Many states have passed laws and rules regarding the use of medical marijuana, which were written to protect eligible patients, users, and caregivers from prosecution and arrest. There is a lengthy application process individuals must go through both to use the substance, sell it, and market it.

Patients and caregivers are required to acquire a registry ID card to prove they are qualified to utilize or administer marijuana for health or medical reasons. If you or someone you know has one of these cards, and has been arrested or detained, you have the right to remain silent and seek legal assistance. It’s a good idea to look for a law firm that has considerable experience handling, trying, and winning cases pertaining to medical marijuana. Because many of these laws are so new, there is still much uncharged territory for the courts, police officers, patients, caregivers, and healthcare workers. It is illegal to arrest someone who is legitimately able to use or distribute medical marijuana. Whether you are a qualified patient (user) or distributor, it makes no difference – you deserve the best legal representation available to fight for your rights.

There are thousands of eligible businesses that have been granted licenses to sell and market medical marijuana products, yet many are still harassed, targeted, and arrested by local police. Business owners that have taken the proper steps to obtain their licenses should be properly compensated for any losses due to illegal arrests, as their reputation can be irrevocably tarnished. There are many legal experts that are well versed on the laws and can properly argue the law in court to defend such cases. There’s only so much you can do on your own, as an average citizen or business owner. In cases like these, it is prudent to consult with legal professionals. Here are a few tips to keep in mind:

1) If you are a user or distributor, make sure you have legal documentation and licenses.

2) Always keep your paperwork and licensure properly displayed and readily available to avoid confusion.

3) Research local law firms that specialize in handling medical marijuana cases if it comes to that, so you can receive the optimal representation in a court of law.

4) You have the right to remain silent and have your lawyer speak on your behalf. Don’t give out any additional information until you have consulted with a qualified attorney.

“Legal problem solving – identifying and diagnosing problems and generating strategies and tactics to achieve client objectives – is a legally trained person’s most basic function. Most legal problem solving activity involves some legal analysis – combining law and facts to generate, justify, and assess a legal problem’s merits.” (Legal Services Practice Manual: Skills, 2010)

All lawsuits arise as a result of disputes involving facts. Our legal system revolves around resolving disputes through the application of rules of law to the facts of a case. Yes, trials and appeals are about “law,” but remember that the trial court judge, or the jury, is referred to as the “trier-of-fact.” Determinations of facts are so important that the Bill of Rights guarantees that facts once decided by a jury are pretty much the last word. The seventh amendment provides that, “…no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.” This clause forbids any court from reexamining or overturning any factual determinations made by a jury, unless the factual determinations are clearly erroneous.

The two major components of the dispute resolution process are the applicable law and the facts of the dispute. In the professional practice of law, you will be sifting through the case file to identify which of the hundreds or thousands of facts produced by discovery (for example, witness statements, deposition transcripts, answers to interrogatories, photographs, and correspondence) are “key” facts. Key facts are those facts that are critical to the outcome of the case. A key fact is so essential that if it were changed, the outcome of the case might well be different.

In law school, you are practicing this skill of focusing on facts – in order for you to learn to assess legal problems, you must be able to find the important facts… the key facts, the facts upon which the outcome of the issue in question depends. When writing an answer to a law school essay exam question, you must ferret out these salient facts from all the facts presented in the narrative. Think of them as keys that unlock point-scoring issue discussions.

But how? Here are the basic steps to determining which facts are key facts.

• Identify each claim possibly raised by the exam question.
• State the rules that will be used to resolve each issue of each claim. These rules include the elements which need to be addressed in the discussion of each issue.
• Pinpoint which facts in the question possibly relate to the elements of those issues.

This last step involves determining which facts may be legally significant. Legally significant facts might be, for example, that a tenant with an eviction notice has never been supplied with hot water; or that the shooter was an off-duty policeman; or that a party to a contract may have been a minor; or that the geographical distance between the provoking incident and the killing may have been long enough to provide adequate time for a reasonable person to “cool off” the heat of his passion.

After outlining your answer, read through the exam question one more time carefully and quickly (you should be quite familiar with the question by this time, so the reading can go much faster than it did the first time through). Make sure you have assigned all the facts presented in the hypothetical question (the exam) to some issue. If not, ask yourself if these facts suggest another issue, can be used to further explain an issue you already noted, or are merely “red herrings” (facts in the question which might lead you to an errant discussion). Then use this fact-rich outline as a roadmap for answering the question. Note that your outline need not include explanations of why facts are important – the detailed analysis comes in your answer. The outline is only your writing guide.

As for the outline, you may want to follow a traditional outline pattern (bullet points, hierarchies, mind-mapping, etc.)… or, to accent the fact-finding, you may want to think about a two-column approach. You can outline your answer using two separate columns. Specifically, you can list the issues in one column, and then note the facts that need to be discussed in relation to those rules in the column next to it. This method will allow you to match the issues or sub-issues of law with the facts of the question. Skimming through the question quickly (again) before actually writing the essay, you can quickly note if you have skipped over a fact.

Long before encountering exams, work on recognizing key facts. Focus on key facts when you brief cases for class. Some students find that including basic fact patterns in their self-made course outlines – as illustrations of the rules that appear in the outlines – helps them think of the rules in situational terms.

Many years ago, when I was a little boy, fictional Los Angeles police Sergeant Joe Friday, hero of the “Dragnet” television series, used to say to witnesses he interviewed, “All we want are the facts.” Well, there’s more to it than that when you’re trying to score high on a law school essay exam… but Sgt. Friday was zeroing in on one of the two essential components – you should too!

An increase in the number of cars operating on the roads has led to a tremendous increase in the number of car accidents also. In the midst of such unwanted events, lawsuits and criminal charges are bound to arise. As accidents are events having legal consequences, the role of a lawyer is that of great importance.

Fatal car accident lawyers exist to help a person file or defend a lawsuit. A car accident lawyer provides the offenders or car accident victims with information regarding the numerous practical and legal aspects of personal injury law and car accident claims. It is a fact that almost every person on an average is involved in at least one car accident in his lifetime.

Lawyers play an extremely important role in fatal car accidents. In such accidents, law may charge the offenders strictly. It is the duty of the lawyer to represent his client in court. By using legal expertise, a lawyer tries to avoid or minimize the penalties awarded by the court of law. In a fatal car accident they may also be required to defend a lawsuit. Contrary to this, lawyers may also be hired by the victims in order to claim compensations for the damages. This compensation is obtained by filing a lawsuit against the offending party. In case of a fatal car accident, it is the duty of the lawyer to preside over the details of the lawsuit. In the United States, lawyers play the role of counseling their clients regarding their rights, and argue in favor of the best interests of their clients.

In case of fatal car accidents the extent of the damages and injuries involved tend to be comparatively high, as a lot of legal requirements need to be complied with. A car accident lawyer is capable of effectively dealing with law authorities and insurance companies. Car accident lawyers have made handling a fatal car accident less complicated for people who are ignorant and unaware of any legality. Hiring a lawyer proves to be critical in ensuring that legal rights of the parties in the accident are protected.

The prominence of technology in the millennial person’s life remains noteworthy. With the introduction of social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, Tumblr, to name a few, there are countless platforms for global interaction. From transnational marketing campaigns to communal events, social media has set a benchmark whereby information travels across the World Wide Web. Safe to say, these podiums have been subject to life-altering events over the course of the past few years. Governments and NGO’s alike have propelled campaigns and ideas across social media to create awareness and revoke public reactions. The manner in which effective social media has taken the generic populaces by storm is truly revolutionary. Technology has equipped the unheard majority with an opportunity to voice their concerns about issues that affect health, lifestyle and the environment.

All of us have either heard of or taken part in viral social media campaigns that have reverberated as driving forces to creating a better world. Social media is out to target positive reform at the roots of society by creating evocative responses from the public. Now, we are more capable of cumulative change than twenty years ago. Whether it is to uplift a brand image or raise funds for a social cause, social media has done it all. These efforts have impacted billions worldwide.

The dawn of the 21st century could not be more optimistic for those who are out to make a difference in the world. Here are the success stories of instances where technology inspired social change. Here is how social causes went viral on pop media to inspire successful impact, changing lives by generating a singularity in consciousness amid diversity.

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge:

Lou Gehrig’s disease, termed ALS is a condition that affects nerve cells, the brain and causes drastic consequences to those affected. In August 2014, the ALS ice bucket challenge went viral on social media to promote awareness for ALS research, a disease that has no cure. The challenges required people to film and post a video of dumping cold water over their heads and nominate others to take up the challenge within a 24-hour frame. With celebrities and notable officials taking part in the challenge, it was only a matter of time before close to 20 million videos went viral on social media, contributing to the cause. Bill Gates and Geroge W. Bush were among those who took the ALS ice bucket challenge to social media. The response to the campaign favourably rose over $115 million for ALS research, exhibiting the compassion that humanity can pursue to help those severely affected. Besides creating awareness of ALS, social media served as the footstool to aiding research while creating a sense of unity.

#WaterIsLife presented the #FirstWorldProblems Campaign for clean water:

Water is Life, a non-profit organization aims to bring clean water to lesser developed and developing nations. Initiated in 2007, today they have helped bring clean water to people who live in remote villages across the world. By stressing on the differing approaches people have towards having clean water, with the #FirstWorldProblems hashtag, Water is Life managed to capture the hearts of millions. Social media played the vital role in carrying their incentive through the global platform, eventually creating awareness about clean water and provoking action towards improving the water crisis the world faces. With the #FirstWorldProblems hashtag, when people voiced concerns over minor inconveniences, it was retorted with life-threatening realities that many in other parts of the world face. By raising millions of dollars, Water is Life is the perfect example of the prominence of technology when it comes to positive change.

Mannequin Challenge:

At the peak of 2016, the internet went bonkers over the Mannequin challenge videos that went viral. The posts on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram featured an internet video trend where people appeared motionless usually with “Black Beatles” by Rae Sremmurd playing in the background. The challenge received worldwide acclamation as notable sports persons and celebrities took part by creating videos to go with the popular #MannequinChallenge. Most recently, as part of the feature film “Black in Blue,” sequences of such motionless videos were recorded, shedding light on the ‘Black Lives Matter’ campaign targeting racial prejudice. This powerful campaign surely remains as one of the most creative viral social media challenges till date.

#LoveWins Campaign:

Lots of people face challenges with sexual orientation and commonly when it comes to love. LGBT rights have been debated topics for centuries, often resulting unfavourable outcomes. The Love Wins campaign that went viral on the web was a showcase of acceptance, celebrating legislations passed to acknowledge LGBT rights in several countries. As on-going protests pave the way to equal rights in some of the other countries, this campaign is a stepping stone stressing on love and liberty. By embracing free-thought, #LoveWins is an expression of the freedom of choice. With many attractive filters and tweaks on social media, the campaign picked up the pace in celebrating the triumph of love over bureaucracy.

#MeToo Campaign:

The words “me too” are fresh in our memory as we just entered into 2018. As a silence breaker against sexual harassment, the #MeToo campaign has taken social media by storm. Celebrities have joined in on the social cause to promote awareness and take a stand against sexual harassment and prejudice globally. With millions of people rising to the occasion and voicing their stories about the harm of gender inequality, the campaign set fire to the media world. Conveying the magnitude of sexual prejudice, the social cause is trending on every social media site. Starting out as a hashtag, the campaign has evolved into a supporting cry against sexual harassment exposing offenders and instilling newfound confidence for victims. Public figures worldwide have honoured the noble intentions of this controversial campaign, voicing concerns. Most recently, with Oprah Winfrey’s speech at the 75th Golden Globe Awards, she shook the world with tough words against sexual prejudice, equal pay, honouring the strength of a woman. The campaign has served as a say for millions and helped transform hardened ideologies in industries that turn a blind eye towards sexual prejudice.

Social media has once again penetrated the minds of populaces, encouraging change and expressing genuine concerns. Ignorance can no longer be justified by the claim, “I was not aware.” United by the common ideals of love and humanity, technology continues to inspire social change. Even if reality becomes harsher, there will be a glimmer of hope that reveals potent human endeavours that refurbish hope.

“We are more united and have far more in common with each other, than things that which divides us.”

These words were spoken by UK MP Jo Cox in her maiden speech to Parliament in 2015. One year later she was murdered and her words went viral.

From the other end of spectrum consider the delusional and divisive comments of the President of the US on the night of 2020 Presidential election trashing the US electoral system in the eyes of the world.

We are currently living in troubled times where:

• Experts are denigrated and ignorance, bias and prejudice is celebrated;
• Intelligent discussion and agreement to disagree and respect for other shades of opinion are denied in the current cancel culture;
• Public debate is hijacked and taken over by group think and mob rule.
• Woke thinking takes precedence over reasoned debate;
• Virtue signally takes precedence over private philanthropy.

And yet most of the time, in most circumstances, people are the same.

# More In Common And The Narcissism of Minor Differences

So why is there so much antipathy and hostility between people who are in many ways quite similar?

We seem to take our common humanity for granted and instead obsess over subtle divergences in culture, character and points of view as if they are the end of the world.

Freud called this phenomenon “the narcissism of the slight difference.”

He argued-long before we understood what cognitive biases were-that the small differences between us are magnified in our minds and thus drown out our similarities.

According to Freud the reason for this is the desire for distinct identity. Thus if we can identify and magnify small points of difference these become differentiators.

Thus the more we realise how much we have in common with other people the ego resists the feeling that we are not that special after all.

To protect our sense of self and keep this dissonance at bay, the ego constantly seeks to construct and reinforce its identity by artificially inflating the significance of these small differences.

Add social media to the mix and the narcissism of the slight difference is subject to a major multiplier effect. So given that our minds are programmed by our egos to disparage similarities and amplify slight differences the internet gives us endless more small differences to spot and react to.

# Similarities Between Groups of People Are Large and Important

I recently read an important piece of research that, unlike most studies which focus on differences, took a very large dataset and calculated the similarities between populations.

The study took a large international survey of 86,272 people and categorized them by age, gender, education, nationality, education, and religion.

The survey asked them all questions to gauge their values around 22 different topics (trust in science, the importance of education, morality, etc.)

The researchers then cross-analyzed the data in every way they could to determine which groups of people around the world are the most similar and dissimilar.

In all, they ran over 168,000 comparisons and found that, on average, people’s values were 93.3% the same.

Of all of the comparisons, only 0.66% of them produced results where populations were more dissimilar in their values than they were similar

# A Personal Perspective

My view is quite simple:

Why don’t we focus on that which we want in a positive way and drop the negativity bias?

A focus on difference is a focus on negativity and its effect is to divide.

A focus on common interest is holistic and its effect is to unite

What you focus on grows.

A focus on difference magnifies division.

A focus on common interest magnifies unity

So my question to all those who are championing any cause or point of view is this: Are you focused on the positives, on what you DO want to happen and thus on unity?

Or, are you focused on the negative, on what you DON’T want to see happen and thus on division?

Wouldn’t it be wonderful to see the activist group “Black Lives Matter” focusing on what they do want rather than what they don’t want?

So rather than focusing on instances of white police officers behaving badly towards black suspects they focused on what they do want which is instances where white police officers act with civility and decency to black suspects?

Imagine a video going viral showing a white police officer behaving in a kindly, helpful and supportive way towards a black person?

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the “Me Too” movement celebrated the lives and actions of prominent male producers who have acted with kindness and decency and shown courteous support to actresses?

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if the leading protagonists of the various causes espoused by “wokeness” focused on the positive examples of people and organisations who do behave in alignment with the causes they espouse.

In my view the fastest and most effective way to realise that we have more in common is to ensure that:

1. Your point of focus is positive
2. Your point of focus is on uniting people.

Further reading and resources on more in common

AUSCHWITZ The Nazis & The Final Solution: Book Review

Professor Sir Ian Kershew said of ‘Auschwitz – The Nazis and the Final Solution’

“Laurence Rees has cast new light on how Auschwitz was created and developed into the ultimate place of horror.”

Professor David Cesarai said: “A history of Auschwitz that is accessible and authoritative.”

The author, Antony Beevor, said: “Rees’ great urge to comprehend the mentality of the SS camp administrators and guards is fired not just by a passionate curiosity, but by an intellectual honesty that the subject needs.”

AUSCHWITZ-The Nazis & The Final Solution by Laurence Rees is a shocking account of man’s inhumanity to man. I started reading this book as bedtime reading but, after a few evenings, I could no longer continue reading it just before falling off to sleep. The cruelty man is capable of; even the cruelest animal on the planet could not match.

After reading this book, I can now understand why the Russians were so ruthless when the Germans were retreating from the Russian front. I did not realise that in the seven months of the war against the Soviet Union, the Germans took three million Red Army prisoners and, through the course of the war as a whole, 5.7 million, of whom a staggering 3.3 million lost their lives in captivity.

Auschwitz was built as a concentration camp and later developed into a camp for the purpose of mass murder of the disabled, the infirm, Jews, Gypsies and others from countries all over Europe – the Polish Jews in particular suffered untold cruelty.

In total, 1.1 million human beings – men, women and children – were murdered in this one camp alone. When questioned after the war, the commandant of the camp, Rudolf Hoess, did not see any wrong in what they had done; he had simply obeyed orders from Heinrich Himmler who it appears, as you read this book, was even more enthusiastic about the killings than was Hitler.

The book casts a sad and cruel reflection on Nazi German history between 1938 and 1945.

The feeling I had while reading this book was a kind of hopelessness and I asked the question, “Why?” Why was this horror allowed to happen? Our world governments knew it was going on but did little. In fact, history records that it was mostly individuals, a mere handful of people, who helped thousands to escape. The European and American governments were focused on the war to the exclusion of the holocaust. And as we know, for them the war was not about saving the six million Jews who perished, but saving themselves from Nazi occupation.

I recommend this book as a well researched and recorded piece of modern history, showing man at his worst.

PS. I found it difficult, in fact impossible, to understand such extreme hatred, toward the Jews in particular, and why it remains so today. I can only think of one possible answer, one a friend and scholar gave to me. “It’s Spiritual. It’s beyond our understanding.”

“The Humanity of Justice” is possibly the best book I’ve ever read on the modern American justice system. Relying on his own experiences as a Senior Deputy District Attorney in southern California, Burke E. Strunsky frames it this way: in a democracy, the justice system should not just be the objective interpretation of laws by professionals and systematic doling out of punishments based on precedents. The justice system is also an ongoing pursuit of what justice means. After reading Chapter 4, “The Jury: The Heart of American Justice,” I had a renewed appreciation for the jury system as a quintessential component of a democracy. The jury is the “we” in “we the people.” That is, the people have the responsibility and honor of deciding what justice is. Therefore, justice is a reflection of the moral will of the people. This book is about the people: the humanistic qualities and components of our justice system, but it is also a convincing argument that human emotions are a necessary supplement to logic and reason in deciding the psychological and sociological implications of crime, punishment and cultural analysis.

Strunsky doesn’t mystify the reader with romanticizations of courtroom drama and complexities of the law one might find in a Hollywood crime drama or a law class respectively. It is a demystification, but an enlightening one. While this seems like an overzealous or glorifying review, the book deserves this encomium because it integrates justice and the role of humanity itself within the ongoing project of American society as the pursuit of justice. When you finish reading it, to be sure, you will come away with a better understanding of the American justice system and you will be implored to look at real and fictional criminal cases with more critical eyes. You might consider, or reconsider, the very idea of justice, not just as some drifting abstract signifier, extracted from case law and dispassionately applied to subsequent crimes, but rather what it really is in a democratic justice system: something “we the people” reconstruct with each particular case. Strunsky provides ethical and practical comments in discussing some of his past cases (often brutal and horrific crimes he has prosecuted). This commentary never seems partisan and is always an elucidation. In other words, he does not dazzle you with incomprehensible court jargon; he explains it. For example, rather than using tactics to “trick” the jury into seeing a case his way, he explains (often misunderstood) jargon such as “abiding conviction” and “reasonable doubt” so the jury knows exactly what the court is talking about. He wants the jury (and all citizens) to recognize their individual roles in a social dynamic, to think like humans (thus, the title).

Among these broad contexts of justice and humanity, are the cases themselves. Some issues in the examples discussed are: flaws in capital punishments, the hypocrisy of clergy-penitent privilege, and the effective use of narrative in arguing the case. Strunsky presents the argument that we can improve upon these and other issues with a common sense (humanistic) approach to the pursuit of justice. Strunsky also devotes considerable time to crime prevention: socially in terms of gun control (a common sense look at this controversial topic) but also the economic, individual, and psychological precursors of crime: from prenatal care to adulthood. Strunsky brings what I think is a necessarily subjective, human spirit to supplement what is often thought of as an objective, law-written-in-stone institution.

History Of Street Cops, Gangs Guns and Cabrini Green Housing Snipers, By Greg Zito

Greg Zito, the author of this informative book, was an actual cop mostly in various areas in the city of Chicago. Greg tells it like it is in such a busy and dangerous profession, as police have to wonder into various areas of the city wherever they are requested. They never know what is really going on at the location called to or what they will encounter on the way to that destination. They generally have regular partners but not always so they have to learn to depend on the partner next to them now. These men and women of law enforcement have to be commended for the job they do for all of us, sometimes against all odds of survival. A certain bond is formed between law enforcement, a bond that only tightens when the times get tougher. They can have their differences but not when their partner or friend is in danger.

Greg Zito is not an accomplished author as you will find out as you read this story but he does a fantastic job of telling the reader what is going on in his own words and his own way, sometimes with a duplication but the facts come through very well. Greg has been part of law enforcement while in the U.S. Army (where he was an Military Police Officer), followed by a stint as a Chicago Transit Police Authority Officer, then the Chicago Police Force. He certainly has had lots of experience leading to his official retirement while on disability in 2002. He had been wounded on the job and could no longer perform active work. Greg’s heart is still in law enforcement as I could easily sense by reading his story.

Greg Zito has been in shot at, beat up, wounded, chased, accosted, argued with, lost and won mental battles, shot some culprits when necessary, and just about anything you could think of a police officer might do. The housing projects in Chicago presented a huge obstacle to the police force. Snipers would hide in those various floors of the projects and shoot, not just at police, but civilians too and other gang members, not caring who or what they hit. You have to read this book to get so much more interesting information that Greg has written for the world to read and absorb. Yes, he is now retired but has written this book over a period of many years and he has not lost his interest in informing the public of his interesting story and of many other law enforcement who can relate.

Modern true crime writers are like buzzards searching the terrain in search of a body. When they find one they swarm on it to devour. The main impetus for this is financial gain, using the tragedies of others to accomplish this. Looking for corpses is a good tool to use when you lack the creative imagination to write from within yourself and jumping aboard a current trend makes good sense.

Whether this is a good or bad approach to writing is an open question as one must find their own means for paying bills and eating. Some families want their stories to be told, either in remembrance of their lost family member, or as a way of using this harsh lesson to inform, alert, and instill caution in those that may find themselves facing a similar situation.

These crime writers become an expert, so to speak, in the particular case that they are investigating for their book. They want to be placed on the best sellers list and launder themselves in the publicity and notoriety that comes with this attainment. Leaping on dead bones gives them a sense of accomplishment. The higher profile the crime, the more they wade into it, and usually because they have not the slightest interest in the victim, but because they know to skim the blood from the body before it gets warm.

Television true crime stories are currently popular and this popularity has prompted many vultures to come out of their nests to cash in on this trend. Like vampires, they go for the juggler draining adversity for every drop that they can get out of it. They puff themselves up as being experts in every aspect of the case. They glide the fumes of a decaying body with visions of a paycheck placed into their hands. They use the hurt and sorrow of family members to add that emotional element to their book. Rarely are they of any help to law enforcement in solving the case.

This is not a knock on these people because everyone has to live and eat. And as it is said, you are what you eat, and if you choose to eat the dead, then you are a cannibal with putrefied blood dripping from your teeth. But your book has been published, so what do you care about this as you hover morgue’s in search of your next writing inspiration.

The idea of using every crisis to move your cause forward comes from Rahm Emanuel who said, “You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things you think you could not do before.” He is the Left hugging Mayor of Chicago. And his fellow Leftist’s learned the lessons well.

Why are we surprised and amazed as at the incredible speed at which our high schoolers organized to get rid of guns? Millions of dollars were donated to help the ‘spontaneous’ organization supporting our caring students in their quest to stop gun violence. Nationwide walkouts and constant coverage on CNN and mainstream media everywhere. Were you like me and wondered where the money would go? Within a week of the Parkland shooting, the rich and famous pledged millions of dollars for the high schoolers cause. Impressive. But setting up a 501-3c non-profit takes months. So where would the money go?

Not long ago we had the ‘crisis’ of monuments. The monument crisis occurs ‘spontaneously’ when someone on the Left is suddenly offended passing by a statue they’ve been driving by for decades. It is similar to the outrage that ‘erupted’ up over the police defending themselves, killing a criminal who happens to be black and suddenly the town is burned down because of all the injustice.

Do you suppose all the current walk-outs, protests and hoopla over our high schoolers being so upset they are taking to the streets is really about guns? If you believe that you probably think President Clinton ‘did not have sex with that woman.’ What burning our cities, tearing down our monuments and confiscating guns has in common is the Left’s obsession with fundamentally destroying America.

The recent Florida shootings are horrible. As are all school shootings, or any shooting for that matter. But do you think the spontaneous outrage of the Left is really due to the loss of life in Parkland? The kids at Parkland and all over the country are being exploited by the Women’s March organization with a little help from their friends. These kids didn’t miraculously wake up the morning after the shooting and organize themselves nationwide.

The Women’s March folks are the ones that proudly brought vagina hats into the mainstream. Led by Linda Sarsour, the Muslim plant in the women’s movement. They hastily created Youth Empower, a spinoff from their business because, well, the opportunity presented itself. Who are their friends? Groups like Emerge America let by Senator Pocahontas Warren. And the Women’s Media Center, the promoter of all things Left. Then you have hangers on like Teen Vogue, Peace First, Rise to Run, Rock the Vote and a few more wannabes.

If this is ‘genuine’ outrage for the kids murdered by a guy the FBI should have had locked up, where is the same outrage for the one million babies murdered each year by abortion. Where are the woeful cries from these same organizers if they hate children dying? Did they march for the 10,265 people killed by drunk drivers in 1965? Many of those are kids. I missed that march. New studies show that marijuana users and 25% more likely to be involved in a traffic accident. These same women’s organizations push for legalizing marijuana.

Where is the venom from the Women’s March group over domestic violence in America? In the War on Terror since 2001, we have lost just under 7,000 American servicemen and women. From 2001 to 2012, five years shy of the above time, 11,766 women died at the hands of a boyfriend, spouse or ex-spouse. The media apparently failed to report on that march on Washington.

We are at war in America. The Left, the Progressives, Liberals, Communists, whatever they want to call themselves today, have declared war on America. They are well trained, funded and organized. They have countless ‘organizations’ standing by for the sign that’s its okay to jump in. Case in point is the Baltimore School District, who by the way couldn’t afford heat for the schools this winter, announced it would send 60 busloads of kids to the upcoming anti-gun March in DC. And they’re sending them with meals and the logo t-shirts from the Women’s March, Youth Empower pop up. They could care less if the crisis involves high school kids, it must not go to waste. They are incendiary.

The quest to take our guns is boilerplate revolution dogma. “The most foolish mistake we could possibly make would be to allow the subject races to possess arms. History shows that all conquerors who have allowed their subject races to carry arms have prepared their own downfall by so doing.” That was Adolf Hitler. It’s not about guns any more than Black Lives Matter is about police officers killing innocent blacks. As Saul Alinsky once said, “The issue is never the issue.”

The battle is raging all around us. Too few cares to see it. The stakes are high. Our country is fast disappearing before the eyes of a few, while the masses are either too busy, in denial or don’t believe it can happen here. It is happening here, right now, and getting worse by the day. It is not about the guns, it never was. It’s not about injustice in Ferguson or Baltimore, and it’s not about those offensive statues. It’s a battle for our Judeo-Christian heritage and… it’s about the revolution.