Hell in a Hand basket, by Danny Donovan – Mad Science #12 | @ MDWorld

March 28, 2012 Danny Donovan 0 Comments

Well I am late, and I do apologize. Between an upcoming move in the next few weeks and trying to work myself into an early grave to afford said move, I am running behind on a lot of things.

One of the other reasons I had been putting off my column had been I was really hoping there was something, ANYTHING other than Treyvon Martin to talk about. It really hurts my soul to see this kind of injustice happen day after day.

It’s little different than what happened to my friend K. Made even more tragic by Treyvon’s age and the senseless nature of the crime. It seems the world is getting darker by the minute, that even an honest display of sympathy is turned into an applause line for a ravenous base of genetic rejects.

President Barack Obama made a statement saying “If I had a son, he would look like Trayvon.” In his voice you could hear the empathy, and emotion. This was not said out of duty, but out of an understanding that ‘there before the grace of God go I.’

The likes of Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, Newt Gingritch  can’t understand the idea of how dangerous it can be just walking to the store in some places. Where I live now, you would think is a ‘good area’ but we’ve had our fair share of rapes, murders, muggings, etc.

Even with that you don’t have a bunch of armed vigilantes roaming the streets looking for trouble. You just have a corrupt police force.

The Trayvon case is a difficult one for me to stand by and watch be turned into poltical football by a bunch of heartless old men, for one because of how much it resembles the death of my friend last April. I hear that 911 call, I hear Treyvon screaming for help, I can’t help but think of K. When those 11 shots went into him, was he screaming for help and no one coming to his aid to?

I am really proud of the media keeping up with the story and I hope they can use it to spotlight all manners of injustices that happen every day. I maybe a no good liberal hippie, but I am not a gun control nut. If you want a gun and you are smart enough to know which end is the dangerous part and responsible to keep the damn thing holstered  then feel free to own one.

But there must be some kind of responsibility for allowing people who aren’t stable or have deep seeded prejudices to have access to firearms, let alone allow them to wear badges they can hide behind when they carry out their dirty work.

Newt Gingritch uses this tragedy to take a shot at Obama, that knows what its like to be seen as ‘suspicious’ by walking around an affluent neighborhood purely by the color of his skin. I wonder how much faith Mitt would have in the ‘free market’ if every time he went into a store some employee followed him around expecting him to steal something?

Newt finds it ‘appalling’ that President Obama would speak on a subject matter that he knows all to well. It’s funny, I find it ‘appalling’ when you divorce your wife while she fights for her life on a hospital bed, and allow her to pay for your college education but want everyone else to clean toilets at sub minimum wage for the same opportunity.

I find it appalling that a group of people who have never worked an honest day in their lives are talking about the struggles normal working Americans face in an economy gone to the dogs. I find it appalling that you would fight tooth and nail to protect a corporation and an unfertilized egg, but you couldn’t give a lick of a damn for those of us who are living breathing creatures living in the here and now.

I look forward to seeing a ‘reawakening’ in America, when come November all this comes out in the wash and people take a long hard look at these people and their hypocritical B.S. and send them packing.