My dystopian novel, “The Water Lily Warriors”, comes out in paperback on August 18th. It’s available from Amazon, Barrnes & Noble, Books-A-Million and other venues as an e-Book. When I wrote it, I was prompted by the fact that I had read the EMP Commission Report from 2008 and was extremely concerned about what could happen to this country if an event occurred which would allow a social descent into chaos. The events which have been allowed to happen by certain government officials since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, which arrived on our shores in January, and exacerbated by the protests which sprung up after the murder of George Floyd in May, have allowed just such a scenario to come to fruition.
We have allowed a draconian shutdown of our country, in the false belief that if we surrendered some of our Constitutional liberties we would be assured protection against the deadly disease. Benjamin Franklin correctly said: “Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.” That is exactly what we have done. We allowed government officials to deny us the ability to worship God in our churches, synagogues, mosques and temples, even if we congregated in church parking lots in separate cars.
We have pulled our children from schools when in fact not a single teacher world wide has been infected with Covid-19 by a student. We have seen families torn apart due to the fact that at least one working parent must stay home to watch the children who would normally be in school. Ignoring world wide statistical evidence, politicians (mostly Democrats) are refusing to reopen the schools this fall. They are being pressured to do this by the very powerful teachers unions, who are, by the way, large contributors to their campaigns. We are thus hurting our children, especially minority children, who don’t have the ability to engage in so-called “distance learning” using computers and wi-fi. It is hurting our granddaughter Vanora, who has access to all this, but is being denied the social interaction with classmates and her teacher.
I know some probably think I’m some sort of gun nut because of my devotion to the principles of the Second Amendment. We have seen all too often in recent history that the government may be unable or indeed unwilling to defend citizens when threatened by unruly violent mobs. If you live in a relatively secure environment like a gated community, you might think the actions of Mr. & Mrs. McCloskey in St. Louis were extreme when they confronted the mob of over 300 individuals who had broken down a locked gate to gain entrance to their community, and were shouting threats as they passed by their home on their way to the mayors house down the street.
We have all seen how a “peaceful” protest can escalate to extreme violence in just a few seconds. The McCloskey’s had called the police when the rioters began trying to tear down the gate outside their home. The police never came. So, they got their legally purchased weapons (which were apparently unloaded, a foolish decision in my opinion, by the way) and “brandished” them to dissuade the mob from further threatening them or their property.
FYI “brandishing” (showing your weapon to intimidate) is specifically prohibited to Concealed Weapon Permit (CWP) holders. It is NOT prohibited if you are on your personal property and trying to defend same. Unless, that is, your local laws prohibit your owning any weapons, as is the case in areas of New York and New Jersey for instance. I would NEVER live in such a place. However, if Joe Biden is elected and the Democrats take over the Senate, that might very well become the law of the land. The Second Amendment is in the crosshairs of the left, and could be effectively neutered by an Executive Order not disputed by the Congress. That would be a VERY dangerous course of action.
Biden and the Democrats under Pelosi and Schumer want to prevent a citizen’s ability to vote with your feet by moving to a state which allows you to exercise the basic right of self defense. No one could have believed that a country like Venezuela could move from being one of the wealthiest and most prosperous countries in the world into a socialist hell hole where the people are starving and left without essential medical care, in only a few years. It did, and it could happen here as well. I would ask you to please consider all these things when you go to the polls this fall. The Democrats are planning to do exactly what they accuse Trump of doing.
