WHAT PEOPLE WANT AND WHAT THEY GET

What people want is ‘better.’

‘Better what’ is the big question, and while we ponder that, we get what we can tolerate.

After time passes, we grow intolerant, and want something better.

In America, that can be a problem. Here’s why:

We’re Americans, the top of the top, the best of the best, and it doesn’t get any better.

Wanting better in America is like wishing you could be happier in your happiest time.

Here in America, wanting better is like ordering a magnificent meal on a full stomach and throwing it away because you’re not hungry.

What people want is the American promise, because it’s so much better than where they come from.

Some of them are leaving places where they can’t drink or wash with the water that comes out of a faucet.

 

“You can see some pretty stark differences between states,” said study lead author Alex Segrè Cohen, a social scientist at the University of Oregon. In Arizona, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania, “almost every county has high water violation scores,” she said.

 

People Want Cleaner Water, And Air?

Once your immune system clicks into death mode from drinking shit-water, and breathing air thick with pollution, how important are other issues?

Ask people on the death watch which issues are more important to them, survival, or what a stranger is up to with an unwanted pregnancy.

What’s more important, survival, or some stranger struggling to define their gender to their own satisfaction?

After you brush up against the idea that your time is limited, possibly very limited, like you might die from the water you drink and the air you breath, there’s clarity.

Or should be.

I met a guy in the cancer ward who said, “This is my second time and I’m taking it serious. I even stopped smoking.”

Another man said, “The first time I came for cancer treatment we all celebrated being clear. Now that it’s come back we’re not saying much.”

Whether cancer comes from personal habits, or the environment, it’s a deadly condition you can, and will, die from.

The people I’ve heard of who decided they knew better than falling for conventional treatment when a high dose of vitamin C does the same thing, died.

After they realized their mistake and submitted to chemo and radiation, they were too depleted and on the way out.

Does cleaner air and cleaner water help mitigate the occurrence of some cancers?

 

The volume of water isn’t the most pressing problem in Morrow County, however. The issue is pollution, which Amazon’s data centers have exacerbated since their arrival.

In response to a request for comment, Amazon spokesperson Lisa Levandowski replied that “the apparent narrative” of this story “is misleading and inaccurate.”

 

Yes, you can do everything right and it still goes wrong, but why not lean into what will most certainly do wrong and work to make it right?

What people want is a chance to make their own decisions.

Decide on clean air.

Decide on clean water.

After that, pay attention to the neighborhood.

 

People Don’t Want The Worst Of Times

From what I’ve gleaned from my travels and reading history, Europe from 1939 to 1945 was the worst of times.

I walked the streets of Paris, France and read about the place I stood where Jewish school kids were gathered and sent to death camps.

People were stopped in cars, pulled out, and never seen again.

People were shot dead in the street for the wrong response to the occupying force.

Policemen were recruited as executioners in the wake of the German army advances on the Eastern Front.

A year after WWII ended, the guilty parties had a chance to state their case.

 

The trial, which had lasted nearly 10 months, was conducted by an international tribunal made up of representatives from the United States, the USSR, France, and Great Britain.

It was the first trial of its kind in history, and the defendants faced charges ranging from crimes against peace, to crimes of war and crimes against humanity.

On October 16, 10 of the architects of Nazi policy were hanged one by one.

 

What about the policeman executioners?

 

It might also be worth noting that the german criminal code made it very difficult to prosecute war crimes because of the high requirements for evidence and witness statements.

A good example is the trial of Hubert Gomerski who, among other things, was seen to fire a machinegun at close range at an old woman.

Presumably she died but since all the other prisoners quickly looked away to avoid being shot too, murder could not be proven.

No one actually saw her die.

 

What People Want

 

PS: When justice comes, and it will one way or another, the people who perpetrated murder and suffering will answer. That’s what people want.

 

PSS: I’ve had one unanswered question over the past decade: Why have the leaders from the confederate states in the American Civil War happy to fall into lock-step with a northerner who celebrates the under-educated, who thinks no one notices his antics, and sign up to wear uniforms and carry weapons for a once negligible agency.

 

As a deportation officer with ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO), you will uphold U.S. immigration law at, within, and beyond our borders. Your work is critical to the enforcement of immigration law against those who present a danger to our national security, are a threat to public safety, or who otherwise undermine the integrity of our immigration system.

You will use smart, efficient strategies and tactics to manage all aspects of the immigration enforcement process, including the identification and arrest, transportation, detention, case management and removal of undocumented aliens.

You will conduct legal research to support decisions on removal cases and assist attorneys in representing the government in court actions. You may also work with other federal law enforcement officials to identify, locate and arrest undocumented aliens and are responsible for ensuring the physical removal of undocumented aliens from the United States.

 

This is what people want?