How many people have to die?
What I want to know is how many people can you kill out of willful neglect and even for profiteering before you are considered a criminal or murderer in this country? Is there really a privileged level now where you are given carte blanche to do as you please?
I really don't care what titular position one holds in that respect. Stalin spilled rivers of blood, and so have other tyrants. Now, we have a Dictator in Chief who is amassing a death count on his watch that is gruesome and overwhelming. He has even tried to test market other problems as distractions, (narcotics, Iran, etc.) in the midst of this and dropped them for something else because they didn't catch on.
We tend to abhor serial killers and murders and have no problem with apprehending them and incarcerating them for life. Some people even favor the death penalty, (which I do not support) as retribution for heinous crimes. It is understood that our freedom does have some responsibilities and that they are reasonable and reciprocal. Freedom brings the simple responsibilities of the Golden Rule as it is called. I don't want to be killed, so I won't indulge in murder. I don't want my things taken, so I won't take other people's things, etc.
Does a title negate and allow for that kind of behavior? It seems that someone thinks that an office that is mean to preside over our affairs and serve the people under oath and without bias feels entitled to not only be above the law, but to neglect essential duties, put us in harms way and only act in his, (and his cronies) best interests. Not only that, but with bravado and insulation by the very same laws and responsibilities that confer any temporary power to him. He somehow has managed to conflate that all with an idea that he, and he alone, IS the law. That is not a stance that corresponds with being a president in this country by any means.
Now, we see a world and a country that has been dealt a multifaceted and dismal blow that may indicate a long and very slow recovery--with the grim possibility that normal will never return. This is a time when a sound, intelligent, empathetic and dedicated leader who lives for the benefit of his people to make a resounding and beneficial difference for the most Americans and even for the World. Instead, we have a distorted caricature of a antagonist in a horror film bloviating daily now on the news about what concerns himself, his cronies and his agendas. What then, is a criminal these days? How do we define murder? Why is it being institutionalized and normalized at all?
Those who are blind to this and who still express fealty, loyalty and devotion to a titular head who embodies death and loss are essentially complicit in the results we endure. Ignorance is just no excuse for the law and "I didn't know!" won't reduce their culpability for endorsing this as if we are all members of a death cult now. I often think that some people in this country might be happier in China or North Korea, and the like, because what they are supporting is already well established and where the opposite of our system of government is true: you live for the leader. Well, you die for this one, too.
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