There are times when we elders should shut up, sit and listen; this was one such time. Let me be the first to say that even though she is thirteen years old, (13) I am not as smart as she is.
So since it will be their world, I believe we should let them have a say in how they want it to be shaped.
Idiotic and compromised politicians both on the political right and left continue to lie to a gullible and low information population that the answer to the crime problem is more police.
The answer to homeless people sleeping on the streets is to hire more cops to arrest them and throw them in jail, not to get to the root of homelessness, which usually stems from the widening income gap.
The answer to mass shootings is to hire more cops and turn our children’s schools into armed concentration camps where the police body slam children in their own classrooms and otherwise abuse them.
The societal problems that we face give the people who want to turn our society into a massive police state gives supporters of police state what they want. Even those among us who ought to know better fall right in line with the ever-tightening grip of the evolving authoritarian police state.
The 13-year-old in the video above gives us cause to hope that despite what appears to be a world full of old fools, there is reason to have hope because of the next generation.
Despite the massive buildup of police resources, I guess courage is not a part of some they hire. Vice News reported that as the shooter wreaked havoc in the Texas Elementary school, there were active 911 calls from inside the school begging police to do something.
Police officials now admit that there were active 911 calls from within the classroom while dozens of police waited outside the door for a tactical team and keys from a janitor.
They should all be fired and face charges of criminal negligence. But what the politicians will tell you is that we need more of these incompetent bullies to terrorize our neighborhoods.