Powder Kegs & Fuses [View all]

“Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed.”
Malcolm X

Malcolm often pointing out that a key of gun powder alone is inert. It requires the smallest thing, a fuse, in order to explode. This week, any questions regarding if America is a powder keg were answered. The murder of Kirk was an attempt to light that fuse, as we witnessed with the aggressively ignorant response of the maga cult. But cold water was poured on this when the person who pulled the trigger turned himself in.

There is not much to say that hasn't already been said. Political violence is not the answer to problems, just as domestic violence is not an answer that solves family problems. No three year old should see their parent killed by a bullet, no matter if they are at a political rally, in Gaza, or in Ukraine. Nor should three year old children die in Gaza or the Ukraine. Sadly, there are some people who excuse these things and attempt to justify them as serving “the greater good.”

As a young man, when a cousin in Ireland was executed in front of his parents and siblings in Ireland, in their living room despite the fact he had no connection to the IRA, I was furious. But my eyes were opened when I saw a father of a young man from Scotland, serving the British crown, asked how he felt about his boy's cruel death at the hands of the IRA? “Exactly the same as the fathers of IRA members when they are killed,” was his response. I understood that he inhabited a higher level of consciousness than those justifying the violence of The Troubles.

Though I'm not the only one, I have been saying for some time that this country is sinking into our own version of The Troubles. The country is a powder keg. Someone attempted to light the fuse by killing Kirk, and leaving false clues. The maga cult are on the same level of consciousness as sheep.They were preparing to explode.

I will be interested in learning if the guy was a sheep in wolves' clothing, or if he was groomed by someone to be “patriotic.”