If guns kill and nobody wants to be killed or have their children be killed. It is a strange argument by the few that affect, effect and infect, the all, of guns intended purpose, infused in the illusion of defense.
Beyond IT IS IN THE CONSTITUTION, IT IS IN THE CONSTITUTION. See, see, bears have the right to have arms.
Fantastic, one of 27 modifications in a document written in the vaguest of language and open to infinite interpretations by a bunch of land holding slave owners, 250 + years ago.
That’s worth hanging your hat on. Besides, if this current administration wipes its ass with the constitution one more time, we will not be able to read it anyway.
(Sorry ladies, still no equal rights amendment. It is as if it gets amended one more time we will have to admit it is too broke to fix.)
Yet, outside of the circular argument of rights and freedom, we want somebody……to shoot the shooter?
Unfortunately I’ve no solution. However soul jarring the ramifications could be of utilizing no retaliation. Like how Gandhi was able to end British colonialism through peaceful resistance.
I’m quite sure no parent would want to hedge their child in the bet that he or she would not be felled next, if no one did anything to stop the shooter and just let them run out of ammunition.
Nor would any student want to self immolate under gun fire to protest the violence. Perpetrated by someone who simply had too much unfettered access and was “defending” nothing.
“I’m one of those people who doesn’t really know what he thinks until he writes it down.”
Jake Epping AKA George Amberson
From Stephen King’s “11/22/63”
(The guns used in the Kennedy assassination were not used in defense.)
One thing that could change is the language surrounding what we believe. One of the affected students referred to the AR as a weapon of war.
More accurate, and truth telling would be if it was called a weapon of commerce.
When the United States Government’s employees, train citizens now converted to military personnel. Ways to use these same weapons as a means of securing the land, for what is in, under and around it. Not only in other countries, this one. Dare I mention the Dakota pipeline?
Making the illegality of looting relative, as to who is doing the looting. What is being looted and the groups profiting from it.
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
– Smedley D. Butler,
War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America’s Most Decorated Soldier
We have sent persons to the moon and back, have vehicles and probes on Mars. Information sensors and data collectors in deep space. Live in an international research lab magically floating above the atmosphere.
You would think that the collective could come up with a less violent and deadly means to share in resources of energy.
Maybe what is missing is reasonable profit sharing, whereas the corporment (corporations and government) would do what is right and simply pay for what they need.
Thereby eliminating the need to have any weapons of commerce to be sold to angry students going after his classmates.
Excerpts from:
Harry Chapin’s
“Sniper”
“The song, nearly 10 minutes long, is based on the shootings at the University of Texas tower shooting in 1966, with some fictional elements. The song does not name the actual sniper, Charles Whitman, or the location. The victims’ names have also been changed.”
– Wikipedia
“He heads towards the tower that stands in the campus.
He goes through the door, he starts up the stairs.
The sound of his footsteps, the sound of his breathing,
The sound of the silence when no one was there.
I didn’t really know him.
He was kind of strange.
Always sort of sat there.
He never seemed to change.”
//
He was such a moody child, very hard to touch.
Even as a baby he never smiled too much. No no. No no.
You bug me, she said.
Your ugly, she said.
Please hug me, I said.
But she just sat there
With the same flat stare
That she saves for me alone
When I’m home.
When I’m home.
Take me home.
He laid out the rifles, he loaded the shotgun,
He stacked up the cartridges along the wall.
He knew he would need them for his conversation.
If it went as it he planned, then he might use them all.
He said Listen you people I’ve got a question
You won’t pay attention but I’ll ask anyhow.
I found a way that will get me an answer.
Been waiting to ask you ’till now.
Right now !
Am I ?
I am a lover whose never been kissed.
Am I ?
I am a fighter whose not made a fist.
Am I ?
If I’m alive then there’s so much I’ve missed.
How do I know I exist ?
Are you listening to me ?
Are you listening to me ?
Am I ?
//
He was kind of creepy,
Sort of a dunce.
I met him at the corner bar.
I only dated the poor boy once,
That’s all. Just once, that was all.
//
(14 students 3 teachers)
Thirty-seven people got his message so far.
Yes, he was reaching them right were they are.
They set up an assault team. They asked for volunteers.
They had to go and get him, that much was clear.
And the word spread about him on the radios and TV’s.
In appropriately sober tone they asked “Who can it be ?”
He was a very dull boy, very taciturn.
Not much of a joiner, he did not want to learn.
No no. No no.
They’re coming to get me, they don’t want to let me
Stay in the bright light too long.
It’s getting on noon now, it’s goin to be soon now.
But oh, what a wonderful sound !
Mama, won’t you nurse me ?
Rain me down the sweet milk of your kindness.
Mama, it’s getting worse for me.
Won’t you please make me warm and mindless ?
Mama, yes you have cursed me.
I never will forgive you for your blindness.
I hate you!
The wires are all humming for me.
And I can hear them coming for me.
Soon they’ll be here, but there’s nothing to fear.
Not any more though they’ve blasted the door.
//
Am I ?
There is no way that you can hide me.
Am I ?
Though you have put your fire inside me.
Am I ?
You’ve given me my answer can’t you see ?
I was !
I am !
And now I Will Be
I WILL BE !!!”
There is no self defense
As there is no self to defend
Not when you or anyone
Is a part of the whole
Yes, you are an individual
An individual spark
Of the divine
What is done to one
Is done to all
Must recognize that soon
Or not
We will still always be
Included in the infinitely
Indefensible indivisible
Greater self
“Nothing is more real than the masks we make to show each other who we are.
You’ll never know who you are unless you shed who you pretend to be.”
Vironika Tugaleva
Disguised as a human being
Mirror reflects what I’m seeing
The part missing is the feeling
Except the one that is seething
From which others are reeling
Sounds from the mask is talking
Ranting about nothing squawking
When it is not silently sulking
Moving about looks like walking
From evolving always balking
Have a skewed view of reality
Always grasping the duality
Believing not one an actuality
Stoically hiding the fragility
Having no clue of spirituality
Ability to communicate lacking
Mid sentence always redacting
Save from being too exacting
Of information based on nothing
Revealing still bad at disguising
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first”
Jim Morrison
Shit…..
Or sometimes, really dislike being human.
A bug
A virus
A flu
Kind of scary when something so infinitesimally small decides to wreak havoc on your digestive tract.
Simply because you belive you are invincible and wanted to give a loved one a kiss or a hug.
Not by chains that bind
Nor by forced labor of any kind
Stripping ones dignity
Of their birthright divinity
Not by sharpened swords
Rather by merely words
Spoken in such a way
Emotions they do sway
Becoming way too clear
Making many live in fear
It happens again and again
Changing faces of BOGEYMEN
Scapegoating immigration
That helps overfeed a nation
Of many other important things
Being told to go home stings
Why would we build a wall
When we helped another one fall
Accepting what presidents tell you
Surrounded by deceptive milieu
Reagan Bush Clinton Bush Obama Trump
Selling dire full speeches on the stump
Committing atrocities clearly war crime
Getting away with murder on our dime
Here we go again my friend
Will the lies ever ever end
Entirely too easy to swallow
In our comfort we do wallow
No need to change and rise up
Tis easier to stay still and shut up
Easy to make people scared
By a simple three syllable word
Expressed with daunting hype
The following words I will type
“We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology”*
Communist Socialist Fascist
Just a few on the long list
In their dialog they do say
Usually to getting their own way
Journalist Democrat Immigrant
Delivered by the current tyrant
None ever been an imminent threat
How have we not gotten that yet
Will frighten saying foreign criminal
Like home grown ones are no big deal
Should not be such goofy doofuses
When all were once considered fetuses
Is our blood frozen or just chilled
Ignoring humans might be killed
To the winner of the war goes the spoil
Having traded blood and lives for oil
At the ease of keeping you distracted
How long will this go on protracted
Can not make it any clearer
Worst enemy is in the mirror
Inspired by the following audio books.
“The Untold History of The United States”
By Oliver Stone and Peter Kuznick
And
“The Prosecution of an American President”
By Vincent Bugliosi
And
“Drift”
By Rachel Maddow
“We share the same biology
Regardless of ideology”
– Sting from “Russians”
Up until “BOGEYMAN” this was going to be a short intro, to what now, I do not know. For it took on a life of its own.
If the first rule of gambling
Is the house always wins
Why are we playing, hmm?
I’m not talking about Vegas
That’s for fun and entertainment
The house I’m referring to
Is the “White” White house
Adhering to an old parchment
Telling you what are your “rights”
“I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws and Constitutions. But laws and institutions must go hand in hand with the progress of the human mind.
As that becomes more developed, more enlightened, as new discoveries are made, new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.”
Thomas Jefferson
There is an evolution taking place
A revolution at a feverish pace
A wake up call for the human race
Perhaps when it is all said and done
Like the dinosaur will be the gun
With the realization we are all one
On a path to enlightenment so clear
Shedding the world that lived in fear
Knowing now what direction to steer
Neo Constitution
You have the right to do whatever you want as long as you take full responsibility. So long as your actions are neither harmful or fatal.
And if you stumble, a system of guidance and healing will help set you on a more peaceful path.
Sounds easy enough to follow. Let’s do.
What you get, when you accidentally put Bayou Cajun seasoning in your oatmeal instead of cinnamon.
From a more global perspective than
Merely looking out the windshield
Looking to the 45th failed leader
To stop gun violence when he
Like nearly all of his predecessors
Is merely a tool in the war chest
Of the military industrial complex
He can order a drone strike
Kill as many sovereign citizens
That strikes his fancy
Watch in the comfort of
The “situation” room
With his generals, who
Told him what needed to be done
“I have this feeling that whoever is elected president, like (Bill) Clinton was, no matter what you promise on the campaign trail – blah, blah, blah – when you win, you go into this smoke-filled room with the twelve industrialist capitalist scum-fucks who got you in there.
And you’re in this smoky room, and this little film screen comes down … and a big guy with a cigar goes, “Roll the film.”
And it’s a shot of the Kennedy assassination from an angle you’ve never seen before … that looks suspiciously like, it’s from the grassy knoll.
And then the screen goes up and the lights come up, and they go to the new president,
“Any questions?”
“Er, just what my agenda is.”
“First we bomb Baghdad.”
“You got it …”
– Bill Hicks
(How can we stop, that shooter?)
Then that is “sold” to the
American public who eats
It up like Pavlov’s dog
That our “freedom”
Is being defended
After all it is just a
Few thousand people
Who have become unpersons
That were faceless
And nameless, to US
(Meanwhile, not to their families)
Maybe he is afraid that if
He takes away your guns
Someone will take away his
Then he will not have any
Toys to play with in some
Sovereign citizen’s sandbox
While looking for resources
To steal then profit from
“I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. “
– Smedley D. Butler
“War is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America’s Most Decorated Soldier”
There are so many wires
Controling this petulant puppet
He has lost his ability to speak
And the one attached to real
Human emotion and empathy
Fell off a long time ago, so sad
“In this struggle, the heaviest burden will continue to be borne by the good people of Afghanistan and their courageous armed forces. As the prime minister of Afghanistan has promised, we are going to participate in economic development to help defray the cost of this war to us.”
– Trump’s speech 8-21-17
(Sounds like coercive theft to me)
So there is no conspiracy
Of some mystical 1% power
Doing this to earth’s inhabitants
It is the inhabitants themselves
Accepting manufactured consent of
What they need is what they’re sold
When life affirming alternatives
Must be considered viable
Blaming oil as a means of power
To fuel our vehicles and life
Is lost when it becomes another
Resource such as lanthanum
From Afghanistan is stolen to
Energize “new” electric cars
Connecting the dots only shows
Who is responsible for the violence
The consumer and the taxpayers
We buy the products that “need”
Resources elsewhere on the globe
“Lanthanum is used as a component of nickel-metal hydride batteries, whose most important commercial use is in hybrid cars.”
– Softschoolsdotcom
But alas I digress
And I look into the mirror
To see who is guilty
Not liking what I see
For the one who is
Ultimately responsible
Is unfortunately me
Faust, in the legend, traded his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge.
To “strike a Faustian bargain” is to be willing to sacrifice anything to satisfy a limitless desire for knowledge or power.
The American Heritage® New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition.
A Trumpian Bargain
Trump who had no soul to trade, opted instead to barter away an adult vocabulary for an adolescent desire for attention and to be a petulant president.
Any takers?
I suspect that unless you are in a deep meditative state, focusing on hearing your heartbeat, feeling your lungs expand and contract. Recognizing, the fire in your belly is the metaphorical equivalent of the earth’s inner core, burning at 10K degrees Fahrenheit.
Listening is a passive act
Listening Session goes sterile.
As for the optics of Donald’s faux concern, the only way he could have done less, would have been tantamount to doing nothing.
Like the neighbor paid for wall, the repeal and replace of the ACA, (which was more disemboweled than healed) the yet to be implemented sanctions, or the saved Carrier jobs, need I carry on?
Although in fairness, he did make the billionaires more billions. Only saddling your kids and grandkids with the tab.
Not to shabby for his first year.
