Xchoboomer

Senseless. Disgusted. Heartbreaking.Anger.

Just a few thoughts that come to mind when thinking about the violence that broke out in Tuscon recently. Senseless because it troubles me that people think in a way that enacting unconscionable violence and resorting to killing people will some how “wake up” America and solve the ailments of our society, whatever they may be. We seen the same sort of senselessness in 1995 when Timothy McVeigh detonated a truck bomb killing 168 and injured 450 people including many children with the intention of enacting revenge for the debacle in Waco in the hopes of sparking a revolt against a tyrannical federal government. I digress. I’m disgusted at the evil intent and viciousness. The depth at which Jared Lee Loughner [allegedly] had to descend to in order to plan, coordinate, and execute such a wicked premeditated act of assassination and mass murder. And absolutely heartbroken that same viciousness can turn on an innocent child with the same maliciousness as a blameworthy adult. For argument’s sake, I can comprehend why a politician may be targeted. I can comprehend why one may turn on the politician’s constituent’s. But the wretched audacity to turn a gun on a nine year old child that has yet to define their own political motivations. This is something that I will never  understand and can only attempt to grasp by my conception of pure evil.

No one can ever know what was churning though this man’s head and we can only connect the dots of his communications to try and decipher his motives. One of the most telling is the question he posed to Gabriel Giffords. “What is government if words have no meaning?”  This question was also the final thought in Jared Lee Loughner’s Final Thoughts video. In my opinion, one of the eeriest videos of a series of ridiculous videos.For one, just because of the music employed that someone so obsessed with conspiracy theories, mind control, and brainwash would employ in order to condition its disciples. It’s as if Jared Lee Loughner envisions himself almost Charles Manson-esque meets John Adams as he tries to recruit followers and spark a revolution by establishing his own linguistic “currency”.

He begins the video, in his own words, by mocking the reality of the attention deficit disorder of this country [and others], as hypermedia has exacerbated our sense of newsworthiness,  by accusing 95% of the population of forgoing their own dreams. This is followed by a series of logically structured statements that attempt to redefine the alphabet, words, and language. “Currency” as he calls it, inciting followers to create their own and distribute it amongst the masses. And what seems to be a preconceived defense to his current legal issues, he attempts to almost excuse himself by logically asserting that he is “unaware of his motor acts” due to his state of “conscious dreaming”. Following the logically formatted statements he attempts to falsify attempts by the government to call him a terrorist by using a logical fallacy to challenge the validity of the government’s claim against him. He discusses receiving a bible before a U.S. Military MEPS recruitment test after filling out an application where he left his beliefs blank which I interpreted as having no philosophical basis on which these attacks were based. He concludes by claiming the majority of U.S citizens have never read the Constitution and therefore do not have to accept any of its laws but encourages people to read it to uncover the treason within it, retake ownership of property and land and form new laws by way of revolution.

Wow! Now, I’m no linguist and I may not even be literate in his view but that was a little more in depth then I wanted to get into his thought process. He’s probably right about the 95% of the population forgoing their dreams and the majority of citizens never having read the constitution but so what!  That’s what we have kids and lawyers for. That’s not an admittion of me forgoing my dreams. Just a bad joke and I have read the constitution and its ratifications.   Even if his claim to the United States brainwashing and manipulating people by “controlling grammer” through ratification held up, I don’t see how he can justify his actions of cold blooded mass murder in his own mind. It’s not 1776 and the population of the entire United States is not a mere 2.5 million people (plus the local natives and slaves).  Your not going to spark revolution in this day and age with over 300 million people across a manifested destiny, even if you had a full fledged million man militia behind you. Governments will tax you. Politicians will lie to you. Police will trample your civil rights. Judges will side against you. And lawyers will empty your pockets anyway. But it is that fucked up system that is unlike any other system in the world that most of us are proud to be a part of and to spark a revolution you do it within the organizations that make this system function (or not function), and not by setting your cross hairs to the head of a congresswoman who represents tombstone and the wild west’s  ok corral and definitely not the head of a nine year old girl . This guy is no John Adams. Or Charles Manson for that matter. But, I’ll tell you what he is. He’s a fucking nut!

Last week Obama weighed in on the mosque near ground zero at a political event of Muslim leaders. I initially cringed when I heard the story but when I listened to what he was actually saying I did not have any problem with it. I figured it would be just a 24-hour news day cycle and be gone. I guess people took this to heart and he had to expand on his statements over the weekend which made me feel even more comfortable about what he said. It’s now mid-week and this is snowballing into an all out blitzkrieg on the Obama Administration and more importantly, the Democratic party, as we near mid-term elections. I can’t understand why except to conclude that Americans are idiots. Idiots who don’t understand the basic principles that founded this country and can not even comprehend their own language, yes, plain old English.

The Pilgrims first came to this country to escape religious prosecution and our founding fathers amended the Constitution to insure religious freedoms by creating the Bill of Rights. For those who don’t seem to understand what the Bill of Rights are, they are the first ten amendments to the U.S Constitution. How ironically,  it is the second amendment that gives us the right to bear arms. Oh now it rings a bell. Must be kind of like selective hearing. Even more importantly than our right to bear arms is our right to religious freedom, speech, press, assembly, and petition. The very first amendment contains the language that insures this:

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Flash forward about 220 years later and in todays context and you can interpret this to mean Muslims can build (or expand in this case)  a Mosque 4 blocks from ground zero. Is it in bad taste, hell yes. But, do they have the right. According to the fundamental principles that this country was founded upon, yes. Ground zero may be hallowed ground.But even so they have the absolute right. The same things that make our country great are the same things that our salt in our wounds.

So to watch the Republicans try to snowball this and derail Obama and the Democrats this November is just disgusting to me. They are preying on the emotions and in some cases the ignorance of Americans. If people can listen to what Obama is actually saying they are consistent in what all Americans should believe.  It is what we celebrate the fourth of July for. It is what our soldiers are overseas fighting and dying for.  Here is what a snippet of what he said in context:

That is not to say that religion is without controversy. Recently, attention has been focused on the construction of mosques in certain communities – particularly in New York. Now, we must all recognize and respect the sensitivities surrounding the development of lower Manhattan. The 9/11 attacks were a deeply traumatic event for our country. The pain and suffering experienced by those who lost loved ones is unimaginable. So I understand the emotions that this issue engenders. Ground Zero is, indeed, hallowed ground.

But let me be clear: as a citizen, and as President, I believe that Muslims have the same right to practice their religion as anyone else in this country. That includes the right to build a place of worship and a community center on private property in lower Manhattan, in accordance with local laws and ordinances. This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country, and will not be treated differently by their government, is essential to who we are. The writ of our Founders must endure.

We must never forget those who we lost so tragically on 9/11, and we must always honor those who have led our response to that attack – from the firefighters who charged up smoke-filled staircases, to our troops who are serving in Afghanistan today. And let us always remember who we are fighting against, and what we are fighting for. Our enemies respect no freedom of religion. Al Qaeda’s cause is not Islam – it is a gross distortion of Islam. These are not religious leaders – these are terrorists who murder innocent men, women and children. In fact, al Qaeda has killed more Muslims than people of any other religion – and that list of victims includes innocent Muslims who were killed on 9/11.

Since no one seems to understands English anymore and took that as an endorsement to build a mosque near ground zero, Obama had to clarify his statements to those vocabulary challenged. This is in no way, shape or form a contradiction or a retraction of his earlier statements.

I was not commenting and I will not comment on the wisdom of making the decision to put a mosque there. I was commenting very specifically on the right people have that dates back to our founding. That’s what our country is about. And I think it’s very important, as difficult as some of these issues are, that we stay focused on who we are as a people and what our values are all about.

As is typical of Obama, the words are precise and if people can get over the emotional ties for just one minute and comprehend the words that are coming out of his mouth and what he is inferring I see no reason why these statements should inflict an emotional reaction that will yields Democratic seats this November. Unfortunately they most likely will because of these American idiots who don’t understand their own language!