More On The “R” Word; or, Excuse me, sir? Would you please not pee on my Rhododendron?
Posted in Liberty's Voice by R Lee Wrights on February 28th, 2007 by Della Croft
Ahhhh yes, August. The air thick with the aroma of propane and charcoal, and a proliferation of county fairs, festivals, and carnivals as we celebrate the last hurrah of summer.
Not to be outdone, the city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania hosts its annual gathering of music, food, and goodwill - Musikfest. Local and national talents alike, flock to entertain the indigenous and bused in masses. No matter your taste in music, you will find it here. Wandering from one tent to another, you can hear everything from classical to alternative and anything in between. You are free to indulge your ears as well as your taste buds in a plethora of sounds and tastes. Oh yes, did I forget to mention the beer tent? Joyfully dancing the *Chicken Dance, we in Bethlehem, show the world how to get down.
Daily, busloads of visitors, their faces full of excitement, arrive to partake of this feast of the senses. Everywhere you look you see smiling faces, in fact the only frowns you will see are the ones on the faces of the residents within a mile radius of this joyous event. Their quiet little neighborhoods have become battle zones. Forced to stand guard over their property and possessions, the charm of this event has rubbed off. The newspaper’s police report section, which usually takes about an eighth of a page, is now a two-page spread that reads like the Who’s Who of misdemeanors. Everything from drunk and disorderly to urinating in public is represented. By the end of this nine-day extravaganza there is not one tree, hedge, or flowerbed in that one-mile radius that has not been watered by at least one celebrant. The Letters to the Editor section of the newspaper becomes a battlefield of its own. The predominating theme is that the Police department is not doing enough to contain the “enthusiasm” of the celebrants.
The grandmotherly secretary at my day job knew exactly how to foil jetjackers. Everyone packs a photo document embedded with finger and retina prints. At the airport you subject your face, fingers and eyeballs to the digital scanners. If you and your documents don’t match you don’t get on the plane.
I spent the better part of my younger life not caring or involving myself in politics or government. For the most part, I did not even vote, because I felt that no matter what politicians said to get elected, once in office, they will wet their finger, hold it up to the political wind for the day and march off in that direction - even if it goes against their election campaign rhetoric.
“Good intentions will always be pleaded for any assumption of power. The Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.”
Recently in the news was the story of a Utah teenager who shot and killed several people in a shopping mall. Nine people were wounded and five died before the gunman was shot and killed himself. Although this real life and death drama was overshadowed by the larger-than-life and death drama of Anna Nicole Smith in the media, the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence wasn’t about to miss the opportunity to rail yet again against guns.
Let us discuss mind control, propaganda, the effects of television and other media sources spouting lie after lie, and politicians that expose their ignorance and the controls over them by the very fact they spout or do nothing within the confines of the Constitution for the united States of America. Do not be concerned. This contains no technical terms or processes. In fact, any reader can relate back to their experiences and see the manipulation on their minds.
Well, actually she has a lot to do with it. She is the train wreck we have all slowed down to watch since back in the late 80’s when she showed us her outrageous behavior and we accepted it and bought it. Thing is, now we have the blood of a five month old baby on our hands. I kind of think that is why the judge cried today on the bench. As he said, “In the old days, I would have been knocking heads together.”
The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has been on a tear under the administration of Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez.
The State of Missouri is once again claiming that it is losing millions of dollars due to Internet sales. About 261 million dollars in 2001 to be precise. Brent Martin, a reporter for Missouri Net wrote in a recent news brief that, “Even as the state anxiously awaits the sales tax revenue to come in from Christmas sales, it knows it won’t get all it should get. That’s because more and more people are buying things on the Internet and that isn’t good news for State Revenue Director Carol Fischer. And it is robbing tax coffers of needed money.”
The former Speaker of the NC House of Representatives, one of the most powerful positions in state government, is now a convicted felon. 
