Question: WHY?

 

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Every day we fire up our screens and through blurry eyes and a weak warm cup, we view the latest news brief.

The talking heads talk over each other trying to make the events seem urgent, but they can only answer the ‘who’, ‘what’, ‘where’ and ‘when’ with any accuracy. The videos that flood the internet show the authorities and the flashing lights on the multiple cars and military equipped milling about the carnage picking up evidence for the next wave to evaluate and speculate and hypnotize and investigate and analyze and explore and examine and research and probe and study and inspect and inquire and scrutinize in hopes of answering the question ‘why’.

No matter the studies and reports and charts and graphs, there may be no answer to this question.

So, each and every one speculates and comes to a conclusion on their own personal bias and background opinions fed by influencers emphasizing a point-of-view to validate a belief.

Mental health is always a good excuse for a random act of violence or abnormality. With all the categories of behavior not consistent to what is acceptable to the norm, everyone would be rounded up and put in a white jacket with a belt in the back.

Family interactions and school classmates can form hormonal reactions that can be adjusted to introvert or extrovert reactions. Acceptance or rejections can reward or defeat conformity. Rules and laws may define the good and the bad or must be avoided.

If we ever find the answer, then we would not need a faith in an invisible GOD? Would we not come together, singing songs, reading scriptures, preaching pious homilies of good over evil and forgiveness rather than revenge? Why do we continue have wars?

You walk into a room and wonder why? You see a stranger and can’t stop thinking about them and wonder why? You choose the blue shirt instead of the white shirt and wonder why? You read a book or go to a movie or listen to some music then wonder why you wasted your time? You get passed over for a raise and don’t know why? You eat a meal and then feel bloated and wonder why you ate all that stuff?

We question everything. Why is that a rock and that a tree? Why am I attracted to blondes over brunettes? Why did I buy this car over that model? Why did we break up? Why do some die early and others just keep plugging along?

Why ask why?

A person walks into a school or church and opens fire and we question ‘Why’? Even if we thought we had found rational reasoning for the action, does that solve the problem? Not enough security? Why? Too many weapons easily available? Why? Belief in a different spirit or wrong haircut or different language worth such a reaction? Why?

We seem to return to the eternal answer to ‘Why am I here’? All the academic opinionated writings and spiritual teachings and political leanings to the left or right or engrained heritage, there is no suitable answer for all to accept.

To be dropped on this blue marble in space without asking and experience the interactions with other species of this planet until our clock runs out and our being is disposed of in rituals from before time, we do not get the answer of ‘why’.

Why ask?

Racial Profiling

 

After the war of the worlds, life tried to become normal again. Instead of every city being crowded in soldiers and sailors and flags everywhere, houses and families and schools and churches became the focus of the population.

Veterans who could still fit in their uniforms would pin on their jewelry and walk down the street on holidays to the cheers of the bystanders celebrating their heroes, they put it back in the closet and get back to the daily grind of commuting from suburbia to playing golf and cutting the grass on weekends.

Early law enforcement officers looked like every other cowboy except they had a bright shiny silver star pined to their shirt. They had been chosen by the township or community or county to break up bar room brawls, out draw the high noon shootouts and round up the cattle rustlers avoiding a lynching by the ranchers to bring them into the hoosegow, stand before a judge and then be lynched. The urban sheriffs or marshals would wear jackets and slacks with a belt holding a stick and a gun. The hat was a flat cap and a badge finished the costume. Police officers rode a horse and handed out parking tickets, directed traffic and patrolled the neighborhoods in a black and white car with a red light on top. They knew the names of all the postal carriers, newspaper delivery boys, milk delivery drivers and even your dog. As population grew and criminal became cleverer, the brown uniforms changed to black as more authoritarian. SWAT teams were formed with more military weapons and transportation. Bulletproof vest were worn carrying technical gear of radios, flash lights, wireless radios, a tazer, anti-personnel spray and a body cam. The 6-shot revolver was replaced with a more powerful Glock pistol and fast reloads cartridges and military quality AR-15 rifles. Helmets replaced caps and shields were used for crowd control. On the backs are large letters verifying their agency like POLICE, SECRET SERVICE, FBI, CIA, SWAT, STATE TROOPER, DEA, ATF, SHERIFF, RANGER, HIGHWAY PATROL… The difference between law enforcement and the military is the camouflage uniforms.

The long blue line have been trained to stand shoulder to shoulder with restraint while their neighbors get in their face spiting vile accusations until the temperatures turn down or all hell breaks out.

I’ve had a few run-ins with the law. Although I look shaggy, I was taught to be polite and give respect to the man with the badge and carrying a gun. I paid my fines, then stood before a judge who came up with a solution to my life of crime avoiding the numbers on the side of the road.

With that said…

The new administration has come out swinging. Under a presidential decree under a vague Emergency Homeland Security act, the current president has vowed to round up all the invaders who are gang members, drug dealers, mentally deficient, released prisoners, sex offenders, and the worst-of-the-worst and kick them out of the country. The courts are trying to keep up with the legality of this process without due process.

Most towns and communities know there are certain areas to avoid. Depending on the reason for redlining these reservations were formed to keep the undesirable apart from the general public and are highly patrolled by law enforcement.

Everyone has their own opinions on who is not suitable for neighborhoods. Someone may dress threatening or act unusual or become loud and annoying or other behavior that draws attention that does not fit in with the standards of the population.

I try to keep up with the news, but avoid many of the camera phone videos not knowing the start or the finish. Yet the news media are covered with this immigration deportation agenda featuring videos of unmarked black SUV convoys releasing face covered black uniform federal agents backed up by the national guard pulling people into the cars and driving off. There does not seem to be a crime scene or any warrants for arrest?

Detention is to be temporarily held or stopped by law enforcement to investigate a possible crime or wrongdoing. Unlike an arrest, a detention is brief and based on reasonable suspicion—a legal standard requiring specific facts to suggest someone is involved in illegal activity. The goal is to either confirm or dispel these suspicions.

In school, detention was to punish a student who had acted up and held after the end of school missing the football game or hanging out with friends or missing the school bus. It was basically a study hall without scolding or additional teaching. If unacceptable behavior continued, the student is expelled.

The videos of the immigrant detentions seemed to be based on ‘racial profiling’. Anyone who looks like Cisco or hanging out in groups looking for day labor or not speaking an acceptable language can be detained without arrest or charges. The rational is the detainees are held under the suspicion of committing a crime of migrating into this country without going through proper procedures.

Detention centers, that are neither dormitories nor holiday camps, are constructed to hold for questioning before deportation.

After all the immigrants are exterminated, who will be next? The homeless who the National Guard is dismantling there open air encampments and told to move on. Perhaps when the detention centers are empty, the homeless can be moved there? What about other ethnic groups that does not assimilate into the Anglo-American preference? Sexual deviations from the birthright gender assignment could be next? Faith beliefs that do not conform to the Christian persuasion may be on the radar for removal? The threat of people of color has never been resolved by the White Supremacy.

Those who do not agree with the direction of these executive orders could be targeted by the patriotic political loyalist and eliminated from the voting pool.

Have you been to the zoo?

Here are animals that have been detained from their migration on the savanna and shipped (deported) to detention centers all over the world for public display. Their only crime may have been crossing borders without a visa. The alternative would be execution with your head mounted on a wall as a trophy.