I can just see the breadlines now . . .

An article I read on the WSBTV website yesterday perturbed me. I'm sure all of you oversensitive, overbearing, and overprotective parents out there are leaping for joy and gleaming your pearly whites over this one, but I, for one, find this situation scary and unfair. The article is quite truncated and concise. It states that a college in my town of Newnan had a student by the name of James Milhauser threatened students at the cafeteria of the school by saying that he was "organizing an attack against the lunchroom crowd." It follows by stating that the police investigation of the threat, taken as an act of terrorism, yielded that the kid had no concrete plans for carrying out the threat. Ok, all of you soccer moms can now inhale a peaceful lung full of fresh air knowing that one more terrorist is taken off the streets, for the article reports that he was booked at the Coweta County jail. Hooray for the office of homeland security! They can't seem to keep dangerous people from boarding airplanes with implements of destruction, but they do an EXCELLENT job of arresting kids who make unfounded "terroristic threats."

I am ashamed of the local police force. I am also ashamed of the citizens of Coweta County, and more specifically, Newnan, Georgia. We have allowed our country to take an event that devastated us all in some fashion and tuck our little legislative tail between our legs only to sit in a corner awaiting anything that even remotely resembles something that could be related to a small portion of the aftermath that was this same catastrophic event. In short, we have completely overreacted in this situation. I would say "I believe" that this was overreaction, but, since there was no evidence of an attack against this lunchroom crowd, there were no accomplices, and the kid really seemed to just be reaching out for a friend or maybe just some attention, we have totally missed the point. I haven't paraded around with a pen and pad inquiring from all of those people who know this Milhauser kid as to how he's been acting the last eighteen months, so I have no inside knowledge about Mr. Milhauser's psyche, moxie, or mores. I am not clairvoyant enough to read the article and just understand the whole situation, but I can make an accurate prediction of where this country is going if we don't all have an over sized cup of coffee and realize how much micromanagement laws limit our freedom. The next step for the school systems is to pass bylaws that allow school officials to expel students for a child's' just saying that they're going to beat up another child after school. We as a nation are using the government guns to change the way people think. When a large mass of people utilize a common governing body to coerce someone to think and believe a certain way, we call that brainwashing. How is that different from passing hate crime laws or terroristic threat laws? IT'S NOT. The "moral majority" which is neither moral or the majority wants us all to believe that they are doing what's right in trying to alter the way those of us who don't "think the way we all should" by passing laws that bolster the severity of impunity. A conviction sentence for those who commit crimes against another race or nationality is DOUBLED. I don't hate any race or nationality more than I hate a white male American, so if a black man breaks into my house and I shoot him, I could get the death penalty.

Peruse history and tell me what the next logical step was for Germany and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics when stuff like this started happening. The answer is Communism. Bread lines. Specialization of workforce. Socialized medicine. Exorbitant taxation. You do the math. Personally, I'm apprehensive.

Do your part to turn this around. Contact your representatives and tell them what you don't like about current policies. Vote your convictions, not your emotions. Take ownership in your country. Do not let the elected officials have carte blanche. This is how Socialism starts, and Socialism ALWAYS turns into COMMUNISM.