I’m angry

Long post.  Edited and expanded from a fb response to a friend who accused me of not seeing the difference between protesters and the criminals in their midst.  Touched on the same building anger and indignation that Bill described about how America is going to end holding all Muslims accountable after a tipping point is reached, after decades of “moderate” Muslims not doing anything to rein in the radical criminals in their midst.  Short tweets, snappy one liners, thirty second sound bites aren’t the correct response to these monsters and useful idiots.  

I already see them (protesters and the violent criminals in their midst) as different. Apparently the protest on the ped mall in Iowa City a couple of nights ago had troublemakers starting to shout and begin to make noise and the organizers apparently told them to stop it. I don’t think a protest should be silent, but this got my attention because it is the only time in 9 days of broken windows, graffiti, and assaults that I’ve heard of any protesters calling out and stopping the impending criminals in their midst. This recent round of riots started because some police in MN seem to act with no sense of personal responsibility. Well, they’re going to jail for a long time. But the criminals (because that’s what they are) in the midst of the protesters are being shielded by the useful idiots face to face with the police, while the criminals stand back and throw bricks, firebombs, bottles full of all kinds of liquids. That’s not protesting that’s assault at least, and the useful idiots are accessories if they don’t distance themselves (at least – not turning them in may actually be a crime…) from the violence.

Pay attention to this next line:

At no time have I mentioned race. At no time have I made a distinction between criminals in the protest groups and criminals on the police force.

We’ve raised nearly two complete generations of Americans that for the first time seem to be mostly devoid of any sense of responsibility for their choices and actions. It’s not my fault I hit you, someone with your skin color wronged someone with my skin color 50; 100; 400 years ago. Wrong. Each person is responsible for their own actions and choices right now in the present. We’ve been hiding that, removing that, making all kinds of excuses for people so they don’t take responsibility for their actions.

I’m not going to just sit on the sidelines and let others put words in my mouth and thoughts in my head that I have never said or thought, and then accuse me of something am not. I fully support anyone who wants to protest. It’s your right. Start assaulting people, you’re a criminal. Start looting and burning buildings, you’re a criminal. Don’t care if you’re a white supremacist, or nation of islam, or buddhist, or democrat, or republican. This isn’t about race. This isn’t about moral relativism or philosophy.  This is about equal application of the law to everyone. Including the police.  I guarantee you that if i threw a brick at a police officer i would be on the ground handcuffed in a hot second. It’s assault. So why do people with different skin color think they can get away with it? Who is the racist?

Trying to force me to admit some kind of guilt for something I have never done is fascist.  Gestapo did that.  KGB did that.  Torturers in Viet Nam did that to US airmen they captured.  Yes, I am equating your behavior to the worst in human history, because it comes from the same place, and left unchecked and unopposed in public discourse gives the false impression that the vast majority of people are the useful idiots your political puppet masters are hoping for, to achieve their long term goal of destroying America.  

I’m angry.  I am at my limit.  I will not attack but I will act in self defense, in the gladiatorial arena of online social media or in real life when confronted by these fools or the criminals they hide and help, either through ignorance or evil intent.  I will defend my philosophical position and no longer let the other side impute a belief system onto me simply because I don’t stand up and let my real thoughts be known.  I am no longer afraid of planting a flag and defending it.  I won’t attack, but I will defend. 

I am angry, intolerant of useful idiots and criminals, and fed up with incompetent politicians.  We are either a nation of law, applied equally, or it is time for a second American Revolution.  We are in the middle of the Second Civil War which most people refuse to see.  It’s not a hot war, it’s another Cold War, that overlapped the Cold War against the Soviets, grew out of that war the way a virus might jump from the loser in a gladiatorial match, to the winner, and kill the gladiator who thought he was the winner because he killed the host for the real threat.  The real threat, in short, is all the policies, philosophies, ideologies that seek to overturn the decades of careful study and thought that went into the creation of America, complete with the built in mechanisms for peacefully and without deceit correct flaws as they are discovered.   

In Iowa, lethal force is allowed in self defense, against what a person might reasonably fear is a lethal threat, which can be many unarmed attackers.  There are about 15% of Iowans with concealed weapons permits right now. 

I’m angry.  I will not attack but I will act in self defense.

I’m not sure who is listening or watching, but my flag is planted and I’m going to defend it.  Friends and family are warning me to tone it down, stop using social media for my supposed extremist views.  Useful idiots, I discovered, who I thought had a better perspective on history and American society.