution, is our tendency to paint with broad, angry brush strokes. It used to be if an Irishman were inebriated it was because “…those Irish are all drinkers.”
If an Italian pulled a fast one on you, then “… those Italians are all like the Mafia.”
Frenchmen are all great lovers and they all have mistresses. Scotsmen are cheap. Germans are all rigid and militaristic. Used-car salesmen are all liars. There are dozens of similar generalizations. These are prejudices. They seem not so bad when applied to ethnic or economic distinctions… not nearly as bad as for racial distinctions.
Yet there are people who judge whole “racial” groups based on prejudice from anecdotes and half-truths and expressed hatreds, as well as from official, legal special treatments, real and perceived, based on popularized, but largely meaningless racial victim-hood. In this sense, government is the worst offender for dividing populations by so-called, “race.”
“Blacks are too stupid to do…” whatever was in question. “You can’t depend on Chinamen.” “White people are racist white-supremacists.” Almost everyone is guilty of some form of “group-think.” That is, that individuals may be understood by virtue of their “group identity.” This is diametrically opposed to the ideals of the Constitution. In the ostensible American system, everyone is equal under the law. Therefore, laws should be written for individual application, not racially or ethnically or for any other “group” connection. Color-blindness is a virtue for a free people.
Governments, for the most crass, self-serving (politician) reasons, have proven themselves incapable of resisting group-identity codification. They attempt, and intend, to garner votes by doing favors legally, legislatively for various groups, undermining the greatest strength of our Constitutional republic. What a crappy way to damage one’s own nation.
These largely inaccurate distinctions are an easy building-block for generating hatred for groups, and, by natural distillation, for individuals within that group. Automatically, that hatred is reflected back on the originating group and its individuals. Great, great restraint and moral strength is needed to resist an easy slide into hatred and prejudice. Religious teaching helps here, particularly Judeo-Christian teachings and the Bible. It is instructive that those who would tear down the Constitution and the family-centered culture it protects, are doing their damnedest to dissolve Christianity, too. Rainbow flags weren’t enough.
Where does the money come from to pay rioters, BLM agitators and Antifa thugs… busing or flying them around the country, covering living expenses and raising funds to bail them out if arrested while looting, committing arson, assaults and an occasional murder? Is it surprising that, literally, Democrats provide it? Millions of dollars flow from Democrats and Democrat-supporting corporations like Apple, Amazon, Nike, Microsoft and others who donate multiple millions to various Black Lives Matter-connected foundations and others. Other Democrats donate and encourage others to donate money to bail criminals out of jail. Why would people on the Left do such a thing to their own country?
It is what leftists do. We are no longer contemplating the arguments of left-of-center liberals as to how we can organize America better for everyone. We are watching socialists and avowed “Marxists” of all colors who are organizing total disruption – first of cities, by rioting and grabbing “reparations” for the “community” by looting and burning, then states by confusing and changing a perfectly good voting system, and ultimately the United States, again by confusing and changing voting procedures to reduce election certainty, and by destroying faith in our system of government by distorting economics and the justice system… possibly by stealing elections.
Back to “justice.” In MOST instances, the offending police officer or officers are dealt with properly and prosecuted as he or they should be. Some are in jail. But not all are appropriately sanctioned, and anger toward a closed, obscured process is well justified. What should relatives and friends do to seek real justice? Here’s the list that lately is providing popular choices:
Protest loudly and publicly in large groups, vilifying all police.
Throw stones and bricks at police who are trying to maintain order during the protest.
Burn a police car
Burn a store or restaurant near the site of the use of excess force by the offending officer(s).
Bring in Antifa and BLM to rile up ever larger crowds.
Shoot explosive fireworks at police.
Pull down or deface a statue that honors someone few if any in the crowd know much about.
Assault, or worse, whoever is wearing an article of clothing that offends somebody in the crowd.
Force police from one of their buildings and burn it down.
None of this, obviously, generates “justice” for the victim of a perceived crime, but spreads INjustice across the lives of as many people as possible. How does this bring even a sense of justice to the family of the original victim? Maybe our erstwhile leaders could institute something like the following:
First, legislation that requires police agencies to provide a comprehensive, public report no later than 5 days from the date of the questionable incident. This report could not include any statements of judgment that could distort other legal actions or suits. The same legislation should include a strict limit of, say 20 or 30 people who are permitted to stage a protest during those 5 days; more than the right number would be apprehended and fined.
Political leaders would call for a 5-day cooling-off period and offer such help as would be accepted to the family of the “victim.” No public funds could be diverted to any advocacy groups not related directly to the family. This process, however, must be free of admissions of any guilt or responsibility by the municipality or agency before the public report is made. During the 5-day waiting period groups could apply for permits for demonstrations to follow the waiting period, that may or may not be granted in some form. Beyond that, demonstrators will be strictly contained and arrested for actions outside of the parameters of issued permits. Public safety and the civil rights and private property of others are paramount.
Being “really angry” is no excuse for rioting or stealing things or setting fires anywhere. Municipal leaders: WAKE UP!
