Police this (holds crotch), mother fucker!

First of all, I received my fourth speeding ticket. Technically fourth and fifth, including a ridiculous expired tag charge. At this point in time, I should have disciplined myself from speeding, but really can you discipline yourself from speeding completely? The answer is "Hell fucking no!" First of all, if you tell (actually demand) society to refrain from something, there will always be temptation to do that thing, whatever it may be. Things like drugs, explicit sex, j-walking, the lottery are just some examples I conjure up at this moment that are vices that if lawfully taken away will always find their way to individuals. Same with speeding, different with it not being materialistic, but in theory, the one thing it has in common with the mentioned above is that all are considered "evil." And watching a cop break several traffic violations that I'm forced to abide by is just plane wrong. I think today's debacle with eight police dykecicles within a one-mile radius, catching speeders around a curve on the interstate is completely ludicrous and on a par with the police cameras at red lights. This is one among the many issues I have with the police structure and the city of Atlanta period. I cannot recollect who said it, but the "the people should not fear their government, but the government should fear the people," quote should apply to the authoritative structure of police. Their duty might be to keep us, the people, in line, but there is no reason that we, the people who pay for their shiny fast cars with our taxes, should have to stand behind yellow tape just because a man with a badge said so. I believe that police, instead of taking advantage of the civil rights granted to all, should practice their duty as civil servants, not a military force. At least then, people in Dekalb County wouldn't be getting shot all the time. I'm sick and tired, and I think people should rise up and do something about this. You can take authority to such a level before it becomes fascist, and that is the level our country is heading. Just the fact police officers who murder (Yes, I say murder, because anyone killed intentionally by another person is murder), can be justiably protected by the body of our government that upholds morals and values above anything else is fucking pathetic, and I will have to agree with Rev. Wright when I too say "Goddamn America!" When there are individuals spawning religious principles off as "morals," then society has taken a wrong path, which also will lead to fascism. Police officers take an oath to "protect and to serve" the people. More like "Protect the rich whites from the eerie black folks, and serve the careless speeders with tickets." That, ladies and gentlemen should be the new oath of the Atlanta Police Department.

This actually transitions into my next religious banter. Tonight, while Amelia and I left Starbucks, a man approached us and asked for money in what turned out to be a two or three minute speech about how he's 45 or 54 years old and is truly trying to live and how it's not right for his situation to be so. His "monologue" practically brought be to tears inside. I stopped the car and Amy gave me a dollar to give the homeless gentlemen. This puzzles me, because in Sunday school (not capitalized, because it's not a real institution) we were taught that God loves all his children, but how can God love the ones he/she/it puts into horrid situations? And why does this vast population of middle class suburban church-going families and mansion-living rich families feel that God loves them more. You know, I might have to agree with the fact God does love the rich more now. I mean, just looking at how many people are starving in this world alone is enough to make anyone (well excluding the rich) believe that God doesn't care for the poor. According to the bible (that book that's collecting dust somewhere in between my copy of Shopgirl and James Patterson), God sent his POOR son to die for us. It says that Jesus was poor. Then why are there churches the size of Brandsmarts (OHH MY GODD!)? This world we're living in is cruel and unjust. And these people are the one's driving the bullet to hell, if you believe in it. Not to mention, incidents like this make me question the existence of God completely. How about instead of believing in God just to get a one-way ticket to heaven, how about not believing due to the fact that you opened your fucking eyes and saw that why did God make all of this that's bad in the world. Of course I'll get responses like "Oh, Satin invented evil." Wait! Where the fuck did this character come from? It's like you say there's a room and there is only one person in this room, but then you say: This guy asks the guy next to him, "Hi, do you have the time?" What I mean is that Christian morons cannot pawn off God's mistakes on Satin. It's almost like an escape goat. You see this all the time with any loopholes throughout biblical history. You even see it today with assholes saying, "Satin made me do it." No, your so-called perfect God gave you a free-thinking conscious, which made you decide to do something as absurd, but cool as cock-slapping the pope in the face and calling him a Nazi. I've always considered myself on the fence with the topic of religion. I hate it when people create "sides." Only one group created the term "sides" because another group of people had different opinions. And what do you know, suddenly the other side is the "bad side." Before you know it, the "good side" is recruiting others and if you don't join the "good side," then you're on the "bad side" and will spend the rest of your eternity with the "bad side." I think it's possible to have complete confidence in the fact there is/is not a God, but I'm tired of being pressured into either group. I make my own decision.

And on a related topic, yard signs, like the height of a redneck's lawn, have got to go. It's hard enough driving past billboards on 75 that show hookers that will do whatever you want, fast food restaurants that also will do whatever you want, but I just want to drive through a neighborhood without being corneally raped by garish signs that have a name of someone that will do nothing about issues like poverty and police/government corruption. I do believe I just made a New Rule. I should start a New-Rule-A-Day.

Alright, so I just decided not to stop blogging to watch Robert Altman's "The Player" tonight on the Sundance channel. Instead, I quickly opened up another window, headed over to Half.com and bought it new for six bucks. So, moving onto the next topic...

Before coming in here to blog, Ma and I were watching "the Colbert report." I chose not to capitalize "the" and "report" because anything before or after "Colbert" should not be proper due to the fact it will take the beauty away from Stephen Colbert. Anyways, getting back to the show. ma and I were watching his segment where he interviews a guest, and he was interviewing a man who wrote a book called "Iraq: The Islamic State." Colbert asked the gentlemen if he's seen the new Iraqi Constitution that he "helped" draft. The man said that was able to read the Iraqi constitution and Colbert rapidly asked the man asked if our amendments, individually, were in their document. He agreed to every amendment Colbert threw out, even freedom of religion. This is a major strain in Iraq, because Muslims claim Iraq as an Islamic state. And judging from what I've studied about Islam, they don't take too kindly to other religions interfering with their land. Therefore if the option (which I'm sure will evolve into persuasion which will rot into coercion) of Christianity is offered in Iraq, more people will be killed. I'm not an expert in this field, but the situation became worse with hypothetically soldiers "giving" freedom to Iraqi citizens, and if opposed to this scary new virus called democracy, they are killed. It's the old facetious joke where a soldier tells the man, "You are free," but since the man has no clue what freedom means he responds with, "I don't want YOUR freedom." And so the soldier shoots the man and asks the rest of the people in sight, "Does anyone else not want freedom?" I'm sorry, but I think there is no way to secure freedom with a gun. This is where I agree with Obama, because I know there are racist, white, christian southerners saying, "Oh, he wants to take away my gun, well, if I got a chance, I'll shoot him!" Little does he know that you cannot defend your right to bear arms by using those arms. Going back to the joke, It man says, I don't want YOUR freedom" in reference to us giving them what we have, but they don't have what we have. They don't have expensive cars to drive and watch flat-screen TV's, but you know that they do have? Starbucks that they can't afford. This makes me want to create a short film that takes place in a Starbucks located in Iraq. The workers make drinks and say things like, "Okay, I have a nonfat, moca-latte, cappafrappachino, with whipped cream and Cinnamon for Sargent Lance Dawson." And "We have a no calorie, java steamer for Colonel Jessep." Something that is incredibly satirical, but contains a message about the ugly business world and the hand of corporatism and capitalism. I was talking to Ma earlier and she commented that John's daughter Jennifer, said that the marketing world is horrible. This is a semi-rich, white, southern, christian who went into studying marketing and was hit with the reality of the people behind the ads. Aside from her religious principles, her moral principles took over and told her this game of "business fashion" is unethical. Now, after having gone through school to become a marketing person, she now wants to go back to school to do something else. Sounds like she should have expected what she was getting into. But really, when you look at the corporate marketing world, it really is the so-called Christan, white, right individuals who really own this country. This is why, although somewhat flawed by the same principles, I think America does need change. This is why we need someone who will say no to secrete contacts behind closed doors, and no to product placement. But, the truth is you have to endorse these things in order to get elected in the fist place. Although, even flawed by this disease of capitalism, someone like Hilary or Obama should be elected, just to get us in the right direction. Yes, there might be flaws with these individuals that will be mistakes, but first of all, I won't be dumb enough to cover up mistakes like the stupid fucks who justified Bush's decisions like bringing a war zone into a war zone. Even better, we need someone like Dennis Kucinich or Russ Feingold who will restore the heart of America, instead of making the heart of America something that sits inside of Dick Cheney's chest.

I didn't intend this post to go on for as long as it did. I just felt like I needed to get a lot out and this was just the place to do it. I'm mad, I'm pissed, I'm angry, and I'm proud to be in the land of state with the fruit that resembles a vagina, and the home of the Braves. Goodnight ladies and gentlemen! I would like to thank my panel for sitting in and I'll see you next week.