Citizenship as we understand it, does face harsh implications when one or more of our members act in ways which receive widespread negative attention. One important point which I believe Adam did not mention was that the January 8th shooter had no real ties or motives within the system he terrorized. He was a very unbalanced man who was rejected from enlisting in the U.S Army. This surely made him mad at the U.S but his victims appear to be random and unlinked to his insecurities. To me, this is scary. No matter where in this country you stand: for the better or the worse, young or old, you are in danger. The unstable and dangerous are so few compared to to our moral CITIZENS, however, their capabilities to destruct overpower the actions of those who are good. Unfortunately, I do not believe there is a real remedy to this, only awareness.
On another note, our new mayor is one who speaks his mind. This is a real shock because we are used to "hearing what we want to hear" and not always the truth in politics. Although I am sure now that Governor LePage wished he had rephrased his response; I am happy that he said "kiss my butt"! Personally I do not understand the point of visiting imprisoned colored people on MLK Day. Does this implicate that they are being treated unequally? They are there because they have been convicted of crimes serious enough to yield prison sanctions, just like the people of every other race who are there as well (including whites). The NAACP is now taking advantage of this decision in order to promote controversy within our local government. I wish we could all just realize that we are not going to agree with everything that everyone says, does, or believes, and we should simply focus on our commonalities and try to preserve some peace!
ALSO- I had originally typed this in Word and was not able to paste it to this blog; I had to retype it. Is there a way to enable copy and pasting?
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