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What they Don’t Tell You
©2016 by Raymond Alexander Kukkee
We wish it was simple to accurately discern and discover what they don't tell you, but logic suggests deeper issues may be involved; seemingly insignificant but nagging little white lies of convenience, half-truths, secrets, and fast-growing deceptions...all of which may be selective wool drawn over your eyes, manipulation, coverups, or attempts at avoidance meant to interfere with progress
A simpler approach should be:
With a bird's-eye view you now optimistically dream up the right question. Do facts line up within logic? Was the apparent response honest, or clearly suspect? If so, ask again. Creative liars and miscreants
Interestingly, half-truths, political correctness and 'what they don't tell you' are all signature fallout from the modern degradation of honesty. Our compromised, deceptive but slick world suggests ' a plague of half-truths' and practiced political correct euphemisms are now more acceptable than truth, as long as feel-good 'success', status and wealth are achieved. Half-truths are manipulative tools, twisted fact, deception with intent, and imagined, childish justification —the means to any devious agenda and further decay.
What they don't tell you, Alice...
Uninformed? What They Don't Tell You
Do you ever get the feeling you are going through life uninformed? Playing catch-up? Suffering from a lack of information? The remediation for being left in the dark and discerning what they don't tell you (for whatever reason)—should be quite simple. Clarify known facts. Recognize and classify observable anomalies and contradictions. Develop alternative models , including an understanding of all relevant facts within reason. Question everything —as advised by Albert Einstein, then draw conclusions and re-question both the effectiveness of the deductive process and the value of the answer. Repeat as necessary...yada yada. Simple? No.
We wish it was simple to accurately discern and discover what they don't tell you, but logic suggests deeper issues may be involved; seemingly insignificant but nagging little white lies of convenience, half-truths, secrets, and fast-growing deceptions...all of which may be selective wool drawn over your eyes, manipulation, coverups, or attempts at avoidance meant to interfere with progress or mess with your mind.
The Path to Discovery
The path to discovery and enlightenment may be long and arduous enough on the straight and narrow, but with adequate dilly-dallying it seems wide, wandering and easy paths more closely describe the typical status quo. What they don't tell you is that even otherwise intelligent, resourceful people meander, glance this way and that, accepting, adding and even promoting fanciful, constructs of their own in their sketchy attempts to relay information to you, the lost.
A simpler approach should be:
Wishes, Lies
With a bird's-eye view you now optimistically dream up the right question. Do facts line up within logic? Was the apparent response honest, or clearly suspect? If so, ask again. Creative liars and miscreants and crooked politicians become nervous when questioned. Complex webs of creative lies may have already been proffered in a state of panic—a moth-eaten blanket full of holes, further details of deception essential to hide the truth. 'What they don't tell you' may soon become an inescapable quagmire of perpetuated lies and distorted facts. Not simple to remember or escape from, 'half-truths' become essential prompts.
Half-truths: A plague
Interestingly, half-truths, political correctness and 'what they don't tell you' are all signature fallout from the modern degradation of honesty. Our compromised, deceptive but slick world suggests ' a plague of half-truths' and practiced political correct euphemisms are now more acceptable than truth, as long as feel-good 'success', status and wealth are achieved. Half-truths are manipulative tools, twisted fact, deception with intent, and imagined, childish justification —the means to any devious agenda and further decay.
Revelations of societal decay should not surprise; traditional values are ignored; sterling values are increasingly seldom taught, are even less frequently practiced, and now, upon occasion, may no longer even be expected by anyone.
In an observable, vicious cycle, offspring quickly learn lessons of instantaneous gratification as opposed to being carefully required to observe, learn and understand values. What have they not been told? The young may not have been advised that learning, morals, hard work, independent thought, charity, understanding and tolerance are essential. Blind acquiescence to the media, corporate power, greed, and the dark side of human nature with instant gratification are default lessons—at any cost.
What they don't tell you is that we have willfully failed to stem the flow of genuine humanity, wisdom and civility from our veins. We are complicit as we cheer and emulate the 1% and somehow vote for future generations of devious feel-good social manipulators, even the corrupt. In the media, we listen spellbound to insatiable, greedy, thoughtless, powerful, destructive, and short-sighted ideologues posing as potential leaders. What they don't tell you is changing everything for their benefit.
Perfection?
As we know , perfection in humanity is not possible, nor is it simple. We get that. But why? What they don't tell you, Alice...may also be the ultimate answer you seek...
Is it any surprise they don't tell you to think for yourself?
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Madness and Gun Control
©2015 by Raymond Alexander Kukkee
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Somehow, in the United States of America, ' We the People', based on the original, US Constitution, Second Amendment rules supreme. Subsequent 'interpretations '
Guns offered to the public are highly variable. Expensive or cheap. Saturday-night Specials. Legal or smuggled. Equally accessible
Handgun --Photo by M. Connors (Morguefile)[/caption]
With mass shootings and incidents of terrorism on the increase in North America, as responsible adults and long-time gun *owners, we would be negligent not to ask questions and consider the complex issues of obsession, madness and gun control. Here at Incoming Bytes we encourage readers to think for themselves and seek solutions, but also to use reason, logic, common sense, and practice communicating skills effectively rather than cowering in fear, gasping in frustration, and living in unfettered paranoia. Bottom line, we must not remain silence in response to these senseless tragedies.
We offer our sincerest sympathy and heartfelt condolences to families of those killed or injured in events involving senseless gun violence and terrorist acts, particularly those occurring most recently in California, and Paris, France.
Madness and Gun Control
It never ceases to amaze this Canadian how discussions on gun ownership and gun control in the United States of America has become so extreme, polarized, politicized, and blown up beyond reason. Gun ownership is considered by many to be a God-given, or at the very least, a constitutional, inalienable right. If the United States does not have the highest concentration per capita concentrations of guns in the world, it certainly has the highest concentration of obsession, fear and self-entitlement related to gun ownership. Let us call it what it is; gun madness and gun control. Yes, gun madness and gun control —worth repeating.
Somehow, in the United States of America, ' We the People', based on the original, US Constitution, Second Amendment rules supreme. Subsequent 'interpretations ' nudged into effect by test cases in law, creative lobbyists, NRA influenced courts or not, have gone far beyond simply and collectively being allowed to bear arms in a well-organized militia. Citizens are encouraged to buy, possess, enjoy, and use any and all guns without purpose, reason, or intent, and almost unbelievably, in some jurisdictions, guns may be purchased without mandatory background checks for mental instability, violence, convictions, or criminal activity. Background checks may be fast-tracked, avoided, or simply and arrogantly not bothered with . How about that. The American way.
Madness and Gun Control. You Crazy? Criminal?
Potential gun buyers may be unstable, anti-social, terrorist-affiliated, good old-boy possum-hunting rednecks, target-shooters, inventors of boom-bang, members of private militias with paranoid leaders, itchy uniforms and trigger-fingers, racists intent upon cleansing the earth, dangerous religious zealots intent upon converting the religions of the world, conspiracy theorists or apocalyptic survivalists wearing camo...patriots all. No matter. Criminals, back-yard mechanics and your everyday gardening-Grannies, any and all may purchase guns. Those who wish to protect themselves in their cars, the shopping mall, or provide security at home, may purchase guns. Punk car thieves, drug dealers, hardened criminals, home invaders, or first-time burglars begging to be shot for stupidity can get guns illegally. No matter who we are, we can get guns. It's our right, they say.
Sophisticated Hardware: Essential for Everyday People: NOT.
Are sophisticated automatic assault weapons essential for everyday people? No,— yet ordinary, everyday people have access to modern weapons more suitable for war, if not over the counter, out the back door. Guns of all kinds, readily available to anyone with cash. The right price. Money, green, or stained with red.
Guns offered to the public are highly variable. Expensive or cheap. Saturday-night Specials. Legal or smuggled. Equally accessible
- Assault Rifles
All may turn up in Mr. & Mrs. Smith-style secret collections in upscale neighborhoods. NRA-obsessed individuals insist guns of all types should be legal, inferring inclusion of any guns, even sophisticated military version hardware—is essential to satisfy the Second Amendment. Let that sink in. Let us quell our paranoia at the home-made shooting range in Everyman's Back Yard by buying more guns. Your neighbour's paranoia has been encouraged to grow with your own, so don't forget to pick up the carry permits, a few thousand rounds, and a couple more assault rifles, that's a given. The baddies are coming. Buy another gun.
Guns are carelessly stored and inevitably, left loaded and fatally accessible to children, but that sad fact somehow evades the paranoid pro-gun, the obsessed. It is apparent that gun "rights" trump community and family safety; "rights" without logic and common sense clearly spill blood of the innocent. Lack of training is often ignored. Background checks are avoided or by-passed. Madness and illogical government policy on gun controls lacking common sense run riot-- Ineffectively. Inexplicably. Unbelievably.
So much for the U.S.A., but north of the border, *WE have been responsible Canadian gun owners for many decades and personally haven't shot a single soul yet. Go figure. Gasp...we, too, have guns.
The Canadian Way
Canadian citizens were arbitrarily subjected to the (then Liberal) government's knee-jerk legislated 'Long gun registry'. That problematic registry was initiated and installed at the ridiculous cost of more than TWO billion dollars, and instantly and completely banned some classes of guns, automatic weapons, high-capacity magazines, making possession of such equipment or any unregistered firearm an instant criminal offense. In doing so it also turned responsible, law-abiding collectors, farmers and hunters into criminals, —but certainly did not register or remove guns, automatic, banned or not, from the hands of drug dealers, fanatics, murderers or the criminally-insane.
The Dec. 6, 1989 Montreal massacre at a Montreal university, the Ecole Polytechique, was committed by an unstable, woman-hating, Marc Lepine, a young man with low self-esteem and serious mental issues. The perpetrator used a Ruger Mini-14, a common hunting rifle when he separated women from the men in an engineering class, shooting 28 individuals, and killing fourteen women. The ill-thought-out long gun registry legislation was subsequently passed in a Liberal government bid to be seen as somehow "solving" the problem of gun violence and violence against women.
The next-elected Conservative government abolished the wasteful long gun registry and 'reportedly' destroyed registration data. But, dear readers, do not cheer too quickly. The 'Canadian way' applies.
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With a current NEW Federal majority Liberal government, ( elected Oct.19 2015 ) rumors are circulating that gun legislation in Canada will be revisited to repeal and modify Bill C-42, (originally called the Common Sense Firearms Licensing Act by the Conservatives) creating tighter 'guidelines' and more potential headaches for honest gun owners.
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The Province of Quebec also separately intends to build it's own, separate long gun registry after challenging, in the courts, the right of the Federal government to destroy Federal long gun registry data collected in Quebec. The Supreme Court of Canada ruled 5-4 in favour of the Conservative Government, —and the Quebec records were supposedly destroyed. Really.
