The story is of F. Glenn Miller (also known as Frazier Glenn Cross Jr.),
charged last week with murdering three people at the Jewish Community
Center is quickly falling off the front pages of the Star and probably
all news outlets in the country. Miley's out of the hospital,
millennials find KC a good place to live, and a temperamental Chiefs
player has a new attitude. So as these and other stories bubble across
the screens of laptops, phones and tablets, the reality is ignored. We
have come to a place where the 2nd Amendment right of a convicted felon
to own guns and be accused of committing murder is more important than the 1st Amendment right of
people to practice their religion in peace and safety.
This is not the first time that a lone gunman with extreme fascist views has walked into a church or a religious community and killed people attending services. In the madness of modern life this fact has been forgotten. What is it to be? Freedom to practice one's religion in peace and safety or the freedom to commit mass murder whenever the mood comes upon one.
The Kansas City Star on April 19th published an editorial, "As a community, we must move beyond silence." It gave some sensible recommendations such as the following,
?While hard-liners continue to thwart sensible and needed gun-reform
measures, these three deaths in Overland Park should prompt a new
discussion about how easy it remains for felons to obtain firearms. This
must stop. Lobby lawmakers to make changes. Demand background checks
and waiting periods. If someone acquired weapons on Miller’s behalf,
that transaction must be included in the prosecution of the case."
The most important one is to demand change we can no longer stay quiet while the 39 million owners of the over 300 million guns in this country can declare open season on law abiding citizens, whenever one of them gets demented or a little depressed.
Capitano Tedeschi.
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Another mass murder falls of the front pages. Copyright, April 21, 2014 by Jamie Jacks
Monday, April 21, 2014
Monday, January 20, 2014
January 20, 2014. Martin Luther King Holiday (Observed)
As I was thinking about the King Holiday today, I was remembering that after Dr. King's death, I was in 8th grade and out teacher read an editorial claiming that Martin Luther King was a communist. I don't remember where the editorial came from, part of me wants to say it was inspired by the FBI, but I can't be certain. As I think of it today, I was thinking what a terrible lie should be taught in an American 8th grade class just a few weeks after his assassination. Thinking of that day in 1968, I am filled with sadness and anger. Sadness about the death of Dr. King. Anger that 50 years on, many of the things he and the Civil Rights Movement fought for are under attack by America's neo-fascists and their plutocrat paymasters. The struggle continues.
Capitano Tedeschi
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As I was thinking about the King Holiday today, I was remembering that after Dr. King's death, I was in 8th grade and out teacher read an editorial claiming that Martin Luther King was a communist. I don't remember where the editorial came from, part of me wants to say it was inspired by the FBI, but I can't be certain. As I think of it today, I was thinking what a terrible lie should be taught in an American 8th grade class just a few weeks after his assassination. Thinking of that day in 1968, I am filled with sadness and anger. Sadness about the death of Dr. King. Anger that 50 years on, many of the things he and the Civil Rights Movement fought for are under attack by America's neo-fascists and their plutocrat paymasters. The struggle continues.
Capitano Tedeschi
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