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Killed Here or Killed There: Embryos vs. The Living

Posted on by cbrooks19

So, we are looking for “common sense gun control laws,” and constantly bickering about 2nd amendment rights mostly because of mass shootings/school shootings and often we hear that parents who own the guns should be responsible. It makes sense right? They should lock the guns up so their kids don’t shoot up their school. They really should be held accountable.

That being said, does the US have any accountability when we sell these weapons to countries that we know will use these weapons against civilians who are not a threat to other nations or to our own?

Or to anybody for that matter?

Does it matter that they aren’t American citizens?

Does it matter that we don’t see the deaths on Fox News or CNN up close and personal?

Do we trivialize the deaths of these people because they’re in a country far, far away that our commander-in-chief has called “shit hole countries?”

Does it make a difference that they’re not Christian?

Or the same color as the majority of those in power here in the states?

Do their lives matter less than ours do?

Could that thought process be part of why we sell arms to countries that we know will use them recklessly against other countries our government may not feel are as advanced or as important as we are?

Are the lives of actual, living children in other countries less important than an unborn child that hasn’t even come into life; into the world here in the states?

A fetus that doesn’t feel vs a child that will suffer pain and if these children and adults survive will experience the physical and emotional trauma of war that we supported?

We are passing unconstitutional laws here that take away a woman’s right to choose, often before a woman is aware that she is even pregnant, even if raped, even if due to incest, yet selling weapons that will obliterate a child thousands of miles away and for what exactly?

Diplomacy? Money? Power?

This is how terrorists are made. They are not born. They are molded through experience and by actively participating in the destruction of lives in other countries for political or financial gain, survivors of our irresponsibility will seek out revenge…and rightfully so. Did we not seek revenge for 9/11? We’re still looking for it long after Saddam was killed and long after Bin Laden was killed too.

Do we not see racism against muslims who have done nothing wrong even after almost twenty years since 9/11?

In less than four months, a child born on 9/11 can enlist in the US armed forces and fight in a war of which origins that they know nothing about. The United States is begging for decades of terrorists plots both domestic and abroad because we are unable to recognize the blatant disregard for peaceful diplomacy and instead of using military force as a last resort, we now use it as a standard means of operation. We put the lives of our troops at risk unnecessarily or maybe now we’ve just decided to let other countries do our dirty work for us but when it’s all said and done, we will never be able to wash the blood off of our hands. Instead of selling a gun to a drug dealer at a gun show without a permit, we’re selling weapons of massive power to nations with no conscience or restraint and they go unchecked and unchallenged. The hypocrisy of our government is unfathomable but I suppose as long as those in power stay in power, companies like Raytheon that make these weapons will continue to support our politicians via political donations and we can continue to live in a society that hates others because we fear others – which is our own fault. We sit by and do nothing which allows our elected officials to have free reign.

Nobody should have that much power. Nobody.

Lastly, I specifically focused on children in this post not because it can get an easy emotional response (well, hopefully unless you’re a sociopath) but because children are innocent. They aren’t terrorists, they aren’t guilty of crimes no matter what their parents may or may not have done and I know the first thing many people may think is – “Well, the parents must be guilty of *something* or they wouldn’t have been bombed!” …Sadly, that’s very stereotypical thinking but I know it’s going to happen. The progression of my thinking is, if we have states passing anti-abortion laws stricter than some of these “shit-hole countries,” minimizing the rights of women and their value and worth in the process, then not even offering services to assist these women and children after they are born and possibly forcing them into poverty and lives of abuse and neglect, yet we are complicit in killing children in these countries, which country is really the shit hole?

Happy Memorial Day. I’m grateful for those who gave their lives for our country but I have to wonder if those who did would be questioning what they gave their lives for sometimes given the current state of affairs.

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Florida man, Politics, Terrorism, Uncategorized

A WHITE CRACKER FLORIDA MAN’S RESPONSE TO THE OMAR CONTROVERSY

Posted on by cbrooks19

I was maybe 16 or 17 years old when the towers fell. I remember it vividly. I was a junior at University High School in Orlando, FL while taking a wrestling class and the first tower had already fallen. I remember my coach, Coach Ballasis (sp) told us all to shut the hell up and watch because whether we knew it or not, the course of our lives had all changed and nothing would ever be the same.

I considered myself an intellectual of course at the time, I was only a high school student but still at the top of my class. Now I’m an Undergraduate Student at UCF, a Research Assistant in a Human Performance Psychology Program, a Member of the International Honor Society of Psychology and a blah blah blah…but back then, looking around the room with padded floors, and ropes tied all the way to the ceiling for jocks to climb, I felt very out of place. I wasn’t a wrestler. Hell, I wasn’t even much of an athlete. I only took the class to impress a girl. None of that matters now. It didn’t matter then either really. We all sat and watched in disbelief at the old school tv wheeled into the wrestling room as the second plane crashed into the second tower. Nobody really knew what was going on but the apes and gorillas around me all swore revenge while I sat there and simply observed. I could see the anger in their eyes… The change in their disposition and I knew many of them would immediately sign up to join one of our honored armed services as we were all either juniors or seniors. Our coach said nothing. He knew what the outcome would be. Although I thought he was a complete ass, he was also much wiser than we were and he knew many of the youth in the room he was trying to guide; to train, would die within the next few years.

So I struggled for quite some time about what happened over the next decade or so. Weapons of mass destruction, or better said, weapons of mass distraction, the war, the deaths of my friends, and the PTSD that many of the survivors faced and the amount of time I spent studying the disorder and the comorbidities thereof. I didn’t really know how to feel about Muslims but I tried to keep any negativity aside as I knew only a select few caused the terror and the pain that had happened within those select moments and not all of those who I had grown up with caused all of the pain, the anguish and the trauma that had been imposed upon my friends and myself. Florida had always been a “melting pot,” and how could I all of a sudden assume that the ones I had been in class with, learned with and grew up with held some sort of hatred for me and “my kind” for so long without me knowing? Like I said, I like to think of myself as an intellectual, an observer, a seer of things. I just pick up on things as it’s my job. It’s my life. I think I would have noticed if all of these Muslims who I had considered friends all of a sudden just randomly jumped out of the woodwork with AK-47’s claiming jihad against the US.

Fast forward a few years….I graduated high school and got a pretty decent sales gig with a cell phone distributor in East Orlando. It was a high to middle class location and we had a new hire. He was a Muslim. A lot of our customers simply wouldn’t work with him. They would wait for another sales rep…a white cracker ass guy like me…this was 2007, maybe 2008… Six or seven solid years after 9/11. I would ask him constantly what it was like and he would enlighten me of his trials and tribulations. He was Pakistani. He had nothing to do with the tragedy of 9/11. His family had a pretty successful business but it had gone down the drain due to 9/11. He was constantly on guard, living in fear and had essentially gotten used to living in fear because of the way he looked.

I sort of regarded myself as an individual who just had no comment or no opinion on these sorts of situations but when I actually met somebody who was directly affected by the outcome of “what some people had done,” it did make me angry. This was a good man. A man who just wanted to live a normal life and who worked just as hard, if not harder than I did but had to work 10x harder than me to make the same amount of money and consistently faced racism because again of “what some people had done,” years ago even though we both were born just miles apart of each other. We were both “Florida men.”

Tell me my fellow Americans…WITHOUT USING GOOGLE … name the shitheads who flew those planes into the towers, into the Pentagon, into the ….where was it? Pennsylvania? That field somewhere? Yeah, sadly, I hardly remember that one and I bet you don’t either. That’s the really shitty part. But, we have a president who will use it as political fuel to get what he needs simply because he’s honestly a terrible leader. I don’t recall him using the Pentagon footage or the Pennsylvania footage in his propaganda footage…nah…just the twin towers…just the footage that makes the biggest “punch to the gut.” Because that’s what he does. Anyways….

Now, again, without googling, tell me the names of every school shooter since 2001. Tell me the name of every domestic terrorist that has harmed our own since 2001. Tell me the names of every pharmaceutical CEO that has without conscience released a medication that has killed tens of thousands of Americans. Tell me the names of every politician who has screwed over their own constituents….you get the idea…or at least I hope you do…

The media nowadays, they won’t even say the names of these people because they don’t want to give them the publicity they desire. They don’t want to give them the recognition they so wish in their own eyes they have earned….yet….some of you attack this woman, this congresswoman for doing EXACTLY as she SHOULD HAVE DONE….BY SAYING “SOME PEOPLE.” CHECK YOUR PLACE. You know it’s so EASY for us, it’s so eeeasssyyy for us to judge. It’s inherent. It’s driven in. It’s just apart of who we are. As white people to always be right and always be glorious because we see our representatives as white but remember that often, we are WRONG.

I URGE you, I BEG you, PLEASE OPEN YOUR EYES to what is actually happening. THINK RATIONALLY, turn off the news, go outside, meet people, new people, people you don’t think you’d get along with and just f’in say hello! Get to know them! Tell them you don’t know much about their faith or their religion or their culture but you WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THEM AND WHO THEY ARE! I promise you YOU WON’T REGRET IT.

This is coming from a white ass cracker Florida Man…might be crazy, so crazy it could just be true.

C. Brooks

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Politics, Sociology, Terrorism

Mr. President: A Question of sorts

Posted on by cbrooks19

In the aftermath of the New Zealand terror attack (yes, that’s what it was) and after reading the 74 page manifesto,

…I began to think a little deeper into what white nationalism really is and what it stands for. More than anything I was afraid and enlightened…

It put things in perspective more than anything. After 9/11, Muslims were branded as dangerous and hateful and a liability. It took time but I personally think that as things began to settle, islamophobia did begin to decrease in the US (this is purely anecdotal of course) until the rise of a certain president who decided to use fear tactics to help win an election. It didn’t matter who he demonized and how, he just did. Now, we have a situation where the tables have essentially turned. We have a group or groups of individuals who are intentionally trying to create organizations that are broadly defined in scope to include people based on the color of their skin making it impossible to tell who is a combatant and who is a civilian in a white nationalist terror organization. Sound familiar? It should. There is no patch that you have to wear, there is no ribbon or visible tattoo.

…There are optional ways to identify yourself obviously, but paranoia grows and we have a president who has a clear history of using incredibly strong, abrasive, curt and often insulting language…

It would make sense to have this same president use similar language to chastise and demonize the actions of these groups but he does not.

…I have to ask myself, if a Muslim or a Mexican had done this, would his response had been the same as the response he gave after this terrorist attack..?

He is not alone in this. The research below (see link at the bottom of this post) is rather compelling and we as Americans decide what we will and will not watch on television. However, who sets the tone of societal standards? Who creates the atmosphere of who is dangerous and who is not? The media reports what happens based on the events in our society. Specifically, politicians and high profile individuals. That being said, why the mild response? I find this puzzling and the only conclusion I can reach is that one can’t condemn the actions of “their own.”

…Not to say that Trump is a white nationalist …

but in his self-serving tendencies, he would not be able to take responsibility for those who use similar rhetoric and would have to separate and distance himself from those who perpetrate these types of attacks even though throughout his campaign and administration, has time and time again villainized people who white nationalists detest and have no problem killing or wish to create a race war against.

…To me, this shows a severe lack of leadership ability and a massive disconnect from reality that I simply cannot comprehend…

Yet, he still has a strong following, people still support and make excuses for him and when anybody challenges him, you’ll hear the war cry of

“Well, you libtards will do anything to get him out of power.” Well, yes, you just said it. Out of power. The correct terminology is “Out of office.” Yet I continually hear “out of power.” When did this change? When and how did he acquire this “power.”

As a white male, I have a lot to lose if white nationalism gains momentum. Maybe that’s why he decided to say that there isn’t a rise in white nationalism even though statistics clearly state the opposite.

…Maybe he was simply trying to protect white men like myself so that I don’t become an unwilling victim in a society where white privilege already exists…

and although there are things I can do to help alleviate that and create change to minimize that, I didn’t exactly ask for it, nor do I appreciate the animosity against people like myself who “benefit from it.” This blog post is not an attempt to demonize Trump. It is a myriad of thoughts, logically constructed, in an attempt to understand his actions or lack thereof based on his very specific and almost clockwork like behavior based on his opinions that he openly shares usually multiple times a day on social media etc. This behavior could be considered an outlier but does show similarities when compared to other terrorist attacks from white nationalists so again, why is there no strong reaction like the reactions against those that he used to gain his position in the white house?

…In The Great Replacement, the word “Invade/Invader/Invaders” was used over 50 times. That same day, President Trump used the same word, admitting that people don’t like the word to describe what is happening at the southern border…

Pundits argue that there is no correlation between his use of the word and white nationalism but could there be a causational relationship? These relationships are difficult to prove but the manifesto almost makes it brutally obvious that yes, there is possibly both a causation and a correlational relationship.

…One must understand the difference between qualitative and quantitative analysis to fully grasp the issue at hand. Quantitative would mean how many times he has used the term. Qualitative would essentially be a more liberal, almost existential or atmospheric tone from the president and although the specific word may not have been used as often throughout his political career, you can almost compare it to opening up a thesaurus of the word, sentences and paragraphs during speeches and public gatherings…

His base is not made up of robots reading a series of 1’s and 0’s only taking exactly what he says as fact. They are able to construct their own version of reality based on the tone and rhetoric he has used and he is in many ways responsible for that but how accountable he is for it is difficult to determine.

https://news.gsu.edu/2019/02/19/terror-attacks-by-muslims-get-disproportionate-news-coverage/?fbclid=IwAR2JgX4i7_ZhU2iRolYlFwg_VcLdBbSsJLlq0HHhAXWqFk3320SApBsHJWg

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