Indoctrination in schools
On Friday, March 16, Lawrence High School students joined thousands of students all over the country demanding gun control in this country as a result of the Parkland, Florida murders.
I treasure our young people getting involved in local affairs and national issues. The problem I find is that they are being manipulated by their teachers and the administration and I don’t mean Lawrence only.
Take the gun control controversy. I have not heard an intelligent suggestion dealing with these killings. Notice that they always talk about measures issuing permits to carry, psychological exams for applicants, etc. Those are not the people committing these atrocities. We find out after the fact that those assassins had a record of bad behavior at school or in their communities and no one paid attention to them. Let’s start there!
No one has any idea as to what to do with the purchase of illegal firearms or manufacturers who sell the kits online without the benefit of a background check. They don’t qualify as firearms because the purchaser has to complete them by drilling holes like an airplane or automobile kit. A 60 Minute broadcast showed they are as accurate as any legal weapon.
The newspaper Orlando Sentinel published an article on November 13, 2016, about at least six companies in Volusia County that make kits which allow buyers to assemble military-style, semi-automatic rifles at home have sprung up in recent years in at least one Central Florida county, alarming some in law enforcement.
They are called “ghost gun” and have become popular with firearm rights activists because the parts have no serial number or other markings which makes them untraceable.
“It’s legal because of the way the federal Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives defines a firearm. Under the law, no manufacturer-stamped serial number is needed if you make a gun for personal use,” states the Orlando Sentinel article.
One thing is for sure: I am so thankful that I don’t have children being raised at this time because I would be fighting with school administrators every day. I don’t want my child’s mind to be controlled by misinformation and political indoctrination while at school.
Those kids staging demonstrations during school hours in school grounds don’t even know what that all means. They are being taught to yell out phrases without an explanation of how serious the gun control situation is and a sensible way to look for a solution for this crime wave. Solidarity for the Parkland High School victims would have been a prayer or a moment of silence.
In case you didn’t know it, political indoctrination is prohibited in public school grounds just like government buildings cannot be used for political purposes. Remember when Modesto Maldonado was denied the use of the Lawrence Public Library to announce his candidacy for mayor? The non-librarian said it could not be granted for political purposes yet the Democratic and Republican Committees meet there regularly and invite political candidates. They use laws and rules at will depending of what benefits them.
So, the next time you see someone screaming that we need gun control, ask them what can be done about stolen firearms and explain to them the above article on kits online and you’ll find a blank stare. Nobody knows what to do.
Sen. L’Italien at St. Patrick’s luncheon
When Costa Eagle Broadcasting shut down all programming on WCEC 1490 AM on November 6 and 7 (Election Day) I asked our delegation at the State House for their opinion on that censorship. They all ignored my request and after a few weeks, Rep. Frank Moran did send me an email saying, “I don’t believe in censorship or taking the people’s voice away,” but nothing from the rest of them.
All I wanted was to know if they believe that it was a violation on our rights as voters and to the brokers who pay for their air time so I let them know of my disappointment regarding their representation of this community.
Now, I watched the St. Patrick’s luncheon where politicians gather to poke fun at one another and Sen. L’Italien sang a song of her own creation that was quite imaginative. Only that at the end, she mentioned Mayor Rivera who managed to shut down the Spanish radio station clearly adding insult to injury to all Latino voters.
If Sen. L’Italien didn’t want to get involved having an opinion on the subject, probably it could have been forgotten in time. Her actions mocking this community by praising Mayor Rivera’s achievement shutting down the Spanish-language station during Election Day and the day before which were vital to the results, makes it unforgivable.
The audience didn’t even laugh at her remark because they had no idea what she was talking about. The fact that Pat Costa canceled all programming for those two days was never published in the English-language media and her listeners had no idea of what she meant by it.
Lots of rumors abound following the elections regarding the “real” reasons for this cancellation. In the past two weeks, Mayor Rivera revealed a conversation with Secretary of State Francis Galvin saying, “I made you mayor.” Again, most people didn’t make a big deal of it. Now, Sen. L’Italien’s mockery confirms that Galvin had a hand on affecting the elections results.
It is time for all self-respecting legislators to demand that the Inspector General and the Attorney General pursue an investigation on the matter.
A nation of cowards
The news of the dog dying on the overhead compartment of an airplane during a long trip angered me to no end – not at the airline or the fly attendant, but the stupid, coward woman who put him there. Also, it has been said that another passenger recorded with his telephone the sounds the dog was making and said nothing.
We are creating a nation of weak-spirited people, afraid to complain and run the risk of being dragged out of a plane bleeding like it happened to the Vietnamese doctor last year for not volunteering to give up his seat because they were overbooked. Had a few passengers stood up in his defense demanding that the last passenger to board the overbooked plane was to wait for the next flight it would have been a different story. No, they limited themselves to videotaping with their telephone how the man was manhandled and bleeding.
We shut up, comply with orders and won’t dare speak a word out of fear of retaliation. It’s not the same marching anonymously in a demonstration in another city protected by hundreds or thousands of people who think alike and then go home and hide.
What ever happened to the country I migrated to? The country where people’s rights were respected and now I find that we are being trampled over by bullies?
President Trump also reads The Globe
Politicians love to side with the people and hide the truth if they are going to earn votes by doing so, but I ask you: Did President Trump lie about Lawrence and the opioids crisis?
Take a look at this excerpt of an article published by The Boston Globe on July 27, 2017, entitled N.E. fentanyl deaths ‘like no other epidemic’. There are better things we can do to eradicate this threat besides trying to cover the sun with one finger.
“Although cartels provide the infrastructure to dominate the market, the distribution of fentanyl in Lawrence and other New England cities generally falls to local drug traffickers and middlemen, who often adulterate the fentanyl with additives or other opioids to stretch their supply, Ferguson said. (Michael J. Ferguson, the special agent in charge of the New England field division of the Drug Enforcement Administration.)
“In Lawrence, a major gateway for the fentanyl that reaches New Hampshire and Maine, distribution is handled primarily by Dominicans — many in the country illegally — who have established a working relationship with the cartels, Ferguson said.
“Lawrence police Chief James X. Fitzpatrick, who corroborated Ferguson’s description of the business model, estimated that hundreds of people living in Lawrence, a city of 76,000, are active in the drug trade.
“Much of the supply is sent north to New Hampshire and Maine. But local demand is strong, too, and sometimes fatal.”
