common sense
First Father’s Day After Orlando Twins: Terrorism and Guns Headlined on OpEdNews.com Mon 6/20/16
We are neither above nor disconnected from nature, but in our survival of the fittest, we leave our children dependent upon earth’s response to our global abuse, from birth to girth.
When did the sanctity of human life become, follow their conscience to off shore accounts for the wealthy and off range point-blank objectives against innocents? When did obstruction to common sense and praises for assault weapons become sacrosanct, at our expense?
Without a care, robed in inheritance for bear, Wall Street is dressed to kill earth, air and fire while buying water as ware for more man’s inhumanity to man – including parents losing children to NRA’s bottom line bulls-eye plan.
Until we dare to bear witness to our long history of assassination by the limited vision of radicalized conservative genes, and demand life-saving laws vs. maximized magazines – our youth will be heir to what follows record highs of violence inspired hot air imposing drought and blood liens.
Fathered children, in lost embrace, barely able to vocalize through the stagnation of reason, swirl now in an ill wind — focalize on political alliance and parental tears, and when the smoke clears, all that’s left behind is, I can’t breathe during another moment of silence.
In a crowded theatre, school, church, parking lot or anywhere on the world stage of mass murder, we are either the life-line preventing dire human destruction or the choir settling for preaching over yet another preventable bier.
The universe and all of the diverse life within it, has a pulse, and though at its faintest in Congress, whether in Manhattan, the Grand Canyon or water stealing Las Vegas, life’s pulse is palatable until, believing in Wayne LaPierre liar, we find ourselves raising another premature pyre.
In natural ire, nature fires up occupation by human competition, for in the wilderness we are perceived more rapists of, than stewards for, the cathedrals of vanishing loved ones and forests. We need find our moral roots before being forced to weep again at an altar of slaughter, where lie the targets victimized by the practice of easily exchanging common sense for under-regulated legal mass murder instruments.
For our sandwiched children caught betwixt and between, climate future and potential doctor suture — it is trial by crossfire: old angry men flame throwing like Grand Dragons dying to burn up what’s left of their haul in little red wagons. Fearing it’s their Last Hurrah, they try tie-dying America in bigotry and Voter ID, failing to recognize Open Carry is the real outlaw.
Now that those who haven’t the will for gun, earth, fire and water solutions, you Millennials must save yourselves by saving the planet from corporate institutions. Rented Lobbyists bribing away our political balance and free clean water prove, we lose someone, when principal is abandoned and sowed collusion reaps death upon our daughters and our sons.
- Affluenza Drunk Driver
- Rapist Brock Turner
- Killer of Christina Grimmie
- Neo-Nazi killer of 41-year-old MP diversity champion, Jo Cox
- Parents giving 14 -year-old daughter to 51-year-old man
- The Pulse murderer
We’re not children anymore – so let’s stop letting our past kill our future with the evils of gerrymandering, Citizens United, rape, extreme nationalism and White Supremacists.
Recapture our essence of Out of Many, One and united, stand tall. For when the 1% discovers it can’t eat money and the rest, seeing the writing on the wall — water is a premium in the hands of corporations – who, then, will be the AR-15 Targets, after all?
Refusing to tip our national definition in the direction of, killer boys with cowboy toys, let’s applaud and emulate the Good Samaritans — doctors, nurses, neighbors, teachers and repentant politicians, who stand against those proving manhood with deadly force — by our loving all Americans, of course.
2016 America: Vision or Concussion – Headlined on OpEdNews.com Sun 5/8/16
I am no fan of George Will, Mitt Romney, nor #41 & #43, and I continue to question the morality of congressional and state GOP leadership. Nonetheless, I’ve always experienced a distinction between the average Jack & Jill Republican voter and the Koch heads who have stolen Lincoln.
Nineteen years before becoming our fourth president, James Madison suggested our Constitution was not good enough. So on June 8, 1789, he introduced ten constitutional amendments: The Bill of Rights.
On September 12, 2001 I drove to Gettysburg, seeking solace the day after. Tearfully I envisioned John Kennedy defining our Bill of Rights, not only as what our Founding Fathers were offering, but expecting of us, as our patriotic duty to each other.
To me, the vision of the First Amendment of our U. S. Constitution, capsulizes the very essence of what America hoped to be when Americans grew up.
With differing visions for America, FDR and Eisenhower stood, separately, in the wooded hills of Catoctin Mountain, through which I was driving. Observing the magnificent vista of nature’s beauty and power, FDR called it, Shangri-La – Eisenhower, Camp David.
The greatest difference between Left and Right brains, is our vision of America.
The vision of this exceptional constitutional amendment legally guarantees to people like Craig Cobbs and Donald Trump — to the same degree it shields citizens of every religion, race and sexual preferences, from such men as these — freedoms of speech, press and the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
Consequently, the right to call ourselves patriotic, is a privilege earned by being the living embodiment of our Statue of Liberty, loving our neighbors in every neighborhood — even those we deem our polar opposites, politically, financially and morally — while insisting for them, the same Bill of Rights, in full and equal measure.
True global champions of freedom, let go of chaos, bigotry, prejudice, mayhem, inciting to riot, police state mentality, violence of any kind, rape of the earth’s atmosphere, resources and all life upon it, and with open hearts, invite in the Free Will of Civics, the power of unity, the balance of civility, the wisdom of listening and the common sense of compromise.
That’s when we merit the freedom to utter the words, liberty and justice for all.
TV news favors voters who defend with, he tells it like it is, which is neither proof of presidential nor intellectual acumen. However, the wise judge a man’s character by the company of endorsements he keeps: Mitch McConnell & Jeff Sessions, Rick Scott & Chris Christie, Jan Brewer & Sarah Palin and of course, Sheriff Joe Arpaio & Rick Perry.
Even in this age of rage, anger motivated choices and intoxication with fear, there are millions of untelevised republicans who know America and the world deserve better — despite the desperate seeking Backward Ho, clamoring to touch the cuffs of his Brioni.
We can’t stop an international league of economic vampires from bleeding earth dry, until we stop believing our Definite Major Purpose is making money at any cost, while drowning in The Red they’ve created.
Strength of character requires more than being advertised into nicotine, alcohol and prescription drug addiction — more than guns in the hands of dead toddlers to be a good father — more than building a wall around the nation to which God sends his favorite immigrants.
Emotional maturity welcomes a cleansing flow of cascading neurological events, like a rainbow of light streaming through stained glass windows — filling us with refreshing awakenings to truth, beyond the tip or our noses, beckoning to us.
If reason doesn’t speak for the future of the living, the ashes of democracy will be the only testimony to our existence.
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