Peaceful Protests Hijacked by Violence

We were learning during the lockdown.

While we were sitting at home letting the events, laws, and policies surrounding Covid-19 playout during May, we were finally starting to awaken to the realization that our rights, in the name of safety, we’re once again in the grip of an overreaching government.

This time, however, things were different.  Americans, although scared, were finally starting to understand the need for protesting, and the importance of letting our government know, we know when they’re overreaching.

We realized, when we recognize something isn’t right, we have to call it out.  I was proud and happy to see all the people out in Ohio, Florida, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and so on, protesting the lockdown stay-at-home order, and martial law as they both are unconstitutional.

Then, peaceful protesting and progress was hijacked by violence, looting, and crime.  It’s really a shame, and I can only hope that’s not the result whenever Americans start catching on to how they’re being violated.  Good Americans should never be afraid to protest.

Where are we?

Section 215 of the Patriot Act violates the Fourth Amendment, which says the Government cannot conduct a search without obtaining a warrant and showing probable cause.  I don’t know how many American citizens were aware of that back when it was signed during the “911” crises to protect us from terrorism, but if you we wondering why Ben Franklin’s quote, “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety,” was gaining in popularity, that’s why.

According to Gerald Celente, on New Year’s Eve in 2011, President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act, which stripped Americans of Amendments Five and Six, and officially declared the United States as a battle zone.

I did my own research, and I think he’s referring to subsections 1021-1022 of Title X, Subtitle D, titled “Counter-Terrorism,” but I don’t know.  Either way, I think Gerald Celente is a reputable guy, and he’s definitely vocal, but I don’t think he would bull-shit about that.

If it is true……

Our Bill of Rights was given to us to protect us from an overreaching government, which includes police brutality, illegal searches and seizures, and so on, so those rights cannot be taken from us.

The American citizens would never give those rights up either.

…………how did we lose our Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendment Rights?

I guess we didn’t realize we were giving them away, and buying safety.

We live in a very unique time, and we must be careful.

Why?

I’m not trying to sell you a story, I’m giving you my honest opinion.

Our government is using terrorism, and terrorist to sell us safety, which strips away our rights once the Bill is signed into law.  Violence is not the way to beat this, the answer is exercising our rights as they are written.

Afterall, the last thing you would want as an American citizen is for your government to call you a terrorist.

Publication Progress

Hello World!

It’s almost official!

Fulton Books has decided to bring me aboard as an author, and handle all the publishing responsibilities associated with my new book, “Smorgasbord.”

We are in the contract negotiation phase right now, but hopefully soon, we’ll be moving past that and into the publication stage.  Check back for the signing update!

 

Thank you so much Fulton Books for this wonderful and amazing opportunity!

Mel Robbins

I like watching TED videos on Youtube, and I’ve watched several people speak recently, but I have to say, Mel Robbins was my favorite.

For me personally, with where I’m at in my life right now and with what I’m experiencing, “How to Stop Screwing Yourself Over,” was it.

I think I watched her talk about the 5-second rule, and defeating the ungodly voice in our heads by getting out from behind enemy lines about four times now.  I might watch it again tonight.  💞

Thank you.

 

The Plan

Here it is.

After taking everything into consideration that’s been going on in 2020, and prior, there’s only one solution.

We the People need to start getting involved with our town and local governments.

We the People need to attend town council meetings so we can learn about the representatives we’re voting into power.  We need to not only start informing ourselves about things like the budget, plans for local economic and business growth, and the education systems, but we need to have a say, voice our opinions, and be heard.

If we are not present to hold our local officials accountable, than we have no one to blame but ourselves when things aren’t right, or going the way we think they should be.

I’m serious.  Let’s get motivated about this.  Let’s take on a little responsibility.  This, afterall is our government, by us, and for us.

Thank you PEXELS.COM and pixabay.com for the Photo.

More Than a Point

Located in the Western United States, there’s a quadripoint.  It’s the dot, the point, and the exact location where Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, and Utah meet.

I’ve never been there, but the Four Corners Monument is located on the Colorado Plateau west of Highway 160.  This intriguing location also serves as a boundary between two American Indian tribal governments, the Navajo Nation, and the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe Reservation.

I don’t have a bucket list of places I would like to visit, but I think the Four Corner Monument is definitely worth seeing, and just think, after visiting you’ll actually be able to tell people you were in places at once.  If you’ve ever been there, write in, and tell us your story.

Photo: By Rich Torres – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17300760

“The Iceman”

Movie Review

Subconsciously, I must be on a Ray Liotta binge as of late because Iceman is the second movie of his that I saw in the month or so, but to tell you the truth, it’s really easy to forget that Liotta is even in the movie because it focuses so much on the Ice Man, Richard Kuklinski.

I didn’t even know The Iceman existed until seeing it on Youtube last month, but believe me, that takes nothing away from this movie. It came out in 2012, and Michael Shannon does an amazing job at capturing the audience, and taking us on this wild ride through the life and times of a real killer.

Richard Kuklinski was a hitman for hire, and killing was not only how he supported his family, but it actually became a way of life. Between the mid to late 60’s, and I think it was 1985 or 1986, Kuklinski is said to have killed between 100 and 250 people.

Ray Liotta plays a powerful a “mobster” in this film known in real life as Roy Demeo, who initially has a problem with the Iceman while Kuklinski was working in a pornogrhapy lab in Manhattan. After the incident, however, DeMeo is somewhat intrigued and interested in Kuklinski, and ends up putting him on his payroll as a hitman.

There really isn’t a dull moment in this movie, and honestly, I’m surprised that I was actually able to find such a quality copy available for free on Youtube, but I did, and I watched the entire movie, and I’d watch it again. It was that good.

What I find so interesting, is how the Iceman was able to consistently kill so many people over such a long period of time without getting caught. You want to talk about a journey through the mind of a madman, this guy could hack a person into pieces, and then go home and have dinner with his family. I couldn’t believe how he was able to keep his life of crime a secret for long. He did though.

Richard Kuklinski was in prison for 17 years, where he ended up dying at the age of 70 in 2005. I highly recommend this movie, and I garuntee you, before it’s over, in some weird way, you’ll be captured, and become sympathetic towards this monster.

We gave the Iceman Starring Michael Shannon, Winona Ryder, James Franco, Ray Liotta, and Chris Evans “5 Takes.”

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Hey Frank, what is it that you believe in?

I believe in equality.  I believe in the Bill of Rights as guide to protecting us against an “overreaching government,” and I believe this country could be “magical” if everyone was on the same page.

Every time we get close to making some real progress in this country, “the establishment,” “the globalist,” or whoever or whatever you want to call them, brings us backwards.

How do we beat this?

We beat this by not participating in the narrative.  We beat this by being ourselves.  We beat this by being open and honest with ourselves.  We beat this by striving for equality.  We beat this by remembering there are a lot of other people in this country who aren’t white or black, and we’re all Americans.

We beat this by not allowing slanted media sources to pull at our heartstrings.  We beat this by staying neutral, understanding all viewpoints, and then making better decisions for ourselves.

We beat this by respecting other people’s opinions.  We beat this by not forcing change, but by accepting things for what they are.  I always say, we have to accept things for what they are, and not what we would like them to be.  Once we can do that, we can educate ourselves, become more informed, and then make the proper decisions for how we want to live, and who we want to surround ourselves with.

You can’t change people, people have to be willing to change themselves.  We are who we are.

We beat this by not going along with something if we don’t believe in it.  If you do that you’re hurting yourself.  You’re stopping yourself from growing.

We beat this by overcoming fear and doing what’s right.  The Black Lives Matter movement is not new.  I think it came out around 2018 or 2019.  People think Black Lives Matter was created for George Floyd, but it wasn’t.  It was way before.  Educate yourself.

When Black Lives Matter first came out, White Lives Matter quickly followed, and then somebody woke up and created All Lives Matter.  All Lives Matter stood strong until the George Floyd incident.

This is where we regressed.

Out of fear, perhaps, I don’t know I’m guessing fear, we “threw the baby out with the bath water” and everyone stood with Black Lives Matter.  Real people understand this.

It’s possible for two people of different ethnic backgrounds to hate and despise each other without it having anything to do with racism.

All Lives Matter!  Equality!  Truth!

We can all stand up and say the George Floyd incident was a display of racism, and as true as it may be, people will always debate that.

You cannot debate, however, the fact that George Floyd’s treatment was “Cruel and Unusual,” which falls under the 8th Amendment.  The government violated the constitution not the people.  We should be raising the American Flag in the face of those who violated it to remind them what they’re in service to uphold and protect, not burning it.

AND IF YOU SAY THAT IS NOT TRUE THEN YOU’RE A GLOBALIST WHO REALIZED:

Police brutality or police violence, is legally defined as a civil rights violation where officers exercise undue or excessive force against a civilian. This includes, but is not limited to, physical or verbal harassment, physical or mental injury, property damage, and death.

Can’t all people be victims of police brutality and excessive force?

 

 

 

“Control”

Movie Review

Ray Liotta fans, if you haven’t seen the 2004 thriller, Control, it’s a must see.  Liotta plays a crazy sociopath, who ends up in the care of a doctor (WIlliam Defoe) who at first appears only concerned with the progression of his career and the promotion of an SSRI medication that’s supposed to completely change his patient’s interior, but by the end, they’re on the same team and both are trying to stay alive.

What really caught my attention is the scene when the doctor says, “back in the day they used to preform frontal lobotomies on people by slicing a portion of their brains off, but today, they do it in a more civilized manner, biochemically.”

With all the talk about SSRI’s today, I thought that was really interesting.

A must see.  I give it “five takes.”

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E-Scripts

Approximately one year ago, I was leaving the Doctor’s office when I noticed I was leaving without my prescription.

I turned around and said, “Hey, where’s my prescriptions?”

The doctor said, “We’re using e-scripts now.”

I’m not going to lie, I was a little upset because in a way I’m a little old fashioned.  I still like going to the mailbox, I prefer going to the bank, I like reading the newspaper, and I like having my prescription in my hand because I want to have the freedom to take it anywhere at anytime, but I never imagined the issues that did occur months down the road.

Two things happened that confirmed my initial reaction:

  1. The cost of my prescription was almost 3 x’s more expensive at the pharmacy I requested the electronic prescription be sent to than the pharmacy I was going to.  When I told the pharmacist I wanted to go to a different pharmacy because of the cost they said I couldn’t because the e-script wasn’t transferable.
  2. If the doctor forgets to email your prescription, you have to wait until they remember.

Both of those things happened to me, and initially, I had to argue some sense back into the pharmacist, but the first problem did get settled.  They did allow another pharmacy to call and transfer the e-script, but you could imagine my initial reaction.

It felt like checkmate, I was under total control.

That’s how it appeared, and that’s how it felt at first.  The second problem also happened, and it was just a real inconvenience.  You keep saying to yourself if only I had the prescription in my hand this wouldn’t be an issue, but now I have to wait.

If you go to a doctor’s office, and you spend good money to see the doctor and he or she gives you a prescription, there should be a smooth process in place for you to leave and get your medicine that’s easy and free of stress.

EXAMPLE: You leave the doctor’s office and go to the pharmacy to pick up your medicine, but the drug store says we don’t have any prescriptions under your name,  nothing came in.  You call the office you left two hours ago to find out what’s going on, and you discover everyone’s out to lunch, and before they left, they forgot to email your e-script.  Now, you have to wait until they’re  good and ready.

I was at my pharmacy recently, and I asked my beautiful pharmacist, “Are we ever going to go back to paper prescriptions?”  She said she didn’t know.

What was wrong with paper prescriptions?