A Poem by Charles N Clark Kiktode

Dedicated to the progessive thinkers at Mount Carmel Area Elementary School and all of the Nesticosists of the world

Cowboys and Indians

Cops and Robbers

Cap guns and water pistols

And the little pink bubble-gun

What once was fun

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A Poem by Charles N Clark Kiktode

Dedicated to the progessive thinkers at Mount Carmel Area Elementary School and all of the Nesticosists of the world

Cowboys and Indians

Cops and Robbers

Cap guns and water pistols

And the little pink bubble-gun

What once was fun

And children’s play

Is seen by authority

As a terrorist threat

A legacy in the making

A mockery of sense

All are now subjects

Of Homeland Security

Where everything is monitored

Sensored and swept

McCarthy would have smiled

If he had all of this

Where evil is welcomed

To devour the child

Puts blood on the table

To promote more control

Arnold and the like

Can kill with delight

But a kid points his finger

Comes shame and rebuke

A tale of two cities

Absurdity and Suspicion

Their wall stands thick

Against all common sense

To cover the rumble that comes from hell

The world oblivious as evil speaks

This silent noise as innocence dies

The devil takes joy in hearing their cries

He counts on the rage that will follow this day

Upon the announcement of his bloody fray

Suspicions that will arise . . . → Read More: 26]]> Darkness falls upon the skies

To cover the rumble that comes from hell

The world oblivious as evil speaks

This silent noise as innocence dies

The devil takes joy in hearing their cries

He counts on the rage that will follow this day

Upon the announcement of his bloody fray

Suspicions that will arise and the people it will divide

The misplaced anger and anguished lies

The devil knows the truth is too powerful of an instrument

For the man who walks these streets

His distracted eyes and narrow mind

Hidden inside the shadows of disparity

The struggling forces that crushes the soul

An amalgamation of reality and fabrication

That only the devil could devise

Man and woman will madden in open

Warring the line between the judgment of others

Wounds so deep that a patch can’t cover

Thinking that a new law will solve over another

But the devil he smiles because he knows

He gave us the tools to blind us like fools

And look at us now and where we are

We locked up the door and threw away the key

To live in a world where we can’t be free

Some because they are wicked and do evil,

Others because they tolerate the wicked,

Refusing them the active vigorous scorn

Which vice should stimulate in virtuous minds.”

But for now, my take on the upcoming election

This came across my desk.  Think about it!

"A Nation of Sheep will beget a Government of Wolves." -  Edward R. Murrow 

Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers.  At least two people have . . . → Read More: Are We Next?]]> THEY CAME OVER AND CONQUERED TO ESCAPE THE TYRANNY ONLY TO BECOME THAT WHICH THEY ESCAPED FROM

This came across my desk.  Think about it!

"A Nation of Sheep will beget a Government of Wolves." -  Edward R. Murrow 

Half-awake, and nearly paralyzed with fear, you hear muffled whispers.  At least two people have broken into your house and are moving your way.

With your heart pumping, you reach down beside your bed and pick up your shotgun.  You rack a shell into the chamber, then inch toward the door and open it.

In the darkness, you make out two shadows.  One holds something that looks like a crowbar.  When one of the intruders brandishes it as if to strike, you raise the shotgun and fire.

The blast knocks both thugs to the floor.  One writhes and screams while the second man crawls to the front door and lurches outside.

As you pick up the telephone to call police, you know you're in trouble.

In your country, most guns were outlawed years before, and the few that are privately owned are so stringently regulated as to make them useless.

Yours was never registered.  Police arrive and inform you that the second burglar has died.  They arrest you for First Degree Murder and Illegal Possession of a Firearm.

When you talk to your attorney, he tells you not to worry: authorities will probably plea the case down to manslaughter.

"What kind of sentence will I get?" you ask.

"Only ten-to-twelve years, "he replies, as if that's nothing.

"Behave yourself, and you'll be out in seven."

The next day, the shooting is the lead story in the local newspaper.

Somehow, you're portrayed as an eccentric vigilante while the two men you shot are represented as choirboys.

Their friends and relatives can't find an unkind word to say about them.  Buried deep down in the article, authorities acknowledge that both "victims" have been arrested numerous times.

But the next day's headline says it all: "Lovable Rogue Son Didn't Deserve to Die."

The thieves have been transformed from career criminals into Robin Hood-type pranksters.

As the days wear on, the story takes wings.  The national media picks it up, then the international media.

The surviving burglar has become a folk hero.

 Your attorney says the thief is preparing to sue you, and he'll probably win.

The media publishes reports that your home has been burglarized several times in the past and that you've been critical of local police for their lack of effort in apprehending the suspects.

After the last break-in, you told your neighbor that you would be prepared next time.  The District Attorney uses this to allege that you were lying in wait for the burglars.

A few months later, you go to trial.  The charges haven't been reduced, as your lawyer had so confidently predicted.

When you take the stand, your anger at the injustice of it all works against you.

Prosecutors paint a picture of you as a mean, vengeful man.  It doesn't take long for the jury to convict you of all charges.  The judge sentences you to life in prison.

This case really happened!

On August 22, 1999, Tony Martin of Emneth, Norfolk, England, killed one burglar and wounded a second.  In April, 2000, he was convicted and is now serving a life term…  How did it become a crime to defend one's own life in the once great British Empire?

It started with the Pistols Act of 1903.

 This seemingly reasonable law forbade selling pistols to minors or felons and established that handgun sales were to be made only to those who had a license.

The Firearms Act of 1920 expanded licensing to include not only handguns but all firearms except shotguns.

Later laws passed in 1953 and 1967 outlawed the carrying of any weapon by private citizens and mandated the registration of all shotguns.  Momentum for total handgun confiscation began in earnest after the Hungerford mass shooting in 1987.  Michael Ryan, a mentally disturbed man with a Kalashnikov rifle, walked down the streets shooting everyone he saw.  When the smoke cleared, 17 people were dead.

The British public, already de-sensitized by eighty years of "gun control", demanded even tougher restrictions.  (The seizure of all privately owned handguns was the objective even though Ryan used a rifle.)

Nine years later, at Dunblane , Scotland , Thomas Hamilton used a semi-automatic weapon to murder 16 children and a teacher at a public school.

For many years, the media had portrayed all gun owners as mentally unstable, or worse, criminals.  Now the press had a real kook with which to beat up law-abiding gun owners.

Day after day, week after week, the media gave up all pretense of objectivity and demanded a total ban on all handguns.  The Dunblane Inquiry, a few months later, sealed the fate of the few side arms still owned by private citizens.

During the years in which the British government incrementally took away most gun rights, the notion that a citizen had the right to armed self-defense came to be seen as vigilantism.  Authorities refused to grant gun licenses to people who were threatened, claiming that self-defense was no longer considered a reason to own a gun.  Citizens who shot burglars or robbers or rapists were charged while the real criminals were released.

Indeed, after the Martin shooting, a police spokesman was quoted as saying,

"We cannot have people take the law into their own hands."  All of Martin's neighbors had been robbed numerous times, and several elderly people were severely injured in beatings by young thugs who had no fear of the consequences.  Martin himself, a collector of antiques, had seen most of his collection trashed or stolen by burglars.

When the Dunblane Inquiry ended, citizens who owned handguns were given three months to turn them over to local authorities.  Being good British subjects, most people obeyed the law.  The few who didn't were visited by police and threatened with ten-year prison sentences if they didn't comply.  Police later bragged that they'd taken nearly 200,000 handguns from private citizens.

How did the authorities know who had handguns?  The guns had been registered and licensed

"…It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds."

–Samuel Adams

Is Spike Lee the new face of Lynch Law?  Could be, but he’s got a lot of competition.  Seems that everyone who thinks they’re someone is jumping on the bandwagon to put their two-cents in on the Zimmerman and Martin case.  But now it’s become personal and people . . . → Read More: Judge Lynch has a new face]]> WAY-TO-GO SPIKE: YOU FUCKED UP!

Is Spike Lee the new face of Lynch Law?  Could be, but he’s got a lot of competition.  Seems that everyone who thinks they’re someone is jumping on the bandwagon to put their two-cents in on the Zimmerman and Martin case.  But now it’s become personal and people are wanting more than justice, they want blood.  Blood – vigilante style.

If any of you would take the time to learn something about the history of this continent you will find that lynching is the fourth greatest tragedy in modern history.  The first being the holocaust of the true Native American, 114 million and still counting (six times worse than what Adolf Hitler did), Slavery second, and third the Civil War.

Whites have lynched Blacks.  Whites have lynched Whites.  Whites have lynched Indians, Whites have lynched Asians.  But Blacks have also lynched Blacks.  And other races of men have lynched their own and others.  The practice is not constrained to just one race of people, nor was it a local phenomenon.  The original Judge Lynch never even executed a single person.  Nor was his original court about summary justice.  People just bagged it and tagged it and associated it with “Regulation,” “Vigilantism,” and “Frontier Justice.”

The years and the effort to drive out Lynch Law have proven to be a fruitless task.  When you think it can’t happen again, the face of Judge Lynch rears his deathly face.  But he really never went away, he’s always been here, waiting, patiently, openly, but you just can’t see it because of all of the bull-shit that masks your vision.

The case of Zimmerman and Martin is salt being rubbed on an old wound that will never heal.  And people who preach temperament and peace are now calling out for blood – vigilante style, whether they know it or not.

I’m sure that Spike Lee had good intentions when he tweeted Zimmerman’s address to his 250,000 fans, and that the information was going to be used for “good intentions.”  But the truth of  the matter is that he like so many other people who have publicly denounced racism now have joined the ranks of vigilantism.  Unfortunately for Spike, he gave out the wrong address and put a Lynch-HIT out on an elderly couple who had to quickly leave their home for fear of being mobbed.  kudos to you, Spike.  You’re now an official vigilante, but a stupid one.

We've seen the Zapruder Film of the JFK assassination.  This bit of history is from another angle, another camera by an anonymous film maker.  I do not make any opinion or speculation of this film.  It is for you to view and make your own decision.