by: Jenni Vinson
May 25, 2001
There seems to have arise a sense of discontent among the law enforcement ranks. Some may look on them and insist that THEY need to get their act together. We count on Law Enforcement to do their job. We expect them to be there when and if we need them.
America needs to come to terms with the fact that this discontent is primarily due to a societal lack of disprespect for law enforcement that this country has embraced since the 1960 Counterculture movement began.
Law enforcement officers became the enemy, the establishment�s henchmen, the PIGS. What they did in policing the counterculture youth became synomymous with everything that those rebellious youth saw as wrong with America. In their attempts to reign in the mayhem and reestablish social tranquility, which was their job, the police were accused of curtailing the freedoms of these youths.
These were people who had no idea what freedom meant, nor did they know what it cost. They were too self involved and dillusional about their great mission to FREE America to take stock of the number of souls that had laid down their lives in battle fields abroad on this land and of how these very police they hated and shouted obsceneties at- all likely knew of a fellow policeman who had bled and died somewhere on an American neighborhood.
Just how did this happen? The answer lies in following the thead that history weaved through time.
In the movie, Clear And Present Danger, the villan cries out to Jack, the noble hero, "It's gray, Jack! The world is gray!" in an attempt to persuade him that ethics and morals no longer rule the thinking man's world; that there is no longer a wrong and a right but, instead just a chosen decision.
We have inherited the effects of what philosopher, Nitchze set in place when he urged in his writings, that humans needed to shed off the restraints of religion so that we could determine just how high we could soar. Without the restraints of what he argued was a malevolent diety who oppressed us into conformity, humans would be able to achieve higher levels of thinking. It was his reason that we would leave the constraints of menial labor behind as we learned to ease our work and would evolve into a society where everyone was refined and cultured.
Even in the insane state of mania Nitzche was ranting from,( he suffered from bi-polar disorder) he managed to recognize that a human society would have need for restraints in the form of morals. He warned that the Christian morals needed to be dismantled, but that if we were not careful to place others in their place, society would fall into a state of "nilism", the belief in nothing; the gray area.
Nitzcheism suffered the same fate as Communism- it never completely materialized, but like Communism, it has taken some deep roots in the American psyche. I would have expected to have found his philosophy to have been completely integrated into the Liberal mentality because of the humanistics aspects of the thought, but I was taken aback by how the Religious sector of our society had been inflitrated by it as well.
All religions have suffered dilution because of the addition of Nitzcheism into the mindset of their American congregations. Nitzche's plan was to introduce his ideas through the government's school system. Students would be taught Reading, Writing, Arithematics while they were being indoctrinated into Humanism, the religion of the Self, for the new age, the enlightened and the truly free.
It is argued that Humanism is not a religion, but examining it clearly indicates
that it is. Humanism removes an external diety and replaces it with the "self".
Each individual is a "god" to be revered and worshipped. The element of "faith"
is placed upon the self and the element of "meditation" or prayer is utilized to
"center" or refocus on the self.
The institutions of marriage and family are in freefall in our country because of
this philosophy that insists that we should be willing to do a thing if it feels good
and discontinue doing the thing if it is no longer satisfying , even if the "thing" is
a marriage or the responsibility towards the raising of children.
People just walk away from commitments, big and small, feeling justified in their
actions because, after all, they have a responsibility, as disciples of Humanism,
to put themselves first.
What was a search for enlightenment for one generation of adults has become
disillusionment for the next generation of their children, who were left behind to
be raised by a single parent who was often so occupied with trying to meet
financial obligations that there was really no time left and the kids had to fend for
themselves.
These kids, many of them fell into Nitzche's nightmare: nilism. The area they
ventured to was DARK gray. There was no one validating them, so their life had
no defined value. Worst still, no else's life had value in their eyes either. As
humanistic gods they wrote the rule that stated that they could and would take
the life of another if they deemed that it was necessary in THIER pursuit of self
fullfilment and gratification.
And what we further see in this Humainistic plight that has infected our country,
is that even though Humanist Liberals HATE the concept of Capitalism, they
ended up going full circle because what they found was that the god who
amasses the most wealth and power gets to call the shots.
Now, more than ever, money and politics play a factor in all aspects of live, with
those power-wielding few using the rest of us as pawns in a game they play.
America is at a cross road--precariously unaware that reality has shifted zones.
We are in the process of losing our government based on Constitutional Law
and what is being offered in its place is quite unstable, at best. In a Liberal
Utopian America, we could do and say what our hearts, minds and flesh deemed
with the exception of having the freedom to choose-- religion, the bearing of
arms, life, the pursuit of 'collective' happiness. We would also live subject to the
lack of a safety parameter as each individual could decide to infringe on another
in what is clearly an unrestrained pursuit of happiness. Again, not at all what this
antion�s Founding Fathers had in mind.
And it is in this society that now exists to some extend (certainly more than we
like) that we turn to our law enforcement officers and declare to them: �Police
us if you dare!�
So, I understand the era of discontentment among the Law Enforcers, but if I
may, I would admonish you, as officers, to hold your head above this fray,
knowing that you best it.
There is a nobility in the choice you have made to serve you community- even
on to death- that sets you aside and lays at your feet, the command to be better
than the fray. You must reign in this discontentment before it scatters you and
renders our country irreparable.