The law of unintended
consequences is in direct correlation with the adage about paving the road to
Hell with good intentions.
An example of unintended
consequences is when you install security bars on your windows to keep people
out; unfortunately, during a fire, they also keep people in.
Along the way we stumbled. Because of colonization and slavery and
discrimination, among other sins we created along the way, our country became
an example of both what to do, and what not to do, when creating a nation out
of whole cloth.
After 400 years of fine-tuning,
we have reached a point in our nation’s history when its inhabitants are in a
quandary about many things, one of which is how to talk, the other is how to
listen.
Not being a perfect country, America
We are not a homogenous a nation
as we would tend to believe. Our tenets
have guided us through centuries – actually the longest continual free nation
in the history of the planet – via The United States Constitution.
The Constitution serves as a
quick reference guide to what we are, how we should live, what the limitations
of the government are, and when we should say, “Enough!”
Since January 2020, our nation
has been taken hostage by a Chinese-originated virus that has turned the world
upside down with fear. It had so
terrified American politicians that they practically suspended the first,
second, and twenty-first Amendments.
People were immediately plunged
into destitution and frightened to the point of fist-fighting inside stores to
get toilet paper. “Esteemed” doctors and
scientists peppered the radio and television airwaves to insist which
prophylaxis was best and which was merely a waste of time and money.
The following week, those very
same doctors and scientists insisted their 180 degree turn in opinions and
directives were because of new evidence.
It seems as though they were as baffled as the rest of us, and they
still are.
We needed to stay 6-feet apart
from one another; not five, not seven, but six.
That was the magic number. We
were told to wear masks to prevent the spread of the infamous virus, and to
wash our hands thoroughly for 20-seconds.
And this information reached us through the media.
Unfortunately, the media was
lying to its people because of their hate for Donald J. Trump, our President. They
told us promising drugs which would help stave off this flu wouldn’t work; that
President Trump was spinning yarns about its effectiveness.
The media further insisted people
were taking aquarium cleaning tablets which were causing their deaths, because
of President Trump; that was a lie. It
seemed anything President Trump uttered was deemed a lie, when, in fact, that
was the truth.
If that were not enough mayhem
for a country sliding into a lockdown, no income, fewer jobs, a lying press,
and confused doctors, a bad cop in Minneapolis ,
Minnesota
Immediately, as if on cue,
hundreds of thousands of “protestors” gathered in mass across the globe for the
cause of “justice.” The victim, George
Floyd, was the cause célèbre, suddenly going from obscurity to stardom because
of a terrible, unforgivable tragedy.
Cardboard signs carried by angry
protestors were visible everywhere on every TV news channel and internet news
sight and newspaper. People in Great Britain marched, as did others in Japan
Of course, interspersed
throughout this display of angry numbers of marchers arose angry, destructive
troublemakers who broke windows, burned shops, looted sneaker stores, set
police vehicles ablaze, and attacked and killed innocent others, all in the
name of George Floyd.
After a more than a week of sheer
mayhem, the “leaders” of this goat rodeo began issuing inane demands. Among their demands, they want more dialogs
about race relations, and disbanding the police as a start to alleviating their
anxiety.
Spineless mayors, governors, and Congressclowns,
are actually considering dissolving police departments, while any dialog is
instantaneously met with chants of “you don’t know me,” and “it’s a Black thing.”
The aforementioned Constitution
is now being nitpicked by those liberal politicians, who suddenly love the
First, Fourth, Tenth Amendments to keep troops away from providing law and
order.
As a nation we’ve been through
much worse. But survival as a country
depends on unity, not division. Keep
that in mind when you see a cardboard sign that reads: Black Lives Matter. What about every other life?
And that’s another example of the
law of unintended consequences.
