Washington, D.C. and its
surrounding suburbs are interesting places to visit. Populated by over two
hundred different nationalities, legal and illegal, it is a hodge-podge of
humanity stuck in bumper to bumper traffic on most days and nights.
One of the most densely
policed places in the world, it is easy to lose yourself in the many purposefully
narrowed streets to make them difficult to vehicular traffic, the roads with
double names, one name before it crosses a major highway and another name on
the other side, the barricaded buildings, the check points, and the unmarked
police cars and menacingly-looking plain-clothed police armed for urban
assault.
On the best of days, the District
of Columbia is a lovely place to visit if you are a museum lover, an admirer of
the many monuments and memorials on the National Mall, the Reflecting Pool, the
botanical gardens, the art galleries of the Smithsonian, the green parks with creative
and intricate statues, the Natural History Museum, the Spy Museum, Madam Tussauds
Wax Museum, and the Ford Theatre where President Lincoln was assassinated.
On the worst of recent days,
D.C. was a dangerous place for an unarmed young mother with a toddler in the
back seat of her car who got so lost and frightened, trying to escape from so
many men and women pointing guns at her, she did not stop in time and was shot.
Did she deserve to die? Should they have shot her tires first or used road spikes?
Life used to be precious to our Western culture, not death.
On the worst of days in
September, a crazed gunman with employment credentials and revenge on his
clouded mind shot a lot of innocent people in the office building in which he
had easy access and clearance to enter.
On the best of days of
spring, D.C. is a fragrant symphony in pink cherry blossoms, surrounding the Tidal
Basin and dotting the landscape of the surrounding buildings. The 1912 gift of
3,000 cherry trees from Mayor Yukio Ozaki of Tokyo becomes a joy every year during
the month of April, snowing flowers everywhere.
On the worst of government
shutdown days, overzealous and petulant D.C. bureaucrats who claimed to serve
the people turned away WWII veterans from their own memorial for which they’ve
paid dearly in blood and treasure. Politicians wanted to make life as miserable
as possible for American citizens during the unnecessary government shutdown.
The government was too broke, they said, to stay open but found money to hire armed
police and personnel to man barricades in an open-air monument that otherwise
does not require much maintenance or guarding.
On the worst of days this
week in D.C., the vets, who were arrested for crossing over the barricades at
the Vietnam Memorial, were shocked when illegal aliens who broke our laws and
crossed our borders illegally were allowed to rally on the National Mall,
demanding amnesty. The illegal aliens and their progressive activists and
lobbyists have more power and rights under this administration than American
citizens do.
Breitbart News reported
that an elaborate set of “four Jumbotrons, port-a-potties, special event
fencing, tents, and raised and lighted stages” were set up across the National
Mall for illegal aliens who invaded the U.S. in violation of our law. Meanwhile, veterans who fought in Normandy,
Europe, Iowa Jima, North Africa, and freed Europe of the scourge of Nazism were
told by gun-carrying park police to back off and move along from the monuments
they paid for with their blood and treasure.
On the best of days, D.C.
witnessed millions of peaceful tea party marchers who were taxed enough
already, yet most of the MSM ignored them and wrote them off as a few thousand
radical right wingers with extreme views, an “AstroTurf movement” as Nancy
Pelosi so derisively called them.
On the worst of days, D.C.
is a place to fear and the seat of power, corruption, and pettiness. Big rigs drivers
understood that. Unlike the past when truckers caused gridlock in Washington
with their demonstrations, few American truckers showed up this time to protest
their bloated government that does not seem willing to stop spending, taxing
its citizens, and devaluing the American dollar. Truckers were afraid – the implied
threat of the National Guard was promoted on Social websites and many retreated
in fear of their government. Those who did show up and had to obey the closed
roads signs spent upwards of $1,500 one way in fuel alone to make a stand
against the tyrannical government.
The District of Columbia
is the seat of government for the select few, the globalists with money, the
lawyers, progressive education policy deciders, and the powerful lobbies that
determine the fate of 307 million Americans and indirectly the economic fate of
the rest of the world.
Washington, D.C. is our nation’s
capital but it appears more like the capital of everyone-who-hates America and
its culture, where deals are made secretively in the dead of night, where the
American stellar health care enjoyed by generations has been destroyed in the
name of progressive Marxist fairness, social justice, and community organizing,
replaced by rationing and death panels.
D.C. is now a place where
extreme leftists reign, undermining the rule of law. Michael Reagan said, the “law
is applied through a filter of how the application affects a group, instead of
being applied impartially regardless of the group or individual circumstances.”
(reaganreports.com)
On a cloudy day, when the
District of Columbia was cloaked in a gray mantle of drizzling rain, I went to
the mall to walk. One of the chain store windows displayed 3 oversized, bright red
signs with the unfortunate words, “SALE! Thank Congress; Thank Mr. Obama,
Government Shut Down SALE!!! Extra 20% off, up to 70% off.”
Commerce is good for the
country, we are a consumer-oriented economy, and two-thirds of our GDP is
consumption. Some might even say there is too much conspicuous consumption.
Should we thank Congress
for not doing its job and passing a budget in four years? Should we thank Mr.
Obama and Congress for passing the unaffordable Affordable Care Act in the
middle of the night with only Democrat votes? Should we thank Nancy Pelosi for
telling us that we must pass the bill in order to find out what’s in it? We did
find out, Rep. Pelosi, and we don’t like it one bit.
Should we thank our
president for taking a wrecking ball to our stellar healthcare? Health insurance
did need revamping, several million
Americans did not have insurance, could not afford it or were dropped because
of preexisting conditions, but why replace it with one-payer government-run
ineptitude which turns out to be much more expensive? How are those exchanges that
cost taxpayers over $693 million working out so far? After all, they were quite
pricier than originally quoted ($93 million).
On sunny days D.C. is a
place of green parks, paved streets, and heavily shuttered and protected glass
and concrete buildings occupied by faceless bureaucrats in grey suits, carrying
heavy briefcases stuffed with new regulations, rules, laws, and taxes that the American
proletariat must follow and obey.
