To the Editor,
By now everyone should be understanding what the shape of the world is in today, and I am not meaning round. If you do not understand or noticed then you, my friend, have been living under a rock for the past 300 and some odd days.
I read an interesting story today where a preacher was saying how unless we, the people, do not start acting as one then we are heading in a direction nobody wants to head towards. He was talking about the recent church shootings in Texas and how even he understands guns do not kill people, people take care of that themselves. He went on to state, saying guns kill people is like saying it is the fork's fault for making a person fat. Unless you have the willpower to say no, then you will continue to make yourself bigger and bigger. Meaning, unless people do not start realizing this is not the direction to head in then more and more people will die senseless deaths.
I can sit here and write all I want about this but I know it will not sink in to some of those who read this. They are so brainwashed by listening to people whine and moan about how the cops are so bad. How the system is broken. How come they cannot get their food stamps, when they can get their hind ends out there and make a decent, honest...oops, I forgot, I should not use the words honest because some do not understand it.
If that is the case, here is the definition, "Free of deceit and untruthfulness; sincere." You see states now requiring citizens who need assistance to produce a negative urinalysis to keep their assistance up. Trust me, there are those who really do need assistance but there are those who love playing the system to basically just, get one over on the man. I am going to just lay this on the line, but I am sick and tired of having to be politically correct. In this same article I mentioned above, it talks about how it is the generation today who has turned our society upside down.
Think about it.
In my youth I was brought up around guns, getting my behind whooped, having my mouth washed out with soap, rioting about the Vietnam war and numerous other negative surroundings. But I was also brought up to praise God, how to handle a gun properly, respecting people, saying Merry Christmas and being politically correct, which was something Richard Nixon was not. You did not have video games depicting killing others and being so graphic about it. You had funny television shows that were clean fun, now it's all about reality shows, cussing, nudity and killing people. Look at shows like The Walking Dead and the Sons of Anarchy. Back then if you even thought about shows like that back in the day, they were going to be almost "X" Rated shows. There are more media television stations than you can shake a stick at. You know why? Again, as I have always said, "Negativity sells.". You see young people today walking the streets, causing havoc with traffic, stopping people who have real jobs because they do not have one. The proverbial, Government Child. This is a situation which can be referred to as the Ron White syndrome. Do you remember when Ron White talked about his wife getting all fixed up with a tummy tuck, breast implants, Lasik surgery but remember what could not be fixed? Stupid...why can you not fix stupid, because stupid raised stupid. It is the only thing it could possibly be. Some stupid parent did not spend time with their own children to raise them properly because they were to stupid to raise them which caused a chain reaction of stupidity and now we have it running rampant.
I know this sounds harsh but it is the truth. Now, I am by no means saying that all young people are stupid but man it is sure easy to pick out. The young people today are the ones who want to push the limits to see just how far they can go. They think they are trying to start a new movement of some sort but in reality they are doing just the opposite by trying to turn a simple idea into something causing hatred amongst others. As I stated earlier, they are blocking the streets, highways and even interstates for something they have no clue about. The part that baffles me is why are the drivers stopping? I understand you do not want to hurt anyone and by no means am I pushing for that but I will however slowly roll through it ensuring no one is injured and if the cars behind it would do the same, they would maybe get the hint this may not be the right thing to do. Drivers are also worried about damage to their vehicles. How bad do you want to get to work or maybe get to the hospital because someone in your family is hurt or sick? People, the nonsense has to stop. If you are unhappy then please, feel free to demonstrate, I have no problem with that but please do not do it in a way as someone is going to eventually get hurt or worse yet, killed. Use your First Amendment rights carefully but use them, that is what they are there for but stop for God's sake trying to push someone's button just to make a point, to get you're 10 minutes of fame on the television or more yet, trying to have something happen where you can sue someone for money. I am asking everyone to take a moment, look up in the bright blue sky and say, "Lord, thank you for being the most awesome God, and thank you for being in my life because without you, I am nobody but with you I am all I can be."
God Bless you all....
Roger Burton
Poplar Bluff, Missouri