Dishonorable Discharge, Please!

 

Some things make make me feel a certain kind of way and the disrespect Trump demonstrated to our veterans  was one of them. Our military members take an oath to make the ultimate sacrifice if required to defend this nation. Over the history of the United States lives have been lost in defense of the country in swamps, deserts and on the shores of foreign lands worldwide. Lives were even lost on our own soil to preserve the very existence of America. Fighting through poisonous gas, dangerous chemicals and IEDs is part of the job description as many gave their last measure in defense of this country and our freedoms. 

 

It is disheartening to realize our proud military members answer to a man, that they pledge to obey the orders of his office that could send them to their deaths, who would not endure a little rain to honor their sacrifice. Those supporting Trump with his bigotry, misogyny, vulgarities, lying, antics, laziness and corruption need to have a real gut check on their motivations. The Constitution apparently is just a piece of paper that Trump feels free to wipe his feet and who knows what else on. We are on the road to a dark place because there is a cult voting mentality at play than has millions supporting the destruction of their own futures by voting for leaders that have openly tried to take away their healthcare coverage for pre-existing conditions and stated intentions to cut Medicare and Social Security. 

 

 Living in the Age of White Reparations - Amazon

 

So why are millions of otherwise rational citizens supporting a man and political party with the demonstrated knowledge that they are voting for their own future detriment. No one can honestly answer the question of what drives an almost suicide voter mentality except the people engaged in the practice. Whipped into a hateful paranoia by warnings of the coming immigrant, Black and Brown people takeover of America some feel it is better to make their own brand of ultimate sacrifice by voting away their futures to stop the other. The big miscalculation Trump supporters have made is the the change they are trying to stop can't be halted because it is inevitable. One day former Trump supporters will look around and the United States they were trying to stop will be reality, but they will be less financially sound, less healthy and angry that they allowed themselves to be robbed blind out of fear of social and cultural change.  

Pastor Terry Jones Burned A Quran And Threw Fire On Gasoline

 Burning The Holy Quran Was Not Wise

There was a time when no one knew who Pastor Terry Jones was outside of those in the vicinity of his church in Gainesville, Fl., then came the media feeding frenzy when he announced that he would burn copies of the Holy Quran on September 11, 2010.

You see perception became reality when constant national and worldwide media attention focused on Terry Jones and his Dove World Outreach Center when he decided that he would set fire to the holy book of Islam, the Quran. Jones came up with a self-created International Burn a Quran Day. This apparently started on Facebook and grew from there. Before long national and international media attention was focused on whether Jones would follow through on his threat to burn Qurans on September 11, 2010.

Political leaders weighed in on the issue. General David Petraeus, the top commander of American troops in Afghanistan spoke out against it as a danger to United States troops. The white hot glare of the national media focused on Jones and his every move. For a period of time Terry Jones seemed to be a more powerful religious figure than the Pope. In fact The Vatican condemned a Florida pastor’s plan to burn Qurans.

Jones strung the world along and enjoyed his elevated status. He even tried to use his new found fame to inject himself into the other hot issue of the day and that was the proposed “Ground Zero Mosque” issue. Jones travel to New York supposedly to meet with officials involved with the center. Finally Jones said that he would not burn Qurans and the media as it does faded away and moved on.

Then in March 2011, Pastor Terry Jones decided to burn the Quran and posted the video on the internet. Jones says he is not responsible for the death of the U.N. workers that were killed as protests spiraled out of control in Afghanistan. These workers were brutally murdered for something they had no hand in causing. The true blame is on the people that committed the brutal acts, but what about Pastor Jones. While he did not commit the acts, did he light the fire?