I almost feel as though I am writing a plot outline for one of my “creepy little stories”, but no. A lot of thought has gone into a theory I have regarding the sudden, massive influx of illegals crossing our southern border. A theory as to why so many of them are children. A theory as to why so many of those children are either ill, or carriers of illness. Some may lump this in with the much over-used category of “conspiracy theories”. So be it. (If one recalls the plot of that movie, Mel Gibson’s character was proven right.)

Note the increase of military-style equipment being gifted to local Police Departments throughout the nation. Note the reports of violent gang activity are increasing in many of our most troubled cities. (How can our government give away so much equipment, yet can’t seem to find the funds to keep the military men and women they just fired? Hmmm.) Then, note the route map for drug trafficking by Mexican cartels from Mexico to those very cities where gang activity is high (see below). Also note that the National Guard has been called in to assist Chicago Police (complete with vehicles and specialized weaponry), yet the Mayor of Chicago has mentioned again and again that deaths from gang violence has decreased. Reporting may have increased, but the actual number of deaths has gone down – or so they say.

Where do the children fit into all of this, you ask? Well, knowing that even though Americans can feel the government stepping on our last nerve, we are a compassionate people. We empathize with the plight of young children thrust by their own parents into a world they do not know and cannot fathom placing a 3 or 4 year old on a plane, alone, without being sure that they will be reunited with family when they land in their home countries. And who’s to say they won’t be sent right back here again. So our Border Patrol becomes the Nanny Service for the Nanny State created by Barry and his hangers-on. While they are preoccupied with finding facilities to place the children, processing the 300 or so who cross the Rio Grande daily and tending to their basic needs, the cartels slither through with their drugs and/or guns to supply the gangs along their routes. See where I’m going with this? No? You will.

It has already been noted (through reports and photographs) that many of the 13 to 17 year olds who fall under the “unaccompanied minors” exception to our Border Law (yeah, like we enforce that law anyway) are either members or affiliates of MS13 and/or M18 – two of the most dangerous gangs in the world, if not THE most dangerous. It is said they are busy recruiting others while they wait to be transported out of the Texas holding facility. Now the gangs will become stronger because of the new blood being added to their crews. More gang activity, less order. More gang activity, more crime. Since the cartels will conceivably be able to move more drugs into our inner cities and small towns, fighting amongst gangs could cause turf wars – more chaos. They will fight for a bigger share of the revenue from drug sales.

Cities like Detroit are already struggling to provide fire, emergency medical and police protections. Add in young children with illnesses not seen in America since before I was born (1960, in case you care) who have nowhere to live, no money for food and the “right” to attend public schools and our already heavily burdened areas will have no funds to fight back against the gangs. You’re beginning to say “I kinda get it now!” aren’t you?

Welcome the new toys provided courtesy of Uncle Sam and the National Guard troops to fill the voids in personnel at many Police Departments. Perhaps curfews are enacted. Perhaps troops will patrol the streets 24/7. Let’s say that the gang wars get so bad that Marshall Law becomes “necessary”. Since the National Guard is so busy around the country putting out fires begun by our favorite little political arsonist, Barack, the cartels just keep sliding through.

This tactic may push the gangs into areas where the worst thing one had to worry about was stepping in a cow pie with your Sunday shoes on. Oh, I know, there are meth labs all over the country. However, the ones in deeply rural America are usually run by locals. Many towns don’t have enough people to start a game of poker, let alone a gang. Imagine what a migration of gang members to Where the Fuck Am I?, Nevada would do to those residents. So, does the American government then don its Captain America cloak and come to their rescue the way they might the inner cities? Perhaps.

Just as the scabies carried by the children crossing the border is highly contagious, so is the government’s lust for control over all it sees – or so it seems to me. Just sayin’…

I originally posted this on Cry and Howl.

My first thought would be that the only way to quell the growing belief in conspiracies is to tell the truth, answer direct questions directly and to reveal the data you have to back up those answers before conspiracies are even allowed to form in the minds of rational, intelligent people.

The best way to perpetuate a conspiracy is to ignore questions, dismiss those who question as being “political” or “racist” or “hateful”, refuse to produce hard evidence to support your position and to treat rational, intelligent people as though they were uneducated buffoons – too beneath you to waste your time on.

I have lived through many Presidencies. The first President I remember is John F. Kennedy. Actually, the first thing I remember is his funeral. JFK, Jr. was the same age as me. I recall a litany of military records, school photos, diplomas, etc. paraded before the potential voters in order to present the various presidential candidates’ past and present lives so that we could see them as people, as well as candidates. The only thing we have from the current POTUS is a few carefully chosen photos, his words written in his autobiographies and little evidence to back up those words. The practice he has adopted of sealing everything and anything relating to his academic life (among other things) has led to distrust and much conjecture on the part of the people.

Remember when George W. Bush choked on a pretzel or the reports of the removal of potentially cancerous cells from his skin during a routine, presidential medical exam? How could you not – the MSM reported on those stories ad nauseum? I remember the release of any President’s medical results as an annual or semi-annual event year after year. Aside from the fact that Barry has been advised to quit smoking time and time again, what do we know of this man? Where is all of the frenzied reporting after every physical exam he is required to have as POTUS? I am not saying that he is keeping deep, dark secrets. However, silence is the perfect environment for speculation.

Suppressing facts that the American People have already surmised to be true is never good. Despite our declining education system, we did have Sesame Street and are quite sure that “2 and 2 are 4, 4 and 4 are 8, 8 and 8 are 16, 16 and 16 are 32…” We are also extremely protective over those who have truly served our nation with honor and distinction, and the families of those who gave their lives to protect us. This being said, trying to spin an obvious chain of events into something so unreasoned does nothing but create an air of distrust in the motives of our government. It angers people that the sacrifices made on September 11, 2012 appeared to be nothing more than a minor threat to the claims of the obliteration of Islamic Extremist organizations throughout the Mid-East. A fear that this “speed bump” might cost someone a win in the Presidential Election. Thus, the taint of conspiracy hovers over them once again.

Brian Terry died because of a poorly planned operation to identify and apprehend those who were smuggling guns into and drugs out of Mexico. Again, silence and a lack of documentation to show how things went so wrong have given rise to speculation (or thoughts of conspiracy, if you prefer). Yet, all we hear from the podium are sarcasm, belittlement and blame placed upon the shoulders of those who do not ally with the government’s spin. We are a forgiving people when given the truth and a heartfelt apology. We might not forget, but we can find a way to move on and make things better. If losing an election was the result of truth, so be it. At least the legacy left would have been that of an honorable man who is flawed as any human is.

What this nation does not need now is an ideological tit-for-tat between choices made in the past and mistakes made in the present. It does not need people who twist the facts of past actions, or the reasons those actions were taken, to glorify themselves. We have memories, too. No matter how many times you try to tell us the grass was purple and you singlehandedly made it green again only makes you look petty and malicious.

Speaking in angry tones and proselytizing about one’s outrage at yet another “misstep” made by the government, then swearing to solve the issue and get to the truth ring empty in the ears of Americans. Step one: Act angry; Step Two: Feign outrage; Step Three: Get on a plane and take a vacation/play golf/attend fundraisers; Step Four: Assume people have had enough time to forget what the issue was; Step Five; Turn sarcasm on high and dismiss those who seek to know the truth; Step Six; (refer to Step Three). If you only knew how tired we are of this dance.

We do not forget. The shiny things may divert the media, but they do not think nor speak for us. Our Veterans’ dying while waiting for care, the targeting of certain groups of Americans because of their political beliefs (and the subsequent destruction of proof that would either exonerate or condemn those responsible), Sgt. Tamhooressi waiting in a jail cell in Mexico for his “Commander in Chief” to negotiate his freedom, the true series of events that led to the deaths of 4 Americans in Benghazi, failure to negotiate a Status of Forces Agreement with Iraq (when every other president has had the balls to get what they wanted), the porous borders that have allowed unaccompanied minors (with possible contagious diseases) to flow through without resistance, the delay in removing American personnel from yet another diplomatic facility in the Mid-East until it is almost too late, red lines made to be crossed and the threat of force against fellow citizens who have done nothing more than ring up a bill with the BLM are all the feedstuff from which thoughts of conspiracies are nourished.

So, don’t blame us for manufacturing crises. Last time I looked, you were in charge of the factory, not us.

Cry and Howl wrote a great post yesterday entitled Obama’s fundamental transformation of America. At the end of the post, he invited his readers to add in any issues he might have omitted. My comment concerned the fact that we have 57 states, according to the Anointed One.

Later on, my warped mind pondered exactly what those states could be and what they might represent. Here is what I came up with:

1. The State of Apathy – Those who reside in this state have resigned themselves to the belief that the government is all-powerful and the sheeple are powerless to fight it. Popular terms used in this state are “whatever”, “may as well just comply…”, “life as we know it is over anyway, so why fight the system?” and “things will get better – Obama said so”. Most residents are locked into government programs that dictate their lives, bleeding dry their will or desire to succeed and leaving their ambition dead and bloated on the side of the road. This is a dangerous state. If you make a wrong turn and end up here, any will to maintain your individual rights and fight against the machine (if I may borrow a phrase from the 1960s) is drained from your soul.
2. The State of Racist Americans – If you land in this state, anything and everything you say will be construed as racial hatred towards the Ego in Chief or Eric Holder. There is no justification, other than you are a racist, for disagreeing with policies produced by the administration. Logical thought or intellectual conversations are not permitted. It is preached that Black Conservatives are being used by the Republicans simply to hide the White Elites’ truly racist agenda. They are tools of deception. The preferred method of thought control in this state is to muzzle you and brand you a racist until you begin to believe it yourself.
3. The State of Foreign Affairs – Within the borders of this state are various agencies of the government such as The Department of “I am Madder than Hell”, Bureau of Red Lines in the Sand, The Department of “What Difference does it Make?”, National Bureau of Regulating Free Speech through Snarky Dismissal of Opposing Thoughts, and The Department of “I Believe in American Exceptionalism” and will do anything I can to crush it. This is a state in which eloquent speeches are made, but the echo within the emptiness of their words can be deafening. It borders The State of Denial on one side and The State of Apoplexy on the other. It is a great place to vacation – offering top notch golf courses and the requirement that one does nothing but further one’s own agenda.
4. The State of Denial – The motto of this state is “It is all George W. Bush’s fault.” There is currently a proposal to add a second motto “I was unaware of this situation until I saw it on TV or read it in the newspapers.” Common traits of those who reside in this state are to dismiss potential threats to our security as “regional issues that do not affect Americans”, deny that wars in oil rich countries will affect fuel prices at home, delaying measures that could make us energy independent for political purposes, ignoring warnings from those who are knowledgeable in intelligence, military and foreign policy issues because the administration knows better and releasing enemy combatants back into the fight because living on a tropical island with every amenity one could wish for is cruel and unusual punishment. They hold strong beliefs that W strengthened the Taliban by ousting Saddam Hussein. Convenient memory loss is common in this state as the residents seem to forget the thousands of bodies of men, women and children found in mass graves due to the acts of genocide practiced by Saddam.
5. The State of Apoplexy – Be warned that entering this state could expose you to rabid, irrational thoughts and words. You might be subjected to residents with sledgehammers who thrive upon pounding inane thoughts into your brain. They are a war-torn state as they are currently defending the downtrodden in the War on Women, the War on the Middle Class, the War on Children, and the War on Immigration just to name a few. Excited, nonsensical utterances are frequent. Some people who reside in this state are Nancy Pelosi, Harry Greed and Debra Wasserman-Schultz. Minor players such as Sandra Fluke can be found there, as well.
6. The State of “War, huh, good God. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing. Listen to me” (Edwinn Starr) – The Anointed One is a temporary resident of this state. His delusional philosophy that the world loves him and he can cure all of her ills by simply singing his siren song of peace has created a cult-like ambience within its borders. This “peaceful atmosphere” he declares to have created has resulted in Iraq being systematically invaded by the terrorists who were supposed to have been decimated or on the run, with the added bonus of control of large portions of Syria. There is no trust within the confines of this state. With each utterance comes a new crisis in the Middle East, Central Europe or Far East. Just as they accused some Americans of clinging to God and guns, the residents cling to every word that exits his mouth as though he were the brother of the Dahli Llama. However, there is a Kool Aid™ shortage and many are defecting to the State of Denial. Some have actually relocated to one of the original 50 states where common sense can still be found.
7. The State of Control Over the Citizens Through Economic Suppression – The dogma followed in this state is that raising the minimum wage to $15 per hour will save them from poverty when, in fact, the opposite is true. The belief that higher payrolls mean less available jobs is a crime. If a resident is caught mentioning a potential increase in unemployment, increased prices for consumers and the likelihood that more citizens will need government aid to survive he/she may face jail time. In order to live in this state, you must believe that we are in a recovery, raising pay will increase jobs and government aid is a hand-up – not a path to the State of Apathy. One must also adhere to the philosophy that a national debt of $9 trillion is unpatriotic while ignoring our current debt of $17 trillion (which is completely patriotic and necessary).

A “no holds barred” post by Cry and Howl.