I can only hope that more and more of you folks get finally fed up with the propaganda that is put out day by day; week by week and lie by lie to you. West Virginia for all its advantages of yesterday is in the middle of a vicious and family destroying decline.
One can look at the deteriorating Educational System; the loss of so many family wage jobs and the lack of opportunity for many. The garbage put out on how Tourism is going to save and revitalize the State is Bull. Some folks will be happy to get a 20-30 hour a week job flipping burgers or waiting on tables in a sit down restaurant. But I am going out on a limb and suggest some of you may well want more for yourselves and your families?
I listen to the media and its finally getting really serious on the Drug Epidemic in the State and truly how it has and is exploding here in lost lives and futures. It could have been curtailed so much better here in Wood County had Williamstown and Vienna stepped up to reality and the Truth sooner. Now a lot of catch up and trying to get to the table with some good stuff to protect the folks many times from themselves. In fact we here in Vienna should be a bit ashamed that Williamstown beat us out of the gate by a year or year and a half. But they did and that helped stop that 15 miracle mile run from the Marietta Bridge to Murdoch Avenue. Now to keep up the good work and expand on it !!! For the moment, it may well seem we are losing the battle but we have not yet lost the war.
The sad bombing in Manchester, England makes me shake my head at the World we live in now and what will the view in another 10 years? So much of what has gone wrong in Europe, the Countries brought on to themselves. Opening the borders to everyone and anyone with no viable screening process has clearly been a disaster.
It will be our turn sooner than later as we still have people just walking in and disappearing into each and every little (fill in the blank) version of their home Countries. For examples and clearing being noted as such, the little Koreas, little Russia's, the little Vietnams and so forth to now the little Syria's, Iraq's and so on are nothing but disasters waiting to happen. Look up North to Minnesota with its very large Somali population and how many hundreds of them have either come here radicalized or worse were born here in the past 20 years and have become radicalized. We somehow and I for sure do not have an exact or acceptable answer need to be so aggressive in how we allow people into the U.S. and equally what they are doing when they get here? Being very security conscious, many would be stopped at the Gates wherever they maybe and sent back.
Yesterday an Arena for a Concert; but last month or year, a Mosque or three in Pakistan, a girls school in Afghanistan, a gathering of recruits in Iraq to enter their Army. And of course I would hope you have remembered the butchery in France, Belgium and now England?
It is so important to understand that only about 10% or the Muslim World, a mere 100 or 110 Million Islamists want to murder us for being Christians, Jews or even other Muslim Sects. The rest are God Fearing, hard working family people who want only to live a good life.
It is necessary here for me to admit that I can get shook up when I see a woman in a Burqa in one of the local stores here. A group of Muslim men walk in or even a few Muslim women no matter they have children with them. Have I stopped living my life; NO. Just ever more cautious.
We are as are so many of our Cities, Towns, where ever, very soft targets. Because of my too strong safety and security mentality, I always look at the weak points of any place I go. I have rightly or not evaluated our little airport, the Mall and even stores I enter. Many spots trigger a reaction in me on how easy it would be to (fill in the blank). The only point that I can think of is that while we are a soft target is the million of others all over our Country which I pray give us space from harm. I have put it out before that one should continue to live their lives as they would wish too. BUT be alert/ be safe. 'nuff said'.