EPIC RANT following multiple racist posts from even some of my saner Facebook friends
Enough already with blaming Islam, Refugees, Obama, or fill-in-the blank for Beirut and Paris. Soulless bastards walk everywhere or have we already forgotten our dead kindergarteners, church goers, and movie patrons ??!!!
We need to isolate the deranged not give them a monolith to hide behind. Most in the monolith want nothing to do with them. Of course, this principled stance becomes harder when a government responds by slaughtering more innocents. But it remains the only viable answer. I remember my immigrant grandparents yelling at us anytime we expressed for the IRA in the 1970’s. Mind you, Grandma and Grandpa HATED the British Government, but each lived through Irish Civil War and knew the price civilians played.
"Freedom Fighters” don't indiscriminately slaughter civilians so don't grant them political status. Concurrently don't absolve governments who engage in retribution by targeting civilians but include who gave the order. Use The Hague to try cases crossing international lines. Throughout treat them all as individual defendants. Use the same ruthlessness with their financial backers.
As a person with psychiatric disabilities, I include the mentally ill. If you can feed and dress yourself you must take responsibility for your actions. Besides I maintain many of home grown shooters suffer from entitlement rather than paranoia.
This will not be easy. Friends will mock us because it doesn't look like a 24 episode. Some of us will have to get past our death penalty objections. It will require everyone to commit to easing the worldwide refugee issue. Yes the blue hat, black helicopter UN stabilizing countries will have to become a reality.
A pipe dream? Maybe. But I would rather fight for a dream than live these nightmares.