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Victims Of Madness
am starting to believe that something may be in the water, some kind of substance that causes cer- tain individuals to slowly lose their minds and engage in the craziest behavior
imaginable.
I say this because I can't
figure out what would cause the kind of insane actions we've been witnessing lately? This is not to say that bizarre conduct from people is anything new. But the fre- quency of these events, as of late, has me wondering if there's a yet-to-be-discov- ered catalyst behind the scenes that's causing the most susceptible amongst us to weird out more often.
Just within the last year we've had the killing spree of Howell Donaldson, III, the brutal murders of a young mother and her dis- abled daughter by the father of her children, Ronnie O'neal and the inexplicable case of Mikese Morse, the man who purposely used his vehicle to run over a father and his two sons on their bi- cycles, with the father dying as a result of his injuries.
Add to this equation the incident out of Boise, Idaho, where a man stormed into a 3-year-old's birthday party stabbing nine people (six of them children), and a very disturbing picture begins to take form, one that suggests that there could be more to these stories than what meets the eye.
The main thing that stands out to me about each of these situations is that
the individuals responsible for the senseless carnage fit a very similar profile... Young, Black, male and be- tween the age of 25-30, a demographic not normally associated with crimes of this caliber.
On the surface I imagine it wouldn't be hard to look at these incidents and come to the conclusion that it's a mere coincidence that every one of these episodes in- volved youthful Black men as perpetrators. But could this really be the work of simple chance?
Out of the four, two of these young men, Donald- son and Morse, were col- legiate level student-athletes, with Morse qualifying for the Olympics at one point. What are the odds that these two guys, with eerily similar backgrounds, would each snap so violently, within a few months of each other, in the same city (Tampa) with neither of them having a discernable reason for acting out so vi- ciously?
While talking to some- one the other day about what's been transpiring, it was theorized to me that we could possibly be dealing with something spiritual in nature. The work of de- monic entities whose influ- ence over man has become stronger with the growing number of people who've begun to place more of their faith in science and technol- ogy rather than in the God of creation.
Though I couldn't dis- count what the person was saying, especially consider- ing our limited understand- ing of the universe and the positive and negative ener- gies coursing through it, I also couldn't rule out the possibility that this gross malevolence may also be the result of elements much more mundane. Things like a possible reaction to what- ever chemicals those myste- rious planes have been spraying into the atmos- phere, the ingesting of syn- thetic drugs like K-2, the effects of some sort of covert psychological experiment or even a combination of the three.
The one thing I think everyone can agree on is that what's happening is far from normal. And whatever is causing this new wave of savagery seems to be capa- ble of turning the most ordi- nary of characters into the monsters of our nightmares.
With that being the case I believe our best course of action going forward would be to discontinue taking er- ratic behavior patterns lightly. When someone acts as if they're losing a grip on reality it may be wise to move on the side of caution and help them obtain some professional help immedi- ately.
As was the case with Morse, it may not stop them from ultimately caus- ing serious harm. But at least, if you're paying close attention and keeping your head on a swivel, you can avoid becoming the next victim of complete mad- ness.
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Shall Women Continue To Be Enslaved?
n Saudi Arabia, women have just recently won the
right to drive automobiles.
However, in the United States of America, with the
stroke of a pen and the possible confirmation of Con- gress, the newest Supreme Court Justice may be a so- called “pro-Lifer”/ anti-abortionist whose opinions could lead the Supreme Court for the next fifty years in a direction where women would lose the one given right to which they were born: the right to determine (to choose) their own physical destiny.
But, the swing word is “abortion,” a dark, evil- sounding term that has everything (and nothing) to do with women’s life-choice or the Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, which stands to protect that choice.
In essence Roe v. Wade guarantees every Ameri- can woman the inalienable right to answer on her own the question, “Do you wish to give birth and under what conditions do you wish or wish not to do so?”
But, ‘abortion” is a different concept altogether. Behind its double-edged argument is the ambivalent assumption that a woman’s choice is anti-life because it threatens an unborn human fetus, therefore lead- ing to the possibility of murder and inhumanity against a human fetus.
In the wrong political hands, it holds any woman as hostage who dares entertain the idea that after conception, the end point of gestation is solely her de- cision.
President Donald Trump’s selection to fill a Supreme Court vacancy (one or more) with adversary minds to the idea of Roe v. Wade (in the bogus name of anti-abortion and pro-life), if allowed to become reality, will no doubt sound the death knell for Amer- ican democracy and for the Supreme Court that has sworn itself to uphold it.
But moreso, if Trump’s cards play out in the Supreme Court, American women will continue to exist in the darkness of an unimaginable slavery.
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