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Saturday, November 19, 2016
Monday, November 7, 2016
Did Hillary Clinton have Classified Information on her Server?
Earlier today, against my better judgement, I got into a
social media argument.
I know, like I said it was against my better judgement and I
should have just walked away, but I couldn't. Unfortunately it ended with
comments like: "I guess i'm that stupid" and "count me stupid
too."
Why does it seem that people enjoy making a flippant
comment, but when you point out how they are wrong they immediately take things
personally? I'm sorry that you are not plugged in to the issues and that you rely
on a corrupt media for your talking points.
For the record, yes, Hillary Clinton did have classified information, Top Secret & Above, in her unsecured emails. Information that was so sensitive that even members of Congress were kept from seeing / hearing about it. In fact, Congress was given redacted documents and had to issue a subpoena. Don't believe me,
listen to those in charge.
FBI Director James Comey
FBI Assistant Director Jason Herring
Inspector General of the Office of the Director of National
Intelligence (ODNI) Charles McCullough
NSA / NGIA / ODNI Hearing
The problem is that we have become so entrenched in our political party system that we have abdicated our responsibilities as citizens. We have put party over ethics, morality and convictions. It's the reason we are in the place we are today and we have no one to blame but ourselves..... oh, and those pesky little talking points as well !!
Sunday, October 9, 2016
Donald Trump Uses Bad Words
Special Snowflake Trigger Alert - Bad Words Ahead
“Extra, Extra – Read All About It”
That’s the traditional call of
the paper seller announcing breaking news. Back in the day it was usually a
serious news story, like war or a major criminal incident, today it heralds the
latest salacious bullshit that is being peddled to you by an ever growing partisan
media.
Really, It Sounds As Stupid As It Looks....... |
Case in point, the latest ‘safe-space triggering’ comments by Donald
Trump.
Many of you know about my deep-rooted
loathing for coincidence. So it should
come as no shock that that this little nugget fell from the skies almost at the
exact same time that WikiLeaks dumped another treasure trove of documents
pertaining to Hillary Rodham Clinton. Mind you, this release comes on the heels of
the Guccifer 2.0 dump earlier in the week.
Can you guess which the main
stream media sought to capitalize on?
Yes, apparently ‘grabbing pussy’
is much more news worthy than the Democratic nominees admission, behind closed
doors, that her campaign is basically a lie. Well, at least as it pertains to
the little people she is trying to court.
Wake up people.
Is what Trump said crude? Yes.
Was it inappropriate? Probably.
Is it earth-shattering? No.
Is it limited to men? Hell No!
Anyone who is talking about how ‘upset’
they are about what Donald Trump said eleven years ago is either a liar, a social justice warrior or a practicing Puritan.
For them I have nothing, but for the
rest of the adult world: Grow Up.
Here’s a news flash, real people
talk that way. Hell, I talk that way and so do you.
Have we forgotten that this was a
private conversation? Have you never said things in a private conversation that
were, how shall we say: risqué? If someone ever played a highlight reel of all
the crude things I have ever said, stock in popcorn would jump 515% as folks
gathered around the TV screen to watch.
And if you think it’s just men that speak this way, I have
some news for you. Go to a male strip club one night. You’ll hear ‘church women’
say things that would make a Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer blush.
And where was the media’s moral indignation when Hillary
said "Come on Bill, put your dick
up! You can't fuck her here!"
I’m sorry, but this whole ‘I’m offended’ shit is a joke and
is wearing really thin. You know what I
am really offended by? This whole wussification
of America bullshit.
‘Donald Trump said something I don’t like…….’ Really, special snowflake,
did anything offend you in Fifty Shades of Grey? Because that happy little BDSM
romp, written by a woman mind you, sold like over eighty million copies,
prompted a sequel along with a movie, and I’m pretty sure there was a lot more
going on than ‘pussy grabbing.’
SHAMELESSS PLUG: As an author, I’d
like to point out that my
books also contain a bit of ‘adult reading’ as well……. You know, if you’re
not so easily offended.
We also have to come to terms
with an amazing double standard in this country. I have often lamented that the
concepts of hypocrisy and irony are lost on the left. The same folks who slam
Trump for saying mean things to women are the same ones championed Hillary for
standing by her man when he went through the vast Right Wing conspiracy to
undermine his presidency. The fact that he actual did the things he was accused
of and that she mocked and ridiculed the victims is apparently inconsequential.
Damn It, Stop Objectifying Me !!! |
Nor is the fact that many of her
biggest supporters, you know, folks Miley Cyrus, Jay-Z, Beyoncé, and Kanye
engage in behavior that glorifies what Donald Trump spoke about. I’m sorry, but
I have a problem with being lectured on the issues facing this great Nation by
a guy who started out his life by selling drugs on the streets of Brooklyn. I would also like to point out the hypocrisy
of being lectured on the objectification
of women by a singer who engages in simulated sex acts during her show. Oh
Hannah Montana, how far thou have fallen.
That’s the hypocrisy.
The truth is that the media is
doing everything they can to shift your attention away from all the negative
information surrounding who THEY have decided must win.
When you look at the facts,
Hillary Clinton’s actions speak much
louder than Donald Trump’s words ever could.
We have real issues facing this
country, a lot of which Hillary
Clinton has been involved in, yet no one is focusing on them and I have to
wonder why. At the last debate, questions were raised about Donald Trump’s
taxes and a comment he purportedly made about Miss Universe back in 1996, but not one question
about illegal immigration, terrorism, or about the fire storm that is raging
throughout the Middle East.
Seriously? This is allegedly what
is passing for journalism in the twenty-first century?
Unfortunately, many of those
issues could legitimately be laid at Mrs. Clinton’s door, so I can understand
why no one wanted to go there.
The funny thing is that nothing
Trump did on his taxes was any different then what the majority of tax payers
do every year. The problem was the sum of the loss. HRC even used it to
question how smart Trump was, having lost nearly a billion dollars. What she
didn’t tell you was that the Clinton’s did the same thing on their taxes with a
nearly three-quarters
of a million dollar loss. She also doesn’t want to talk about the fact that
her State
Department still has six billion unaccounted for.
That’s the irony.
The latest release of documents
is being slammed, not for their content, but because those vile Russians are allegedly
behind it all. Think about that for a moment. Not what HRC and her closest
aides have done, but what those bad hackers have done.
This sums it up best: ZERO
accountability / ZERO responsibility – Focus the blame on someone else.
America is still struggling.
We are still facing desperate
financial times and we have illegal immigrants, along with terrorists,
streaming across our southern border. What does HRC have to say about that?
Well, according to a speech she gave to a Brazilian bank in 2013, this is how
she feels:
"My dream is a hemispheric common market, with open trade and open
borders, some time in the future with energy that is as green and sustainable
as we can get it, powering growth and opportunity for every person in the
hemisphere…. We have to resist, protectionism, other kinds of barriers to
market access.”
The truth is that HRC does not
care about you. You do not have the kind of money that she wants so you are
only going to get lip service. It’s not about America’s bottom line, but hers.
Here’s the truth about her
campaign slogan: Stronger Together.
She only needs you to elect her so that she can continue the relationships she
has built with Wall Street and the wealthy.
But now, even the Republican sharks
are circling the waters because of Donald Trump’s words……
What they don’t want you to know
is that they, politicians on both sides of the aisle, have been collectively grabbing
America’s pussy for decades and taking what they want. This fact seems to have
become lost to us and I have to believe that is by design.
Simply put, the system
no longer works for We the People, but We the Politicians.
At the end of the day, Trump
represents a threat to the political status quo and that scares the hell out of
them. Like the democrats, they are part
of the problem; the other side of the same coin if you will. I couldn’t care
less if they pull their support for Donald Trump, but I hope that they
understand I will be pulling my support for them. Just like Hillary Clinton
they have only needed me when they
want something, but they have to be threatened
to do the right thing when it doesn’t benefit them.
November 8th will be
historic. It will be a referendum on our political system. It will either be a
vote to maintain the political status quo, which has brought us to this place
we are in, or a vote to shake things up.
I know where my vote is going.
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
How the United States Congress Marginalizes Itself for Party Politics
Before my budding career as a mystery / thriller author, I spent twenty-two years in law enforcement, fifteen of those as an investigator with the NYPD, both as a detective and sergeant.
Since my books tend to have an overt political tone to them, I tend to follow the current events of the day pretty closely, so you can imagine that I was glued to my TV set this morning when FBI Director
James Comey appeared before the Congressional Oversight Committee to answer
questions pertaining to the Hillary Clinton investigation, specifically whether
information she provided to them during her voluntary
interview showed that she lied to Congress in her testimony, which was under
oath.
I will admit that I didn’t have
much hope going into this. My prior post about Congress
abdicating its Constitutional role shows just how bad things have gotten in
Washington, but this morning’s testimony highlights the true extent.
Now, let me remind you that this
hearing was about Hillary Clinton’s testimony before Congress and the
subsequent testimony she gave during the investigation by the FBI. The reason
for this was that when she testified before Congress it was under
oath.
So after opening questions by the
Committee Chairman, what does the ranking member, Rep. John Conyers (D-Mi.) ask?
A question about the FBI
interview with Hillary? Nope.
Anything to do with the subject
of the current hearing? Nope.
No, Rep. Conyers thinks this is a
good time to address police shootings
and potential Russian connections for
Donald Trump.
See, this is exactly why people
have lost all faith in the political system. Congress, a co-equal branch of government, has
lost all credibility as it devolves deeper into the quagmire
of political party cheerleading.
Rep. Conyers, the senior member
of Congress, who has served since 1965,
has abandoned his duties as the representative of the people and has put his
party’s interests above the electorate. Let us be completely clear on this - There is certainly evidence that Hillary
Clinton perjured herself before congress.
Consider the following:
I have heard a lot of people, who
have never handled this type of material, make excuse after excuse about things
they know nothing about: Classification markings, retroactive classification,
whether there were markings, and I could go on forever. Understand one thing,
Hillary Clinton, the woman President Obama called the most qualified person ever,
was the Secretary of State. She knew, or should have known, whether the
information she dealt with was classified. Ignorance of the law is not a
defense and, repeat after me, you DO NOT need intent to commit the crime you
only have to do it.
It was not CIA Director, General
David Petraeus’, intent to jeopardize national security, but he was still charged
with providing classified information. He pled guilty to a misdemeanor and accepted
a plea deal of probation along with a $100,000.00 fine. Understand that
Petraeus’ mistress, Paula Broadwell, was a journalist, a Lieutenant Colonel in
the US Army and an Intelligence Officer.
Broadwell had the security clearance to handle classified information,
but was not given authority to remove the information “from authorized storage facilities” or
store the classified information “in
unauthorized locations,” according to the affidavit. Unfortunately for
her, her case wasn’t as cut and dry as the General. She lost her security clearence,
was demoted back to major, and is still in a state of limbo.
I’m sorry, but does anyone think
that what happened with Hillary Clinton and her staff was in any way different?
There were people with access to her emails that had NO security clearance.
Why was Hillary’s attorney and
chief of staff Cheryl Mills, given immunity in order to obtain her laptop, when
the same accommodation was not afforded Paula Broadwell? Hell the FBI gave four other people immunity
and no
one was prosecuted. Obviously Petraeus and Broadwell didn’t know the right
people.
In my twenty-two year law enforcement
career I have never seen an investigation,
by what we are told is the Nation’s preeminent investigatory agency, which was
so flawed on so many levels. To be fair, I don’t blame the rank and file
agents, but I do lay the blame at the foot of the Director and Attorney General
Lynch, who I am sure issued the marching orders. However, that is a topic for another day.
The key issue today is the travesty
that passes itself off as the people’s representatives. I don’t care what party
you belong to; just understand that your elected officials are not doing the job you
elected them to do.
This morning, Rep. John Conyers
highlighted what is fundamentally wrong with our government.
Understand that I draw no distinction to
party, if you can cite an example where a Republican representative did the
same thing I will agree with you 100%. Each of us must look beyond party politics;
we must expect our representatives to seek the truth, not to protect a political
ally. The letter after a name must never come before the truth. The
Rule of Law must prevail, because when it does not then the Rule of Man does and
when that happens this Republic is doomed.
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Tuesday, September 27, 2016
When gov't agencies no longer respect the Constitution...
Many of you are aware that, in addition to being a retired NYPD sergeant, I am also a political junkie and this plays a big role in some of the books that I have written.
This morning, I watched something
that I found to be profoundly disturbing to me, as it should be to the
overwhelming majority of Americans.
Congressional Oversight Committee
Chairman, Congressman Jason Chaffetz, was questioning FBI Assistant Director
Jason Herring, regarding the production and distribution of materials, relative
to Congress’ investigation of Hillary Clinton’s emails. During the course of
his appearance, Agent Herring stated: “Director Comey tried to be as
transparent as he could with this committee.”
Stop for a moment and let that
sink in: “tried to be as transparent as he could..”
Folks, that should send a chill
through you. If it doesn’t, then the problem is greater than you could imagine.
How have we arrived to the point
where an arm of the government, specifically a federally law enforcement agency,
decides to become its own arbiter of what it will and will not provide to
congress?
I cannot begin to warn you of the
seriousness of this and the dire implications for our country going forward.
As many of you know, in the past
I have railed against the ‘party’ system as I believe that this political arrangement
is more of a detriment to us, driving a wedge of dissension between Americans.
I believe that we have a solemn responsibility to elect principled leaders, as
it is the only way our system works. But with each passing day I have come to realize
that the majority of Americans do not have a clue as to exactly how this system
of government works.
First, please understand that we
do not live in a democracy. I keep hearing people say that and I cringe. There
is a significant reason that the United States is not a democracy, best summed
up by founding father and future president, James Madison:
“Hence it is that democracies have ever been
spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with
personal security or the rights of property; and in general have been as short
in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths …” – Federalist
Papers, #10.
The truth is that democracy is
actually the antithesis of our government. In a democracy the majority can
decide to simply vote away things they don’t agree with, including your rights.
Ever hear the argument about common sense? Well, in a democracy, the majority
can take away any right by virtue of common sense….. you know, for the common
good. Sadly, many do not consider the implications of this. You might be part
of the in-crowd today, enjoying your moment in the sun, but remember that
tomorrow the political winds can shift and you may very well find yourself
looking down the barrel of the gun you helped create. We only have to look back
70 or so years at the rise and fall of Nazi Germany.
So the founding fathers took the
extraordinary path of creating the world’s first constitutional republic. It
established a constitution as the guiding principles, recognizing certain unalienable
rights to the citizens of this nation, and created a framework of co-equal
government that would insure these rights were not infringed upon.
The new government was founded
upon three co-equal branches: Executive, a bicameral Legislative (House of
Representatives and Senate) and Judicial. Without getting into the minutia, because
you should already know this, each has its own separate powers and was thought
to be the best system for insuring that one branch didn’t accumulate too much
power and attempt to exceed its granted authority.
Got that? This system was
designed to prevent one branch from gaining too
much power.
Checks and balances is what it is
called and a good example of this is that the legislative (Congress) has the
power to create laws. The executive (President) can veto any legislation, an
act which can be overridden by Congress, with sufficient votes. The
President nominates judges to the nation's highest judicial authority (Supreme
Court), but nominees must be approved by Congress. The judicial then has the
power to invalidate, as ‘unconstitutional,’ any law passed. The Congress also
has the power of the purse, the
ability to tax and spend public money for the national government. So if the
President does attempt an end-run to establish something the Congress does not
approve of, he won’t have the funding to do so.
This works well, at least in theory.
When George Washington was first
elected president in 1789 there were no political parties. This would soon
change with the Federalist Party in 1791 and, in the following year, the
formation of the Anti-Federalist Party or Democratic-Republicans. By his 2nd
term, party lines and loyalty in the Nation’s capital were drawn to the point
of bitterness and destruction. Personal and professional attacks became common
and they represented a serious threat to the new republic. Washington was
greatly concerned that the parties had sought to, and would again; seek more power
for themselves, using it to exact political revenge on their opponents.
Something he called the ‘alternate domination.’ When reading Washington’s Farewell
Address, it does not take much to see just how remarkably prophetic his
words were:
“The disorders and miseries which
result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute
power of an individual; and sooner or later the chief of some
prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns
this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation, on the ruins of public
liberty.”
Does any of this sound familiar?
Just as Washington predicted, two
hundred plus years ago, we are seeing the elevation of man, and party, over the
principled and faithful execution of law.
Party in-fighting, within the hallowed
halls of Congress, has diminished that body to nothing more than a cheerleader
for the current occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. A fact eloquently outlined in the accompanying statement by Rep. Trey Gowdy. And the judicial is not
very far behind, becoming more of an activist
judiciary instead of one that uses the Constitution as their guide.
But in the case of Congress, rather
than perform the role they were elected to do, by you, they are actually doing
the will of the party. This has to resonate with the electorate. If not, then
we are truly doomed.
Whatever your political
affiliation is, the current investigation into, Democratic Party nominee,
Hillary Clinton’s email servers has to be taken seriously. I spent most of my
career conducting criminal investigations. Unlike politicians and pundits who
try and couch their words, I can tell you unequivocally that crimes were
committed. Whether a decision was made to not prosecute for those crimes is not
the issue. Congress has, and should act upon, the authority to investigate this
matter, but as we see in the video above, forces are at play to impede it. An
agent of the executive branch, in this case the FBI, should not be allowed to
decide what they will or will not
share with the legislative branch tasked with oversight. That is chilling.
It is something that is even
occurring within lower federal courts where agencies are refusing to turn over
documents to the court.
How did we get to this place?
What happened to the rule of law and not man? Will the foundation that is being
laid now slowly trickle down to the rest of society? What will happen when
society chooses to fail to comply with a court order? Will the judge wring his
hands and bemoan his impotence to do anything? I don’t think so.
I truly believe that something
has to change in this country.
The government of the United States
represents the citizens or as Abraham Lincoln so eloquently put it: "Government of the people, by the
people, for the people…” We are their bosses and yet somehow we have abdicated
all control to the powers that be.
To be fair, they are not
completely at fault. We, the people, have become co-equal cheerleaders.
Lamenting when someone from the other
side does something wrong, yet turning a blind eye when it is our person. We simply cannot have
different rules for us and them.
If this continues down the path
it is going, we will not survive.
Congress has to stop ‘protecting’
people, because they belong to the same party, and start doing what their
bosses, the people, elected them to do. For our part, we have to be honest with
ourselves and understand that just because someone might have the same party
affiliation as us, doesn’t mean they are the best person for the job.
Unlike the vast majority of folks
reading this, I handled classified information at one time. Folks, this isn’t
an insignificant issue and it certainly isn’t a political one. Understand that
people have lost careers and have even gone to prison for far less than what
Hillary Clinton did, yet we are being told: ‘nothing here, move along.’ If it
were you or I, our lives would be ruined and our freedoms taken away. Don’t you
have a problem with that? Why is it, that by virtue of her place, in some type
of American political lineage, she is getting a free pass on something you or I
would spend a long time in prison for? Doesn’t this bother you at a fundamental
level?
Elections are about the
accumulation of power, not for you or me, but for the party. It is the reason
that Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, the two major party candidates for president
in 2012, spent close to $1.12 billion, a number which, by all estimates, will probably
be exceeded in this election cycle. All that money for a job that pays a paltry
annual salary of $500,000.00, give or take. Let that sink in for a moment. At
best, the next president, if they are in for two-terms (eight years), will have
earned about 4-5 million dollars. Hillary and Bill Clinton brought in five
times that total amount during one year of speaking engagements.
You still think this isn’t about
power?
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Sunday, September 11, 2016
Fifteen Years Later – Remembering the Attacks of September 11th
I got up, just like I do every
September 11th, and looked outside.
I like rainy days, over cast
days, hot days, cloudy days, hazy days, every day other than the one I
that is forever seared into my brain.
I got up this morning early,
before the sun had come up, and stepped outside. Fifteen years ago I did the
same thing, heading out of the house before the sun had come up to do my tour
of duty as a city-election supervisor for the NYPD. That morning the air was
cool and crisp, a nice respite from the dog days of summer we had just gone
through.
As the sun came up over Brooklyn,
the darkness was chased away by shades of gold, and red and orange. The rising
sun turned the once black sky into a majestic blue, unmarred by any clouds. It
was a rich shade of blue that I will never forget, a color that looked as if it had been pulled directly from God’s pallet.
Had I seen it before? Probably,
but before September 11th it meant nothing. Now, I will take the
image to my grave.
So it was with trepidation that I
stepped outside, feeling the coolness of the air. As I grudgingly watched, sipping
my coffee, the sky once again began its transformation, chasing away the
blackness. As the sun took hold, the dew on the blades of grass were
transformed in to a field of sparking diamonds. Off in the distance the fog
rolled across the tops of the corn fields. It was a scene that, on 364 other
days, would be breathtaking in its scope and beauty. But this was day 365.
As I watched the sun rise, the
sky once again has turned blue and, try as I might, I can’t find a single cloud
in the sky.
As I write this, I watch the
clock, ticking off in my head mentally where I was on that fateful morning. My
travels will take my partner and I through the streets of Brooklyn to the hell
that was Manhattan on the morning of September 11th. Our
conversation will go from typical morning banter, laughs as we search for the
elusive ‘Vote Here – Aqui’ signs, which signaled our latest election poll target, to hearing the
first calls over our portable radio, and, after realizing we had been attacked,
heading in to Ground Zero, unaware of what we would face when we arrived and
saying goodbye to one another, just in case.
In just under a half hour from
now the 1st plane will have struck the North Tower….. and so the
memories will all come flooding back.
My partner and I were lucky that
day. We were spared the fate that so many others faced, due in no small part to
an elusive pack of cigarettes.
Today I mourn for my friends,
co-workers, and all those lost, not just at the World Trade Center, but at the
Pentagon and in the skies above Pennsylvania as well. I remember the bravery
that came through in the days and months after the attack; my heart beaming with
pride just because I was lucky enough that God choose me to be a member of the
greatest police department in the world, the NYPD. And I will forever carry in my heart and mind
the Department motto: Fidelis Ad Mortem (Faithful Unto Death)
But I also mourn for those who
died on the other September 11th Attack. And just as I will not forget the names of
Moira Smith, John Coughlin, Joe Vigiano, Rodney Gillis and all the other
members of the NYPD who died that day, I will also not forget the names: Christopher
Stevens, Sean Smith, Ty Woods and Glen Doherty. Nor will I forget those who,
laying aside everything else, rushed in to save them, accepting that it might
be their last day as well.
Those of us who survive such things
are torch bearers for the real heroes, the men and women who selflessly gave their
lives for their fellow man. We must never forget them and we must never let
their deaths be in vein.
So, today I will mourn, as I do
every September 11th. I will thank God for saving me and my partner that day,
thank him for having given me the opportunity to be a part of something so much
greater than myself and to be able to share my story, so that the true heroes
are never forgotten. On November 8th, 2016, I will honor those lost in Benghazi, making sure that they are Never Forgotten.
Someone recently asked me if I
thought we had learned anything from the attack. Sadly, the answer to that question is a resounding no. Just
like the warnings, the lessons are all there, we have just ignorantly closed the book. Blithely
choosing to bury our heads in the sands of political correctness; believing
that the old Beatles song ‘Love Is All You Need’ is the answer to all our ills.
It isn’t. You don’t have to agree with me, but my opinions are based on cold
hard fact, not fiction or personal desires.
God bless you all and may God
bless America.
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Who is Hillary Clinton and what has she done?
Apathy, Thy Name is Hillary |
Many years ago, eight to be exact, I wrote about then
Senator Barack Obama and asked the same
question under my former Andrew, the Angry American persona.
Mind you, this was during my pre-author days, and long before I found an effective editor, so don't judge me.
The truth is that we have a big problem in this country. We are electing
people without any form of due diligence. We get too caught up in the empty
promises, the campaign theatrics, and the party nonsense. Then, before you know
it, it is the day after and we are left wondering what the hell did we just do?
Unfortunately, at that point, it is too late.
Now a lot of folks seem to be repeating the same mistakes we
did back in 2007/08, which is to not properly vet the candidates. I keep
hearing about Hillary Clinton’s accomplishments, but to be honest, no one can
actually name one. Heck, that’s not surprising considering the candidate herself can’t
name one. To be fair she points to obscure things, but nothing
tangible. However, you can read her book: Hard Choices, which
promises to address these questions. It doesn't.
Thanks, I think I’ll take a pass. You see, back in the 90's,
when I was assigned to the NYPD's elite Intelligence Division, I worked on Bill
Clinton's security detail when he visited New York City. I saw this 'loving'
couple up close and personal. All I can say is do not believe everything
you see and less than what you hear.
If you enjoy political intrigue, I suggest reading my
books. At least in my books no one makes excuses for their actions.
But let us consider who we are dealing with here:
- She attended Wellesley College, majoring in Political Science, and Yale, where she graduated with a law degree.
- During her college years she was very active in politics, Republican politics to be precise. She was even the president of the Wellesley Young Republicans. She left the party over the Vietnam War and Civil Rights issues.
- She was an attorney for the prestigious Rose Law Firm in Arkansas where she would make full partner. She was twice named in the 100 Most Influential Lawyers by National Law Review.
- She was Arkansas’ First Lady for twelve years (1979-1981, 1983-1992)
- She served on the Board of Directors for WALMART, as well as several other firms.
- She was the First Lady of the United States (1993-2001)
- She served as Senator from New York (2001-2009)
- She ran for President in 2008
- She was Secretary of State (2009 – 2013)
She has been in the public eye for the better part of 3 ½
decades. So how in the hell can you not point to ONE tangible
accomplishment?
On the flipside, I can sure as hell point to an awful lot of
controversies: Whitewater, Paula Jones, Cattle Futures, Filegate, Travelgate,
Norman Hsu, Monica Lewinsky, FBI Background Records, Benghazi, E-Mail / Server,
Clinton Foundation……
I’m sorry, someone with this much baggage shouldn’t be
pointing fingers at anyone else.
That being said, you have to ask yourself if the world is a
better place for her involvement and the answer is simply no. I cannot see
anything in the record that points to her as being singularly qualified to be President.
In fact, don't take my word for it, but consider what President Obama said
about her in 2008: "Hillary Clinton. She’ll say anything and change
nothing."
While First Lady, and despite having control over both houses, she was unable to
get enough votes for the Clinton Health Plan and the proposal was ended in
1994.
In 1997 she did manage to get passage of the State
Children’s Health Insurance Program, but whether it was her, or the bill’s big
name backers (Ted Kennedy and Orrin Hatch), is questionable.
As Senator, she managed to sponsor only three,….. yes 3,
bills that became law:
S.
1241: A bill establishing the Kate Mullany National Historic
Site in the State of New York.
S.
3613: A bill naming a post office the "Major George Quamo Post
Office Building."
S.
3145: A bill designating a highway in New York as the Timothy J.
Russert highway.
WTF?
To be fair, she sponsored 355 bills, but of these, only
twenty passed the Senate. I’m sorry, but you took over the seat of Senator
Daniel Patrick Moynihan, probably one of the most prolific politicians of the
20th century, and this is the best you can do?
I will leave it to those of you, who are so inclined, to
pour over the bills;
perhaps you can glean something to polish her record a bit.
To be equally fair, then Senator Barack Obama only sponsored
127 bills, 2 of which passed the Senate. You be the judge of the effectiveness
of these two constitutional juggernauts. Just remember Clinton’s comments in
the 2008 campaign when she accused him of voting ‘present’ 130 times as an
Illinois State senator.
Neither seems very keen on the idea of doing the people's work.
When I look at her record as Secretary of State, I am even
more disheartened.
During President Bush’s time in office, the left routinely
referred to it as Cowboy Politics. They lamented our status in the world. Hell,
even entertainers ‘apologized’ for him. President Obama was supposed
to ‘fix’ it all, and his appointment of Hillary Clinton as Secretary of State
was meant to facilitate the repair work. Remember the infamous Russian ‘reset’?
Yeah, how’s that working out?
The truth is that, if you spent even a minimal amount of
time watching or reading the news, you would have witnessed the decline in
stability throughout the world under Hillary Clinton’s watch. From Russia to
Libya, it seemed as if the United States government was asleep at the wheel.
And if one person points to the Iran deal as being an accomplishment, I will personally come to your house and slap you senseless or at least make you read Bishop's Gate !!
I actually heard someone point to the killing of Osama bin
Laden as a positive. Then again, I also heard the credit given to President
Obama.
Really?
Ultimately the credit is awarded to the person that answers
the fateful question: ‘Mother, May I?’, but let’s be brutally honest for one
moment. It was the operators on the ground who located bin Laden and it was the
Navy SEAL’s who dispatched him to the afterlife. Giving the thumbs up, to go after the most wanted man in
America, the mastermind behind 9/11, is kind of a no-brainer.
While we are on that subject, how did that work out for
Shakil Afridi? Dr. Afridi worked for the CIA, running a cover program that
ultimately led to the positive ID of Osama bin Laden. So what happened to him?
He’s pretty much fucked as he was left out to dry. Pakistani authorities caught
him trying to escape over the border and he was sentenced to thirty-three years
in prison. Despite some political lip service from Clinton’s State Department,
nothing has been done to help Dr. Afridi, but why should he be any different?
In fact, it has been speculated that Afridi was made the sacrificial lamb by
the CIA and Hillary's State Department.
No matter where you look, this administration has screwed
the pooch. From Iran, to Egypt, to Iraq, to Afghanistan, to Russia, to Libya,
to Syria, to Israel. To be honest, I’m surprised we haven’t managed to piss off
the Canadians yet. The bottom line is that you can certainly argue that, when
she left, the world was actually less stable than when she took the job.
What clinches it for me is that little diplomatic outpost in
Benghazi.
Yes, yes, I see you in the back with your hand up and that wild
look in your eye. I know what you are going to say: ‘The subject of Benghazi
has been settled, it was all just a vast right-wing witch hunt meant to destroy
her reputation….’
Sit down and shut up, you’re making a fool out of yourself.
Just because the media fed you some talking points and Congressman John Lewis,
along with the rest of the Democratic cheering section, pointed an angry finger
at Republicans, doesn’t mean the issue was actually addressed. In fact, I
actually had one person make the argument that Republicans were ‘never
concerned about diplomatic attacks until Benghazi.’
Really?
The truth is that any attack is horrific, but it wasn’t the
attack that got to people. It was the cover-up!
I spent twenty-two years in law enforcement. It’s a
dangerous job and we all know it. Losing an officer in the line of duty is
tragic, but imagine being a cop, under fire, and calling for help and somewhere
the dispatch supervisor turns off the radio. Help isn’t coming.
Don't believe me? Well then, ask: Kris Paronto
That was the reality of Benghazi and no one has ever been
held accountable. I’ve written about this before and why
Benghazi matters in terms of this Presidential election. Once you get past
the political speak, you begin to see a pattern of deception. Sadly, the folks
who were there are being both marginalized and vilified.
Maybe some of the millennials can point to her increase in
Facebook and Twitter engagements as a positive sign, but that’s not exactly a
glowing endorsement for someone to be President of the United States. As for
me, I’m tired of the Clinton’s and their political games.
I’m going to vote for Donald J. Trump.
Yes, I do have issues with him, but when I look at his
business record: I will gladly gamble on the four bankruptcies, actually four
Chapter 11’s over twenty-five years, which are not always the result of bad
business decisions, as most actual business owners will tell you,
and his many successes’. Do I think he is the A+ candidate that we all want?
No. But, truth be told, we have not had an A+ candidate in a VERY long time.
What I want is someone who is business savvy and who will at least attempt to
stop the ship and put it back on its proper course.
The alternative is Hillary Clinton, a woman whom I firmly
believe is a pathological liar and someone who will continue the destructive
pattern we are currently on. The threats we face, in terms of foreign and domestic terrorism, grow larger every day. Yet we cannot even begin to address these issues because we are focusing on the every growing Clinton scandals. Even now we are unraveling the details of a pay-for-play scam that would send any 'law-abiding' citizen to federal prison for a very extended sentence.
You do not have to agree with me on Trump, but I
beg you to consider the ramifications and the long term effects on this
country. We are twenty trillion dollars in debt and I guarantee you that we won't last much longer.
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Monday, August 8, 2016
The Wussification of America
When the hell did this country go
from the amazing place that I grew up in to this?
Yes, it was tough back
then.
We didn’t have smart phones, we
were lucky to have a house phone. We didn’t have 1080 dpi HD televisions in our
bedrooms, we were lucky to have a color TV in the living room and YOU were the
remote (as well as the antenna adjuster) for whichever adult wanted to watch one of the dozen channels we had. We didn’t
have Facebook, or Twitter, or any of the hundred or so other social media
websites that this generation uses to validate their existence. Hell, Al Gore hadn’t
invented the internet for us plebes yet…… (that’s a joke).
No, we rode bikes for miles,
played sports, along with hide and seek in active construction zones. We called
each other disparaging (and very politically incorrect) names, got into fist fights, and made up, all within
the span of a few hours. And we got beat by our parents and our teachers. Not
some sissy lecture, but honest to God beat, because we deserved it. If you don’t
know what a switch is, look it up.
Thin skin was molded into
toughness on gritty streets and you know what? We Survived!
We also learned respect. We
called our elders by their first name: Mr. or Mrs. or, at the very least, Sir
or Ma’am and we held doors open for the fairer sex. We learned personal responsibility
and didn’t blame anyone else for doing something stupid, unless we really wanted them to get into trouble as well. Parents didn’t resolve
our disputes, we did. Usually while they sat on the stoop watching their idiot children
make asses of themselves. A law suit was something that happened in big business,
not in Middle America.
If you flunked school, it was
your fault, not the teachers. If a criminal was killed by the police we didn’t
stage a protest or demand an excusal from testing while we coped with the psychological trauma. To be honest we couldn’t care less because they were: (repeat
after me) a CRIMINAL !!
If the job we worked at didn’t
pay enough, you got another job, but you never quit the 1st job till
you had that 2nd job. Welfare was a crutch, to help you get back on
your feet, not a suitable alternative to actually working. You want to know why you are having a hard time finding a job? Because there are limited career opportunities for degree programs that specialize in: Diversity, Privilege, Feminism and Sensitivity.
No one went to therapy, no one
needed to find themselves, and we
certainly didn’t need a safe place to escape criticism or different viewpoints.
Sorry junior / junior-ette,
despite what the professor in your SJW degree program course told you, life
in-fact DOES NOT owe you anything. You also don't get extra points for being a
'warrior' by confronting the police, ala that BlackLivesMatter bullshit, over some manufactured outrage.
99.9% of the police PROTECT you and your right to be an idiot, even as you are
chanting about killing them. Go try that shit in another country and see
how well that works out for you.
You want to show me just how
tough you are on the issues, you and your fellow man-bun wearing hipsters head
on over to Chicago (Englewood is nice this time of year) and protest the real epidemic of murder.
Alas, that's not gonna happen because the folks there don't play well with
idiots. Chances are pretty good you're gonna end up being a statistic.
Why? Because, life truly is hard.
It has always been hard since the dawn of time. It is why we have the motto 'survival
of the fittest.' It is exponentially harder if you are stupid.
This wussification, or coddling,
of our young is not helping them.
The rest of the world does not
move in lockstep with the U.S., quite the contrary. We are teaching our special
snowflakes to go to their safe spaces when they are offended or
upset, while somewhere in the Middle East a family is sending their kid to a 'terror
camp' to learn how to wage war. No, that is not a joke, there are literally
'summer camps' for future Jihadists. We send our little munchkins to a place
with pools, crafting programs, and courses on diversity, while 'Jihad Johnny' learns to field
strip an AK-47, slit the throat of infidels and build a suicide vest.
I have no problem with people
seeking a Utopia, but understand that the world actually doesn't work that
way. Contrary to our esteemed President, that really is not who we are.
Pacifist, vegan, man-bun wearing cavemen, who tried to live in harmony with
nature, often became bait and or dinner. You might choose to evolve, but
understand that the vast majority of the world will not.
Like the old saying: 'Those who
beat their swords into plowshares, usually plow for those who didn't.'
The best we can hope for is to
raise warriors who pray for peace, but have no problem looking you in the eyes and saying Molon Labe. What we have right now is a bunch of peace activists
who like to lecture from 'gun free zones' and we have seen time and again just how
well those work.
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Monday, July 11, 2016
The Aftermath of the Dallas Police Shootings - Violence Based on a Lie
As I sat in my hotel room up in
Chicago, watching FBI Director James Comey’s testimony before congress Thursday
morning, I could not imagine how my Monday morning blog could not be about
Hillary Clinton. Sadly, the shooting of the police officers in Dallas, including five who died, during a Black Lives Matter protest later
that evening would cause me to re-evaluate that idea.
I will save my response to
Director Comey’s finding for a more appropriate time. For now I want to focus on the social issues
that are tearing apart the very fabric of this country. I am asking you to
please consider everything that I am about to tell in light of the false
narrative that you are being spoon fed by the politicians, pundits and so
called community activists.
First and foremost is the
chilling fact that: #BlackLivesMatter (aka: BLM), like its predecessor:
#HandsUpDontShoot, is a lie.
Why do I say that?
Because, just like the real
reasons behind gun violence, the people pushing this agenda are completely disingenuous
and have no answers as to how to take action to save any lives, let alone black
ones.
You know who does? The police.
Yes, those very same
blood-thirsty, racist cops are the only ones who are proactively doing
something to save lives, especially black ones.
You must be thinking to yourself
that I have completely lost it and I can honestly understand why. It’s hard not
to believe this stuff when you are being bombarded with it at every turn. Every
day the media is reporting about the latest ‘murder’ of a black man by ‘racist’
cops. Hell, even Congress and the NFL got in on the act. But just because you
are repeatedly being told something doesn’t make it factual. Consider this
quote before you go any further:
“A lie doesn’t become truth, wrong doesn’t become right and evil doesn’t
become good, just because it is accepted by the majority.” – Rick Warren
We have to move beyond the
narrative and look at the facts. Now some people in politics and the media
don’t want to do this because it is going to cast a spotlight on the fallacy of
their claims. By creating this fictitious boogieman
it serves four purposes:
- Makes someone else responsible for the problems
- Creates a sensational storyline that sucks in under-informed viewers / readers
- Provides a financial cottage industry to those willing to exploit it
- Unjustly demonizes a group of people they already do not like
Sadly, this is a classic case of a ‘Lather, Rinse & Repeat’ problem.
Well, much different than what
they want you to believe.
The recent attack and assassination
of the police officers in Dallas underscores the reality. Those officers were
there to protect the BLM protestors.
None of the officers in Dallas had been involved in any way with the recent
shootings, yet they were being vilified as if they had pulled the triggers
themselves. The fact is that the only one that went there with a hate-filled
agenda was the shooter and when that shooter opened fired what happened? The
police officers, the same ones being demonized by the crowd, rushed in to put
themselves between the shooter and
protesters.
Yep, sounds just like the blood-thirsty,
racist cops we are being warned about.
So how did social media, that
bell-weather for the state of decay that has become America, respond? Not surprisingly, in typical BLM fashion:
- “Y’all pigs got what was coming for y’all.”
- “Yeah it's lit in Dallas fuck the pigs !!”
- “Next time a group wants to organize a police shoot, do like Dallas tonight, but have extra men/women to flank the Pigs!”
- “These fucking pigs deserve Dallas, and every incident after Dallas until reform. Fucking disgusting animals.”
- “Dude hell yeah someone is shooting pigs in dallas. Solidarity.”
- “DALLAS keep smoking dem pigs keep up the work.”
Unfortunately, this vile,
hate-filled rhetoric is nothing new. It wasn’t too long ago that we heard
chants of: “What do we want? Dead cops. When
do we want it? Now!” and “Pigs in a
blanket, fry ’em like bacon!”
But surely if the problem is
truly as bad as we are being told, then surely there is some emotional justification for all this,
right?
The simple answer is no.
To be sure there was a time when
racism was a very real problem in this country, but the same can be said with
just about every other country in the world. The truth is that there will
always be some form of racism and or discrimination. Do you think those
comments above are any less racist just because they are directed at the nameless
/ faceless police?
If those in the BLM community
have that much of a problem with the police, then why do they still pick-up the
phone and call 911 when they need help? Not sure how to reconcile exactly how
you can be so vehemently anti-police
one moment, and then hide behind them the next.
Now I know there are those who
will contend that the police killings of innocent black are of such epidemic proportions that it justifies
some of this anger.
Once again, the truth is no.
To be fair, there are bad cops,
just as there are bad politicians, reporters, community activists, doctors,
lawyers, firemen, etc. and we should do our best to root them out, because they
do a grave disservice to the vast majority who do their jobs with
professionalism. But the lie of the epidemic
of racist cops killing unarmed / innocent blacks is just that, a lie and
just because a lie is told enough times doesn’t make it the truth. I don’t care
who is telling you this, whether it is a politician, celebrity, pundit, or the
person on the street corner, it will never be the truth and here is why:
The population of the United
States is roughly 318 million people. Of that number, approximately 40 million
are black. There are less than eight hundred thousand sworn members of law
enforcement.
Let that sink in for a minute.
Law enforcement makes up just a quarter of a percent, 0.25%, of the
population of the United States!
In terms of the black population
it is a ratio of 50:1
So how many blacks have been
killed by police so far in 2016? 123.
If you like math that is equal to
0.000307499% of the black population.
Just for comparison, there have
been almost 250 blacks killed in the city of Chicago during the same time
period.
Do you need me to do the numbers?
The reality is that, if you are
black, you are twice as likely to be killed on
the streets of Chicago then you are in the entire United States. Yet,
I can’t recall ever seeing a single BLM march through the Chicago neighborhoods
of Austin or Englewood. Guess they don’t like protesting in war-zones.
The truth is that while more
whites are killed by the police (238 vs 123 YTD), blacks are killed by cops
more often than whites, proportional to population,
but the contrast in numbers is still ridiculously low: 0.0003% vs 0.0001%
This is what we are all up in
arms about? 0.0002%
All lives matter, but we must
consider what is really going on here.
I’m sorry, but I would really
like to know how this adds up to systemic
racism of epidemic proportions?
Where is the moral outrage at the
murders occurring in Chicago?
Where are the President, Attorney General, and
all the other indignant politicians demanding a full Justice Department investigation
into the atrocities being committed daily on the streets of that city?
Because the reality is that politicians
have no response for the rise of inner-city crime, like Chicago. Murders there
are truly at epidemic proportions. They know the problem, but it is the 800 lb political gorilla in the room that no one wants to talk about. They would rather talk about incarceration rates, yet make no mention of recidivism rates, or point out how
blacks are stopped at disproportionately higher numbers than whites. Call me crazy, but how many white people do
you see walking down the streets of places like: Brownsville (New York City),
Englewood (Chicago), Compton (Los Angeles), Sandtown (Baltimore), or Highland
Park (Detroit).
So who exactly should the police
be stopping? Think about that for a moment. Should we have quotas based on
ethnicity? A cop in Brownsville can only stop a racially diverse number of
people per day? If you get robbed should the cops be prevented from stopping
someone, who fits the description, because they have already stopped a person
of that color earlier in the day?
We truly need to #WakeUpAmerica
The police are not the enemy. They
are the ones you call when you need help, the ones who run toward the danger
while the rest of society runs toward safety. Ask those innocent people trapped
within those dangerous inner-city neighborhoods who they want to make things
safer. It certainly isn’t the drug dealers or the gang members.
The thin blue line is just that, thin.
We are nothing more than a veil which separates the sheep from the
wolves, but more and more it seems that there are many who want to tear that
veil away. Through incendiary rhetoric and baseless accusations they castigate
the very small fraternity sworn to protect them. They goad the masses into violent
action and then feign surprise when they act on it. Each act, dismissed as ‘lashing out in
frustration,’ only serves to further embolden the criminal element.
As a society, we are quickly
approaching the edge of our own demise.
The calls for violence, the tacit
approval of urban destruction, all in the name of a proven lie, is quickly undermining
our very foundation. It is a self-fulfilling prophecy turning our society into
an US vs THEM state, all because our
elected representatives are more inclined to blame others instead of taking
responsibility for the decades long practice of turning a blind eye toward the
real problem.
The problem is that one day they
will get their wish, and anarchy will become the rule. Then who will they blame
for the continual carnage in the black community?
Baseless cries of racism mask the
true problem. The true racism is the political one that contends that the
system, not a lack of personal responsibility, is the problem; that the police,
not the criminals, pose the greatest threat. Ask yourself why those who
represent these inner-cities are always looking to blame someone else, instead
of re-evaluating their decade’s long failures in government.
Where are the inner-city success
stories? Where are the places that four to five decades of democratic control
have: reduced poverty, lowered crime,
raised education levels, and reduced the need for public assistance?
Anyone?
In 2014, Eric Garner died in New
York City. Everyone seemed to jump on the ‘I
Can’t Breathe’ bandwagon, yet everyone seems to miss the very point that
Garner’s ability to utter the words ‘I
Can’t Breathe’ negated that statement. If you can’t breathe, you can’t
talk. Some have broken out their medical textbooks and tried to spin this,
saying that even if you can’t breathe you can still utter some words, but Garner
said ‘I Can’t Breathe’ at least eleven times while still continuing to
resist arrest which occurred under the direct supervision of a female, black
sergeant.
Eric Garner was not an innocent.
He had a record of more than 30 arrests, dating back to 1980, on charges
including assault and grand larceny. At the time of his death, he was out on
bail after being charged with illegally selling cigarettes, driving without a
license, marijuana possession and false impersonation. Garner also did not die at the scene of the
confrontation. He suffered cardiac arrest in the ambulance taking him to the
hospital and was pronounced dead about an hour later. The 6-foot-3, 350 pound,
man suffered from a number of health problems, including heart disease, severe
asthma, diabetes, obesity, and sleep apnea.
Maybe, just maybe, he contributed
to his own demise by engaging in criminal behavior and then resisting arrest?
When the officer went to take him into custody Garner physical swatted the officer’s
hands away from him, escalating the situation. He made that choice. If he had not resisted I imagine the outcome
would have been completely different.
The question is what would you
like the police to do? The cops are being blamed for enforcing laws that they
didn’t create. How would citizens feel if they called 911 to report a crime
only to be told ‘that’s been determined
to be a minor crime and we no longer enforce them’?
In 2015, Freddie Gray died in
Baltimore.
Baltimore is a city comprised of
a 63% black population. It has a black
mayor, black police chief (at the time of Gray’s death), black state’s
attorney, and a predominantly black city council presided over by a black council
president. The last four out of five
mayors have been black and the last four out of six police chiefs have been
black. The police department is a majority-minority department. It is a city
that has been controlled by democrats for eighty-four of the last one hundred
years and yet Gray’s death was somehow made out to be racist, even though three
of the six officers involved were black.
Really?
To be sure, all lives matter. The
officers involved didn’t set out that day to kill someone. If you believe that
then I truly feel very sorry for you. Of the six officers involved, only one
officer had a disciplinary record, stemming from a domestic incident.
Not exactly the picture of the racist
cops everyone tried to portray.
Understand that Freddie Gray was also
not an innocent person. He had a criminal record that included drug charges,
parole violation and other crimes. At the time of his death he had five active
criminal court cases pending. He had also served four years in prison. At the
time of his arrest he was in possession of an illegal knife. The state’s
attorney, Marilyn Mosby, tried to muddy the waters by saying the knife was
legal in Maryland, but ignored the fact that it was actually illegal in Baltimore.
What the state’s attorney also
didn’t want you to know was that three weeks prior to the incident, she had
requested enhanced drug enforcement efforts at the corner of North and Mount,
the area where Gray was arrested.
The truth is a much different
picture than is routinely portrayed.
In the case of the recent
shooting of Alton Sterling, the police were called after someone said Sterling had
threatened them with a gun. Upon arrival of the police a struggled ensued and
Sterling was subsequently shot. He was in
fact armed with a gun.
An examination of his criminal
history shows thirteen arrests including: Assault,
Juvenile Sexual Offender, Burglary, Weapons Possession, Narcotics, Resisting
Arrest, Domestic Abuse….. Not exactly the poster child for: ‘I was minding my own business and the cops
attacked me for no reason.’
Once again we have a criminal,
engaging in criminal behavior and armed with a weapon, yet it is the fault of
the racist police.
As I previously wrote about, the
New York Times did a story that documented seventy-three fatal police shootings
over the course of a 1 year period, from August 2014 to August 2015, throughout
the United States. In all but three cases, the shootings where the end result
of what started off as some type of criminal activity. Perhaps it isn’t about
racist cops, but about the criminals and their behavior?
So why do these false narratives
continue to persist? For the reasons I outlined at the beginning:
- Politicians, who bear a substantial responsibility for the decay of our inner-cities, blame someone else. They elevate themselves as the people’s champion, in order to get re-elected, to continue fighting to correct some fictitious problem.
- Pundits sensationalize erroneous storylines because, truth be told, bad news sells. They look at the same impartial data, but then cherry pick it to support their pre-determined conclusion. Add to the fact that violent protestors and property destruction draw viewers who stay glued to their TV sets and increase ratings.
- The activists realize that there is fame to attain and money to be made.
- And finally, there is a certain segment of society that is anarchistic in nature and is exploiting the situation to justify their desire to simply destroy things. They want to speed up the confrontation.
This country will never be able
to move forward until we begin to embrace the truth and not the stories we are
being told. The problem is that this will require us to educate ourselves and
not believe the lies. It will require us to expect more from the politicians we
elect to represent us.
Until then, the police will
continue to do their job; putting their lives on the line to keep the citizens
of this great nation safe, even when those same citizens are protesting and
shouting ‘Fuck the Police.’
“Violence multiplies violence. Darkness cannot drive out darkness;
only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.”
- Dr. Martin Luther King
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