A Brief Rant

10/29/2018

It’s just incredible. The anger, the madness, the unmitigated gall of those who report on the horrible crimes that have gone on in the last few days, saying our president doesn’t “share in the responsibility” for these things. How can he share in the responsibility for these things when he isn’t the perp? These massive shootings and killings didn’t start when we changed presidents. Add them up. Look at the history, start in the 60s and come to today. IF anyone would dare to blame the then  president for the magnitude of mass killings, who do you think the arithmetic would  show was responsible? It isn’t the president’s fault there are crazy people with firearms. It, also isn’t the constitution’s fault crazy people have firearms. Many of these crazy’s have fooled the tester’s, some have firearms gathered illegally, and some just snap!

We live in a world gone after the things of the flesh and it has always been thus. However, I apologize to the next and future generations because I was here while it got worse and my generation hasn’t stopped the madness. (You might say no other generation did anything, either. Does that excuse my generation? No, it doesn’t.)

From the early 60s (vietnam) through the riots in California, the burning and looting of whole communities, clear up to and including what has happened this weekend, we have collectively been weak fish when it came to being able to correct anything. Instead, we have legislatively weakened every law enforcement tactic, and became worried over the perpetrator’s “rights” and his sensitivities, his comforts in his surroundings when we did bother to incarcerate; all this while “throwing the book” at lesser crimes or things which are not worthy of “jail time” in the name of politically practicing justice.

It’s time now to put even more people into law making and enforcement positions who will not mollycoddle the guilty and not make doing time look easy. It’s time to thank guys like “Sheriff Joe” and others who treat criminals the way they should be treated. He never beat them, he never abused their psyche, he had a very low % of return-to-prison inmates. It’s time to examine his tactics and principles and engage them.

But it is also time we stop dragging out the “call to justice” on the basis of a wily lawyer’s ability to delay, delay, delay.

Where and when will justice actually come back? Or will it?

SIMH. No, it isn’t on my mind at all. There was a fleeting song there earlier, but the news and all that is going on drowned it out rapidly!

On to The Woodlands! (the trip continues.)

Thanks for reading, the Elder