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| American was once a symbol of hope, justice, prosperity, and liberty. What do we symbolize today? |
Ok. I am not going to even begin to politicize this post in the area of firearms or the Second Amendment. This is not even remotely close to being about that. So this is the last time you will hear it brought up, in turn please refrain from asinine rhetoric on guns. What I do have to ask is: what the hell is wrong with California or America that "at least six" warm-blooded, One-nation-under-God-with-liberty-and-justice-for-all citizens of the greatest democratic republic in modern history could watch one man accost another, pull him out of his vehicle, drag him to the curb, and cold-blooded execute him in broad daylight right on main street? I ask because that is exactly what happened today in Tustin, California.
When did Americans become that sheepish, that callous, that cold-hearted, and that weak. When did we lose our lust for justice, morality, and honor and instead doing nothing became part of the "American Way?" How is it that a grown man can slap someone else's crying toddler and, call that child a racial epithet on an airplane full of mothers and fathers, and still have the physical capacity to walk off that plane under his own power? How can a a Good Samaritan save another citizen from an apparent mugging, only to be left bleeding to death by not only the would-be victim he saved, but numerous passers-by who gawked at his body and took pictures? Once pride and courage burned in our American veins; now cowardice, apathy and lethargy rots us from the inside out like cancer. We won't stand up to our banks, we won't stand up to the corporations, we won't stand up to the media, we won't stand up to our government, we won't stand up for the innocent, and we won't stand up for the poor/oppressed/downtrodden. What is left of the America our forefathers spilled blood for in the Revolution and the Civil War? How is it that as a people we have the intestinal fortitude to send unmanned planes all over the world blowing children and democracy to hell, but we cannot stand up to one murderer spreading actual terror right here in front of our eyes? What great ideals are we spreading across the world behind our tanks and our drones and our bombs?
For goodness' sake, this will continue to happen until the American public stands up and says "enough, is enough." And that is no symbolic, rhetorical gesture. We are going on nearly a century of amplified violence, lawlessness, unethical behavior, and amorality all because at some point those who no longer wished to play by the rules realized they could do whatever the hell they wanted because nobody cared. They knew people could be cowed, doped, fooled, or distracted into ignoring their reckless behavior as it devoured our once glorious republic like a plague. The few who don't ignore it they are demonized, ostracized, disgraced, and silenced in whatever manner is most expedient because the masses still are not paying attention. Stop letting the media tell you what to think and believe. Stop kneeling at the feeding trough of the corporations begging for succor only to eat the scraps of your own blood, sweat, and tears. Stop allowing the government to tell you what you will do and instead start telling the government what we will do. Our grandparents and great grandparents are looking down upon the legacy they left, they gaze upon how we have ruined it, and they weep. They weep for America, and their tears flood down upon us. It is time for us to retrieve our collective heads from whatever dark, cavernous hole in which it is currently hidden, stand up like men and women of the strongest moral character, and be American again.
"What the Fuck Is Wrong With You" by Combichrist from What the Fuck Is Wrong With You People? released 2007 on Metropolis Records
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