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Originally Posted by Boomer
We are all human beings.
This whole mess is making me beyond sick and it is being used to collapse what we know as a democracy.
The violence and destruction out there is vile and is to be condemned, not encouraged for ulterior motives as is happening right under our noses.
Remember this? (Some 8th grade teacher might have made you memorize it):
. . ."our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure."
Years before Lincoln gave that speech, Ben Franklin said, "We have given you a republic -- if you can keep it."
(Haunting words -- here we are.)
Do not categorize me so you can dismiss me. Please read on:
In my family there are two police officers, both women. One is my age so she is retired. She was the first female officer in her city so she often had to face down the territory that came with that. The other one is young. I respect and admire her -- and I worry about about her. I think police work is often a calling -- like it is for truly dedicated teachers and nurses. But I have to wonder how long it will be before we have very few who will want to answer any of those callings.
Our country is starting to look like Oceania, the country in Orwell's dystopian novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. In the book the government made sure the Proles were saturated with violence, brought to them on screens, to keep them in a constant state of anger and fear in order to control and rule over them.
And now, in real life, not a novel -- the times -- they are Orwellian.
Boomer
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I am 81 years old, fought for my country, and as news developed the last 24 hours and became legit, I literally had tears in my eyes.
You are correct with your book comparison.
Sleeping will be difficult tonight. No control any more