Scrolling through facebook makes me really depressed. All the negativity of politics, arguing over who is right or wrong, @$$ clowns judging every opinion, it makes me feel depressed and angry. I don’t like feeling this way. I got more than enough $#!+ going on in my life now that keeps me knocked down. Why is it so important to be the loudest person in the room if all you do is stir in negativity? Why does matter what lives should be tolerated when all lives matter? We all bleed red (under the skin it’s more blue) and we all need oxygen to breathe. I don’t understand why the people seeking justice are doing it using tactics that are unjustified.
How much sense does it make to lash out at people who protect you? Not everyone is a bad person and sometimes (more rare than what the media would have you think) some bad jerk slips in the system. NEWSFLASH: That system is made by humans and nothing (and no one person regardless of skin color) is perfect on this planet. How would you feel if a doctor decided to not operate on you to remove a cyst because you had purple hair? It would be wrong and you would be upset too, but they swore when they got their license that human lives are to be saved. Yes, there are a few bad apples there too, but the idea that you through out the baby with the bath water is totally absurd. Is that what you really want? Because that is where we are headed now. You want justice and balance, you might want to change your philosophy. Start with evaluating your life choices and move on from there.
IMHO, instead of lashing out at your neighborhood, community, fellow people, why not drop on your own knees and ask whatever Deity you worship for help on your own personal growth? You don’t have to be religious to ask for help. If you need suggestions, I am sure that scientology has plenty of room for you. Choose a peaceful philosophy to study. Take some time and not dive head first into one. You might find peace and enlightening, but more important you might find who you are really supposed to be. And you might even find your true purpose in this life!
Look, I get your angry. I know you are upset. It is good to vent, but every time you do on facebook, they tag a gold star next to it and it gets put into their “egg beater” algorithm, which by the way has changed three times sinces April 1st incase you can’t detect patterns. Facebook should be held accountable for their involvement for inciting riots, but they won’t because it is a voluntary service. Believe me, I feel very frustrated with a lot of things going on in my life right now. Yeah, I feel unheard, worthless, mostly unproductive, and a majority of the time like a boat anchor. I’m the type of person who lives by a strict code for myself: if you don’t work, you don’t eat. If I ain’t doing something productive and positive, I don’t have the right to gripe. That’s why I have a daily routine to work on my projects to help fill up my time until I get a new gig/job.
Yes, it disappoints me when I can’t finish what I am doing, but I start another one. I may not have the money, but with the COVID-19 “pandemic” situation winding down a bit I have had plenty of time and the economy picking back up, I have my hope that at least one business might realize my skills are useful in this area. Maybe one of these candidates running for city, county, sheriff, regional, or state offices will actually talk with me if they want my vote (yeah, that seems sleazy, but it is a bargaining chip) instead of hiring a buddy, relative, or business partner as a favor who is under-qualified for the position. But I suppose if you want real change in leadership, it’s best to be registered voter, get off your @$$, and actually go vote instead of rioting.
The point that I’m trying to make without making it a flamethrower on Facebook is that instead of being angry and rioting, instead of pointing Your Righteous finger toward what you consider an injustice because you moved from being a medical expert about the coronavirus to becoming a Legal expert on the civil liberties of each American citizen on social media, break it down to the basics and see where the real change needs to be made. Turn off the damn mainstream media, put down your social media, and open a book on philosophy, spiritualism, or whatever religious reference you have and move forward in a positive way. Facebook (social media in general) is not a Bible, a valid source of news, or the one thing that runs your life. It’s a tool of communication. What you want to communicate is up to you, how you do communicate it could affect your social circle.
You would do good to remember this little tidbit of information that we use in radio “garbage in, garbage out”. In other words, you only get out what you put into it. If you go in with anger in your heart and destruction on your mind, it will only result with more. When our grandkids look back at the year 2020, they’re going to see all kinds of craziness. It was a year of judgment, fear, anger, and frustration. And that was just the first 6 months of this election year. We still haven’t made it to Summertime yet and still we have a lot more fire to be put through. This year we’ve gone to loving and respecting our First Responders to now wanting to ban the one thing that can keep the peace in the civilian world. Sure we all want equal rights, but who’s going to make sure those rights are equally distributed to? It won’t be the local peacekeepers if we go pull their funding across the country.
I mean let’s face it, who’s going to protect us when someone breaks into our house? Now if you’re a strong believer in the Second Amendment, you should be okay. I trust my guns, and I also trust the United States Constitution. Unfortunately I think that’s one thing is getting kicked around this year. It seems like there’s those in Congress who want to keep pushing the boundaries and keep kicking the can down the road so they can push their way into more government. It’s getting so bad that the hit TV show “Cops” got cancelled because of all the outrage with the death of George Floyd (https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/tv/2020/06/09/cops-canceled-paramount-network-wake-george-floyds-death/5330636002/). I mean, good God, what are we coming to? After 33 seasons on the air, “Cops” has been dropped by the Paramount Network as protests against police proliferate around the world. A similar show, “Live PD,” has been pulled off A&E’s schedule.
But here lately since the death of George Floyd and the videos that came out showing his untimely demise, there have been a growing movement to defund police stations all across the country, including up in Minnesota. Nine members of the Minneapolis City Council announced their support for disbanding the Minneapolis Police Department at a rally this past Sunday afternoon. City Council President Lisa Bender said, “our commitment is to end our toxic relationship with MPD and to end policing as we know it to recreate systems of public safety that actually keep us safe” (https://kstp.com/news/majority-of-minneapolis-city-council-announces-support-for-dismantling-police-department/5753304/?cat=1&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_KSTP-TV&fbclid=IwAR1lKtolmJl3NvO02z6vy1ymQOIasGZ3sy7QB4iT4gdxmS5X7JELYKx1-Zg). The nine council members make up a veto-proof supermajority of the council, which currently has 12 members. City Council Vice President Andrea Jenkins was joined on stage by the other council members Alondra Cano, Philippe Cunningham, Jeremiah Ellison, Steve Fletcher, Cam Gordon, Andrew Johnson and Jeremy Schroeder at the end of the rally to announce their intent to end the Minneapolis Police Department through a budgetary process. “This council is going to dismantle this police department,” Jeremiah Ellison said. Alondra Cano who represents the 9th Ward replied, “we are going to create a fear-free future where every life is truly protected and respected.”
As radical as it may sound, they have also agreed, along with the state, to ban all police officers from using chokeholds as part of their defense and restraint tactics. The use of chokeholds by police are forbidden and other officers are required to report and intervene anytime they see unauthorized use of force by another officer (https://kstp.com/news/breaking-minneapolis-to-ban-police-chokeholds-in-wake-of-george-floyd-death/5751971/). So basically, if you see something, say something. Sound familiar? The moves are part of a stipulation between the city and the Minnesota Department of Human Rights, which launched a civil rights investigation in response to the death of George Floyd in police custody. The agreement will be enforceable in court and would require any officer, regardless of tenure or rank, to immediately report the use of any neck restraint or chokehold from the scene to their commander or their commander’s superiors. Any officer who sees another officer commit any unauthorized use of force, including any chokehold or neck restraint, must try to intervene verbally and even physically. If they don’t, they’d be subject to discipline as severe as if they themselves had used the prohibited force.
The city of Minneapolis even took it one step further when it’s Mayor, Jacob Frey, signed a temporary restraining order with the state of Minnesota, which outlines several immediate police policy reforms while setting the stage for state action on deep structural reforms, which included “ a charge of discrimination against the City of Minneapolis Police Department, City of Minneapolis on June 2, 2020 alleging a violation of the Minnesota Human Rights Act, in the area of public services based on race in violation; in particular, the charge alleged the killing of George Floyd, an unarmed black man, while in custody of City of Minneapolis police officers was race-based discrimination and the Commissioner had reason to believe that the City of Minneapolis Police Department has engaged in a pattern and practice of race-based policing in violation” (https://lims.minneapolismn.gov/Download/File/3732/Stipulation%20and%20Order.pdf). Minneapolis City Council president Lisa Bender went viral on Monday morning when she told CNN that calling the police when your home is broken into “comes from a place of privilege” (https://twitter.com/i/status/1269951088964370432). After the CNN Anchor asked the council president “Do you understand that the word dismantle, or police-free, also makes some people nervous, for instance, what if, in the middle of the night, my home is broken into, who do I call?”, the city council president responded“Yes, I mean I hear that loud and clear from a lot of my neighbors, and myself, too, and I know that comes from a place of privilege. For those of us for whom the system is working, I think we need to step back and imagine what it would feel like to already live in that reality where calling the police may mean more harm is done.” A place of privilege, really? The question should be who is going to fill that void once the city police get disbanded? Is it the sheriff’s office? The Minnesota State Police? The National Guard? The Federal United States Troops? The United Nations Troops? The way the media and council members make it sound, it will be like the wild west.
Although some of the other coming changes may include dispatching social workers and mental health professionals in situations where police ordinarily respond. Meanwhile, Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey has said that he does not support abolishing his city’s police department. The same day as the Commissioners announced their plans, protesters reportedly marched to the mayor’s residence and demanded he speak with them. He affirmed much of what the protesters believe, including telling them, “the systemic racist system needs to be revamped.” However, the mood took an unexpected turn when the protesters asked the question: “Yes or no: Will you commit to defunding the Minneapolis Police Department?” adding that they don’t want to more police. A lady in the crowd reminded reminded everyone that he is up for re-election next year. Finally, after a few moments, the mayor replied “I do not support the full abolition of the police department” (https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2020/06/06/im-not-for-abolishing-the-entire-police-department-mayor-frey-speaks-out-at-mpls-protest/).
Unfortunately, that’s not the only city in the nation that is thirsty for blood from the men and women who put on the blue uniform. San Antonio, Texas city council members are also considering to remove funding after citizens were shouting out “defund the police department” at a recent meeting (https://www.ktsa.com/chants-of-defund-police-disrupt-san-antonio-city-council-meeting/). And what shouldn’t come to a suprise is that New York City mayor, de Blasio, recently announced he is defunding the NYPD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjFPjhLIziU&feature=youtu.be). The decision to defund the police department is a “blanket move” to stop the one or two individuals in each jurisdiction across this nation. There’s been no lack of cases that are being presented thanks to the media and the smartphone. Cases like the one in Philadelphia last week, the police said that a man had pushed an officer off his bike, but a video instead showed an officer striking the man with a baton (https://www.inquirer.com/news/philadelphia-police-beating-temple-student-evan-gorski-protest-20200604.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20200608&instance_id=19177&nl=the-morning®i_id=111319311&segment_id=30343&te=1&user_id=7344db95b06856147b58a6a3e464bec5). In a suburb of Sacramento in April, a police officer punched a 14-year-old boy multiple times while arresting him; the officer’s report didn’t mention the punches (https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/26/us/george-floyd-minneapolis-police.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20200608&instance_id=19177&nl=the-morning®i_id=111319311&segment_id=30343&te=1&user_id=7344db95b06856147b58a6a3e464bec5). These cases are just one or two officers involved, but it’s somehow justified and fair to punish all police officers, including the ones with remarkable records. Some officers over the past two weeks have lost their lives defending the rights and property of their fellow citizens they swore to protect.
Los Angeles Police Department released their reports about homicides on the rise by 250% over the past few weeks along with the number of people who were shot increased by 56% during the same period. The increased numbers were recorded during the week of May 31-June 6, but officials also reported continued violence this week (https://twitter.com/LAPDHQ/status/1270441223753396224?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.foxla.com%2Fnews%2Fhomicides-this-week-have-increased-250-in-l-a-compared-to-last-week-lapd-says). But that’s okay because the cops are what’s causing it all to rise, right? On the other side of the country, maybe New York City has something positive with the idea of passing a bill to unveil police discipline records (https://apnews.com/180a15ea069de36be58f9db6b97e1180). Granted, they only turned over what was an old law that has kept law enforcement officers’ disciplinary records secret. Many of those types of bills were first proposed years ago, but got new momentum after huge protests nationwide condemned police brutality. Eliminating the law, known as Section 50-a, would make complaints against officers, as well as transcripts and final dispositions of disciplinary proceedings, public for the first time in decades. Only Delaware has a similar law.
Depending on where you feed off your fix for the Mainstream News, but you might be currently under the spell of some real Bravo Sierra. CNN had a report out earlier this week that claimed “American police shoot, kill and imprison more people than other developed countries” (https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/08/us/us-police-floyd-protests-country-comparisons-intl/index.html). Their sources include protesters. No joke. They are also using data back in 2015 that was a Preliminary Finding at the Bureau of Justice Statistics’ (https://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=pbdetail&iid=5864). After showing a small bit of comparison with a few other countries, they go on to say “Data on arrests, deaths and prison populations do not exist uniformly across developed countries, so it can be difficult to pinpoint exactly how the US fares in comparison to every nation. For instance, it is impossible to know exactly how many people die at the hands of police officers in the US each year: no single, nationwide database that contains such information exists”. To me, it seems like they are reaching out a bit much here. To you, it might not be. But hey, they are CNN, so what does it matter to those who drink the kool-aid from their buckets?
Now if we go back to New York City for a moment, there was recently a report released that said some pretty stark points: Nearly two-thirds of complaints accusing New York City police officers of mistreating young people involved male minorities, according to a civilian oversight panel (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/most-complaints-about-nypd-mistreating-young-people-involve-men-color-n1227466). From January 2018 to last June, “males of color between the ages of 10 and 18 were a complainant” or victim in 64.8 percent of police misconduct claims made by young people, Civilian Complaint Review Board findings revealed. The interactions tended to be for minor offenses with “officers stopping youth for seemingly innocuous activities, such as playing, high-fiving, running, carrying backpacks, and jaywalking,” the oversight panel said. The NYPD said it accepts the panel’s findings and will pursue changes (https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/report-nyc-police-misconduct-often-involves-black-latino-youths/2451116/).
Perhaps the tides are turning around as police are starting to fight back for their lives. Two Atlanta, Georgia police officers who were fired and criminally charged in connection with the pulling of two college students from a car during protests late last month have filed a lawsuit seeking their jobs back. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced on May 31st that the two officers, Ivory Streeter and Mark Gardner, would be fired immediately after what she called “an excessive use of force” (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/2-atlanta-police-officers-fired-charged-assault-during-protests-sue-n1228011). The suit, which says the officers were denied due process, seeks the reinstatement of both officers and back pay. To be fair, there’s a video showing the two officers forcibly pulling two people from their car around on the night of May 30 during protests following the death of George Floyd. One of the people is heard in the video asking officers what is going on and crying that she is trying to get out before a stun gun appears to be used against her. The other person also had a stun gun used on him, was yanked from the car and suffered a fractured arm, the county prosecutor said. The fired officers’ lawsuit contends that “their use of force was proper and in compliance with the law, the policies of the Atlanta Police Department, prevailing standards of law enforcement, and the training provided to them through the City of Atlanta Police Department and the State of Georgia.”
In my humble opinion, Agenda 2030 could be happening a lot sooner, if we let it (https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/post2015/transformingourworld). That would result to include letting the UN provide security instead of the police. That is something that the lawyer representing the family of George Floyd is asking for on behalf of the members (https://gellerreport.com/2020/06/george-floyds-family-ask-the-un-to-disarm-the-police-in-the-united-states.html/). Basically they are asking for a foreign entity to come in and police a sovereign nation under the name of Human Rights. Any other nation isn’t going to uphold the US Constitution. Therefore, they are asking for more trouble. The more I see the larger cities threatening to defund (not remove) the police departments from their annual budgets, I can’t help but think there is some puppeteer behind the curtain pulling the strings. If I didn’t know better, I would think the reason why these cities want to get rid of their police is because someone is wanting to drive property value down by raising crime rates. Then come in and purchase properties at low prices, fix them up, and sell high. Isn’t that always the reason, money? Those in power keep wanting more. It is obtained either by money or some other valuable. I wonder if that is what all this is really about and the media is fanning the smoke into our faces to keep us from seeing what is really going on? Yeah, I imagine I’ll get laughed at about this idea too.
