Sandy Hook
Justice for All OR Our Dishonor Will Remain Forever – OpEdNews.com & Best of TREMR
I believe most Americans, parents or not, regardless of political persuasion, race, creed, skin color or sexual choices – including, whether they’ve had an abortion or would gladly shoot any doctor responding to a woman’s request for a medical procedure legal since the Supreme Court declared Texas anti-abortion laws illegal in 1973.
Whether we own multiple guns or have never fired one, most of us have been impacted by the 24/7 news reruns – where only the faces have been changed to protect the hyperbolic.
Most Americans are more bewildered by rising gasoline prices, than attentive to the way Trumpism has enabled Conservative Republicans to openly reveal their inner most secret desires: to be cloned cheerleaders for insurrectionists and rendered somewhat superficially miraculous in their efforts to hypnotize their constituents with a K.I.S.S., interpretation of our Bill of Rights, – fooling some of the people all of the time, into believing our Second Amendment is a license to justify violent mob rule.
Yet whether fast talking or fearfully hiding in the darkest shadows of Congress, while those who reelect them are rendered somewhat dumbfounded and absolutely horrified by the complete and utter whiplash annihilation of LaPierre’s bloodstained excuse: because in May 2022, every good man with a gun waited outside a Texas school while a lone eighteen-year-old assassin, using his newly purchased AR-15-style semiautomatic rifle, murdered two teachers and the nineteen elementary school students they were protecting.
It’s national suicide for a free society to be run by Boards of international Corporatism puppeteering GOP State legislators, Governors and Senators while recalibrating global economics to benefit America’s latest, Robber Barons.
The greatest weapon, however, against America’s survival is an electorate swinging back and forth in reaction to a previous election, instead of choosing the America we profess to be: the life, liberty and pursuit of happiness, envied by the world.
“Enough is Enough” and “Thoughts and Prayers” don’t cut it without concerted, consistent civil collective courage – rather than becoming what we’re against by attempting to shoot a Supreme Court Justice: thus becoming the mirror reflection of the members of Congress who were complicit in the conspiracy to overthrow a duly elected American President.
It’s time, we hold these truths to be self-evident: Only two things are absolutely essential to any gun violence:
- No, not being eighteen (Texas Tower shooter 1966)
- Nor acting alone (Columbine Duo 1999)
- Not being straight (Pulse Nightclub 2016)
- Nor adults only (Sandy Hook 2012 and Uvalde 2022)
- No one faith or Race (Bible study Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal 2015, Texas First Baptist 2017, Tree of Life Synagogue 2018)
- Not one preferred setting (Las Vegas outdoor Concert 2017, Buffalo Supermarket 2022)
- Not limited to those who do nothing to prevent it (Congressional baseball game 2017), or survivors insisting Never Again (Parkland 2018)
The two essentials for mass murder are an easily accessible militarized gun in the hands of a civilian indoctrinated in the belief that the Second Amendment guarantees his unlimited power to use it when, where, how, and on whom he wishes.
Unlike Ukraine, America doesn’t need a Hitler, Stalin, Putin or even Joe McCarthy to destroy our free and independent nation, for our fragile union has been targeted by big business, and their politically selected, enemies within, since our beginning.
So, it’s not just Donald Trump, his senior staff, Acting agency heads, nor Americans who in support of him, attempted a coup of the United States of America – but Conservative Republican Senators, Governors and foxtrotting propagandists who, before during and after, aided and abetted, acts of sedition – profaning their sacred oath to: support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic.
If we cherished the lessons of the good, bad and ugly of our American history, gun violence statistics and increasing legal revelations of the illegal conspiracy plot to overthrow our democratic republic wouldn’t surprise us.
Still, we bleed, grieve, insist: America is, The Land of the Free and Home of the Brave!
What’s brave about violent attacks on fellow citizens?
Where in our Constitution does freedom give us liberty to hang a VP or Governor?
What kind of light on a hill are we if we excuse, as a normal tourist visit, how close America’s light came to being extinguished by a premeditated extremists’ insurrection – so gullible they believe American presidents have the legal right to incite domestic terrorism?
America can’t be the light of the world until we reject Conservative Republicans who refuse to preserve, protect and defend us, and instead elect Americans who are fighting this good fight without violence.
It is for us: We the People to be dedicated here to the unfinished work of Justice for All or our stain of dishonor will remain forever.
After Mueller Barred – What’s Next America? – OpEdNews.com Headline & Tremr Staff Pick
It’s not the devastating disastrous challenges with which the webs of conservative government wallowing in demagogic visions of billionaire boards, nor Global Climate Change denials that entangle us – it’s the art of how we deal.
Our best, what’s next, is making reparations for the meaningful we’ve stolen from others – especially during our Trump/Pence error – with affordable healthcare including preexisting conditions, electing descendants of former slaves to positions of power and saving all children and students from ICE, unbearable student loan debt and Betsy DeVos.
Next, cease following The Right in the wrong direction; desist obsessing over our mythically enhanced past; ellipse debris of our serial Gates, Trickle-Down deceit and Bushwhacked, Mistakes were Made – and walk the walk, we’ve incessantly talked.
What’s next? Patience for under-informed family and friends; turn off media conjecture turned hyped gossip; tune out Madison Ave marketing whitewashing thinking – resist billion-dollar wall pieces and Billionaire CEOs, with an out of this world plan to escape earth’s climate challenges.
Reason is the saving infrastructure sparing America fragmentation by mob rule choruses wailing No Collusion cover-up chants. With or without the trumped, We the People must lead by the constitutional example of peaceful assembly – transforming, petition the Government for a redress of grievances, into being elected to all levels of it.
As people, nation and earth’s inhabitants, our ultimate power is Free Will steeped in, Freedom of Choice – brimming with the Exceptionalism of Self-Determination.
Remembering, Nixon was reelected in a landslide even after Watergate was headlined news, let us individually self-examine, why: if, a combo of The Right conservatives indifferent to criminal politicians vs. an extremely Liberal candidate on The Left – then decline a rerun of, what is past is prologue.
If we must test, Divided We Fall, let’s plant Ol’ Glory in a watershed opposing Pence religious hypocrisy zealots, McConnell’s secretly banker rented cronies and the Impeachment cravings of an energized Left Wing perhaps too pragmatically deficient, to see the core of immorality is conservatives losing sight of it.
The lies we continue to tell ourselves about Sandy Hook, NRA comrades enabling Las Vegas, Orlando’s Pulse and Parkland murders while ignoring Trump’s ICE cold kidnapping of our morality, by imprisoning and trafficking children, demands our, what’s next, must confront our Peter Principal reality show personality’s Base, despite understanding finally, no matter the cause, reasonable people do not possess infallible powers to reason with people who choose to be unreasonably committed to unscrupulous men without reason.
What’s Next then: All-inclusive Liberalism recapturing and intellectually nurturing America’s FDR/JFK center.
Current Republican Party Conservatives, as Barbara Bush discovered but failed to internalize, are reminder and reflection that, America was never a united country speaking in one voice, nor Americans all for one and one for all – notwithstanding the brief shining moments of civilian and military leadership during our Revolution, World War II and Cuban Missile Crisis – when such courage and humanity preserved, protected and defended both America and humankind.
What’s next, courageously honor America’s Herstory, acknowledge contributions of LGBTQ, people of color and immigrants – knowing the real lessons rooted in perpetual wars are, the breeding grounds for Wall Street greed and GOP deceit.
America’s best defense is not offensive inhumane government, in the pocket of bankers banking on Recession returns. It is in choosing to peacefully lead by examples of the Golden Rule, even if 35% of us, choose to pretend, foreigners seeking asylum at our southern borders are greater threats to America’s greatness than those hacking our elections.
Even when a president surrounds himself, and by extension us, with felonious cohorts and moneyed Republican puppeteers of the trumped, are breathtakingly motivated for a Mars relocation – division conquers only when both sides contribute to its derision.
Claiming to love God and Country, while disdaining climate science, diminishing affordable healthcare and neglecting gender & racial equality and livable income parity, is anti-Christian, anti-American and anti-earth’s stewardship.
After Leon Jaworski v. Richard Nixon, our judicial system decided it is the legal responsibility of Congress, not an Attorney General, to determine how a special prosecutor’s discovery is to be applied during and after 1600 Pennsylvania Ave occupation expires.
Mueller wrote, “while this report does not conclude that the President committed a crime, it also does not exonerate him.”
Now, what’s next: We the People demanding our government’s Office of Legal Counsel follow Trump’s suggestion to investigate, the other side: why Trump was exonerated by his handpicked AG and why conservatives continue denying life on earth its last chance: an American Green New Deal.
The challenge of all-inclusive government is the Democratic gauntlet at the feet of McConnell’s trumped GOP, and what’s next is not premature victory laps with vengeful intent, but like a Mueller Grand Jury, an accountability mirror reflecting America, continuing robustly.
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