SIRENS

Precious: DADDY COME HERE, KISS KISS

Daddy gets up and kiss kisses

Precious: KISS KISS, okay go back where you were.

Hahahahahah

(A true story)

THERE IS A RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS

We live in a world of chaos.

World wide we are a group of 7 billion people

As Americans we are a group within that world group of 330 million? (Who really knows the true number anyway? I mean we have a ten year census and yet we are told that there are millions of 'undocumented' folks.)

My son may, from time to time, follow the allure of his daughter's kisses to his detriment, but we all fall for the allure of other sirens; sirens who are really calling us to much more dire circumstances.

But we as a people are not tied to the mast as Ulysses.

Many sirens are about in our chaotic world:

And this has the right wing very confused. A quick look around the Internet finds some perfunctory commentary supporting the group’s right to bear arms, but eventually people are pointing out the fact that one cannot be a “felon” and own guns. Finally they get down and dirty with assertions that the demonstrators must be bloods and crips and start whining that African-Americans are racist for mentioning that people of color are particularly at risk from police abuse. And then there are the hilarious jokes like this one: “If black people could get some marksmanship training it would really cut down on the number of innocents killed by stray bullets in certain neighborhoods.”

http://www.salon.com/2014/08/25/fox_news_latest_phony_obsession_ferguson_gun_control_and_second_amendment_hypocrisy/

How can I be safe in this chaotic world?

Sirens from the NRA would inform us that the only manner in which we might be safe is with a personal weapon, or weapons.

We need pistols and rifles and air to air missiles for chrissakes.

HOW ELSE MIGHT WE BE 'SAFE'?

But many sirens tell us that we must not let our perceived enemies have those weapons.

How might the Bundy's of the world feel safe when 'minorities' might also have weapons?

If the Black Panthers can have weapons, we are 'all' in trouble.

https://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images;_ylt=A0LEVxLR9_xTWZwAqJdXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTB0NTRvZ2trBHNlYwNzYwRjb2xvA2JmMQR2dGlkA1ZJUDI4MF8x?_adv_prop=image&fr=uh3_mail_srchcomp&va=reagan+and+the+black+panthers

If gang members can have weapons, we are 'all' in trouble.

If felons can have weapons, we are 'all' in trouble.

If the Muslims can have weapons, we are 'all' in trouble.

If socialists can have weapons, we are 'all' in trouble.

If mentally ill people (who decides this diagnosis?) can have weapons, we are 'all' in trouble.

If liberals can have weapons, we are 'all' in trouble.

If 'bad people' can have weapons, we are 'all' in trouble.

I guess we need a Constitutional Amendment stating that:

All American Citizens are entitled to have weapons of mass destruction except.....

(Enumeration OR elucidation might be difficult)

HOW CAN WE CITIZENS OF A CITY BE SAFE?

Well let us work with the Department of Defense and properly arm our Constabulary.

The Posse Comitatus Act is the United States federal law (18 U.S.C. § 1385, original at 20 Stat. 152) that was passed on June 18, 1878, after the end of Reconstruction and was updated in 1981. Its intent (in concert with the Insurrection Act of 1807) was to limit the powers of Federal government in using federal military personnel to enforce the state laws.

The Act, as modified in 1981, refers to the Armed Forces of the United States. It does not apply to the National Guard under state authority from acting in a law enforcement capacity within its home state or in an adjacent state if invited by that state's governor. The United States Coast Guard, which operates under the Department of Homeland Security, is also not covered by the Posse Comitatus Act, primarily because although the Coast Guard is an armed service, it also has both a maritime law enforcement mission and a federal regulatory agency mission.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posse_Comitatus_Act

POSSE COMITATUS

Whoever, except in cases and under circumstances expressly authorized by the Constitution or Act of Congress, willfully uses any part of the Army or the Air Force as a posse comitatus or otherwise to execute the laws shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than two years, or both.

- See more at: http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/67/1385#sthash.DSIn1q7s.dpuf

http://codes.lp.findlaw.com/uscode/18/I/67/1385

Catch this NYT take on posse comitatus:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/15/opinion/ferguson-shows-the-risks-of-militarized-policing.html?emc=edit_ty_20140815&nl=opinion&nlid=57476044&_r=0

Okay, so the DOD is arming our cities with weapons of mass destruction.

And that these weapons of mass destruction are pointed at the 'bad people' in our country.

I know that tens of thousands of bad people commit terrible crimes in our country every year.

I know that 12 million people in this country are arrested every year. (Five percent of our entire population, depending upon how you arrive at that number.)

And then there was this book about 1984 and another book called Fahrenheit 451?

I have no answers.

I know that our country has just about the same population of weapons as we have people.

I know that there are the dramas I watch every day are cop shows presenting the viewers with SWAT teams. And we are told that those SWAT teams are attempting to stop or kill the bad guys.

WHO THE HELL ARE THE BAD GUYS ANYWAY AND WHO DECIDES?

But I do know that there are sirens attempting to lure us all into oblivion with the calls to our fears and our loathings.

I am depressed today.

My only sister died within the last 24 hours.

I am lost.

THE END.