Monday, October 7, 2013

Finding Integrity and Accountability in America



I am a writer, I try to write an article every week and aim to increase that to 2 or 3.  I look for like minded individuals or those who are more open minded and free thinking.  While discussing some of my views one day someone said to me that I probably never take sides one way or the other, there are two sides to this (no pun intended).  One I am a writer, a free writer, I try to look at all angles as unbiased as possible, I try to present from a neutral stand point; something modern media seems to have forgotten, and I aim to educate, or at the very least challenge people to think on things from different perspectives.  That said there are some topics that I have leaned to one side or the other.  In regards to all these topics I have come to realize that there is one underlying thing, one underlying issue, one underlying attribute, one underlying source to all of things that I write about. 

Let’s explore some of these things shall we.

You may have read my article about Guns and Gun Control where I leaned, I argued for upstanding citizens to retain their constitutional right to bear arms.  I argued that Amendments to this Constitutional law would unarm law abiding American citizens while leaving the criminals armed.  I challenged the naiveté of those that believe the criminal element will turn in their weapons.  I leaned, and I leaned toward retaining my right to bear arms, your right to bear arms, and chastised society for not standing up and with a little more integrity, with a little more grit.

I wrote an article about a video I saw regarding an officer who shot a injured girls father where I leaned toward the side of the officer, after reviewing several sources I used my own mind, crazy as it might seem, to conclude that as tragic as the incident was it was not the fault of the officer, it was not even the fault of the 4 year old who ran into the street, no, I concluded it was the parents and society to blame.  It was the lack of parenting and society’s acceptance off this decline, indeed society’s facilitation of this decline that was to blame.  It was the lack of integrity, and the lack of values, the decline of accountability, and the fall of values that once built greatness and now only serve to facility laziness.

In my article Finding America I state  I talked about the Boston Marathon shooting and other incidents and I leaned when I stated “It’s corporal punishment for America, where the general population will now suffer for the actions of a few.  Where the government cajoles and manipulates people into thinking that striping away more liberties is the only way to create more safety.  America, where we are sinking lower in our education and blindly following media and political agendas.  Where we no longer stop to think for ourselves, and have forgotten how to dig down and fight for what we once believed in! “ This wasn’t the only time I leaned against the media accusing them of having political agenda’s and no longer offering us the die hard search for the truth they once did.

One of my favorite and first articles The Decline of Personal and Societal Accountability I accuse the American people of sitting idly at best and facilitating the decline of accountability at worse.  
.  Then of course are the articles I have written about our school system, student loans, and the difficulties children and adults alike face when they decide to take their education seriously, the cost in all facets is staggering.

Have you noticed a theme yet?  Well for one thing every issue could use more integrity, for those who may have forgotten Merriem Webster’s Dictionary defines it as :firm adherenceto a code of especially moral or artistic values:incorruptibility  or:  an unimpaired condition:soundness  or 3.: the quality or state of being com.  The other is the decline of Accountability.  But overall, I feel frustrated because people miss the main point of it all.  Being a good person.  IT really all comes down to being a good person.  Most people have become numb, they have lived this lie too long, they don’t see the benefit in stopping the car for a squirrel, it’s not about the squirrel, it’s about your character.  They don’t stop to protect a person in danger, they walk on, not wanting to get involved even if it is so obviously wrong to them.  They want to pass the buck, blame others and let accountability and integrity die.

I hope that after reading this at lease of few of you will agree that something must be done about the decline of accountability and integrity, I hope even more will take a good look at their integrity and accountability and even more will act on it.  America we are in trouble, we have compromised one compromise after another and now I am afraid we do not know who we are or who we once were.  Let’s find ourselves, our integrity and our accountability. 

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