And The Flames Get Stoked....Some More

Our World has been twisted up on it's ear for the past few weeks. The Religion of Peace is taking the heads of children and their families in Iraq, just because they refuse to convert to Islam. Hamas has a death wish for the people who cower under their boots, by picking a fight with Israel. Our Border is under siege by the hordes coming from who knows where, and for what purpose under the smoke screen of un-accompanied children flooding in from Central and South American countries. The Texas Governor, Rick Perry, turned himself in to be booked in on two trumped up felony charges for doing his job and upholding the Texas Constitution. As if that is not enough, Missouri is engulfed in a week long race riot over the shooting of an unarmed 18 year old man. I am sitting here with a whirlwind of opinions swirling around my head on everyone of these topics, but I am going to start out with the riots in Misery.

I am not going to focus a whole lot of attention on the details of the shooting other than to say that I believe that the policeman involved was justified in his actions. As the details come trickling out about what happened, we see that the young man that was killed was not an innocent choir boy as many in the black community and the liberal media would have us believe. Did he deserve to be killed for the strong armed robbery that he had committed just a short time before meeting his Maker? Absolutely and unequivocally not, and that was not what landed him on the coroners slab. He was killed because he was a thug, short and sweet.

There seems to be a whole lot of thuganomics being practiced these days and more than not, they are being practiced in the streets of our Black Communities. Why this is, I cannot say but it has been a growing phenomena that plays out daily on our television screens. Now, I know that it appears and maybe it's true, that the police in America spend a lot of time focusing on young black men in our cities. I cannot say for a fact that it is a systemic hatred of blacks that fuels the uptick of stops and arrests in our black communities. I would hope that it is something like that, because there could be a way to stop it from happening through a crackdown on bad cops. However, it appears to me that the focus on young black males is so hot because they tend to be the ones who, more often than not, are practicing thuganomics in those areas.

Believe it or not, I was once a young white punk. I had my run ins with those of the blue persuasion, but I learned pretty fast that they really wanted to put me in the klink just for doing stupid stuff. So what did I do about it? Well, I stopped doing stupid stuff. It wasn't too terribly hard to do. I was never tossed for having weed in my pocket, not because I was white but because I was smart enough to know that if I were to be caught with it in my pocket I just might go to jail. It never once crossed my mind to jump in through the window of a cop's car and try to take his gun away, that would just be complete stupidity... and the only thing dumber than that would be to charge the man after he gets out of his car and can put a line on me. Yeah, even I was smart enough to figure out that a dumb move like that would get you shot, at the least and more than likely killed, since they are trained to take an aggressor completely out.

Life is not so hard, even dumb punks like me could figure out how to stay alive and out of jail, just don't do stupid stuff. I don't want to see anyone killed by the police, that is a terrible thing for your family and friends to have to deal with. You don't have to be a thug, it's just a ticket on the short ride to the big house or the slab. Your mom and them are going to be splattered all over the TV crying about how good of a boy you really were... and I'm sure you were a good boy at one time but while you are laid out on the slab, you are just a thug who lost a stupid game. It just ain't worth it!

... and that's my two pennies for tonight.