Urban Predators Speak Out

  D.I.M.’s Were Always Meant to be Excluded Fellow Deportees, Immigrants, Migrants (D.I.M), we are neither alone nor witnessing anything new. Immigration Laws have long been fluctuating to fit, accommodate, and address seasonal global opportunities, and domestic needs throughout many nations. For example, during World War 1 and 2, to address workforce shortages and secure future scientific and technologic advantages, acquiring certain people were temporarily in high demand to maintain cultural and economic stability. But remember Oppenheimer, one of the key scientists responsible for creating the atomic bombs that put an end to Japanese war involvement. When conscience led him to quote Bhagavad Gita’s great statement, “I am become death, the destroyer of worlds”, he and those likeminded got labeled communists and ostracized from ever participating within the growing scientific community. Point!   When going contrary to the popular trend: Everyone is subject to persecution. An...

  REDEFINIG MAGA The operative letter is “A” for “AGAIN.” It automatically calls for an all-inclusive look into a past beyond imperialistic tendencies like flexing Military Power, Manufacturing and Global Economic Dominance. But that past also included modeling a democracy offering its citizens and so many from abroad freedom of speech, the right to elect and impeach its public officials, as well as equal legal protection of inalienable rights: Life, Liberty and Justice FOR ALL! However, it’s really hard to ponder and understand: What’s going on or where to turn for answers. It’s even harder to prioritize and choose what to focus on when media is not only rapid firing information but being forced to combat intimidation and censorship. Compound that with all the inhouse fighting among our “Publicly Elected Officials” trusted to focus on protecting and providing opportunities for a better future. But beyond finger pointing: What about us? What’s happening to the operative phrase “ We...

  WHAT WILL IT TAKE Many phrases as “ What goes around comes around; Do onto others as you would have done to you, and It’s all Water under the bridge ” are automatically being turned into popular contemporary clichés. Even age-old words of wisdom full of common sense!  “ An eye for an eye only makes the world blind; What you did not for them you did not for me ” and the most presently, relative and simplest statement, “ Love thy neighbor ” has been made irrelevant. The former set seems to be socially correct and acceptable fill-ins or dismissive conversational boomerangs to avoid contemplation or reflection. The latter set seems to be experiencing a similar fate with a few debatable twists added on. First, for many turning to God use the cliché “ He will provide .” But that only tends to dismiss personal responsibility and initiative. Second, it treats God as a “genie in the bottle” to rub and expect immediate gratification and absolution from actions with later feelings of...