They have killed one suspect and caught the other. The good guys prevail, for now. We have to assume that this kind of thing is not an isolated incident and it can, and will happen again. As long as there is evil in man's heart, evil will manifest in this manner. People kill people for a multitude of reasoning or lack thereof. We must remain ever vigilant in the fight against the people who would do us harm.
The good people of Boston had a rough day as the police gathered to apprehend Dzhokhar A Tsarnaev. What we take away from this is that there is no need to create rules, laws and regulation to limit our liberties, people will readily agree to TEMPORARY cessation of those rights for the greater good. Many of those people handed over their 4th Amendment right to the searching police to facilitate the capture of the fugitive. This illustrates that law abiding citizens are nothing to worry about, they will readily help if it could help someone else.
I've read the transcript of the President's statements on the capture of Dzhokhar A. Tsarnaev and it was actually very good. Of, course, he is an eloquent speaker that's undisputed. My usual disputes focus on the content and inflection and this is not the time to dispute it. The only true fault I find with his speech was the finishing statement. The President stated "We have the courage, resilience, and spirit to overcome these challenges
and to go forward as one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty
and justice for all." I will stand by my belief that he is disingenuous when he makes a statement like that. His own reelection was won by dividing the nation, threats of removing or limiting liberties and justice only as he and his corrupt Justice Department sees fit.
This is a fight for the entire country. We are truly in this together, those bombs did not discriminate. It killed and maimed all those people not by age, color, sex, or national origin. We live in a country divided. When this atrocity happened, a large majority of the media started to make assumptions. Those assumptions surmised that this atrocity was committed by 'Right-Wing Extremists' or as they like to ball it all up, The TEA party. They made assumptions that the perpetrators would be white American born men. That it would be 'Home Grown Terror' akin to Timothy McVey. I'll make a controversial statement that may catch a few people off guard, but currently, in our society there is only one class of citizen that it is currently socially acceptable to discriminate against:
HEALTHY WHITE MALES.
Bet that raised a few eyebrows. Currently we have many things in place that prevents discrimination. We have laws, rules and regulations specifically written for all races, females, religious belief, disabilities, sexual orientation and national origin but the glaring omission is HEALTHY WHITE MALES. There is no preferential treatment if your health, white and male. There is no affirmative action for healthy white males. Even if we are 'underrepresented' in an avenue of employment, if a healthy white male was to bring an affirmative action lawsuit it would be crucified by society. There is no quotas for healthy white males. There is only quotas for all other 'social afflictions'. It does not matter if that healthy white male grew up in a poor depressed household, if he's healthy and white, no extra consideration. What ever happened to excelling on your hard work and performance? The organization that I work for is currently adopting a performance based employment structure. Finally people are realizing that an organization is only as good as the people who work for it. Performance knows no social differential, it rewards the good workers and punishes the bad.
In my eyes there is no discrimination. I am only critical of ability. If you have the ability to do something, then do it. If you don't do it then it is your own fault. I have never been handed anything because of my race, I have never been given preferential treatment because of a 'perceived' bias. I have worked side by side with people who do not excel in their position but were afforded every chance to change and didn't. When people whine about their place in society and the fact they can't survive on the tools afforded them, they get no sympathy for me. I have friends in wheelchairs that work. I have friend with mental issues that work. There is work out there, it's up to them to find it. We are creating a society that feels that it's owed something and when it doesn't get what it wants it throws a tantrum.
So, who exactly are the good guys? If your reading this over a cup of coffee getting ready for work, I applaud you. If your reading this before going to class to better yourself, kudos to you. If you are making any forward momentum and taking the blame for your place in life then you get props. If you are sitting on your ass, trying to guess what your going to do for the day and you feel as if someone, some where owes you an easier path...suck it up cupcake. If I had any say in it you'd be picking up trash on the sides of the highway. No more handouts. Hand-ups, that's it. You need help you work for it, if you need some coin, put in your time.
That's my two cents, spend 'em or put 'em in the dish for the next person.
