DO YOU REMEMBER (c)Ron Burres

DO YOU REMEMBER

Ron Burres 5/27/2010

DO YOU REMEMBER

FROM HIS WHEEL CHAIR 

HE SPOKE

DO YOU REMEMBER HOW HARD WE FOUGHT

DO YOU REMEMBER WHY

DO YOU REMEMBER THE RIGHTS WE SOUGHT

WHEN WE WENT TO DIE

IT WASN’T JUST ABOUT OUR PRIDE

ALTHOUGH WE HAD THAT TOO

WE CHOSE TO GO AND JOIN THE FIGHT

BRINGING  JUSTICE TO OUR CAUSE 

TO ENSURE A HERITAGE JUST FOR YOU

EVEN THOUGH FREEDOM IS A RIGHT

IT IS SELDOM GIVEN FREE

GOD BLESS THE SOULS THAT GAVE THEIR LIVES

FOR STRANGERS LIKE YOU AND ME

ALWAYS REMEMBER WHY

COLOR ME HUMAN (C) RonBurres

I SEE A LOT OF THEM IN THE NEWS

AND ON THE TV

THEY JUST DON’T SEEM TO SEE THINGS

THE SAME AS ME

THEY SEE HATRED AND ANGER WHERE EVER THEY LOOK

WHEN I LOOK OUT AT THE WORLD

THIS IS WHAT I SEE

I SEE CHILDREN SINGING WITH JOY IN THEIR VOICE

I SEE PARENTS LOVING GIVING LIFE AS THEIR CHOICE

I SEE BLINDNESS OF COLOR IN THE MAKING OF MAN

I SEE SAMENESS IN ALL

JUST THE ONE RACE

HUMAN

FIRE, FIRE

FIRE, FIRE

Once again I almost lost my television.  Luckily I can’t throw my shoe hard enough to cause any real destruction. 

This is unlike the real danger of hurling the wrong words at the wrong time.  Surely we have freedom of speech in our country, but it is not to be unrestrained.  Hollering “FIRE” in a crowded public venue just to get a reaction is deemed criminal.   So what about all the unrestrained hateful, spiteful and unchecked vocalizations that are being hurled into  our USA society today?

Years ago, far in the past times an old-timer can still remember, a very famous bear jumped in to try and stop fires that were occurring across our beautiful part of the North American Continent. No one knows how many tragedies were stopped by this icon “SMOKEY THE BEAR”.  The important thing is someone was smart enough to examine all the things that contributed to setting fires in the first place, then someone else working together with smart guy #1 found a way to present things that we as a society had to do in order to prevent forest fires.  They discovered by presenting their findings in a simple form all could understand, they could change behavior throughout our entire population for generations to come.

In our country we are experiencing the power of producing change.  Unfortunately, we have allowed factions within our borders to create a sub-society that strives to overthrow our way of life. While most of our conflicts have been waged from a position of strength and purpose, we have made some mistakes in our growth. Those errors have become the igniting elements that have thrown us into the heightened dangerous tinderbox of today’s American society.  We are a people whose population is divided as those who fought the Revolutionary and the Civil War.

We have come to the point of ridiculousness that requires the same out of the box solution as used to change minds for a good purpose. We need to come together as a people, but unless we defuse arguments and hatreds with facts that are true, rather than just beliefs, I’m not even sure that a “Smokey the Bear” or even a hero such as “Superman” can stop the suicide track our nation has set foot on.

Our three year olds have been on their own when it comes to finding out who and what their heritage is as a national society member, they have been given guidance , not by their parents, but by those who are handed these pliable minds to affect.  The results are in. 

Do you like them?  I don’t.  

Most recently we have seen advocates from all sides hurling their incivility and hatred into the tinderbox of our political social forest and it needs to stop.  As long as our people continue to rely on those propaganda messages that promote a lynch mob mentality and permissive approval, the danger increases.  Instead of looking for the why of any particular circumstance our national “truth purveyors” are more intent on who and what to blame and to make sure whatever is smoldering continues to escalate.  Rich powerful men are not all enemies.   There is fact and there is fiction.  There are lies and there is truth.  There is right and there is wrong.  No man is all good and no man is all bad.  As long as we allow folks to spout off regardless of how far they stretch credulity, how can you be sure what you are preaching and screaming about is valid?

  To act on someone else’s belief system is foolish for an individual and is a storm in the making for social-political outcomes.  When we have politicians provoking people to physical confrontation; entertainers swearing and giving example of physical harm to our politicians; when we have a society that sees the effects of mental instability paired with social media and choose to convict a weapon instead of the provocation, it’s not only wrong, THAT’S TOTALLY IMMORAL! 

We have to start judging pragmatically based on fact and with an honest appraisal of the full effects of what we think will get a real result that is good for our society and for the world.

There are two dogs in every human, one hateful and angry, one loving and helpful.  Be careful of which dog you are feeding and sustainin.

We have to start judging pragmatically based on fact and with an honest appraisal of the full effects of what we think will get a real result that is good for our society and for the world.

Pray for a world that respects God and country, and a world that works toward the betterment of the person next to him, and for those a world away.

The important thing is LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.

And please Lord ……………send us a Smokey.

PERMISSION IMPLIED

Sometimes I wonder at what point in time did our world flip on it axis.

I remember when the adults in our society were shocked and outraged by cyber-bullying, children being cruel and abusive to other children because of some trait or lack thereof.  I remember the campaigns and the assault on the act of bullying.  It’s no wonder that we see such rudeness, and actual hateful things taking place in our society today.  We have taught our children to act out, not in our best example, but in our worst. People will most generally act in ways that make them more acceptable to the herd and they are more likely to act in accordance with what they see rather than what they are told.

When we see the pictures, on our televisions of so called sports heroes, comedians, and stars using crude hateful ugly gestures and language in attacking people and ideas they disagree with, permission is being granted to our children, our society in training, to act in a similar way.  We are negating the importance of civility and denying the importance of exchanging ideas. 

When did it become ok to threaten our public servants, our law enforcement, and our leaders with physical harm?  When did it become ok to attack our politician’s families with crudeness, smearing them with the same ugliness and hatred as we are attacking the politician him or herself.  The attacks on our current Presidents family members goes way past any form of hatred seen in our country before.  You might ask yourself if you are going to be part of the rotting disintegration of our society, our country or are you going to be part of stopping the growth of the cancer of hatred.  You might also ask yourself if your hatreds and your biases are based factually or just emotionally.  You may honestly feel one way or another but did you arrive to that point through the avenue of truth of by the path of propaganda.

We are currently in a heated discussion regarding the separation of children and parents on our southern borders, and because of the extreme animus toward our President, and anyone or any idea connected to him, to many he is the cause and root of all our ill behavior.  Many say he is putting these children and their parents through unnecessary pain and mental anguish that the children from which they never recover. 

Just a thought here folks…

Our national public and loud ranting of obscenities toward conservative thought and actions, (or lack thereof) is giving approval for a real and actual danger to those children.  We refuse to agree on measures that will prevent this from happening.  We continue to send mixed messages to the sources of all these children and well-meaning parents.  We are a nation of law as a point of record, but in terms of example we have decided that is not a good thing.  In doing so we are giving permission to murder our law enforcement personnel, permission to our news media to spread rumor and innuendo to seek the higher good, and more importantly we are giving those who traffic in child abuse the ammunition they require to charge parents dollars to bring those children into the USA.  The simple cure would be for congress, all members, to come to a consensus on law that would correct our broken immigration laws that have gotten us into this mess.  Donald Trump did not create this problem but he has set himself up to be a major scapegoat in the narrative.  Our current incivility is granting permission for criminal activity and is putting money into the hands of the cartels at the expense of families, children and our own country. 

This is happening because we are giving them permission.  We have not secured our borders, we have not upheld laws that are on our books, and we have not given any indication that we care about correcting the problem.

To complain while showing our worst instead of solutions is allowing ignorance to dictate the direction of our society.

GOD BLESS OUR PEOPLE, OUR COUNTRY AND GUIDE US LORD

USA BAD, BAD DOGGIE

USA   "BAD, BAD, DOGGIE

Racism, bigotry and prejudice are all part of the mantra behind the current display of anti-American discourse in the kneeling protest movement occurring in what used to be the NFL and is moving into the NBA.  It’s not like our society hasn’t been hammered these last few years, with the narrative that our country is bad to the bone.  The phrase “dog whistle” is predominantly used as a slur used to describe conservative speech but almost never recognized in the march of liberal, progressive demonstrations. 

Race baiting has almost reached the level of being an acceptable means of gaining income and relevance.  In order to sway public sentiment and gain political power, using the shout of victimization due to color is an acceptable part of our society.  Justification for this claim is not without validity. When the history of our country is looked at in the long term, the propaganda used to promote the ideology pitting color against color, advantage vs. victimization is the loudest bark on our planet.   

We all translate our environment through the veil of our individual belief systems, and because of this our responses can be manipulated by feeding our beliefs with false information. Fear is one of the most basic motivators and is also the most easily manipulated by rumor and outright falsehood.  There is a reason that the tablets presented to Moses on that mountain included the commandment Thou shalt not bear false witness.” (http://arbeeresponds2.blogspot.com/2016/11/force-fed-fear.html)  

The “take a knee” demonstrations are a direct result of the actions of such groups as the “Black Lives Matter”, “Antifa” and those promoted on various websites that help organize demonstrations designed to weaken our cohesive society.  The basis for these promotions are not altruistic nearly so much as they are part of the decades old battle between our free national concepts and socialistic and communistic ideologies.  Typical partial truths mixed with complete fabrications are the weapons of choice in the longest continual war endured by our country.  The technique of dividing the herd into smaller, weaker groups and spreading the fear of victimhood has spread across our nation thanks to groups like the Soros funded “Move on dot org”.  

I am fully aware of the sins of our fathers in regards to slavery, racial inequality and outright heinous forms of hate filled activity against our brothers of color.  I have to be honest in my assessment of the differences between then and now.  We are not the same society that incited the War fought against slavery and the American lives lost, primarily in the “white” populace.  We are not the society that segregates our people into the factions of “white privilege” and victimized “oppressed” colored citizens. The narrative that has been promoted regarding law enforcement, broad brushed, has appealed to those who have learned that being Black in our country is a condition with no real hope.  Race baiting politicians have helped to promote the idea that law enforcement is infected with bigoted, racists who set out to arrest and/or kill those of the colored community.  This belief has spread and has been used by the BLM movement which in turn has put a target on all of law enforcement.  That belief has no more validity than the beliefs that deny the HOPE that our country and our federal republic was founded on.  Blame narrative has put the plight and the blight of many neighborhoods as the result of white oppression when in fact the actual blame spreads across privileged and “victimized” all. 

Societies are living breathing organisms. If a large enough number of individual cells become infected, the entire organism suffers.  Our country is in great distress infected by divisive that divide this once united population.  A society that is divided by the narrative denying the move away from segregation in our country, denying our majority desire to be a cohesive mutually respectful society, becomes an easy prey for predators. The individual person is defined by what they believe and how they act in accordance with their belief systems.  Our society is the same with one exception and that is that the society is reactionary to the loudest noise and in some cases the most physically threatening groups, believed or not.

In the recent history of our society we have watched, mostly in silent apathy, the loss of many things we once wound our individual threads into a rope of strength.  Through the activity of social engineering we have suffered through attacks on Christian values and traditional moral and ethical constraints.  We have been a society sitting, as a whole, allowing our educational system to change us into a flock of sheep that no longer hold our country in esteem.  The push to remove staples of our society such as the “Pledge of Allegiance”, standing for our national anthem, the right of the individual to pray or even mention God.  The list goes on and on.  We are rapidly becoming a group of individual victims of circumstance, people who have to accept a position of not having any hope.  Instead of accepting any bit of self-reliance or responsibility. We no longer allow competition, score keeping, grading systems, free speech, as we rapidly move toward the infection of sameness.  Misinterpreting individual rights into the mantra “I deserve everything you have, regardless of my abilities and my effort to achieve” and if I don’t get the same things I am a victim. 

A note to the kneeling NFL and NBA millionaires:  What are you doing to help?  Are you a positive part of the answers to correct the poverty, the drug use and sales, the loss of business, the poor educational services, the indoctrinated hatreds and mistrust, the lack of hope and the vision of success.  Perhaps your present act of dissent is more detrimental than helpful.

PRAY FOR OUR COUNTRY.. GO TO YOUR KNEES IN PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION.. LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.

You might take the time to check out your belief system.

http://library.mtsu.edu/tps/Soldier_Lives.pdf ; https://youtu.be/lxaKUo5naoY   

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxaKUo5naoY 

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=3d2_1451242991#XIfETKQXKv1Qgfwl.99   http://www.slamjamwbc.org/

http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/airline-couldnt-help-sick-child-so-donald-trump-came-to-the-rescue/

JUST A THOUGHT NFL (Seahawks)

My humble response to the players of the Seattle Seahawks:

I fully understand that racial tensions have been a problem in our country but what I don’t get is why you blame our country for the fault of a dwindling few in our society.  You show disdain and total disrespect for our flag, our anthem and the history of progress our society has made toward inclusivity.  You talk about being committed to working toward equality and justice for all, but as a group your efforts toward helping the factual problems are for the most part extremely minute.

When we, the fans, see you guys who are or should be heroes to our children acting out of ignorance due to race baiting and propaganda and disrespecting our country, our sentiment is shame on you.  Your obvious approval of groups such as BLM, Antifa is pretty evident but I implore you to look at the facts and the falsehoods promoted by these groups.

Our country is under attack physically and mentally by the actions of the terrorists.  Those terrorists, many of them have a “hatred” toward people of different races and creeds, it has been taught to them by parents immersed in an ideology. The same is true of most who hold on to the angers of the past without giving credence to the efforts made toward unification of a society.  Do we really want to wallow in the inequities of the past?  Do we really want to maintain the falsehood that our country’s people are bigoted and a bunch of racists who are out to hurt people of color?  How do you maintain that those under the wings of our country’s symbol, under the waving furls of our flag, those of every color, creed and race who have fought and died for our freedoms are deserving of your disrespect.

I am curious as to what the injustices are that cause you to protest and infect our country as a whole.  I am curious as to what percentage of police and first responders you think don’t care about people of color and don’t or would not risk their lives to help folks of another color or creed.  I am curious as to how many of the NFL elite are actually doing anything positive to create better environments and helping to elevate the opportunities in neighborhoods that are self-destructing.  If you want to protest, fine, but do your part to lift your fellow man into a place of equal opportunity, equal education and an attitude that shows the availability of success in our country.  Telling our young people that they are victims who are looked down upon and racially down-trodden due to their color is as much of a lie as believing that all police want to shoot black and brown, as believing that it’s permissible to kill cops and whites, and the belief that young people of color have less opportunity in our country than those who chose to be white. There is a lot of racism in our country being taught to our children, but it’s not all white against black or brown.  There is a disparity in our educational system but it’s not because whites are trying to hurt people of color.

My points are these: if you honestly want to change things, look for all the truth and disregard talking points; teach folks how to look for points of commonality as well as those that differentiate; stop teaching young people that they will be subjects of hatred and mistrust; understand that positive change is not brought about in the absence of hope; help people understand that neighborhoods that are filled with crime and violence will not improve without a concerted effort of investment.  NFL do something positive!  NFL players for the most part have received opportunities to be educated.  I suggest you help others to enjoy and to improve their world.  That is not accomplished by exemplifying fear and distrust.

If you support groups like BLM, Antifa etc. ask yourself if all that anger and if the causes for all those riots, looting and burning are based on fact or fiction.  Narratives starting with Trayvon Martin, who was depicted pictorially as such an innocent looking 12 year old youth.. (wasn’t). Regarding slavery, less than 1-1/2 % of U.S. citizens were ever slave owners.  Fact is almost all shootings at the hands of police involve a failure to co-operate with  law enforcement requests……………

If you want to change our country, dispensing disrespect and hatred will not be the answer.  If you want better results, be a better team… same with our country!

God Bless our country, our people, and our warriors.

RESPONDING TO SEN. FEINSTEIN re: United

Dear Senator Feinstein,

I can understand you opposing our President, and your party’s intent to state disdain over anything President says or does.  I do not understand your reluctance to change path on the N. Korea situation.

Today our President spoke before the United Nations Assembly and made it abundantly clear that the patty-cake policies that have been used to curtail N. Korea’s march of insanity are no longer going to be in use.  President Trump’s unmistakable straight talk regarding N. Korea should not have any false reading on what was said.  That fact, I hope, is easier understood in N. Korea than can be understood by one vested in politics as usual.

Senator, for you to detract from the President’s statement with your purely political complaining is beneath you and your office.  You have been privy to the lame policies that have allowed N. Korea the freedom to increase its nuclear capabilities.  As a private citizen of the independent thinking part of our society, I would like to make you aware of how sick and tired I am of you and your comrades in arms thinking of re-elections rather than the safety and welfare of the lowly little citizens for whom you were supposed to be working for.  You have had decades to prevent the precarious position our country is in at this time in history, but you still have the guts to complain about someone who is standing up to the blackmailing regime that endangers the entire world.  You should be ashamed of yourself.

RonBurres