THE LAWSON FILE: WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON AROUND HERE?
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Rick Coddington, whomever he may be, believes something is very wrong.

I agree with Rick.

He may be a right wing libertarian nut, but he is still on to
something here.

Rick writes about a world gone mad in his small town newspaper column.

If you read the daily papers and you don't think we're losing our
bearings, well, then I don't know what to tell you.

Rick in his opinion piece, which you can read below, cites some things
which he thinks demonstrate the insanity around us.

Now Rick and I would no doubt disagree, for example, on the issue of
abortion and a whole lot of other things he writes about, but
still...Rick I hear ya'.

Rick, I guess, can't really cover everything and he fails to mention
some stuff that, well, leaves me with my eyes twirling.

Rick leaves out what I would consider the insanity of a war where
thousands die in order to, at best, establish an Iranian style
theocracy in Iraq. That strikes me as absurd. Does it strike you that
way, Rick?

Or how about the law that allows a judge to take away the home of the
PARENTS of a drug dealer even though no one can show they knew
anything about their kid's nefarious activities? I read about that
just today.

Or what about the Kansas legislature passing a bill this week to
insure that those who pass a background check can own a machine
gun...a machine gun? It's not even like the laws in Kansas didn't
already allow that, but the legislature just wanted to make sure. You
can't be too safe.

And how come those women in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ
of Latter Day Saints down in Texas, on top of everything, else wear
those,uh, dresses? And how about that wild hair style they sport?
What's up with that, Prophet Jessup?

It's a bizarre world in which we live.

Maybe that's why Bush and those like him seem to be doing all they can
to insure the advance of global climate change. Maybe they just can't
stand all the craziness and theirs is really a clever plan to end
it...once and for all.

Who can say?

The following is from the Mountain Mail (down in New Mexico).

We Are Desensitized To The Absurdities
The Right Side

By Rick Coddington
special to Mountain Mail

SOCORRO, New Mexico (STPNS) -- The world is nuts. Look at the things
that are happening around us; it=E2=80=99s chaos.

Here are a few headlines to illustrate my point =E2=80=93 Philadelphia (the
city of brotherly love): =E2=80=9CPolice say a 64-year-old woman found dead =
in
her home Friday was killed by her roommate over =E2=80=98the proper way to
wash a glass.=E2=80=99=E2=80=9D Proper?!

=46rom Denver: =E2=80=9CParents argue over which gang their four-year-old so=
n
should join. A fight about the decision led to a public disturbance
with the father=E2=80=99s arrest. Joseph Manzanares went to the video store
where his girlfriend worked, threatened to kill her and knocked over
several video displays. The girlfriend, who is black, is a member of
the Crips, while Manzanares, who is Hispanic, belongs to the Westside
Ballers.=E2=80=9D

=46rom Jacksonville, Fla.: =E2=80=9CMan arrested for selling fake crack to
nursing home residents. =E2=80=9822-year-old was arrested on Thursday after
phony crack cocaine was sold to residents at the Golden Retreat
Shelter Care Center.=E2=80=9D (Crack to nursing home residents?!)

And then there=E2=80=99s the Wisconsin alderman in jail for shaking down
business owners for bribes in exchange for city licenses, for buying
votes and for conspiring to have a man beaten. Taxpayers have paid him
more than $67,000 while he has been in jail because since he has not
been convicted, he rem=E2=80=88ains on the city payroll as an alderman. That=
=E2=80=99s
insane.

Or how about the New Yorker who has now been arrested 53 times for
molesting women on the subways? Authorities say, =E2=80=9CIt is a fairly
common crime on subways in New York.=E2=80=9D (53 times???) But the story th=
at
takes the cake is the one that claims the first man is now going to
give birth. That one really confused me, since the necessary plumbing
for the project just doesn=E2=80=99t exist in a man.

If you look behind that headline you find that the =E2=80=98man=E2=80=99 is =
a man only
in the politically correct definition of the word, being in fact a
woman who has undergone medical procedures to =E2=80=9Cbecome=E2=80=9D a =E2=
=80=9Cman.=E2=80=9D Of
course, we have been indoctrinated with the mantra that people are now
being =E2=80=9Cborn into the wrong body=E2=80=9D and that we shouldn=E2=80=
=99t bat an eye
about such things for fear of being labeled =E2=80=9Cintolerant.=E2=80=9D In=
stead, we
are commanded to think that such people, after a life of being thus
wronged by birth, are just made to be their true selves by surgery.
Without going into that, my question of this =E2=80=9Cman=E2=80=9D would be:=
If you
think you should have been a man, and after having suffered from being
born a woman and the surgeries to change that, why did you now have
yourself artificially impregnated? That is definitely not a =E2=80=9Cman
thing,=E2=80=9D uh, dude?

Maybe these things prey on my mind more than they should, but I find
myself living in this crazy world and all joking aside, I believe
these are indicators of much deeper and very serious problems. Some
may say these things are of no great significance. So what if a woman
is murdered over glass washing, or if a four-year-old is condemned to
become a gang banger, or if molestation is =E2=80=9Cfairly common=E2=80=9D i=
n New York
subways, or if politicians get paid while being in jail, or even about
the woman/man/woman thing? What=E2=80=99s the big deal?

Here=E2=80=99s what: We as a nation have become desensitized to the point th=
at
we just take everything in stride. How much are we to tolerate? Even
huge tragedies fade quickly into the mire of the daily rat race. Last
week we looked at the fact that 10 million American black babies have
been aborted =E2=80=93 35 percent of their population.

How can such things be ignored? America has totally lost its way. We
have become callous from the daily chaos of the last 50 years. We have
been indoctrinated to believe that politically correct newspeak is a
sign of intelligence. If we are upset by things, we are ignorant or
intolerant. According to Barack Obama, (we) =E2=80=9Cget bitter, =E2=80=A6 c=
ling to
guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren=E2=80=99t like (us) or anti=
-
immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain (our)
frustrations.=E2=80=9D So if we don=E2=80=99t like the way things are going,=
we are
deficient in the eyes of the elitists? So what is my point in all
this? In the upcoming columns I=E2=80=99m going to suggest to you where
America went wrong so that maybe we can change things. Stay tuned.


Rick Coddington is a third-generation native New Mexican. He attended
UNM and studied political science. He has lived in Socorro since 1974.
His opinions do not necessarily represent the Mountain Mail.