Wasted Honor -

Carl R. ToersBijns is the author of the Wasted Honor Trilogy [Wasted Honor I,II and Gorilla Justice] and his newest book From the Womb to the Tomb, the Tony Lester Story, which is a reflection of his life and his experiences as a correctional officer and a correctional administrator retiring with the rank of deputy warden in the New Mexico and Arizona correctional systems.

Carl also wrote a book on his combat experience in the Kindle book titled - Combat Medic - Men with destiny - A red cross of Valor -

Carl is considered by many a rogue expert in the field of prison security systems since leaving the profession. Carl has been involved in the design of many pilot programs related to mental health treatment, security threat groups, suicide prevention, and maximum custody operational plans including double bunking max inmates and enhancing security for staff. He invites you to read his books so you can understand and grasp the cultural and political implications and influences of these prisons. He deals with the emotions, the stress and anxiety as well as the realities faced working inside a prison. He deals with the occupational risks while elaborating on the psychological impact of both prison worker and prisoner.

His most recent book, Gorilla Justice, is an un-edited raw fictional version of realistic prison experiences and events through the eyes of an anecdotal translation of the inmate’s plight and suffering while enduring the harsh and toxic prison environment including solitary confinement.

Carl has been interviewed by numerous news stations and newspapers in Phoenix regarding the escape from the Kingman prison and other high profile media cases related to wrongful deaths and suicides inside prisons. His insights have been solicited by the ACLU, Amnesty International, and various other legal firms representing solitary confinement cases in California and Arizona. He is currently working on the STG Step Down program at Pelican Bay and has offered his own experience insights with the Center of Constitutional Rights lawyers and interns to establish a core program at the SHU units. He has personally corresponded and written with SHU prisoners to assess the living conditions and how it impacts their long term placement inside these type of units that are similar to those in Arizona Florence Eyman special management unit where Carl was a unit deputy warden for almost two years before his promotion to Deputy Warden of Operations in Safford and Eyman.

He is a strong advocate for the mentally ill and is a board member of David's Hope Inc. a non-profit advocacy group in Phoenix and also serves as a senior advisor for Law Enforcement Officers Advocates Council in Chino, California As a subject matter expert and corrections consultant, Carl has provided interviews and spoken on national and international radio talk shows e.g. BBC CBC Lou Show & TV shows as well as the Associated Press.

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Monday, December 28, 2015

A new Logic - A new Normal?

Terrorism Domestic or Foreign = A new Normal


Our history of experiencing mass shootings from Islamic terrorism is still new, however, not rare as there is a record being established and breaking down the difference between domestic terrorism and Islamic terrorism in America.
 
In the meantime, America struggles with gun control and hype that semi-automatic weapons should be bans. This propaganda or hysteria is mainly based on those two San Bernardino Islamic terrorists armed with “assault weapons” and outfitted with extra-capacity magazines which were bought in California, a state with some of the strictest gun laws in the nation.
 
We cannot forget the terror act Army Major Nidal Hasan who attacked fellow officers and enlisted men in a massacre on Fort Hood military grounds. We cannot forget the two Muslim refugees who attacked the participants in the Boston Marathon and we cannot forget the Muslim shootings on the Chattanooga naval bases and other individually carried out attacks on persons by those radicalized or influenced by Islam in our country.
 
Comparing such attacks has the nation vigilant for more acts while at the same time, worried that there may be more mass shootings carried out by Islamic terrorists within the borders of our country.
 
Rejecting the fact that if a shooter, a murderer or a terrorist want to get their hands on a semi-auto type of weapon to kill, they will have no problem doing so if they have the money to buy one either legally or illegally. Historically, the black market thrives on prohibition and bans of alcohol, marijuana, medicines and now guns. Tougher gun laws are not the answer.
 
Blaming Congress is not the answer either as they refuse to give in to political pressures to restrict gun-ownership based on the no-fly list which may be embellished randomly and arbitrarily to restrict gun ownership to those who are not terrorists, mentally disabled or convicted of domestic violence related type of crimes. It could in fact be expanded by adding veterans to this list who have taken an oath to protect our nation against domestic or foreign threats.
 
In our world, tragedies such as mass shootings, there usually is a call for many Americans to buy more guns for self-defense or protection against such acts and other crimes. This has been the nature of the beast for decades and is not going to change no matter what Washington DC writes in their gun laws.
The sadness is the tragic death of our children who are defenseless and vulnerable in free-gun zones designed to keep guns out but when an armed intruder steps on these grounds, there is little defense and survival becomes futile when faced with an armed person.
 
The San Bernardino attack may mark the inflection point where the nation’s response on guns go head to head. Terrorists are, it turns out, just as able to buy and use assault weapons as other shooters who live in our country. This would mean regulating gun sales to try to avoid repetition and that regulation would logically target all purchasers, not just those on the spotty and incomplete no-fly list. It is my opinion that such an action is unconstitutional.
 
Modifying or eliminating the Second Amendment would bring in the National Rifle Association which as a lobby group, shows no inclination to soften its stance on assault weapons since the term assault weapon is vague and unenforceable unless one bans all kinds of weapons that are not single action, single shot designed or factory-made. The cure is not the type of weapons made or sold, but the manner such weapons are delivered and who buys them.
 
Given the political economy of the gun-rights movement, it seems unlikely that even after the tragic San Bernardino attack, this would not give gun reformers any further support or leverage as it appears they failed to achieve their goals even after Newtown Sandy Hook massacre.
 
This leaves America with three alternatives: none acceptable to all and many acceptable to some. Applying the current trend of mass shootings in America, the availability of guns by shooters, we can discourage rapid fire weapons as a choice but not legally prevent the purchase of such a firearm.
 
We can strengthen the means to purchase such weapons e.g. background checks, waiting periods, create a gun owner registration list etc. but nothing can be done to acquire them in the long run. This kind of legislation serves no purpose other an allowing the guns to be accessible to those who are already criminally minded and radical in their mindset which includes domestic and foreign individuals or groups.
 
The confiscation of guns is another alternative but unlike to be successful and viewed as a tyrannical act of war against the people of America. It would in fact, inspire, invoke and incite the American people into a civil war with horrible results.
 
The other alternative is to do what America has done in cases where death is caused by drivers under the influence of alcohol, fatal wounds inflicted by knife or blunt trauma wounds and deaths related to serious illness, cancers, auto or aircraft accidents or industrial mishaps. We could add Mother Nature’s wrath of tornadoes and hurricanes, floods and fires to the list. We, as a nation, could consider these kinds of deaths as normal and move on with our lives.
 
This would bring our nation into an assimilation process familiar in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Israel and many more foreign countries who live with the fear of domestic and foreign Islamic terror attacks as well as their own domestic terror threats.
 
The major difference is that most of these countries have unarmed their citizens and leave them for prey as the police or militia responds to these attacks after the fact. We, as a people of this country would be a little less safe than before but still well ahead of the curve to defend ourselves when we possess a defensive weapon of some kind to protect family and lives.
 
Of course, we have no defense against bomb makers or explosive devices created to take life and limb but to my knowledge the only way to reduce threat to such an attack is to have a bomb sniffing dog in every house or property. Surely an impractical alternative to consider.
 
The bottom line is gun laws will not reduce deaths related to firearms used to kill people, either in singular form or mass shootings. People will kill – our job is to avoid their opportunities to such acts and prevent and intervene their actions.
 
Imminent dangers are exponentially created in gun-free zones where the victims are easy unarmed targets. Welcome to the new normal, where mass shootings and terrorist attacks aren’t so different after all from the gang killings or other sporadic violence created by gun-toting persons.
 


Saturday, December 26, 2015

The value of Free Speech


The Value of Free Speech

 


“Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.” M. Gandhi

Looking at the world today, there is one unique civil right that is preserved in our country that is unlike many other countries – the right of free speech. With the world focusing on the “denigration of religions” we are fortunate to enjoy such a right protected by our Constitution. Today, there are many instances where such behavior as speaking out against popular ideologies, theologies or political rhetoric is a criminal offense with some facing the death penalty for doing so.

There is a fever in the world today to criminalize denigration of religions in our world and it has prompted strong statements of support from people in our own government that carries with it threats of incarceration and prosecution of federal laws designed to prevent hate crimes. Unfortunately, such rhetoric has been presented in a very biased manner as it appears to favor one religion over many others.

During a speech at the United Nations somewhere on or about September 25, 2012, our own president Barak Obama, said, “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam. But to be credible, those who condemn that slander must also condemn the hate we see in the images of Jesus Christ that are desecrated, or churches that are destroyed, or the Holocaust that is denied.”

This was approximately a little more than a year after the Cairo Islamic Summit that viewed that any religion should not be denigrated and focused on the strategy to impress on international communities to take effective measures against such acts of incitement of hatred and intolerance towards the Muslims and acts that lead to violence and loss of lives.

One has to notice that Islamophobia was a high priority on the agenda of this July, 2011, summit. This issue was adopted universally and globally through a framework of the United Nations’ international law which states in part: “Article 20 of ICCPR, clearly states that denigration of symbols or persons sacred to any religion is a criminal offence. This law ratifies OIC's position and the only remaining problem is the absence of enforcement in the true spirit by member states.”

It was claimed that this law was not effectively transposed to the domestic laws of the United States thus recently, our own attorney general, Loretta Lynch, stated in part during a public speech held on December 3, 2015 “"The fear that you have just mentioned is in fact my greatest fear as a prosecutor, as someone who is sworn to the protection of all of the American people, which is that the rhetoric will be accompanied by acts of violence,"

Obviously our country was founded on freedom of speech. However, this right to freedom of speech is limited when it incites violence. The attorney general stated that she would take actions and investigate acts of anti-Muslim hatred and bigoted actions suggesting that free speech does not protect predicated talks of violence. She capped her speech by stating, “I think it’s important that as we again talk about the importance of free speech we make it clear that actions predicated on violent talk are not America," said Lynch. "They are not who we are, they are not what we do, and they will be prosecuted."

American have learned from our own experiences that freedom of speech is a path to respect human rights as well as civil rights. Let us hope our government does not enforce such laws selectively and seek to go against liberty through the means of tyranny and target non-Muslims for invoking their freedom of speech without inciting violence but rather more clearly, stating the truth of our government.

The recent emphasis on protecting the rights of Muslims, specifically those who are arriving as refugees and coming to America has been covered with an executive order type of political shield or blanket of assurances that prosperity, spiritual growth and development shall be guaranteed by our government as they assist, assimilate and foster re-settlement strategies to make these Muslims feel at home inside America.

Thursday, December 24, 2015

Alien Domain


“Alien Domain”

 

Envision that the current unwanted immigration trend to allow thousands of Muslims to enter the United States is charged with threats unknown and unexplored dangers. Imagine these multiple threats are brought to us by visionary terrorists disguised as refugees and taking the role of cleric leader in the newly established Muslim communities.

Visualize and see our domestic domain being invaded by an alien domain armed to the teeth with hate and possessed with gross ambitions to re-create their caliphate on our soil.

Our country is being invaded and our government has caused us fear that we are about to enter into a globally fought war but this time, within our own borders. Our empire as we have enjoyed its existence for the past two hundred years of so is in imminent danger from an alien domain threat.

This threat is three fold and nobody seems to be concerned about it except those who can visualize the consequences of such alien threats on our democracy and inner socio-political systems. In its most destructive form, it could decimate the quality of life as we know it to exist into a pure hellish condition or unfit lifeform.

In the meantime, the government closes its eyes, continues to expose us to these dangers with stepped up mass immigration plans and failing to perform their responsibility to safeguard us from dangerous conditions of our most precious resources, human life, environment and economic systems.

There will be a moment of confrontation. Our domain will be challenged by alien domain aspirations soon as a prediction of early 2017 is suspected. Throughout the world, mankind is already destroying the planet with their famines, war and hate. Containment is impossible when our own government spreads these diseases throughout our heartland with their re-settlement act that forces states to accept immigrants from the Middle East and especially Syria and other war-torn countries.

In the next eighteen months, the government will be clearing millions of acres of public land for re-settlement purposes. This same government who represents us by the democracy we live under shall betray us in favor of allowing alien domains to be created and settled under favorable conditions empowered and embraced by our federal government for maximized growth and development.

Common sense dictates to us to stop this mass immigration as there are dynamics attached to it that would destroy the very fabric of our daily lives. Although it appears we are already on a path to destroy ourselves, we don’t need to accelerate the process by allowing an alien domain to be settled within our borders.

 It certainly seems like an illogical conclusion if current trends continue in political warfare and technology, we will inevitably be destroyed one way or another. The human stupidity, greed and irresponsible conduct appears to be the path our government has taken to self-destruct America.

It also seems logical that America shall be destroyed by such negligence of the Earth, nation and population. The extinction is nearer today than ever before. An apocalypse is forming and nobody appears to be concerned of its arrival. Historically, mankind has always found means to destroy itself.

Today, that kind of mentality appears to prevail more than anything else as alien domains within our borders bring disease and famine imported from the regions they came from. Historically, virus and bacteria pandemics had killed 2/3rds of the population of Europe more than once.  We could suspect a form of population control but that paranoia would be unwarranted if the signs weren’t so clear this is a viable strategy to control the future.

Today, the American continent is being invaded by sporadic bands of foreigners who came here without being vetted, without background checks and medical examinations. Unknown what diseases they carry; they bring with them disease that may kill many in just a few years.

Syria and other Middle East countries have been known to develop chemical agent warfare weapons which have been dispersed and applied on their civilian populations. Their bio technology of lethal organism for which there is no cure, is a serious threat to our own existence and survival.

Secondly, these bands bring with them their own customs and practices, their religion is more extreme than ours and their will to dominate, convert or resent Christianity is already a matter of historic record.

Finally, the third threat is their ability to form a self-regulated militia under the terms and protection of the Second Amendment. Through the proliferation of guns either provided by our own government or bought in mass from our independent gun dealers throughout our country, they could form a strong untied religiously bound militia that would enforce their way of life, Islam ideology and Sharia law.

If our own government can already create biological weapons capable of causing a total planetary pandemic, imagine what these Middle Eastern governments can do or create. These countries have been competing with us on the scientific front as well as the socio-political will. It has been said that the human race will end — not with a BANG! — but with a whimper….   It would be a lot less messy that way and America will become extinct.

Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Writing on the Wall


If the Wall could Speak

 

We have all heard the idiom of “the writing is on the wall.”  These words really exist all day and night long. We come to the wall to pay our respects in silence as we share experiences under the same stars and skies we fought under decades ago. It represents a chain of memories and reflections of the good and the bad, the darkness and the light. There is no fair play when you visit the walls for these inscriptions tell the truth. It contains no judgments. It lists our heroes and our failures. It’s all there, everything we hold true………..is written on the wall.

 

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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Mass Muslim Immigration - Part II


Evolution of Mass Muslim Immigration into America
Part II

In order to reduce, avoid or compromise conflict, there has to be a split sovereignty and produce two different constitutions or one constitution that is amended to declare Sharia law as to read, “sovereignty belongs to Allah or God alone” (as opposed, to “sovereignty of the people,” as per constitution of most democracies.

 This act, by itself separated Pakistan from India’s form of government. This kind of adaptation in the United States would cause traditional and political havoc or chaos and ending in a revolution. Such a division would drive religious intolerance beyond reasonable and peaceable limits as in order to enforce such a constitution, Muslim National Guard or militia would be instructed to kill, convert and force out non-Muslims in order to advance their own religious preferences.

Other devout practicing Muslims would be pressured to do the same and follow Sharia laws and religious beliefs. Indoctrination would be prioritized and young impressionable children would be targets for new practicing Muslims following the tenets of Islam. In turn, they would have to serve in their militia with a transformation inconsistent with western culture and laws.

Since the field of education is primary in their role to be dominant and educated, the possibilities of Muslim students attaining doctorates and degrees in engineering and technology will be significant in our national security realm of our utilities, transportation and weaponry research as well as space development.

No matter what field or educational background they choose, the expectation will require Islamic populations to impose a strict application of Sharia and history has shown that more than 80 per cent of the Muslim world is in favor of harsh Sharia-driven penalties such as stoning those who commit adultery and many more crimes that force them to comply with these rigid laws enforced from within while still accountable to another standard outside their culture or communities.

The portrayal of the Sharia as a “divine” law necessitates its interpretation by clerics, who now wield enormous control and authority over Muslim communities. Hence, the regressive background of the clerics may cause them to do things against their will or individual career plans.

This will be likened to having an effect of over-regulating young Muslims and hampering their individual ability to create wealth and explore and serve at the mercy of these dominant leaders within their communities. One can see frustration building as there are double standards to live by depending where you lived and who controls your daily lives.

Another Sharia influenced factor is wealth or the creation of wealth. In the Muslim communities, the affluent hardly ever pay any taxes. In fact, these wealthy individuals may refuse to pay taxes to our federal government claiming sovereignty and independent control of their assets and wealth or property. This discouraged parity and equitable taxation revenue streams and discriminates the rich versus the poor.

All traditional schools of Islamic jurisprudence, too, teach subjugation of non-Muslims through jihad. This will hamper individual governance efforts to be equal and since it is stemmed from the foundational texts of Islam, it suggests that it would also stunt development and foster resentment that leads to the fostering of extremism.

On the other side of this conflict was a large improvement of educational and resource development in India that created a higher level of income and education close to the rest of the western world.

This perceived disparity could be a driving factor to foster radicalization as one group pits their hardships or discrimination on another and begin to wage jihad to restore the inequity of their existence within another country which in this case is the United States.

Resentment is often misunderstood for admiration or envy this created conflict leads to war and violence. In order to provide some parity with Muslim needs or “admiration” demands, our government would have to invest billions in financing new mosques, Islamic cultural centers, universities and honor religious texts prepared by the Muslim clerics to ensure compliance with Islam and Sharia law.

There are no indications that all Muslims immigrated to the United States would cut ties with their ancestors or families still in the Middle East or elsewhere in Europe settling in as refugees just like them. Most local Muslims or their converts shall likely maintain continuous economical and emotional links with their past.

Based upon the previous discussion of Sharia, there should be an inverse correlation between its popularity and socio-economic development. This is particularly relevant in Arabic speaking nations, where Sharia is interwoven into the fabric of the society.

Therefore, it is not unexpected or altogether surprising that we will see massive demonstrations by educated young Muslim people frustrated by un-employment, underemployment in scores of Muslim dominated communities or localities.

Although the adherence to the strict Sharia laws and Islam practices would deny them the freedom and privileged others in the United States enjoy, they would be restricted by law to apply or attain such efforts to break Sharia law and find jobs suitable to their own taste yet in turn, they will blame the government form of governance for their lack or socio-economic opportunities and claim mismanagement towards Muslims.

Specifically, unless the commerce sector of the United States changes their fundamental means to produce food, manufacture supplies or equipment, bank with Muslim controlled financial establishments and other daily commerce transactions, their long term economic growth will stifle and never achieve long term economic growth compared to the non-Muslim world even if this world exists within another world.

Mass Muslim Immigration Part I

 
Evolution of Mass Muslim Immigration into America
Part I
In a desire to seek better answers between the evolution of religion in our Western world compared to those religions based dynamics of the South Asia or Middle East region, I wanted to seek an answer as to what possible influences the Western world might experience in the United States if Muslims were to become evolved into our part of the world.
These influences are anticipated to be positive and negative as our society makes environmental and evolution adjustments of our Western culture or if it chooses to remain dedicated to their own form or religious practices we have been experiencing now for the past ten years or so. Whatever I write related to evolution or predictors of religion is purely speculation and derived from other sources from other parts of the world.
Specifically, I am comparing the evolution of Muslim majority Pakistan and Hindu-majority India and track or trace predictors which influences the same landmass or regional environments that share commonalities in language, ethnicity, culture and cuisine.
Since these commonalities are extremely different from the western culture of our hemisphere, I can predict such changes or evolutions are more drastic in nature and tone to adjust over time.
Additionally, it should reveal a polarization of certain features of Islam, namely their laws and specifically sharia and jihad factors to lead to backwardness and violent extremism regardless of location or time as well as the radicalization process of Muslim communities that leads to extremism.
Due to the socio-political nature of such influences, our government will need to shift policies to help mitigate changes and at the same time downplay or intervene the tide of terrorism and social evolution of ideologies that drive affected communities or locales in the United States.
The key to stabilization and modification will be the degree of shifts required and the adjustments made to accommodate their religion as in the Muslim communities, Islam rules every aspect of their lives.
Instantly, it becomes clear that a mass immigration of Muslims into the American societal circles will require multicultural sensitivities that Pakistan and India never achieved amicably and still fight about today.
Based on the western culture and European influences of our melting pot population, I foresee mass conflicts in all areas ranging from religious differences to basic food, health and housing standards.
Assimilation efforts with or without government assistance or interference will have to be guarded, sensitive and difficult while simultaneously maintain equality under those terms of our own Constitution as it would rule as the law of the land as it has been for the past several hundred years.
The first issue would be literacy and education – most immigrants will not speak or know the English language and would need to adjust to speaking the language of our country. This would pose a direct conflict with their practice of Islam that demands they remain connected to their roots and native language and practices which uses Islam as a means to teach children the entire spectrum of learning and schooling children.
At this time, the Muslims could not even remotely be considered a disadvantaged community, as they were the ruling class for several centuries before they came here and would refuse to take a back seat to their traditional means of learning plus such a lack of accommodating would warrant an inner spiritual struggle [offensive behaviors] or a jihad (war) due to the violation of the tenets of Islam.
Prediction- segregated (private) schools for educating Muslim children at the expense of our government; locally, state and federally funded or subsidized. Muslims would carve out their own territory to call their own and impose their own laws to regulate behaviors and law enforcement of their codes of conduct.
Unlike the United States, Muslims do not separate church and state principles of customs and traditions. While Christians and others have had no problem adhering to the laws of the land, Muslims would have to seek exemptions or require their own tribal or tribunal for due process and sanctions. This is because they are locked into their tenets of Islam and no exceptions can be under their own code of conduct and customs and practices.
This rift would divide non-practicing Muslims and practicing Muslims with the basic fundamental principle that all citizens are equal citizens of one state but in reality, many will find themselves unable to resist the words of the Quran and Sharia Laws creating inner conflict amongst their own culture and communities.
Islam is not only a set of rituals, traditions and spiritual doctrines. Islam is also a code for every Muslim, which regulates his life and conduct, even in politics and economics, and the like. This alone could lead to radicalization or the beginning or extremism to drift away from western culture and laws and implement their own Sharia laws and other Islam requirements as they have done for the past 1,500 years compared to the youth of our nation which stands to be young at approximately 240 years.
History has revealed the will of Muslims is to dominate wherever they live and not to become a lesser citizen than any other person, religion, or governance state.

Living in Lockdown Times


Living in Lockdown Times

We are living the unthinkable today, compared to ten years ago. We are trying to survive in a world filled with multicultural and global turmoil, hate and fear and our elected politicians are not helping the situation any by their reckless behaviors, rhetoric and demands for more war and more troops on the ground to support an air war in the Middle East that is being fought for all the wrong reasons.

While I am proud of our troops and their courage, I question the reason we are at war over there. The government has been busy storytelling us why we are killing each other and what motives the jihadists carry with them as the world fears their terror. In the end we all know war makes profits and people die for corporate greed. Another aspect of this war is religious pandering of extremism and how a major religion views the world they seek to dominate and control.

Troops fighting terrorism is not new to our society. It has been done for centuries and the costs are enormously in both human lives and plant destruction. Terrorism rules the world today. It has become the world’s most powerful weapon aside from nuclear warfare. It has created a lockdown world for millions of people who live with fear. Fear in our schools, malls and movie theaters. The thoughts of violence, whether guns or knives or other weapons, is fresh on the minds of many.

Even the exposure to explosives has become a common thought after the FBI revealed the numerous homemade explosives found in the Redlands home of two terrorists who went on a killing spree in San Bernardino. Even when the county had completed their regularly scheduled lockdown drill in the Inlands Regional Center, the real massacre of fourteen people shook the country with horror.

The term lockdown used to be applied to prisons or jail settings only. It has expanded from jails to airports and reaches out globally from country to country as public places are targets for terrorists’ hell bent and drawn to violence and mass killings to spread their hate. This preoccupies many mindsets especially our children.

Our precious children are becoming innocent targets of radical extremists who have no value for such precious cargo or audience. They come home and describe how they were gathered into a large group, herded down the hallways towards a pre-destined location in the school where they remain for the lockdown seeking refugee during such lockdowns is frightening.

During our time, the most urgency we experienced were civil defense drills for nuclear war shelters in our school and at home. Those days are no longer practiced as the violence has found their way to most vulnerable places and the world feels unsafe.

Today, lockdowns of many places are more common than the routine of going to work and taking a long trip or vacation which in many ways, also accounts for some psychological adjustments to avoid being trapped in an ambush or terror filled event now threatened to become more frequent and intense.

It makes me angry to see this. It makes me angry our country is not doing enough to protect us as their response has been reactive more than preventive in nature. Even when the San Bernardino police acted so quickly to find these killers, these two-gun toting terrorist managed to clear the crime scene and conduct other activities before being caught. There have been some plots revealed and suspected terrorists have been arrested but in general, most violence still occurs spontaneously and dangerously in our community.

Living in California, the state with the strictest gun laws, does not make me feel safe. People who live here are scared and fear another attack. The terrible sound of gunfire, explosives and other means to destroy us, has awakened a giant nation of its vulnerability to such acts. Lockdown drills and lockdown police mobile command centers intensify those fears and expectation that somebody is about to die.

Gun-free zones make it easier for killers to murder innocents and the presence of cops is lacking due to various reasons beyond our control, Lockdown drills whenever kids talk about them, adds anger they have to go through this trauma. Most are scared of lockdown drills. They shouldn’t have to practice surviving a mass killing at one of their favorite places during the time they are in school.

America should wake up and reject any further assimilation attempts by the government to forcefully merge cultural and religious sects or groups against the natural laws of the land. Congress should put their foot down on immigration laws and restructure them to provide national security and confidence in the law enforcement systems corrupted deliberately by those who take our personal safety for granted and allow slipups to occur due to political interference and deliberate tampering of our laws and regulation concerning our well-being and preservation of life.

Monday, December 21, 2015

Patriotism - my logic

Patriotism - My Logic -

Today’s multicultural world has mixed races, ethnicities and customs to the point where they either blend well or create conflict. Coincidently, the world is very volatile today when it comes to race, religion and politics and as a result of this confrontation of cultures, there appears to be more hate and fear mongering within our society that has melted or eroded our spirits.
Without going into the land of the free, home of the brave speech, we, as the conscience of the American spirit have changed and not for the better. We don’t appreciate our soldiers, marines and police any more. We don’t seek work and good character with ethics like we used to do. No longer first in line to show human kindness, and compassion like we used to and in the meantime, the lazy collect and stand in the food stamp line as it gets longer every year a new budget is passed to allow more hand outs and freebies by socialist government programs.
Patriotism is still alive and not buried deep like some believe it is. The silent majority is patriotic and has composed themselves well under duress and manipulation. There have been no frenzies of libertarian threats, no gun waving Second Amendment resistance and no emotional loud and angry outbursts towards our flag. Quite the opposite, patriots have maintained and composed themselves to stay off the G list that the government uses to identify domestic terrorists.
Patriotism is deep rooted and stronger than anything you can imagine. It is tangible and intangible pride accustomed to stress and threats and has survived a couple of centuries of steady dedication to the flag, our Constitution and the American way of life. The lifeblood of America is alive with dreams, freedom and deep rooted security of who we are and what we can do.
This patriotic American group has no race, no creed or nationality, no division or divided by cultural differences or religious ideologies. We are all Americans and we know where we stand on defending our country. We believe in equality and the right to be taxed with representation or just governance that protects the people and not put them in danger.
We carry a few symbols to reflect who we are. We exemplify those who serve in our military and honor them as well as the police who protect us from predators and the enemy. Nobody needs to remind a patriot to defend and nurture our liberties and our founding fathers’ wishes to remain free from oppression and tyranny.
We cherish some things but we can sacrifice others. One such cherished foundation of our patriotism is our flag. The other foundation is our Constitution – mess with either one and you get revenge in true patriotic fervor and devotion to fight for what is ours. We know this takes risks and sacrifices, and risking our lives for our freedom is something that does not have to be spoken.
Patriotism is a reflection of names; Washington, Hale, Patton, MacArthur, Eisenhower and Reagan and then the list gets smaller but we remember Tillman, Kyle, Gordon, Miller, Monti, Dunham, Monsoor and many others who served their tour of duty defending our country from various threats around the world. American soldiers, sailors and combatants who gave their all for the cause. These and many others are an exemplary testament of devotion to our country.
American people know the value of life; sacrifice and freedom – they are willing to die for it. They embody the soul of the fifty stars, the thirteen stripes and the colors red, white, and blue. Those in uniform pledge and we pledge, active or former, to keep our oath taken and kept indefinitely to protect our country form the enemy – domestic or foreign.
As civilians we stand with the military and the militia in the challenge to keep us free. Like those in uniform, we pledge to protect our liberties and nurture equally those spirits essential to maintain the survival of our American way today.

The Roll out of Martial Law


The Three Steps to Tyranny – Aka a Martial Law Roll-Out


 

America is at the cusp of a revolution. Our President of the United States has threatened passively, an elimination of political opposition as well as control of this country’s entire populace based on executive orders and directions provided under the disguise of a democratic government.

Under such condition, which is basically an enhanced state of emergency, the President may grab all the power he or she needs to regroup, and regain control of the democracy that has been allegedly jeopardized by foreign powers, terrorism, anarchy or lawlessness in our society.

Either directly or indirectly, this state of emergency would be an existence of martial law that would essentially eliminate media, electoral, congressional etc. opposition, until such time the government has been restored and power and control is deemed to be achieved. In other words, this state of emergency could last indefinitely.

The seizure of liberties is the first step of a gradual rollout and conversion of government controls. Travel will be restricted to regional travel only; curfews will be imposed to secure the environment and all individuals will be classified as threat or non-threat to the government.  

The government will create an “enemy list” which may be classified alike the “no-fly list” today and identify various groups of religious supporters or participants consisting mainly of pre-identified threat groups including Christians, Gun owners, Libertarians, Constitutionalists, Veterans, as all would be branded “domestic terrorists.”

In other words, the government will identify all individuals who pose a risk of resistance to martial law or any other government action taken under martial law.

The second predictable act would be to nullify all constitutional liberties; those right included in the Bill of Rights will be suspended as well as any other liberties guaranteed under the U. S. Constitution. This includes the loss of free speech and the right to assemble to air grievances against the government.

In this secondary condition of restraint, the use and access of the free internet as we know it, will disappear. Subsequently, those sources identified to be hostile in the mainstream and local media will disappear as well.

Individual will quickly experience a mass arrest and detain pattern characterized by the total loss of due process of law with regard to detainment, imprisonment or otherwise designated by those in charge. Most of these mass arrests or detentions will be based on the enemy list but spontaneous add-ons will be done and pre-approved by local commanders.

Included within such a list are individuals based on the type of certain occupations or employment; the development of a special designation on a form of national ID, the imposition of restrictions on who can associate with and interfere in personal or private relationships including mandates telling them who they can marry, where one can live, etc.

Thereafter, once the groups have been identified and segregated, there comes a loss of personal and private properties; the confiscation of firearms or other weapons, and the government determining who will live where and what type of domicile they will be allowed to live in.

Mortgages will be suspended and all public housing, public transportation, food, materials and other daily required equipment (medical or otherwise) and the installation or encroachment of privacy and listening (surveillance devices in key locations) and tracking devices shall be inserted or embedded and all none compliant property will be confiscated and seized for assimilation and security purposes.

The final stage of martial law is total police state measures that exclusively focus on control of the populace. Warrantless detention will be stepped up with forcible removal from dwelling in the middle of the night, and the identification of targeted citizens who are outspoken such as religious leaders, talk-show hosts, and all people with some history of civil disobedience on file. The use of FEMA camps will be prioritized by the nature of offense, threat perceived and level of threats that would determine placement in low security camps all the way into maximum custody penitentiaries similar to the Guantanamo prison complex.

Common Sense - My Logic


Common Sense – My Logic

We have become a society that is heavily dependent on regulation. There are laws on the books that defy common sense yet we have to follow them or become a victim of the criminal justice system and face fines or imprisonment for acts contrary to such laws. These laws are so numerous, so contradictory to common sense and so burdensome, we bump into to them whichever way we turn. I suspect this was mere design and motive to gather fees, fines and revenue...s.
American justice systems are suffocating the people and forcing them in some type of lawlessness or anarchy. Instead of the laws protecting us, they have been imposed for political and stupid reasons. The mere fact that many were legislated and turned into laws was based on stupidity and caprice that dominates our lives today with politicians wishing to rule every aspect of our personal and private lives. No doubt that today, society belongs to the government with its intrusive laws and ridiculous enforcement tools given to collect debts, fees and fines for every single infraction incurred without an exception.
This formulation of laws run contradictory to common sense yet it seems to prevail to a large degree. We are living under a concept called the laws of unintended consequences meaning that when applied, it may not fall under the original concept the law was drafted, and reasons implemented but regardless, impact every aspect of our lives, death, taxes and other certainties of co-existing on our society.
In an effort to improve life, government has hampered and infringed on lives in so many cases and this defeats the very basic reason for having such laws. One can almost ensure that for every law on the books, there is a criminal waiting to break it. In fact, some laws feed into the purpose of criminality as it proposes to give profit to the lawbreaker instead of the law abiding citizen reaping from such orders.
A black market exists for the purposes of profit and whenever an item is outlawed, the demand rise beyond normal profit rates and provide hefty rewards for those who risk to break these laws. Marijuana is such an example. The cost of marijuana is much higher in the states where it is illegal than those regions where the purchase of such a plant or drug is legal.
The underlying reasons for bad laws are shallow minded, religiously influenced and disconnect public officials who depend on lobbyist to determine what is good or bad for society. The unmarked label of profit is never exposed until the end but regardless how or why a law is implemented, there is always a hidden motive for such a direction.
Common sense should rule whenever a bill is drafted to become law and unfortunately, whenever a bill is drafted, nobody looks at the side effects of such actions that may create a bigger problem, either institutionally or financially, these unanticipated harmful side effect come with every law, no exceptions noted.

Sunday, December 20, 2015

Setting up the Police in the USA - my logic of a police state


Setting Up the Police – My Logic

People should be waking up but many are still asleep and listening to the wrong chants in the streets. In all practical terms, anarchy is coming and nobody has paid attention how it arrived to this moment in time as the federal government has set up the cops to take the heat for their own ambitious plans to create chaos and justify the means to impose martial law for absolute control and power.

The Logic of the Police State has many people confused. They have identified the masses of protestors as the enemy as well as their respective police departments. Going back in time we must see the patterns forming to give the police agencies para-military weapons, vehicles and other military surplus equipment. Then the training was altered to adjust to “active shooters” scenarios that impose deadly force instantly and with no mediation or hostage negotiation means. It has been shoot or be shot training that eliminates the threat quickly.

Racism was fueled by activists supported by the Department of Justice who funded busing protestors through third party funding recipients. Influential Politicians led these demonstrations immune from local control or authorities with the Feds backing up their plans. This was never about Black Lives Matter but rather the manipulation of hate and fear created to cause an anarchist uprising to justify the use of force, excessively and under a state of emergency.

These racists and hate movements haven’t been about justice – these slogans were disguised for political reforms far more sinister. They were meant and designed to divide our country by regions, race and hate. The war on blacks, cops, Muslims, white supremacists, Black Panthers, KKK and other groups was all orchestrated to create a divided country and it has worked effectively.

Quietly, the federal government has been buying bullets to deplete the inventories of private vendors and stores that once had an ample storage for such items. The government knows they can’t ban guns but without ammunition, these guns will be useless if they resist government powers of tyranny. In the meantime, the Feds have been slowly confiscating surplus military equipment once praised to be the proper tool for domestic terrorism or large crowd controls from the police.

The Ferguson effect has ordered the recall of much such equipment from police agencies or cancelling of such purchases or exchanges. The mood of the lynch mob mentality, lawlessness, hate and fear mongering has been at an all-time high. Criminals have been emboldened as police officers are forced to think twice about doing their jobs for fear of the prosecution by their peers for doing their jobs.

In the meantime, cops have been stripped of high-powered equipment they need to protect each other or the public and strapped with body-cams to snitch off their own behaviors. The war on cops has accelerated and nobody is paying attention. One can see, it’s not the people who are fighting the cops, it’s the government.

Our own president and his personal attaché and Muslim friendly attorney general, has been vilifying the police, who are now being treated as if they, not the criminals, were the enemy. The cops have been set-up by our own government and we stand to lose more than our freedom is these conditions are not restored quickly as these men and women in blue is our first line of defense against tyranny, anarchy and the loss of freedoms. Rightfully so, many police agencies and organizations are increasingly resistant to any reforms, and not forgetting whom they serve and pay attention to constitutional issues on what they can do and within the existing laws.

Friday, December 18, 2015

Old and Foolish


Old and Foolish

 


A lot has been said about age, growing old, wisdom and being foolish. There are many books written as well as wisdom proverbs that gives those reaching the golden years some motivation and at the same time, instill some pride, passion and motivation that being old and foolish has nothing to do with any loss of power or existence in the world.

 

Age is not a simple concept – rather age is a mere perception. Whether one is 50 or 17 or 30 compared to 85 is a mere calculation of time and existence but in no way, reflects the value or worth of such time spent in this world. Bear with me as I write my defense that we are not foolish when we get older and that growing old is a mere compliment and compensation to the order of the world so we can contribute or continue to contribute to societal efforts to change the world and that wisdom is an independent quality not relative to age at all.

 

To many, age denotes decay. This may be a false impression that can be easily proven if that was the subject at hand for this topic we are covering. Aging includes many things that are part of a continuum that begins at a very young age and demonstrated a vigor and vitality of life that is enriched and postponed indefinitely by individual will power to reject aging as a natural process and not slow you down as society expects you to do when maturing into an elderly status.

 

Passion has no age limit. Aging is not relative to what you can do and what you desire to do. Although some physical deterioration takes place, there are often other means to compensate for such reduced abilities or agilities but hardly any of these actions can stop the passion to live life to the fullest if the heart and mind takes charge of your senescence process throughout your lifetime.

 

Rarely do we qualify age as a determining factor when the body and mind keeps up with demands. In all reality, facing the truth one can honestly say the vision of 80-year-old man can exceed or be wiser than the 55-year-old but lack some wisdom along the way towards the final goal of fruitful living one’s life.

However, this could be a fallacy in a case by case basis as it depends on many variables in order to hold this to be accurately projected.

 

One of the first essential rules of eliminating the old myth that wisdom is associated with old age. This is false. There is no guarantee that the older you get, the wiser you become. If one has the ability to experience many enriched life quality related facts, connected or linked to effective interpersonal communications, and possess the ability to step back and learn from each such experiences, impacting an affect, judgment or conflict, then there are many benefits from such occurrences.

 

It is the immediacy of the moment that fills our minds with what was gained through the perspective at the instant. The more you witness, or experience in your life, the fuller the enrichment and perspectives. It is the basic foundation of wisdom and is subject to different definitions. One would have to understand the variable structures of wisdom to realize how it is attained. One quality is time but time is not the sole structure of wisdom. One can attain wisdom at a younger age through enriched contact with life’s experiences good or bad. One can say these are lessons learned to some degree.

 

 

Deciphering empathy, synthesized care of observation and the spirit of justice all play into the wisdom of mankind. One can readily see how one can become wise at an early age if exposed to multiple opportunities to exercise integration and cognition or such events and learn to acquire a self-awareness and capacity to appreciate the fact that these lessons learned are in fact subject to paradoxes, ironies and oxymoronic events that fill our lifetime.

 

This is all based on an individual’s investigative skills, where empathy is defined as a combination of maturity, knowledge, experience and intelligence both cognitive and emotional as well as possessing the skills of patience and connecting to the realization that there are two sides to everything and nothing is black and white. Hence an ability to absorb the self-awareness and at the same time, notice or be aware of the absorption of others rather than self.

 

To summarize my ideas, imagine that the old are always wiser than the young for you cannot be wise about things you have not lived through yet, however, facts reveal that after the age of 30, there isn’t that much of a gain of wisdom from that point on if those individuals lived a life that involved toleration, ambiguity, the search for the truth faced with paradoxes and ironies which in turn the process facilitates a widening of the social radius and a balanced way to cope with adversity. A process that does not have to be complex but in fact can remain simple to gain wisdom relative to your existence in our world.

Old and Foolish

 

A lot has been said about age, growing old, wisdom and being foolish. There are many books written as well as wisdom proverbs that gives those reaching the golden years some motivation and at the same time, instill some pride, passion and motivation that being old and foolish has nothing to do with any loss of power or existence in the world.

 

Age is not a simple concept – rather age is a mere perception. Whether one is 50 or 17 or 30 compared to 85 is a mere calculation of time and existence but in no way, reflects the value or worth of such time spent in this world. Bear with me as I write my defense that we are not foolish when we get older and that growing old is a mere compliment and compensation to the order of the world so we can contribute or continue to contribute to societal efforts to change the world and that wisdom is an independent quality not relative to age at all.

 

To many, age denotes decay. This may be a false impression that can be easily proven if that was the subject at hand for this topic we are covering. Aging includes many things that are part of a continuum that begins at a very young age and demonstrated a vigor and vitality of life that is enriched and postponed indefinitely by individual will power to reject aging as a natural process and not slow you down as society expects you to do when maturing into an elderly status.

 

Passion has no age limit. Aging is not relative to what you can do and what you desire to do. Although some physical deterioration takes place, there are often other means to compensate for such reduced abilities or agilities but hardly any of these actions can stop the passion to live life to the fullest if the heart and mind takes charge of your senescence process throughout your lifetime. Rarely do we qualify age as a determining factor when the body and mind keeps up with demands. In all reality, facing the truth one can honestly say the vision of 80-year-old man can exceed or be wiser than the 55-year-old but lack some wisdom along the way towards the final goal of fruitful living one’s life.

However, this could be a fallacy in a case by case basis as it depends on many variables in order to hold this to be accurately projected. One of the first essential rules of eliminating the old myth that wisdom is associated with old age. This is false. There is no guarantee that the older you get, the wiser you become. If one has the ability to experience many enriched life quality related facts, connected or linked to effective interpersonal communications, and possess the ability to step back and learn from each such experiences, impacting an affect, judgment or conflict, then there are many benefits from such occurrences.

 

It is the immediacy of the moment that fills our minds with what was gained through the perspective at the instant. The more you witness, or experience in your life, the fuller the enrichment and perspectives. It is the basic foundation of wisdom and is subject to different definitions. One would have to understand the variable structures of wisdom to realize how it is attained. One quality is time but time is not the sole structure of wisdom. One can attain wisdom at a younger age through enriched contact with life’s experiences good or bad. One can say these are lessons learned to some degree.

 

Deciphering empathy, synthesized care of observation and the spirit of justice all play into the wisdom of mankind. One can readily see how one can become wise at an early age if exposed to multiple opportunities to exercise integration and cognition or such events and learn to acquire a self-awareness and capacity to appreciate the fact that these lessons learned are in fact subject to paradoxes, ironies and oxymoronic events that fill our lifetime.

 

This is all based on an individual’s investigative skills, where empathy is defined as a combination of maturity, knowledge, experience and intelligence both cognitive and emotional as well as possessing the skills of patience and connecting to the realization that there are two sides to everything and nothing is black and white. Hence an ability to absorb the self-awareness and at the same time, notice or be aware of the absorption of others rather than self.

 

To summarize my ideas, imagine that the old are always wiser than the young for you cannot be wise about things you have not lived through yet, however, facts reveal that after the age of 30, there isn’t that much of a gain of wisdom from that point on if those individuals lived a life that involved toleration, ambiguity, the search for the truth faced with paradoxes and ironies which in turn the process facilitates a widening of the social radius and a balanced way to cope with adversity. A process that does not have to be complex but in fact can remain simple to gain wisdom relative to your existence in our world.