Thank God there are still some sane people left in this world. The verdict on the Kyle Rittenhouse trial is in; not guilty on all counts. I don't know how anyone in their right mind could have found any differently. I consider this a turning point in the fight of ordinary citizens to lawfully bear arms and to defend themselves and other against the forces of evil, especially racism.

WORD POLICE

 I get my news mostly from the local paper (Lincoln JournalStar) online version. Some time back, people had the opportunity to comment on their articles and editorials and to reply to others' comments. Then, they switched to letting Facebook handle all those comments and replies, which meant you had to have a Facebook account and meet Facebook's policies regarding content. That meant Facebook's employees had the power to decide what was published and what was not. Recently, LJS changed to some other program to handle the comments and replies on their articles. This new program has content policies, but they are not available to the public, so when you send a comment or reply it may be blocked without any reason other than it violates the content policies of the provider. It apparently blocks foul language, which is fine with me, but it also blocks photos and links to other sites that contain no profanity or anything one might consider objectionable in a public forum.

I am no longer going to attempt comments on their site, but I will look at the articles and comments and respond to them here on my site where I have control over what gets published. Two can play that game!

POST ELECTION MADNESS

 Well, here I go again, posting about my feelings on the current situation with no one likely to read a word of it. To me, it's more therapeutic than anything else. It helps me sort through my own thoughts and evaluate them to see if I am still sane, or if I need a mental health checkup.

The election was a toss-up in my mind. I had suspicions that Trump might have won in a landslide, and according to him, he did. Based on numerous online sources of information, which I realize you can't take as the gospel truth, it would seem there was a concerted effort to cheat on this election. It's certainly possible that there was just enough fraudulent voting and/or counting, to give Biden the win. You can all do your own searches, but I've found enough convincing evidence to make me believe there was a coordinated effort to adjust the vote for Biden to win.

Assuming that these sources are phony, which they could be, I am ready to accept Biden as our president. That does not mean I agree to anything he says or does; it just means I'll accept what happens as the will of the people.

Before he has even taken office, he has outlined many of his plans for this country. Instilling systemic racism (which was a myth prior to now) is one of his first tasks. He came right out and said the government, his government, will provide aid and assistance to small businesses struck hard by the pandemic. Not just all small businesses, mind you, but those owned by anyone other than white males. If that isn't systemic racism, what is?

His administration and the democratically controlled Congress are actually boasting about how they are going to drive conservatives into the ground by taking their guns, limiting their speech, and portraying them as the evil in our country.

Fuck 'em. I'll either move or die resisting their bullshit.

 Well, it looks like Biden/Harris are going to come out on top in this election despite numerous accusations of voter fraud and/or counting frauds. Okay. As a plain citizen, there is little if anything I can do about it. I simply have to accept what happens, and I do.

What I don't have to do is accept unconstitutional executive orders by Biden and his cronies regarding many things, but primarily gun ownership and use. Fuck 'em. If they want my guns, let them come and get them. Someone is going to die in the process, and if it's me, I consider it a sacrifice well worth it.

NOT MY AMERICA

 For many years, I watched TV world news, and I saw throngs of people, thousands, maybe millions, in the streets of various countries around the world, chanting, carrying signs, throwing rocks and bottles or whatever they could find, protesting this or that (usually their own government). I thought to myself, "How do these people live? Don't they have to work? How do they feed themselves? Why do they remind me of a chimpanzee attack on a video by Jane Goodall?

I never dreamed these things could happen in my country. Even the civil rights protests of the sixties, or the anti-war protests during the Vietnam conflict, were reasonably civilized. Yes, police used water cannons and dogs and tear gas on occasion, but the crowds themselves were largely peaceful.

Our country has experienced some riots, usually over racism, or the perception of racism, but those were mostly confined to one city where things got out of hand. The controversy over Rodney King's beating by police was significant, but it was still largely a local issue.

Due to the influence and availability of social media over the internet, these events are no longer local in scope. People who never heard of Jacob Blake or George Floyd or several other persons who became the impetus for demonstrations against racial injustice are in the streets supporting people they know little or nothing about other than the color of their skin. The speed at which rumors, inuendos, and accusations can reach the entire country has made the truth irrelevant.

The truth is that most of those whose names are chanted by the mobs were criminal scumbags that were bound to end up in prison or killed by police at some point. The only question is whether or not they deserved to die for the offense for which they were stopped by police, and whether their own actions contributed to their deaths. The answer to the first part of the question is often no, but the answer to the second part of the question is almost always yes.

I just watched a video today of a recent traffic stop. Police pulled over a car full of black men because they were driving at night without any headlights. When approached by the officer, the driver was told to please put his hands on the steering wheel. Then, the officer spotted the butt of a gun near the driver's waist. He said, "If you reach for that gun, you're going to get shot. Is that a gun in your waist band?" The driver immediately made a quick move with both hands toward the gun he was carrying. I can't believe the officer didn't shoot him on the spot, but he refrained, probably for fear his career would be over if he shot this man, even if it was justified. That is the world we live in today. As it turned out, police recovered three stolen guns from the car and arrested two of the passengers who admitted "owning" them.

I'm using this post to warn anyone reading that there is going to be a civil war in this country soon. It may have already started, but it will definitely start as soon as the election is over no matter who wins. Get yourselves some guns, some ammunition, stocks for survival when the whole fucking system crashes, and start learning about how to grow food, purify water, create a shelter with tools and materials available, because life as we've known it is over come November fourth, 2020.