THE GOLDEN STATE.

What would Arnold, the original Governator, say about his ‘girlie men’ that are up in Sacramento now?  First it’s sanctuary cities and now it’s, yes it is, sanctuary states.  What IS the world coming to?  And now someone in California, no I won’t mention his name, wants to sue the United States because our government plans to build a wall between California and Mexico.  Is this guy nuts or what?  What I would like to know is, did the State of California, or the powers that be in Sacramento, ever ask ALL of the people of California if this is what THEY want?

The word sanctuary generally refers to a place where an individual may seek refuge in order to escape those forces that wish to do them harm. Today the word applies to a city or community, and now a state, where they choose to ignore the laws of the Federal government that apply to immigration because they feel that those laws may discriminate against the residents of their jurisdiction or they may be unconstitutional.  It was always my understanding that the fifty states of the United States can make up their own laws provided that those laws do not contradict the laws of the United States.  When the Federal government passes a law it does so with the majority approval of the States or their elected representatives, not just a few.  Didn’t we have a war about that subject some 150 years ago?  I think it was all about ‘states rights’ and it was called “The Civil War”.  Weren’t there a lot of books written about it?

WHAT DO THEY EVER TEACH IN SCHOOL THESE DAYS.

I cross paths with a lot of people and if they don’t talk to me, I talk to them and in doing so I have found that so many of them, not you, but all of the others, are so totally and completely ignorant when it comes to history.  What kind of history?  Any kind.  Whether it be American History, European History or World History, the lack of any semblance of knowledge is incredible.  When it comes to the subject of WWII, it is even worse.

Now some idiot politician, it usually is a politician, says the plight of the Muslim immigrants is the same today as that of the Jews during WWII trying to escape the Nazis by coming to America.  If that politician knew anything about history he would never have made such an uninformed statement.  In the case of the Muslims they are of course in the midst of a war zone and have good reason to flee but they never had to face the automatic as well as systematic annihilation that the Jews faced at the hands of the Nazis.

Furthermore, when those persecuted Jews made it to our shores, they embraced our country and all that it stands for and did everything possible to be assimilated and be part of our country and not try to turn it into a shit hole like the country from whence they came.  To become a citizen was one of the proudest days of their life.  When you stop to think about it aren’t the radical Muslims no different than the Nazis when they want to exterminate all of the Jews?

ANTIFA.

When I first heard of that word I had no idea what it meant and so I did the first thing that came to my mind, I Googled it.  The definition was intriguing.  Anti-fascist.  It sounded real good.  But that was before they began to do their thing and showed that in spite of their lofty ideals, they were in fact the same as their predecessors that roamed the streets of Germany some 80 years ago except that back then they wore brown uniforms as opposed to the black uniforms they wear today.  Oh, one other thing.  The Nazis were not afraid to show their faces.  Today they wear black hoods over their heads to hide their identity.

What I would like to know is who or what is funding their antics?  Don’t tell me that these people, who for the most part are unemployed and without any kind of visible support are the truth seeking guardians of humanity that rally from out of apparently nowhere to stand up and fight for the oppressed and downtrodden.  I sincerely doubt it.  So who is telling them what to do as well as paying for the black uniforms with the black hoods that they wear?  Doesn’t that remind you of those other guys with the white uniforms and the white hoods over their faces?

IS THE WORLD GOING NUTS OR IS IT ME.

Whenever I look at the TV screen, turn on my iPad, flip the pages of a magazine or even read the newspaper, yes they still have newspapers, I cannot help but notice the marked increase in violent attacks against just about everyone and especially law enforcement.  All of the crazies seem to be coming out of the woodwork, all at once and all of the time. Or is it just a figment of my imagination?  You think?  I don’t think so.  Some people say that it is only the tip of the iceberg.  If that is so, then we are in big trouble.  Truly.

So what in the world is wrong with all of these nut cases?   Were these the people  that were conceived out of wedlock?  Did these people have unhappy childhoods?  Did their mommies not love them?  Were they habitual bed-wetters?  Were they picked on by bullies or did they bully others?  Whatever.  Or are these criminal acts the result of overly permissive courts of law, smooth or even fast talking lawyers, the demeaning of authority figures, the failure of our educational system or simply the complete and total disregard for what is right?  Unless we do something that will reverse this trend, sooner and not later, these acts of violence inevitably will become the norm.