Grow a Set, America!

 

I have stayed out of most of the fraud, riots, ICE, and insurrection fray, but the insanity has reached a tipping point. When the judge restricted the use of tear gas (technically a powder) from use by law enforcement, I made a comment that the judge now owned responsibility for increased violence. He has skin in the game for he consequences of his actions.

Yes, his ruling said peaceful protests, but the mainstream media destroyed the term peaceful calling previous riots with fires and looting all around mostly peaceful.

Let’s be clear. This thing happening in our country right now is ugly and it will get uglier. If you restrict the use of non-lethal tools, you are left with lethal ones.  It works both ways.

Protesters that go too far may get shot. Law enforcement that restrain themselves too much are subject to injury and death as well as well as others they are protecting. They knew there was risk when they signed up, but they did not know that risk would be increased by one branch of government usurping power from another.

Peaceful assembly is not spitting in an officer’s face, beating on a manned vehicle or using one to run over law enforcement officers, or anything else that physically endangers those doing their duties.

This will get uglier now. Casualties will increase. More will die.

Who is responsible?

Trump? For some that’s always the answer. This weekend he is responsible for freezing temperatures in Florida. TDS is real but not the ultimate culprit.

The Democrats. They have earned their share of the blame. Now they are clamoring to bring back the fraud. I have neck issues from shaking my head.

Paid protesters? What a concept! Nothing says that I support this effort or that like sending someone else to stir the pot for you.

Massive fraud and corruption. This has surely fueled the fires of discontent among Americans normally comfortable in ignorantly being bilked by those elected to represent them and serve their country or state.

The media. George Orwell said that history ended in 1936 based on his experience in the Spanish Civil War. The American media said, ”Hold my beer.”

Who is responsible? Who?

You are. I am. Everyone who slept through decades of corruption until it reached a point where those elected thought they could get away with anything and did in degrees unimaginable.

 I am. You are.  When we put up with producing an immigration policy that was unfair and ineffective. We let the politicians—who were supposed to have been our servants—use the topic as a political football to boost their election funds and hopes of holding on to power.  We just watched and complained.

We ignored our laws and thought there would be no consequences. We saw the consequences yet still ignored them.

We moved to lawlessness and now are surprised when it is a battle to restore a lawful state.

If you don’t like the law then change the law. There is a process. It may be too slow for some but that’s because we let self-serving politicians run the process. The process works when the electorate does their job. We didn’t.

This will get ugly. With restrictions on nonviolent methods, it will be more violent.

Don’t blame ICE. Don’t blame the police who have not forsaken their oaths and duties and became political partisans, but who still do their duty.

Look in the mirror. Our complacency brought us to this point, and we don’t have the backbone to own our mistakes.

So, we divide and fight and blame and some will die. Ther blood is on our hands.

So, what can we do?

Grow a set, America. Own up to our mistakes. Return to the rule of law even if you don’t like the law.

That means that many will have to leave the country. Yes, the baby will go out with the bathwater in many cases. We have to own that as well. That’s on us. We ignored the massive unlawful influx and now many who need to be here need to leave first.

The discernment process was to be upon entry. Exit is wholesale. Go look in the mirror again.

Do some legitimate protestors suffer in the process? Absolutely!

If you are holding sign that says Peace in a group that is starting a fight, you might catch some gas or spray. Now, the odds are that you might get a bullet instead, or be standing next to the guy that injures or kills a law enforcement officer. What is your culpability?

The right to peaceful assembly is not the right to be immune from the consequences of choosing to exercise that right. That’s snowflake thinking when legitimate protest takes courage.

This has gone too far and judicial interference in what is clearly in the executive domain has upped the ante in the world of likely violence.

All Americans need to call for an end to this by demanding those here illegally to surrender to authorities and to support those law enforcement efforts to apprehend and process those who won’t.

There should be mercy and grace for those who willingly surrender to authorities. That would look like eligibility to return, but defending lawlessness can no longer prevail.

We need immigrants. Support of lawlessness only hurts those who want to be here and be Americans. Both the potential immigrant and the nation that receives these contributors suffer.

We have to reboot the system. We let it go too far. This will be painful. It doesn’t have to be violent, unless the insistence of siding with those outside of the law continues.

We are people capable of great things. Concurrently with the law enforcement efforts underway, we could rewrite and enact an immigration law that is win-win.

We need immigrants not invaders. Many who come here yearn for the opportunities of our forefathers. Many come to exploit and destroy. Failure to discern and discriminate is cowardice on our part.

Send the politicians home and get statesmen who are public servants.  Keep it that way. We are paying too high a price for self-serving elected officials.

We can do this!

Stop the lawlessness and all forms of support attached to it and fix the immigration system.

There will be pain. We let corruption, fraud, and lawlessness go on for too long. In many cases our complacency was used to manipulate us for personal profit among those called to serve.

If we want a government of the people, by the people, and for the people, then we need to stop being a terrible parent. Our kids—future generations—are going to prison because we didn’t have the backbone to follow our Constitution and the laws derived from it processes. Yes, I have ventured into metaphor, so let’s add this one.

Grow a set America. Let’s fix this. We don’t back away from problems. We solve them.

Grow a set, return to being a society of laws, and let’s fix the immigration problem with real solution.

Mercy and grace will prevail again, but there is neither without repentance. We missed the mark and are paying for it now.

We can do this! And we can do this without much violence.