I’m so disgusted with humans right now. One kills. Thousands more call for his head. of course what he did was wrong and horrible. i’m not condoning it. BUT… What is wrong with humanity. have we always been like this? I think we have actually. People say the world is getting so violent but i think it’s actually less violent over the past few hundred years. Is that why we behave so poorly when something so shocking happens in our backyard? Because it doesn’t happen frequently? Or are we just lost as a race? I don’t know.
I’ve been quiet the last few days. Not really saying a thing. Only reading and watching. It’s been disgusting. I certainly feel for the people who were in Moncton and held hostage in their own communities. That is truly awful. I can’t imagine or relate. I’m glad I don’t know that feeling of terror. Watching social media during this experience was terrible. EVERYONE complaining about how it’s being handled…people starting fan pages for the gunman…people trying to FRIEND the gunman on facebook!!!???!!! WTF?!? People admiring his “poetry” on his profile…people blaming it on Metal Music and calling for the heads of bands he was quoting…’Call in the military’…’enough is enough’…People complaining about our tax dollars funding the search. Now people are complaining that our tax dollars will have to fund his incarceration. I wish I had a little crystal ball as well so I could also tell the future with such certainty!
I didn’t realize I had so many experts on this sort of scenario in my life. I don’t know why the RCMP even had to do the search and capture with so many obvious experts online shouting their advice. Tweeting the location of the RCMP search. What the ever loving fuck people!?! All you folks who are screaming ‘he should have been shot on the lawn’ or ‘ i know I would have if I had been there’. Seriously? are you kidding me? I’d love to see the look on your face if they said, “ok, here is a gun, go shoot him in the head”. All you online tough talking nutbars would be singing a different tune then wouldn’t you? No one in their right mind ever wants to actually kill another human. So stop.
Social media is both a pro and con in this case. It CAN help apprehend people of interest by times IF used as directed by EXPERTS who have proper TRAINING to do said jobs. In this case all social media did was spread fear and terror to one another instantly. Posting lies you read somewhere online does not help anyone. People need to think more and yammer less. Not to mention people and media posting a video of an officer of the law being murdered!
WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT???!!!
Who needs to see or hear that? Take a second next time you’re about to post something online and THINK about what you’re saying. Would you say that in person ? would you back up your actions in person ? Do you know for sure that what you’re posting is a truth? If the answer is no then I suggest NOT posting it.
BE THANKFUL PEOPLE.
Be thankful we have the RCMP to do our hard work. Be thankful that you don’t have to be in harms way. Be thankful that you’re safe. Most of us don’t even spend one second a week thinking about how lucky we are to live free and safe. Do it. take ten seconds right now and imagine what it would be like to live in terror everyday. Not Free. Unsafe. Hard to imagine isn’t it? That’s because we can’t fathom it. Most of us have spent our whole lives safe and free.
Today of all days, stop and appreciate your freedom. Last night, a few in uniform did what no one wants to do so we other citizens don’t have to. I’m grateful for their work. 70 years ago hundreds of thousands did the same. Im very grateful to be alive and free because of their selflessness. Lets all smarten the fuck up a bit and try and get our heads on a little straighter shall we? Quite bitching so much. Love more. After all, that IS what these Heroes have died for.
I know there are good people out there still I’m not lumping it all in one sack. I know were all just trying to figure it out. So am I. This rant/post are just some of my thoughts. They gotta come out. I’m sorry if I’ve offended some but that’s inevitable. I’m just trying to sort it all out. Make sense of the confusion. Hopefully, just like you.