Penn
02-21-2014, 08:06
Last evening, I lost a loyal client, someone who lives within walking distance of the restaurant. She is sophisticated, highly accomplished, articulate, middle aged, and has wrap herself in a new social cause, that for all intent and purpose, will begin redefining her and the political landscape in America. She wants to form a community movement to repeal the second amendment, or radically change it, and that is quite a departure for her, and how gun control, in general, has been discussed in public.
Gun control, at least in my world, has been argued in private, among friends or people in private, not in public space outside a political forum. The argument, mostly centered on state issues and to challenges before the SOTUS interpreting 2nd amendment diction.
While we can sit back with some comfort that amendments require the approval of 38 state legislatures, let us not forget that the voting act social movement to change age eligibility to 18, occurred in 3 months and 8 days.
Considering the last six amendments (1947-2002) to the Constitution, or 26% of all amendments, occurred in less than 4 years, or one election cycle. Save the last, the 27th, which took 202.7 years, public opinion is not that complex an issue with regard to money and marketing.
That said, in the past week Bloomberg, Ted Turner, CNN, and MSN have begun the campaign to change public opinion. It truly disturbs me as I witnessed firsthand, the explosive emotional buttons these forces are unleashing.
The issue is not just guns, though the above are leading the charge that it is just guns, and that all of the most harmful societal issues are the result of guns, is the developing campaign framed as a child safety social problem to attack the 2nd Amendment by the ruling elite.
The ruling class purpose is nothing more than a tactic to distract the mob, the voting public, from the real issues perpetuating racial inequality, access to education, and quality of life. Issue which always address power.
The issue is not their failure in addressing these malignant social issues, or inability, it’s the conscious resolve to preserve the inequality, preserving the issues in order to divide the public and remain in power, by creating a continual set of competing needs among groups for limited resources.
The spirit of the Arab Spring isn’t confined to a geo-ethnic setting. The uprising was able to root, organize, and has continued, tracks to the evolution in communication. The mainly Illiterate populace connects readily, the information age has revealed all forms of tyrants. Be they kings, dictators, or elected officials. Who knowingly fear an informed educated public, and in our nation, long ago turned their attention to monitoring our communications and begun the process of disarming the public is no longer a question of why.
Failure to recognize and act against this modern march to a totalitarian state is inexcusable.
Passive action and resistance to looming social controls will not work, nor will membership campaigns to recruit a march on Washington, the problem is not a Civil Rights Movement, contingent upon our cultural emphasis on civil rights, it’s a fundamental rights issue, as divisive as slavery, and like that great dividing issue, will have to be fought for to remain free men.
Gun control, at least in my world, has been argued in private, among friends or people in private, not in public space outside a political forum. The argument, mostly centered on state issues and to challenges before the SOTUS interpreting 2nd amendment diction.
While we can sit back with some comfort that amendments require the approval of 38 state legislatures, let us not forget that the voting act social movement to change age eligibility to 18, occurred in 3 months and 8 days.
Considering the last six amendments (1947-2002) to the Constitution, or 26% of all amendments, occurred in less than 4 years, or one election cycle. Save the last, the 27th, which took 202.7 years, public opinion is not that complex an issue with regard to money and marketing.
That said, in the past week Bloomberg, Ted Turner, CNN, and MSN have begun the campaign to change public opinion. It truly disturbs me as I witnessed firsthand, the explosive emotional buttons these forces are unleashing.
The issue is not just guns, though the above are leading the charge that it is just guns, and that all of the most harmful societal issues are the result of guns, is the developing campaign framed as a child safety social problem to attack the 2nd Amendment by the ruling elite.
The ruling class purpose is nothing more than a tactic to distract the mob, the voting public, from the real issues perpetuating racial inequality, access to education, and quality of life. Issue which always address power.
The issue is not their failure in addressing these malignant social issues, or inability, it’s the conscious resolve to preserve the inequality, preserving the issues in order to divide the public and remain in power, by creating a continual set of competing needs among groups for limited resources.
The spirit of the Arab Spring isn’t confined to a geo-ethnic setting. The uprising was able to root, organize, and has continued, tracks to the evolution in communication. The mainly Illiterate populace connects readily, the information age has revealed all forms of tyrants. Be they kings, dictators, or elected officials. Who knowingly fear an informed educated public, and in our nation, long ago turned their attention to monitoring our communications and begun the process of disarming the public is no longer a question of why.
Failure to recognize and act against this modern march to a totalitarian state is inexcusable.
Passive action and resistance to looming social controls will not work, nor will membership campaigns to recruit a march on Washington, the problem is not a Civil Rights Movement, contingent upon our cultural emphasis on civil rights, it’s a fundamental rights issue, as divisive as slavery, and like that great dividing issue, will have to be fought for to remain free men.