The beginning of the end of the beginning of the end

In my lifetime I have survived, the cold war, Y2K, the Nostradamus Quatrains, numerous wars and now the Mayan apocalypse. I think it's safe to see we are all here and the universe continues on. We must have some gene that programs us to wish or hope or want the end of us all to come. Not me though. I want to see humanity continue to progress and possibly change to beings of thought and intellect. A Star Trek type world where we seek to better ourselves through positive endeavours for humanity than selfish gain. No hunger, no poverty, and disease has been virtually eliminated. There is only one thing that is prevented that from happening, humans. We are still as much animal in our fallen state, than a being created to converse with God. No one ever will be able to erase the anger and the greed that swim inside one veins. So I predict that we will constantly or until the second coming, will fight, kill, steal, lie, and cheat from each other.

So thousands maybe millions worldwide waited and even prayed for the end to come. What do they feel like now that the sun is shinning and everyday life never stopped? Could people actually feel a sense of disappointment that they are alive? I have only heard of that phenomenon in much older adults. Many years ago my great grandmother in her late nineties broke her hip. The family decided to get her a helper and a special bed so she could stay home and be less active. The family legend is that she told everyone, " No I am done, I will just go home and pass on". Sure enough the next day she was gone, of her own will. Could there be a point in our lives that we just live too long? Could the vampire legends be a warning of what immortality without purity could be like? Can life really tire us out to the point we pray for death?

Even as a lousy Christian I believe in the scripture that says, no one knows the day or the hour only the father. If you know anything about the Christian belief of the end times they are not not even the end of the world. The world survives repaired after some serious calamities and then a thousand year peaceful reign of the messiah. There is no end of the world as much an extreme makeover Earth addition. When it happens it happens I say. Live your life to the fullest. Achieve, invent, love, laugh oh laugh alot. Being human right now is all we have.

The police state cometh

The first thing I noticed when I pulled up to my sons school this morning was the local police department squad car in the parking lot. Though many districts in my state have their own small police force, our school district may have schools in multiple cities. For security I won't tell you their routine but they were there. I remember the times I was assigned to "sit" on an area because of some threat or intelligence. Throughout the year there were days where we were advised to watch our schools and our government buildings a little more closely. First, it was the anniversary of the Oklahoma bombings. Second, the government killing the Branch Davidians. Thirdly on September 11th. Now it seems that this is going to be a daily occurrence to see more and more law enforcement activities in our daily lives. Fear is causing us to give up and give in more and more of our freedoms for the comfort of a nanny state. The creep started twenty years ago. As the Columbines and the Virginia Techs became more common place the simple answer by our elected leaders was more laws, more surveillance, more cameras, less liberty.

So what's the answer? The answer is not looking at every situation as an opportunity to restrict the movements and daily activities of the law abiding. The answer is to look at the situations individually and see how society failed to pick up the cues of why the person wanted to kill. As I discussed on Monday's blog, the young mad man that committed the atrocities at Sandy Hook had numerous contacts with those that could have prevented this. Who failed to see the hints? Hell, what are the hints that would signal the potential violent lashing out by these individuals. Am I the only one that sees that these boys and men have a common agitator? They have been outcast either by their own doing or by the communities doing. They mostly all felt that there was not need for them in our world. They had no stake in what was going on around them. They immersed themselves in role playing and online and video games. They slowly dehumanised themselves so they saw others the same way they saw themselves. So one of the answers would be to seek out these "Lost Boys" and reengage them into the world of the living.

Back to the issue of the police state. Police officers are a paramilitary force. We have a chain of command and rank structures. We tend to be given and follow orders. We are rarely asked to interpret the law instead enforce it in a black and white manner. The key to the police state is that your police officers must follow orders blindly and without question. I can say this from  experience, there are very few men and women on any police department that I know that will take anyone's civil liberties away for some arbitrary reason. Just because the motherland deems it essential to impose a rule I always had it at my discretion whether to enforce it. Most of the men and women on police departments right now would have to be fired and replaced by some brainwashed scabs to bring about some of the Orwellian enforcement that folks on the internet are speaking about. I don't want you to think this won't happen. It will! Just not yet. I am not sure of the time but there will be a moment that we here in America grant a few the abilities to take away a citizens freedom without Habeus Corpus, oh wait that's in the Patriot Act and some new Obama executive orders.

  

Who are we really angry at?

I worked dozens of crime scenes in my eleven year career as a Dallas police officer. I responded numerous times just as people were breathing their last breath. I have every deceased persons image in my head and I can go through them in chronological order. I could go back to every one of them and if I could draw express in exact detail everything as it was. Death burns a permanent place of the event into my mind. One of the crimes I never, ever had to be at was the murder of a child let alone twenty. Those images were one of the causes of my retirement from law enforcement, I pray that the departments working that nightmare have the programs and staff to be able to debrief and counsel those first responders. This is a war scene scenario. The kind that soldiers come home with seriously life hindering cases of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or shell shock as they called it back in the day. To those men and women I ask we send up our prayers because their lives have been changed forever.

A sick young adult went into a school and did the unimaginable. Though events like this have happened numerous times all over the planet, we neuro typicals cannot image taking up arms against defenceless women and children. As a father I can barely spank my kids without guilt and remorse. What type of damage or birth defect or evil could cause a human to cease being human and cause this kind of carnage. First, this is not about gun control. The killer could have as easily taken an ax to the door then set a classroom on fire but we are not going to make gasoline illegal if that were to occur. What this massacre is about is community. Your scratching your heads, I know. I say community because they had friends right? They had family, right. They had neighbors, right? Your telling me that someone, anyone, didn't have a suspicion that something was wrong with the shooter and his mother. Numerous news agencies are reporting that the mother was becoming a doomsday prepper. Making statements about the coming global demise.

The massing of weapons and storing of food. I am not saying that that type of preparation is not without it's value or unusual. What I am saying was the change and short time period in which the mother of the shooter began to prep should have had the community wondering why. Now his profile as a child and as a young adult and there were clear signs he was a person that should have been on someone's radar, but it seems he wasn't. Ultimately it was he that pulled the trigger and made the physical decisions to commit these evil acts. However, there is blame to go around. Parents, teachers, friends, neighbors we all failed him. In our world of social media and portable computing we have insulted and isolated ourselves. Rarely do we now engage those around us whether positively or negatively. Obama says we have to change. That's left speech for get rids of guns. You can confiscate every single gun from every single source you can think of and the next day there will still be murders and robberies and rapes and mayhem.

What we have to change is our human condition. We value nothing profound or ethereal. We thumb our noses at faith, call them forms of control. We fail to pause just to look within because we are so busy doing things to improve how we look to the outside. Arrogance, greed and selfishness are the values that are looked up to and striven for buy our species today. For some reason the opposite values are what help to calm us or keep our more animal impulses at bay. The guns, the guns, the guns, is what I keep hearing and seeing being posted and said worldwide. Dr. Keith Ablow was one of the first to call into question the mental health care that the shooter did or did not receive. What if, the shooter had from the moment he was noticed to be mentally different attention from the community. The kids mother or father doing everything they could possibly do. The schools being nosey and talking to him talking to his parents, never quiting or passing the buck. If he ever received counseling, the clinicians calling, checking, being proactive. The community failed the shooter, he failed himself, he killed.

Where do we go from here? What we need to do is focus on the whys and not the with whats. Doesn't that make more sense. Why was this individual created by our society? Hurts right. The shooter came from us. What is wrong with us, and who are we so angry at? Our culture spawned this tragedy. The elements for him to manifest the ills and demons inside him are partly the responsibility of the American way. Bob Costas said it was a gun culture that was to blame. Take the "Gun" away I say it's the culture. Broken homes, men just acting as studs procreating with anything and everything, then hitting the road. Violence viewed as cool and hip. For some as I heard the rapper The Game say on the Howard Stern show that when he was young going to jail was a badge of honor and manhood. For the love of the Lord it is not the gun laws that are broken world it is WE as individuals that are breaking. Let us as a nation and as a global society focus on ourselves first. Heal what has been breaking within our countries for decades now. Then you know what, after each of us has looked within. Get your noses out of your phone or tablet or laptop and look around. Have a human interaction, a look, a gesture, a conversation with someone around you. Let's be people again not cyborgs.

 

Declare Mexico a terrorist state.

I'll say it. We have a terrorist state just south of us. Mexico is a terrorist state like no other. The drugs that are imported from there poison and kill are citizens every day. For years now their violence has killed more U.S. citizens than 9/11. The Mexican government is constantly corrupt and inept. The citizenry does little to improve the status quo. The drug cartels hold entire cities hostage and have police and politicians in their pockets. Let's look at the comparison between Mexico and countries we actually have declared terrorist nations.

Cuba is on the list of state sponsors of terror people, Cuba! A nation frozen in the 1950's who people are starving and swim over to the Keys everyday to get the hell out of there. When was the last time you heard of Cuba terrorist kidnapping our citizens on US soil and torturing and killing them, never! Go to El Paso, Laredo, Brownsville, hundreds of cases, most unsolved where MEXICAN drug cartels have taken our citizens some never to be returned. Syria is also on the list, through Hezbollah, has killed a handful of our fellow Americans. I am not trying to diminish the death of those Americans my thoughts and prayers to the families of the victims.

What direct impact has any of those nations on the list has had to our homeland that can compare to the damage that our alleged allie Mexico? As we speak they are holding some of our patriots in prison under the threat of torture and death if a ransom is not paid. These are the prison officials calling the family of former Marine Jon Hammer. As reported on Fox News Jon was headed to a trip to chill in Costa Rica and wanted to do a little hunting so he brought a sixty year old Sears shotgun with him. Jon declared the weapon on both sides of the border according to his attorney and family. Then these scumbag Mexican officials arrest him for having a "Military" style weapon. For a time he was even chained to his bed because they feared his Marine training. Other then Iran with the hikers that crossed their border a few years ago, name me any other country on the list who is doing this.

Recently there was the case of the Texas trucker who got confused at the border and was trying to turn around while hauling ammunition for his company. How many month's did he have to spend in that God forsaken country's jails? If I were president I would make a phone call and tell them to free him immediately. If he wasn't on the border in twenty four hours I would have SEAL team 6 go into the prison and rescue the former Marine who deserves not to be left behind. The congressman for the Hammer family stated this morning that the state department is slow walking any effort to bring our Marine home. I blame the Obama administration for projecting weakness to these rogue nations. Would Realism advocate an invasion of Mexico? I have to think about that one.

I just want to be free.

Looking through most of my post you'll find language specific to a particular party or political philosophy.  I guess I use those words mostly to sound intelligent or articulate. I am out here to try to impress all of you that read ricantotheright. If you get down to the marrow of what I am trying to say. When you really look deep into what I right it is basically about being free. Freedom from being told what's right or wrong for me. Freedom to do anything I desire as long as it hurts no one but me. It's not a lack of rules or anarchy that I want, it's less hand holding and babysitting. I don't want to keep looking over my shoulder trying to figure out what new rule or law I may be breaking in my private personal life or business. Look around you. Everything we do, say, wear, eat has a law or regulation. We are completed controlled.

Freedom to so many sounds reckless. Why would a person not want to have rules? There are rules, natural ones. If I hit you you hit me back. If I take from you, you'll use force to take it back. We are built with these natural boundaries only the mentally ill or evil have an issue with these inner controls, but doesn't nature weed out the defective? Really it is mind boggling how so many of the things we do to enjoy ourselves or just live are managed by some type of government agency or bureau. So another person has control of what I can or can't do and that angers me. Marriage, divorce, birth, death, a piece of government paper for all of them. This morning it's being reported by AP that numerous government agencies are unleashing thousands of new regulations now that Obama has won reelection. Not only are these new regulations intrusive they are expensive. It seems that new laws are created to give someone a job rather than to protect our well being.

North Korea 1 USA 0

Though we have killed thousands of terrorist around the world using mindless robots, we are losing the war on intelligence and assertiveness. Late yesterday North Korea launch a powerful rocket successfully over Okinawa. We did nothing, we prevented nothing. North Korea wins. Now Kim Jung Un has grown a pair and will seek to miniaturize his nuke to mount it on top of this weapon. Even if he doesn't he still has a dirty bomb alternative or easier a chemical weapon choice. War is a dirty hands on business. Blood, guts, gore everywhere, or at least it used to be. The Obama administration has chosen to run this antiseptic war from afar costing us valuable intelligence. Sure we have drones and satellites and spy planes, but there is nothing like boots on the ground human intel. What happened to the wonderful world of renditions? Grab a guy fresh from the field, do a little sleep deprivation, a little hunger if hue doesn't crack there is always the good ole technique of water boarding.

Is it politics or fear that drives the current administration's spy community to be so passive in it manned covert missions? Why did we not know that that missile could fly? If we had the ability to insert Stutnex into the computers of the Iranian nuclear computer program and destroy hundreds of  centrifuges, how come we could not sabotage ONE missile? It is because we (Obama) doesn't believe we are a global super power who projects it's influence. The current government wants to submit and subjugate America to the globalist will. America no longer leads it follows. This is very embarrassing for us. We could not even protect our allie, Japan. Yes they do have the ability to defend themselves, as it flew over it's territory we should have taken the lead to destroy it as a show of solidarity with the Japanese. I suspect they stood down because we chose not to take action. What this must do to our military command staff. To be emasculated, and stand around powerless.

Could there be a Patton or a MacArthur in today's military? Those loyal but rebellious strategic geniuses who initiate then inform. There most be dozens of these men and women who know exactly how to end these conflicts all around the world, yet have their hands tied behind their backs by our less than courageous politicians.

Bah humbug

I am no where close to having the Christmas spirit. I celebrate the birth of the Messiah all the time not just the twenty fifth. This year is particularly difficult with all of the changes that are occurring in my life. The business that I am trying to build is being effected by the recession. The product I created are a luxury and folks are still for the most apart in survival mode. So the trinket I sell is an afterthought. I won't quit though, it's always been for the future. Like this blog it's something to leave behind to my heirs to say they remember I was here. I want to be immortalized by something, anything being handed down to future generations. I tell my oldest son, that when the business is successful I want him to at least continue to have a part in it and hang a picture of me and remind others who started it all.

At Christmas time I tend to reflect on what the year was or wasn't. I under the tree and think, how did I provide for my children. This year is a lean year so the tree will reflect it. Having been poor and hungry a bit in my life as compared to me my children are all very well provided for. New homes, good clothing, games, tablets, computers, phones, food never runs out, what more could a child want. Being behind the scenes I make sure they never notice the bills I juggle from time to time because an unexpected expense came up. Or my poor math skills cost me a fee. I only tell the bigger ones when times are lean. Funny even when dead broke and a negative balance in the bank, God has always provided a way to feed my children and have a roof over their heads. I have never doubted Him in that, my path or walk or direction, well that's another issue.

Maybe it's that just today it feels like winter for the first time. Having grown up some of my life in New York I'd be already freezing and wearing a freaking parka. There may have been some snow already and the trees would be bare. Just a few days ago I was wearing shorts. I miss some of the Puerto Rican traditions of my past. My whole family making pasteles. Pasteles are like giant Mexican tamales wrapped in banana leaves. Oh yes they are better than tamales hands down. I was always assigned to the grating green bananas. Dozens and dozens of different roots and bananas would be grated and made into the paste that makes up the body. On the stove top would be all kinds of different meats stewing to be the filling. Our family would make hundreds. We'd always eat two or three at a time. Yeah, that would put me in the spirit.