Lyle Northey (Silent/Boomer)

   The Fourth of July is a day of gatherings and judging by the number of and duration of the explosions of fireworks there were some quite large gatherings. The totally celebratory events get some coverage, the ones that have a shooting or multiple shootings are the ones that get the attention.

   All the world watches as we kill one another off one block party at a time. They wonder why we would choose to have laws that require school children to have to be put through live shooter exercises to prepare for the event that could come on any day in their school. They wonder why we have a former President that has caused an insurrection and continues to call upon his followers to create problems for the rest of our society, and he has not been jailed, or as in some countries, taken out and shot. 

   He has not gone to trial yet, but daily he is being tried by society and history. His legacy will not be written by him so he will not appear as the noble, brave and true leader that he fancies himself to be. Rather he will be found to be very unsavory and instead of featuring his picture to replace George Washington his image will better serve to replace Mussolini hanging upside down next to his mistress.

   The United States was founded to be a just country. We do not conduct purges as Stalin did. We do not create and environment where your belief would require you to go to elaborate measures like building priest holes as the Catholics did under King Henry VIII. We were not founded that way and yet members of our congress today would gladly pursue those tactics if they could muster enough power to put Trump back in power. 

   The raping of women’s health rights and putting it in the hands of your neighbors to spy on you and turn you in for profit if you violate one of the many punitive laws enacted. Neighbors spying on neighbors is the method that was used to keep track of the East Berliners, and the more radical in the Soviet Union. Those type of rules plus open carry laws for weapons might be a great way to reduce the surplus population, for the Red states I am sure that they are hoping that it is the folks that voted Blue that end up as the targets for this benevolent law.