Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Why #ICantBreathe



Why #ICantBreathe
The impact of one person who bounces and throws a ball through a hoop for a living is NOT why I can’t breathe. Since when does the amount of people who recognize your face make something important?  The President of the free world and responsible for enforcement of law for the nation of the United States with a simple change of wardrobe and removal of security could be subject to police violence on any night.

The lack of ethics and the violation of constitutional rights are why #ICantBreathe. It is why we have the hash tag. This is not new. The plight, the injustice, the system that established our current dilemma is not new.  We know that it was some law enforcement that permitted the selling, beating, rapping, and destroying of souls. it was some officers and officials that wore the sheets that hung the people that wanted to just breathe.  They just wanted to live life like the other people they saw living in peace.  It was the same peace that they read of in the BIBLE and was read to them from the BIBLE. Simply wanting to read the words for themselves was a crime. Yet it was authority that hung them from trees for a glance, a word of defiance, a word of freedom. It was Judges who did nothing, Prosecutors who did nothing and Governors who did nothing. 

Nothing is being done by them today.  It is the people who are in the streets. We have come a long way in silence just trying to breathe.  Yet we have had to hold our breath anytime we are told to do so in fear of the established authority that can be very unforgiving.

Some encounter judges that take offense to a poor person not having hired a lawyer and appearing humbly before them. Many plea bargain cases just to make them go away, because encountering swift injustice seems far more seems likely. We cannot control who breaks the law.  This is about how the law and injustice breaks people. The suffocation of injustice is why #ICantBreathe. 

The requirement for investigation should merely be a complaint has been made. The definition of an investigation is check, look into, and search for facts. The identity of the lawbreaker should be as immaterial as success in court is to a poor man today. Without a good lawyer one has no chance. We know what is right and have been complaining.  Our complaints have made it to the White House. It is what has been done to us that made us ask for help.  The world sits back and waits to see what is going to be done. We hold our breath, but our breath is taken from us by those sworn to protect us. It seems being in charge means being in charge of who is considered a criminal.

The worst thing about a corrupt official is the person uses money entrusted to them by voters to harm them. their own public provided salaries are not enough. The dysfunction of Congress is financed by the people. Big business’ earnings are from the pockets of consumers.  

In NJ we have a BIG problem.  It is every tax payer bearing the burden of loss of our pensions, school taxes, and property investment by the irresponsible in office.  Those who have done nothing to stop the waste, fraud, and abuse of NJ wealth which has taken decades to build, are guilty. There are people sitting in office who sit in fear and greed instead of ethics. Soon it will all be gone because the people will no longer be able to afford the giving away of billions to a small network of connected friends.

#IcantBreathe because it costs too much. It is costing us everything by continuously electing those who look the other way. #iCantBreathe because in trying to educate and motivate others to stand up on one day a year (election day) requires almost all our air.

Know that when all the air of ethics, justice, and seeing ourselves in others leaves the room, all of us will know why #ICantBreathe. Those outside the room are the selfish people who trapped the public in the room. Outside the room is all the air one could possibly need. There are those who believe the public is not entitled to it. The air of freedom only applies to them and their friends.  The problem with that type of friendship is the willingness to share keeps getting smaller.  Once a mind conceives people as expendable there is nothing stopping them from working to become that last one standing. They see the last one standing as the last one breathing.  We who declare #ICantBreathe it is because air is being taken … not because there is no air.  It’s merely someone had decided the air which does exists does not exist for US. 


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