Oh, the wailing, weeping, and gnashing of teeth over last week's killings at Fort Hood!—a tragic instance of what Americans call an "isolated" event that happens almost daily. America is a killing field! It has been for a very long time. Historically, the oppressed have killed their oppressors. In America the oppressed kill each other. American politicians claim that America is the free-world's leader. But what other country would want to follow America down this road? (Perhaps the stupid British from whom we acquired the roots of this vulture—oops!, culture.) It is noteworthy that since 1789, approximately 70 nations have become democratic, but not a single one has copied the American model. Whom are we leading where? Perhaps only ourselves to perdition. by John Kozy
(liberal)
Tuesday, November 10, 2009
Oh, the wailing, weeping, and gnashing of teeth over last week's killings at Fort Hood!—a tragic instance of what Americans call an "isolated" event that happens almost daily.
The very next day, Jason Rodriguez walked into an office building in Florida, killed one and wounded several.
Gunfire erupted inside a bar near the ski town of Vail, CO Saturday night, leaving one man dead and three others wounded.
In Cleveland, TX, authorities called to check a rural southeast Texas home found the bodies of four people who had been shot to death.
A British tourist, Thomas Reeve, 28, was killed when a man entered a bar in Amarillo, TX, and opened fire.
More than ten bodies have been found in the home of a rapist in Cleveland, OH.
Authorities in Reading, PA say a Maryland man is dead after a weekend shooting at an illegal bar that also injured six people.
Three people including a young child are dead and six were injured in a drive-by shooting in Walterboro, SC.
A son of Washington state's lieutenant governor has been wounded in a workplace shooting in Kent, WA.
All of these "isolated" incidents took place in less than a week. America is a killing field! It has been for a very long time. "Killeen, TX, in 1991 is watching a replay of the spotlight shone on it when a man entered a cafeteria and fatally shot 22 diners."
In America, children kill children (Columbine), children kill their parents, parents kill their children and each other, strangers kidnap and kill children, strangers kill strangers , agents of the government kill citizens (Kent State, Waco), college students kill fellow students (VA Tech), former employees kill those they worked with, anti-abortionists kill abortionists, police called upon to help the mentally ill and otherwise challenged often end up killing them, soldiers often kill fellow soldiers and civilians. Nothing about any of this is unusual. It happens every day. If John Dos Passos were alive today, he would be reissuing U.S.A. in multiple volumes!
So why all the wailing about the shootings at Fort Hood? Perhaps it's the fact that an officer killed enlisted men? That's unusual; it's usually the other way around. Perhaps it's the shooter's name and religion? Is the hoopla all about drumming up anti-Islamic attitudes? Is it part of the war on Islam? Oh, sorry, the war on terror?
I don't know the answer, but I do know that there is nothing unusual about this event. Americans are driven to killing. We are entertained by it in movies and on television. Our children are enticed into playing killing computer-games. And we are often stressed to the breaking point. The lawyer for the shooter in the Orlando office attack has said, "This guy is a compilation of the front page of the entire year—unemployment, foreclosure, bankruptcy, divorce—all of the stresses. It looks like a classic case of stress overload." America is filled with well-armed people who are led to react like cornered animals.
These events are not surprising. What is surprising is who gets killed. While with a group of colleagues on break some time ago, someone said, "Americans kill a lot of people. Unfortunately they kill the wrong ones." Historically, the oppressed have killed their oppressors—the French in the French Revolution, the Russians in the Revolution of 1917, the Irish Republican Army in Northern Ireland, the Bader-Manheim gang in Germany, the Red Brigade in Japan, the Tamils of Sri Lanka, the Moslem fighters killing NATO forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, and now Pakistan, the Moro Islamic Liberation Front in the Philippines . But not in America, at least not yet. In America the oppressed kill each other. Strange! How long will it last?
American politicians claim that America is the free-world's leader. But what other country would want to follow America down this road? (Perhaps the stupid British from whom we acquired the roots of this vulture—oops!, culture.) It is noteworthy that since 1789, approximately 70 nations have become democratic, but not a single one has copied the American model. Whom are we leading where? Perhaps only ourselves to perdition.
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Bravo, I was hoping someone would finally bring to light at American citizen's ignorance yet again. Though this is nothing new I am glad that you took the time to write a great article. For now the human race as a whole is having a big issue with everything going on, and in the background the effort of delusion vs. reality is still questionable in most americans lives. How are we suppose to know the difference if we are programmed to not educate ourselves?
If people remember what personal responsibility is, maybe just maybe the evolution in the human race will take place. But if we continue to allow people in our own government persuade us in believing anything they say. Yet, we still vote for them instead of any other candidate out there. Why is that?
Possibly because most of us are worried about our own lives too much to take the time out and go do something about the country. Guess we are all just too broke and stupid to do anything.  Its pretty sad that the majority of americans really believe that we are doing something good right now as a nation, and as a race.
At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols.
Why all the wailing? Because deep down we know we are our own worst enemies. We are so politically correct that we fail to investigate and then experience a great loss of life.
We are so afraid to take responsibility for ourselves that we delude ourselves to believe that if we disarm the public, that it will include those bent on destruction. Is it a surprise to you that yet again a horrible attack takes place in yet another "gun-free" zone?
Add these 13 dead to Columbine and Virginia Tech. Add Luby's to the total, too. Why are we surprised when predators strike in these areas? Is it because we want so much to believe in the goodness of our neighbor?
America needs to face up to the real threats surrounding them everyday. Even if you bury your heads in the sand, your head can still be cut off at the neck.
Isn't it time we begin to teach everyone that their first line of defense is themselves? That they are the ones best prepared to look out for their own best interests?
And isn't it time that those that are trained to protect and defend are allowed to do so at all times? How many more lives must be lost to "gun-free" zones?
These thirteen people were more than likely well prepared to defend themselves, if they had only been armed. But they were not. And the murderer knew that before he fired the first round.
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