I have to say that Oklahoma has been quite good @ staying for the most part quite Independent from other states, that doesn't mean that has all been good or that it has all been bad.
Some subjects and laws could be updated, but whose state couldn't use a little rearranging here and there? It's called growth, but it also could become that age old and very tricky, slippery fall into Conformity.
What causes me to Blog about this today?
It was a post I read the other day brought to us by our very own www.kfor.com news station. The topic: Tulsa The Pack A Day City.
It wasn't so much the actual post that caused me to cringe, it was the comments and replies to the post that concerned me. The cries of "This state did it, we should do it, get with the program" etc..etc... It got me to thinking, What program? Who's Program? The everybody else is doing it program? "Ooooh that one", I thought to myself.
How easy it is for people to just want to be a part of the "everybody else is doing it program", that they publicly cry it often, loud and with such ease. With such willingness to wrap a noose around the neck of our Individual rights until we conform and bend to their satisfaction or snuff it out completely!
These are the very same people that vote every election, the same people that I'm supposed to feel secure among my fellow citizens to help rebuild a better Government for my young children, to help fight against terrorism, socialism, anti-antisemitism,anti-prejudice racial discrimination's and preserve our Constitutional Rights "Our True Rights, not the ones Obama chooses to change at whim."
* And to be very clear, my beliefs on Religion and State are quite separate. But being a Jew, I get the pleasure of being able to look at things in a different perspective because we are not burdened by the Christian tones.
Our gun laws are more relaxed then in most states, at the same time that gun violence is so rampant in so many other states that is has so many voting, picketing, rallying, holding press conferences and pleading to the public to take guns out of every Gun Owners hand.
The last time I checked, it wasn't our Oklahoma children shooting up movie theaters, schools, malls or businesses. It wasn't our Men and Women of Oklahoma entering a camp to commit mass murder and it wasn't Oklahoman's placing bombs in our downtown communities.
I am glad we remain Independent on some things. And yet I hope we continue to grow in others.
But before you post about declaring your want to remove the rights away from others, remember when we are no longer Independent it means we become Co-dependent, Voiceless and Governed. Inevitably leaving us to be easily enslaved.
With each day, may you find healthy wisdom and share it.
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