'Tis the End of the World as We Know It... And I Feel Fine
… from "It's the End of the World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" by R.E.M.
That's great, it starts with an earthquake
Birds and snakes, an aeroplane
And Lenny Bruce is not afraid
If you're over 30 years old, then you remember to a certain degree where you were and what you were thinking the day that the Towers were struck and eventually fell on September 11th, 2001.
I was still a bit of a youngster, just a little bit over 30 years old, and the day that the Towers fell, the Pentagon was struck and a plane of heroes brought another plane -- aimed for some other American landmark -- down in a field in Pennsylvania. It absolutely changed my view and the view of hundreds of millions of other Americans in an instant. We were no longer in an isolated country, just watching bombs go off on CNN and shaking our heads in disgust and amazement.
A cataclysmic, world-shaking event had happened on our soil, and we were stunned, shocked, angered, dismayed, and quite frankly, never the same.
We have never been close to the same.
We have faked it pretty well; I have faked it pretty well,
Yet, with the beginning of trading away some of our freedoms for non-specific security with the (non) Patriot Act, we have just been fooling ourselves into somehow believing we have some sort of normalcy again.
Think of it this way.
Do you really feel safer on an airplane, when you all have to take your shoes off as a security precaution? How about when every seventh or 10th person, depending on the lottery number picked for the day, gets a random search? This is not done brd on anything concrete about a person of interest, but of purely random selection.
I know I sure don't
… Team by team, reporters baffled, trumped, tethered, cropped
Look at that low plane, fine, then
Uh oh, overflow, population, common group
But it'll do, save yourself, serve yourself
World serves its own needs, listen to your heart bleed
Tell me with the Rapture and the reverent in the right, right
You vitriolic, patriotic, slam fight, bright light
Feeling pretty psyched
Instead of beefing up our ability to make sure that people who have overstayed their welcome in the United States -- like the 19 hijackers did on September 11th -- don't, we now have just swung the southern door open and welcome anybody to come in without even signing the guest book. This is not some sort of odd conspiracy theory; this is a fact that we will need to deal with sooner rather than later.
From a post of mine earlier in October.
We have had pretty much a wide-open border since January 20, 2021, when Joe Biden took the oath of office to be President of the United States. The administration stopped building the Trump border wall and did everything but send flyers down to Central America and the rest of the world so that they could skip across the Rio Grande and gain entry without authorities checking they are. Of course, this policy was just within the past week, but it's really a case of too little too late.
So if I have my math correct from Ward's count above, he quotes about 3.8 million people who have illegally crossed since Scranton Joe took the helm. So let's do an odd thing and LOWER that number to 3 million people. Now we take those 3 million folks and estimate that approximately one-quarter of one percent have some evil intent; that gives us 7,500 such people in this country illegally. Now they could be just bank robbers or common thieves, possibly some murders or other dastardly things.
If you increase the percentage, you increase the total number, and does that make you feel safe?
What are the chances it is more?
Of course, it is more.
What would happen if you lived in a neighborhood with a higher-than-normal crime rate and left your back door open, your garage door open, and your car sitting in the driveway, with the door open and the keys in it? You're just asking for the worst elements of society to come and take advantage of you. If you called and reported this to the police, they would look at you cross-eyed and ask if you expected a different result.
Works the same with allowing people from all different countries whom you haven't even attempted to screen, to come into your country. We are just sitting and waiting for the robbery to occur. Sitting helplessly while our government tries to figure out who will oversee this event, from the White House or the Speaker's Chair.
Maybe you recall after 9/11, the government decided that it would form a committee to go through the tons of facts, and issue a report that would somehow prevent another attack from happening on American soil. I know it's been years since I went through that 9/11 report, but I don't recall anywhere in that extensive government think piece saying: leave your borders unprotected to allow all types of characters to roam in and settle wherever they feel more comfortable.
Now, we have Israel ramping up their attacks on those who crossed their border on October 7th, from Hamas in the Gaza Strip, which killed 1,400 of their people in less than six hours. The Israelis at least made an attempt to make it hard for people who wanted to harm their citizens to come across; now that they are rightfully retaliating, Israel's main benefactor will be attacked also.
That is, of course, us: The United States of America.
Our government does not have us protected, as the thought-provoking and quite frankly terrifying film, "Police State," by Dinesh D'Souza (with help by Dan Bongino) showed us this week.
My colleague Becky Noble had a review right here.
The movie takes us back to 1992 and the FBI standoff and raid at Ruby Ridge. While Randy Weaver to an undercover ATF agent, the agent wanted Weaver to infiltrate a white supremacist group. When Weaver refused, it seemed that was when the trouble started. A clerical error regarding Weaver's trial date eventually led to the 11-day standoff at the Weaver compound and the deaths of Weaver's wife and son. A year later, in Waco, Texas, when David Koresh, was suspected of converting semi-automatic weapons into fully automatic weapons, Koresh was tipped off to the FBI's plans to raid the compound, and chaos ensued.
But it was the terrorist attacks on 9/11 and the implementation of the Patriot Act that put the FBI and other government agencies in the domestic spying business. It was the election of Donald Trump in 2016 that scared the dark powers of the federal government. Trump was an outsider. He didn't need anyone else's money to do what he wanted to do, and scariest of all to them, he could not be controlled. D'Souza also briefly mentions his previous film, "2000 Mules," while explaining how the FBI, in full collusion with the federal government and the media, prepared to take Trump out politically in 2020.
The vacuum of a lack of common sense, and everyday true reality that our government operates in, has made it a priority to chase down and persecute everyday Americans, who never entered the Capitol to be thrown in jail and fined -- as opposed to making sure that those who might be crossing illegally be dealt with properly.
Allowing Americans to rush into a Target and scurry out with free kitchen utensils and TVs, because of some nonsense grievances passed along from the older TVs they had, was more important than actually having a country with defined borders.
… It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I know exactly what's going to happen or when it's going to happen. Yet, this country's leaders have set us up for something that will be incredibly, earth-shakingly bad -- so bad it will change this country psychologically and economically, more so than what happened on 9/11.
We never truly recovered from 9/11 and with what's coming and at the scale that I feel it's going to be, I have no idea how the United States will react, let alone if it'll even recover. Maybe it'll be just a tad bit, like we did after that clear blue sky day, back in New York on September 11th, 2001.
… It's the end of the world as we know it
It's the end of the world as we know it
And while I don't know how exactly how this will all shake out, I take comfort in knowing that my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ knows what it is, knows how it will be, and will guide and direct me however he so chooses. I hope the same for you.
Because of that...
It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine.
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