Criminals are The Real Terrorists / It's Time to Take Back our Streets

What is going in our society today?  I am sick and tired of the senseless murders that continue to take place in Alabama. I pray that I am not alone in my anger; I trust that there are others that are just as fed up with this madness as I am. It is getting to the point where you can’t turn on your television without being plagued with the horrible news of someone being gunned down. The most recent account of this happened a few days ago in the city of Decatur, Alabama (see video link below).

http://www.waff.com/story/15342812/krystal-employee-struggles-to-cope-with-murders?autoStart=true&topVideoCatNo=default&clipId=6194641

 When did the deviants in our civilization become heroes? Yes, believe it or not, there are some idiots out there that actually think taking someone’s life, is cool. This blatant disregard for human life has quickly become a social norm for these people and it is time that we do everything in our power to stop this epidemic from spreading. It is time for us to transform our communities from “individual” societies to “collective” ones.  In a collective society we will once again become our neighbor’s keepers, which will allow us to do what our law enforcement officers and our political leaders have failed to do, which is to protect us.

It is also time for us to examine our social infrastructures and rebuild those that need repairing while discontinuing the ones that have proven to be ineffective. Our whole way of thinking has to be adjusted because in order for us invoke change on a macro level we must first facilitate it on a micro one.  We are in a state of emergency and if we refuse to step up to this challenge we will leave little hope for our children.

Let us all band together and fight these local terrorists by stopping the glorification of criminals in our neighborhoods. If someone goes to prison for murder they should be held accountable for that crime. There should not be any light sentences for first degree murders, no matter who they murder. This town needs a social enema. We need to petition our elected officers, to prosecute these people to the letter of the law.  Let us up lift those individuals that are working and supporting their families and/or trying to educate themselves, while we condemn those individuals that are breaking the laws and having children that they cannot afford to take care of.