American Tragedies

29 Sep 08 Monday

American Tragedies

I'll continue to edit this as I think of some tragic shit in America;big ones, ya know? Controversial. I get a lot of time to think at work as my work doesn't require much thinking at times.

1. The Kennedy Assassination - My opinion: The American Government assassinated its own president. Unbelievable! Not really.

2. The Entire Rodney King Event/Situation - My opinion: The man was a drug addicted CRIMINAL. He was high on PCP driving over 100 MPH and attacked a group of policemen and was then awarded money and freed of charges because they used "excessive" force. Who is to say what is excessive? Black people? White people? - No...but answer THIS...if you were outside your front door watching your kids play on the sidewalk and a car came flying by your home at 100+ MPH...would you be pissed? Would you want to beat the shit out of the driver? Would you want that person off the streets? - My guess is that you would answer YES...regardless of skin color...if Rodney King was white...he would have STILL got his ass beat...the difference is...he wouldn't have gotten money and freedom for it...The race card would have never been pulled. (Then again, I believe that those policemen WERE racist fucks, so even though he deserved his ass beating, they didn't belong on the force anyway probably...but whatever)

3. The Election and Re-Election of President George W. Bush - Another great tragedy. 8 years of horrific downfall for America. Do we need to touch on this really? 9-11 (Can we really rule out a conspiracy at this point? Maybe not)...Downfall on the Economy...4100+ Dead American soldiers...Osama Bin Laden still not captured...More troops in Iraq than Afghanistan...the list goes on and on...

4. The Assassination of Bobby Kennedy/Assassination of MLK - Yea, pretty tragic events, but they probably don't top the above 3. It is not like these are in order. They just come to mind.

5. September 11th, 2001 - If you don't know what happened on that date and you are American, go jump off the Sears Tower, please.

6. Operation Iraqi Freedom - Biggest waste of American Military Force in more than 25 years. Too many soldiers died for? What?

7. The Return of Vietnam War Vets From Their Tour of Duty - The American people have never been a sicker, more demented, fucked up, population ever before this war. Degrading soldiers, spitting on them, and shunning them for performing their duties.
The American people in the 60's and 70's is the biggest disgrace in Generations in the history of this country. These soldiers did not CHOOSE this war. They follow orders. They sign up OR are drafted to do what their country (well, government) has asked. That is a soldier's job: Do as ordered. Why degrade them? They are not in charge of that shit. And in a place of combat you do what is necessary to survive...so whatever they had to do to survive (whether it be killing women and children....) I wouldn't hold against them...MOST people would do ANYTHING to survive and make it back to THEIR families...if I had a choice between MY life...and a kid or woman I don't know...I'd choose MY life...sorry..I'd do what I had to at that point.

8. The Patriot Act - A piece of legislature that allows the government and law enforcement to pretty much DO AS THEY WANT...without needing permission or warrants to gain information (such as walk in your house and search your home...emails, telephone records, medical information and much more)...The IDEA was good...(The idea is to prevent terrorism), but with all good things...there is bad...like giving up your Civil liberties...Giving more power to the government than to the people...and much of the bill was considered UNCONSTITUTIONAL...it has been revised and is more suitable, yet the Patriot act breeches constitutional rights. - Russell Feingold (WI), in a Senate floor statement, claimed that the provision "falls short of meeting even basic constitutional standards of due process and fairness [as it] continues to allow the Attorney General to detain persons based on mere suspicion".
More tragedies to come as they come to mind...and I am sure more tragic shit will occur before Bush leaves office...I am sure he will fuck American's beyond recognition yet.

(Forgive me for the "..." punctuation. Sometimes I ramble and it becomes more of a pouring out of thoughts and grammar flies out the window. Great use of cliches there, huh?)