The Native Iowan

Saturday morning here.

The world is on fire… Again!

Lets start with the various “peaceful” demonstrations in the USofA… I could discuss “the riots in LA” but the fun n games that started in LA were far too good, far too much entertainment, far too lucrative for just LA/ California to keep to themselves.

I am serious when I say “lucrative”.

All that we see, have seen for quite a while, is well financed and very well organised. Many NGOs and non-profit orgs make all this happen. Behind the scenes, in nondescript offices, liberal-loony-do-gooders are paid to plot and plan and receive and distribute resources… masks, water, weapons, bull horns, scarves, uniforms (make mine black please), instructions and strategy.

One good strategy I saw was the use of driverless cars… call a driverless taxi or three to a location and set them on fire. Create a toxic zone where the fumes and chemicals of the vehicle’s batteries prevent anyone not carrying a Mexican flag from entering. Of course, the amount of nasty gases released do not bother these save-the-whales-type protesters. No, screw the environmental damage! We’re fighting Fascism!!!!

Now we have the “No King” demonstrations being organised, so I hear, in 1500 locations. Simply too much fun and entertainment looting and civil unrest to keep to one’s self… lets franchise it out….

There is soooo much hypocrisy that a humble commentator like myself struggles to find a starting point. Why, how, for what? Give me a reason, please. A reason why destroying private and public property anywhere, any time makes sense. Again! It didn’t make sense the last time we did this. Why take this path again?

I come from an era where civil disobedience was a “thing”. It was, in those days “peaceful protest”…

Remember this one?

Or are you too young? Or simply too unlearned?

I am thinking of two people close to me. One young, one old…

My dear young friend (a young adult, a teenager) gets very stressed when told “No”. There are rivers of words and arguments and tears if, ever, the answer “no” is received. The term “hysteria” is applicable herein because after exhausting the words and the arguments and the tears, the last emotional resort is rage, hysteria, unreasoned energetic acting out. Screaming, condemning, blaspheming…

My other friend is as old as I, has shared many of the footsteps my life has been fortunate enough to experience. We stood side by side in the 70s protesting against the war, against nukes, against a lot of things. We wore hemp clothing, smoked dope, did a bit of acid, and considered ourselves ultimately aware and coooool… My dear old friend is still, to this day, attending every protest and rally and coool, enlightening event available. Occupy Democrats, BLM, Defund the Police, and now he is assisting folks organise for the No King protests tomorrow. I must add a proviso here in that my old friend is nonviolent so his time involvement is (still) limited to hand writing posters, not preparing projectiles.

I very much sympathise with the average citizen trying to simply live within this maelstrom of malicious intent. I too have lived through civil unrest and civil war and civil meltdown. It is not fun, it’s not nice, it’s not something I would wish upon anyone…

From one of the numerous “peaceful protests”, er riots in my homeland, Solomon Islands…

And, as a back drop to the incineration we see of American cities, Israel has attacked Iran, and Iran has retaliated. Its is going on as I type… bombs, destruction, death, mayhem and loss.

I blame what is going on, both in the USA and world wide, on the fickle and self serving leadership the USofA has experienced for most, if not all of this century… Just recently we had a brain-dead President, with a kleptocratic DNC ,and an inept RNC spending more time enriching themselves than being domestic managers and international diplomats. It’s been a pay-to-play game in DC for way too long.

Both parties, both sides of the equation are responsible for where we are.

At this moment only party is trying to make things better…

And I say Wood, not War…

More later