Shania Twain's Return

Dear Editor:

         Living day to day in the shadow of continual meteorological chaos created by human-created carbon emissions, the city of Fayetteville has made notable strides.  Recovering from three epic hurricanes and their residual flooding, residents of Cumberland County have suffered grievous inconvenience.   Drinking water has been contaminated with carcinogenic compounds produced by Chemours.  Farmers have been spraying their fields with animal feces and urine.  The Marines deploy to Fort Bragg and shake the earth upon which we live.  Mayor Mitch Colvin has questioned the city's support of a new Civil War Museum in light of progress not made concerning these issues.  Finally the Mirror Lake dam is under construction.  It appears to be completed by the end of this year.  When faced with this continued blight it could be difficult to prioritize civic monetary support.  Fayetteville has made significant strides in downtown development.  This renovation long has been underway, since former mayor Bill Hurley exorcised crime from Hay Street.  There have been tangible, consistent, and successful efforts to rehabilitate downtown.  These successes are the Airborne and Special Operations Museum, Festival Park, the Cape Fear River Trail, the  Linear Trail, the FAST Transit Center, the Crown Coliseum, the Arts Center, the Cape Fear Regional Theater, and most recently the completion of SEGRA Stadium.  Most importantly the Rowan Street bridge has been replaced.  The Prince Charles Hotel is being renovated, and a new accompanying hotel is being build atop the parking deck adjacent to the stadium.  The Fayetteville Outer Loop I-295 is under construction.  There are many gears churning in Cumberland Country thanks to BRAC's decision to expand Fort Bragg.  In particular a small miracle has transpired downtown.  A skateboard park is being built at Rowan Street park.  Team Pain has done an excellent job designing and constructing this one-of-a-kind recreational facility.  This is a time for renewed investment in Fayetteville's youth.  Systematically we have abandoned and burdened them with debt.  Providing this holistic, healthy, and unifying facility is monumental.  It is an investment and a milestone.  Fayetteville has broken the surface of her grave for our youth.  With these significant developments Fayetteville and her neighboring cities and counties still are struggling with crime, drug abuse, and suicide.  Soldiers are returning from deployment and finding it difficult integrate in Cumberland Country.  Why?  I am fifty-seven, and I grew up living in Greenwood Homes behind Eutaw Shopping Center.  The lineage of Fayetteville progress and digression is clear to me.  We are subject to massive environmental pollution, and it has escalated.  BRAC has not been helpful.  Without fomenting anti-military sentiment the effects of their expanded military presence needs to be voiced.  Since the election of Donald Trump America has devolved into a violent, racist, and tribal battlefield.  Murder is common.  Unifying American should be our goal.  The incumbent Republican leadership is oppressive.  Republican government has loosened if not abolished corporate regulation.  Corporate indulgence has run amuck accumulating wealth for their shareholders but with no concern for the average-earning American.  We are struggling.  Anachronistically they are trying to abolish us.  It is called ethnic cleansing.  Adolph Hitler may be the starkest reminder of this kind of fascist genocide.  In Fayetteville it is not a conscience effort.  It is the residual and cumulative effect of Donald Trump's presidency.  The Republican Party mindlessly defend this President's shortcomings.  Dan Rather calls it a cult, and that cult is the KKK.  Good shall prevail through force.  Nancy Pelosi said it well.  "You have to be ready to strike a blow for our children."  When evil is threatening to destroy, it must be struck down. We cannot allow self annihilation.  Our environment is reeling from heat resulting in fungal and cancer overgrowth.   Fayetteville is an anomaly, because it is triangulated by rail heads. When they are operating in tandem, it is unhealthy for human existence.  Lobbyists for rail companies coerce you to believe 4,400 horse power locomotives are healthy for our environment.  They are not.  They are destructive.  They leak low frequency alternating current.  Tesla was correct.  You can transmit AC through the air.  Power companies didn't want us to know.  AC technology in traction is the formula for destruction of the human race and the earth.  This is why GE's stock is worth five dollars.    When DAK Americas, a Mexican-owned polyester resin plant, River Terminal, the Honeycutt Marshalling Yard, the Milan Yard,  and Norfolk Southern decide to do business at the same time on the same day earning profits for their shareholders?  Residents of Fayetteville are being exposed to low frequency sound and electrocuting low frequency alternating current.  The Aberdeen and Rockfish use antiquated, two stroke, turbo-charged diesel prime movers.  When operating they produce vibration which can be felt for miles.  We are being beaten into submission by enemies who do not care for us.  Under Donald Trump America has become a me first society, because this is all that Republicans know.  We will not survive. 

One World Order

There is one thing I know for sure concerning American media.  Media in America has become a broad term in recent years, and perhaps we have lost focus.  Media in American history encompasses many grassroots, holistic, and therapeutic cultural habits which are entrenched in the souls of older folks.  There was a time when media in American history was part of everyday life, but in ways very different from staring at a computer screen and receiving immediate gratification from "Likes."  Media in American history was based upon human interaction in physiological form, not through cyberspace.  It was based upon the sweat and blood of Americans cranking through life everyday, overcoming obstacles, and searching for dreams.  Life in America back in the day was about us.  It was a time before wealthy, privileged, and lazy glass ceiling children controlled our lives with the swipe of a magic wand.  The "Hippie" movement was visceral, reactionary, and activist although fueled by mind altering drugs.  Then like now it was necessary to see American reality through a buffer.  Sadly our environment and planet have become so polluted we are having difficulty recovering from our bacchanals.  People all around me are dying from the long term and consequent effects of tobacco, alcohol, and drug use.  We no longer can self-medicate ourselves into a useful and functional state.  Instead we are being murdered by our own devices.  The environment, our food chain, and our psychological health are tainted with the remnants of corporate America.  We no longer consume quality products, we die at the behest of their production.  Surrounding me are the byproducts of the production of rubber, vegetable oils, polyester resin, and ammonia products for refrigeration.  Chemours regularly has been spewing harmful toxins into our air and water, which yet has been mitigated.  I am one to complain, because when I asked a local nurse why she moved to Fayetteville, she replied that where she was from it was saturated in foggy industrial waste.  I remember driving through this area of West Virginia, up on the interstate bridges that traversed the smoking stacks of manufacturing.  With that in mind the air quality of Fayetteville sublimely and covertly has become laced with carcinogens.  Just the allergens alone are enough to cause our local population grief.  Having worked on cruise ships for over a decade, I became accustomed to clean air.  Imagine that.  Clean air in the metallic confines of a floating hotel.  I never realized that the trees in the woods around me were laced with pollen, and that keeping that pollen out of your home was a necessity.  Now I have realized the importance of the cleanliness of your living space.  We have upgraded, but it is a work in progress.  HVAC technology has far lagged behind other internet-based technologies.  We are so concerned with controlling our homes with our phones, we have forgotten what is in them.  What kind of filtration systems do we have?  Is our air fresh and clean?  Is our system efficient enough to removed the harmful carbon dioxide we produce as human beings?  We are primitive and perhaps living outside in the bush is more healthy than our homes.  A friend of mine was candid enough to express that he felt the millennial generation wore no rose colored glasses.  They have come to expect crushing debt, long hours, and low wages.  Still I remember a better time in America, a time when labor unions formed and demanded it.  They created our middle class, an order which demanded a quality lifestyle in return for their hours of labor building American products.  Now our products are produced in China for a fraction of our labor costs.  The middle class has disappeared, and we have become a third world country.  I for one am tired of being shat on (using a slang term and a dangling preposition.)  We are shat on everyday by the American military as their jets fly over our homes spewing chemical trails and and I'll bet other things.  Why does that one particular jet make his approach turn directly over my house I've often wondered.  When I try to communicate with the pilot using a traditional S-O-S patterns of of light he flies right by.  Not interested.  It is amazing to me that these businesses dominate the dynamic of Fayetteville life.  CSX is their vehicle.  They and the United States Army dictate what is happening in Fayetteville at any given time.  Even if you have no interest in soldiering, hearing 50 caliber machine guns, and having your walls rattle from exploding shells, we have no choice but to acknowledge.  You can't ignore war, and you can't ignore the preparation for war.  It only is about war, and not getting your dick shot off.  That means a lifestyle that is drastically different than the non-military.  I have no interest in being a soldier, and I will not waste time thinking about ensuing battle.  I would rather create and work on things that promote a healthy Christian life.  It is amazing how much control the world has over us. 

A Covert Civil and Revolutionary War

I have so many things on my mind, it is difficult to prioritize them.  What do I want to say?  I want to say that beginning on the day "The Donald" became our American president, any regulation of corporate America was diminished or eliminated.  Not long after Gump became our American president (and I reiterate "OUR" American president, and by the word "OUR" I mean the majority of American citizens who are not wealthy), "OUR" meaning metaphorically "For the people," Donald Trump, in his only active and successful penning of governmental legislation, generously, selfishly, and fraudulently handed corporate America a twelve percent profit.  There was no achievement.  There was no savvy investment.  There was no pooling of mortgages and selling them as a risky but high-earning financial instrument.  There was no conglomeration.  There was no down sizing.  There was no creation of a successful product appealing to millions of Americans and therefore meriting its purchase and thus earning ability.  There was nothing achieved by corporate America to earn this twelve percent profit, except that they had to pay twelve percent less in taxes to the federal government which in turn are supposed to provide services to the American populace.  These taxes more importantly were created to fund the country, its governance, and its people.  These taxes were created to allow America to function and thrive.  Consequently the Donald has increased our national deficit to epic proportions.  He, in like fashion to the Trump organization, has swindled his customers for his party's and family's gain.  We as Americans, brainwashed, threatened, and in denial idly sit by and watch as Agent Orange commits cultural genocide to America.  His actions are as  dire, fascist, and murderous as the Third Reich, and yet if asked most millennials would not know what that was.  Adolf Hitler instigated one of the most grievous acts of genocide in world history, and our American youth are more concerned with the flavor of their lattes or having their car drive them to work autonomously.  The conscious neglect of our system of public education is a direct assault on the populace of America as are the poisoning of our food through shitty ingredients, the assault of our psychological health through massive environmental pollution, and the compliance and conformity to evil by sheer cultural and political ignorance.  America could not be in a worse state, and our lives are at stake.  The day the Donald took office corporate America rallied in a business philosophy that abandoned the consumer, turned its back on moral and ethical responsibility, and mocked God.  We are in a true fight against evil in Biblical proportions prophesied in the Book of Revelations.  Trumps ascendancy into power signaled a corporate rally of irreverence, self centeredness, and dominance only rivaled by American history herself.  We have entered a new Guilded Age, and trusts once again are controlling the masses.  Is there any reason why one lone man could and should hold one hundred billion dollars in profit without reinfusing the American economy with jobs, opportunity, and philanthropy?  Capitalism has failed to operate, because corporate CEOs never have learned how it works.  One cannot create a company and seek to keep all of its profits.  If one operates in a nation, as a country, and as a community and state, the hoarding of assets is not allowed.  For the socioeconomic system of capitalism to function, capital must flow through the system.  Capital must flow in a wave of earning and spending on goods and services for ALL Americans.  If Gump supporters want to call this "Socialism" let them, because Trump-supported capitalism has failed them.  Without their knowledge, with a dick the size of an elephant (in the ephemeral words of counselor Cruise) Trump has fucked all of America.  I have realized in my year of fifty-seven, that war is merited when ignorance threatens the existence of America.  When the ignorant become empowered and prove their inability to lead and sustain America, they must be removed from power by force.  War is justified when the ignorant are in control and are threatening the survival of the populace they govern.  In violent terms this is called revolutionary war, but there are other pseudonyms.  It is not ironic that Sinn Fein no longer about is read.  It is not ironic that the IRA and its political movement and activism have been cloistered.  Big Brother does not want Americans to know that violent overthrow always does not occur on the battlefield.  The modern method of civil overthrow is guerilla.  It has been tried again and again all around the world except on the native soil of North America.  In North America a counter method has been devised to divert any true and honest overthrow of corruption and evil in leadership.  The spin machine has manufactured a side show of domestic instability resulting in what appears to be domestic terrorism, but it is not.  It is a facade disguising what should be the real course of reaction to injustice.  Instead of murdering our own innocent and undeserving citizens in a smoke screen of right wing extremism, we should be seeking out and eliminating elected political leaders who have forsaken their American charges.  We have been scorned and mocked by our leaders in the way Jesus predicted, and we are too stupid and naive to understand.  We must realize who our enemies are and fight them for our own survival.  Whether it becomes violent, far-reaching, and epic is contingent  upon the resistance of these enemies.  We must become enraged.  We must become insulted.  We must become active defending the American way of life and how it is deserved by all people, not just the rich.  We are taught and have an innate desire to be peaceful.  We want security, peace, and serenity, and yet a time has come in American politics where actively we must fight for our own rights.  The enemy is corporate America.