Why we’re now a police state

I've noted this to friends and family alike, and even mentioned it from time to time on Facebook and Google+ (G+), and that is due to changes, some over time, some that came during the last decade (and I'm talking before President Obama took office). What I'm talking about is this nation being in a police state.

With all of the riots going on right now all over the nation thanks to two police officers getting off for the deaths that they caused, one being a gunshot, while the other happens to be a choke hold death. It's basically telling people that the police can literally get away with murder and there's nothing that anyone can do about it. The thought had been to place body cams on the officers that are out in the fields to make sure that they're not going to do anything stupid since they'd be caught on camera in the first place. However that notion was blown away with the choking death of the black man by the white police officer on Staten Island which was caught on camera, and the only one that was indicted in this was the damned camera man for filming it in the first place.

Now over the years, the police have been brought to court because of the death of someone that they claimed had broken the law and ended up pulling a gun, from a 5 year old to teens to adults. The police have gotten off literally on everything, no court will convict them and every civil case that opens up on them gets tossed out of court, and it's not the lawyers that are getting them tossed out in the first place, it's the judges that are doing this. Yes the lawyers that are defending the police officers are getting wins for the case getting tossed out of court, but the problem is, when the cases get tossed out of court it leaves the whole thing open for the police to do anything that they want to do since they know that they'll never get convicted on anything, the only thing that happens is that they get put on paid admin leave till the entire thing blows over, and either return to work or they resign in the end. However for most people that are on the other end of this for the wrongful death of a loved one, what they want is not for the person to return to work or to resign, they want that person to go to jail. After all, through all of this, the one thing that a police officer has NEVER done is gone to jail for killing anyone, doesn't matter if it was on purpose or accident or anything, they've never been punished.

Now you may be asking why are these past couple of death important, well for those that actually care, these last two are important because it's been racially involved. A white officer with a black suspect, and 9 times out of 10 each time has ended up in death. Now the Republican noise machine will tell you through Fox News that there's no more racists in the country since President Obama got elected and reelected into the White House as President of our nation, however the problem is, Fox News has been the number one leader (aside from the TEA Party) leading the charge when it comes to race. Even though they say that they're not raciest, they're the most because a black man was elected to the White House and not the white guy instead. Well gee just because he's a democrat and not rich and actually fighting for the middle class and not the rich in the first place is the number one reason why they don't happen to like him, that and the fact that he's black doesn't help matters. So they're doing everything that they can to make sure that he gets completely screwed over in the first place.

Yes our justice system is completely screwed up; however the only thing that can actually fix this is by changing things from the top down. After all, when you replace the ones at the top with judges that actually will work and fight for the people and not be completely bought off, then you know that you've got a system that actually works correctly. However in the mean time, that's not going to be happening any time soon. So because of that, justice will never be served correctly.

So is there anything that can be done, sadly at this time no there's nothing that can be done. After all, if the police shoot someone, then Internal Affairs gets involved and eventually absolves the officer of literally any wrong doing, which in turn only keeps the problem going over and over again. So let's see, suing the police is out of the question since they keep getting out of that in first place, and actually beyond that there's not anything that one can do in the end and that's the part that really happens to suck right there because of it in the first place. Look believe me, I'd love a justice system that actually worked correctly, but with everything that's going on out there, and the mass media being controlled by those that shouldn't have control over it in the first place (at least with the exception of social media that they can't control at all) there's no way that the police can be nailed for anything since no one will actually do it in the first place. After all, who's to say that if the grand jury had indicted both of those officers that the judge wouldn't have just turned around and tossed out the case, come on that is the one thing that we do have to look at as well. So till we can actually get change in the justice system, the average person is going to get screwed over because the ones that are supposed to be protecting us in the first place have turned this nation into a police state.

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Now on another more local note, there's a slightly problem here in Contra Costa County, and it's dealing with the higher ups that are acting more like congressional Republicans than they should in the first place. Right now there's a petition going around the county because the county supervisors voted to give themselves a MAJOR pay raise while only giving their works a small one, we're talking they're getting 30% increase, while the workers are only going to be getting a 3% increase. Come on here, there's something VERY wrong with this picture, and unless you're a congressional Republican you're never going to see it.

Just the fact that they did that in first place is what blows my mind away, all the while trying to justify it by say that this is to make sure that they don't have to do it again for a long while! Come on here, not only is that wrong, it's basically telling people that they would rather have the money than care about their workers more. Now the outcome has yet to be decided since the signatures are still being gathered, but this is one that I'm going to be keeping my eyes on till it's over and will be letting you know what's going on.

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Felix Sanchez

Carrier for Martinez News-Gazette, Martinez, CA

Alhambra High School

Class of '97

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Out country is lost

(Please note that this entry as explicit language, and not for the faint of heart that don't like to hear the truth)

The image above is the new image of the GOP, it's not the elephant, it's actually the emblem for the Orange Lantern Corps which is greed or Avarice.

After the elections last night, I was a bit depressed from the news on a national level that the Republicans won the Senate. After reading some of the remarks that had been made on Facebook (namely since one finds out information on social media these days far faster than what the local news happens to have), and one person noted that they needed a certain majority in order to get anything passed, basically bipartisan support. Well I hate to say this but with the Republicans in control of the senate, they're not going to care about majority anything, they're going to do what they damned well feel like now. After all, the one thing that the Republicans have wanted to do is repeal literally anything that the President has put forth. So now that they have control in both the House and the Senate, they can do what they've wanted to do since the black man won the White House in the first place. Impeach him and get rid of anything that he's been doing to help the American people instead of the rich.

Look even I can see the writing on the wall here and it's not pretty to look at, but at the same time it's the sad truth. The Republicans conned the country, and everyone that didn't bother to vote fell for it hook line and sinker and that's where one of the problems was located at. The other problem that we happen to have in this country right now, this was a midterm election which means that a lot of people out there were thinking that since it wasn't a Presidential election that this one didn't matter. Here's the kicker for that, and that is that both McConnell and Boehner were elected during the midterm and both won reelection. So even if we have another election in two years, both of them are not up for reelection in two years, they're up for reelection in 4 years.

So now everything that I pointed out in my last entry along with other things that don't help the rich out are what the Republicans are going to be going after, and it's not going to help out the nation in the least. This might end up being a short entry, but at least we know where the hell we stand.

However there is one group of people out there that I would love to smack the shit out of, and that's those out there that say that they don't vote because nothing changes. Well get the fucking clue, of course nothing changes because you don't fucking vote in the first place. That's what the fucking rich want in the first place, they don't want your piece of shit ass to vote, after all if you don't vote, it gives those money fucking hungry morons the power that they want in the first place. Get the damned clue already, or did 8 fucking years of Bush not give you enough of a fucking clue right there in the first place. Everything got fucked up during Bush's years, I know that some of you out there think that Bush did an amazing job and that Obama is fucking everything up, guess what Bush let 9/11 happen in order to put this nation into a war based on a damned lie. After all the first theater operation name once we invaded Iraq was title Operation Iraqi Liberation (OIL), if you can't get a damned clue from that you're really fucking blind. They changed the name after people, started to figure it out, they changed it to Operation Iraqi Freedom. They have NEVER given one shit about us and they never fucking will either, and guess what Bush is not that fucking idiot Reagan either. Considering that Reagan was the original Mitt Romney when it came to helping the corporations out. However the one BIG difference between Bush and Reagan, the churches.

When Reagan was running for office, for a bunch of promises that Reagan made to the Churches, they supported him in order to get him into the White House. However once Reagan was in office, that was it, Reagan basically told the churches to go fuck off. It was the churches in the end that ended up getting the help and not the churches. However years later when Bush Jr is running for office, the churches figured that they had their chance once again. So they supported Bush, and this time once Bush was in office, that's when they pounced and Bush was more than willing to help them get everything that they wanted in the first place and in part we as a nation started getting a double screwing. Both from the Rich and the Churches, that's where the problems started coming in. After all, the churches wanted to pervert the Bible towards what they wanted in the first place, and they wanted the one thing that they hadn't had since the Dark Ages and that was more control over the people. After all if they couldn't have the world, then they wanted this nation. Again after all, they who controls this nation, in part controls the world. Bush and company learned this first hand, and it's a lesson that the Republicans have NEVER forgotten. However the American people seem to have completely forgotten this little rule here, after all why would they need to remember when they're being told 24/7 what to eat, think, now and understand. After all science is going to be tossed out the window, anything dealing with the Bible only is going to be going in now. The Climate deniers are going to have a bloody field day, because now they're going to get more fucking power than they've ever had before.

You know, in all honesty I do wish that those that vote (or don't vote) for Republicans would actually see this, but I know that there's no chance for that considering that as much as I would like it, there's nothing in this world that will make this entry at all go viral. I can see the writing on the bloody fucking wall, just watch and you can see it happen during the next two years.

Now on a local level, I was both pleased and disappointed. Pleased that Lara DeLaney and Mark Thomson both won their Council seats, defeating both Mike Menisini and Debbie. Disappointed that Rob Shroder won over Gay Gerlack considering that Rob has been doing jack shit for this city despite what he's been saying on his boards about "Getting things done". Bullshit, if he was getting things done, then the city of Martinez wouldn't look as crappy as it does right now. Rob should never have won, but people bought into the lies that he and his camp were putting forth. Mind you they weren't about Gay; they were just about getting things done in Martinez.

Speaking of lies, this was the one election where a smear campaign went off on Lara DeLaney, and not once, but twice, and thanks to those smears, people instead actually voted for Lara instead of against her. That right there had to be the MOST idiotic thing that I've ever personally seen. Now me personally I only got one of the smear mailers that had been sent out, but I had been told that there had been a second one that had been mailed out, but I never got that one in the first place.

However what gets me for this election is that it's not that people didn't vote, it's that those that chose to do mail in instead of going to the office to vote, or did mail in and trusted it to the postal service. Now I don't have anything against those that chose to vote via mail, but please don't honestly trust something this important to the post office, after all they've been known to toss out mail that either needs to get to some place, happens to be money intended for someone, or is time sensitive. I know that there are people out there that are thinking that they can't do that since it's a felony, here's the hitch right there, the postal workers know that they can get away with it considering that they never get caught and never get investigated about it at all. So something as important as voting CAN NOT be left to the mail, sorry but that's the truth of the matter.

There is one person however that is going to be pointed out when comes to this local election that has to be the most amazing, and I'm not saying this as a good thing either. His name is Mike Alford. Now I know that he means well, but in this case what he wants for Martinez is farfetched, his ideas are on the moon instead. Yes he did get some of the votes, but he was so far behind that he was basically a foot note when it comes to this election. Normally he would run for mayor and then turn the votes into a three way instead of leaving a two way race. Mike honestly needs to stop trying to run, yes he's studied when it comes to the laws and the rules, however when it comes to politics, unless you've been keeping an eye on that, you have zero idea what's really going on in the first place. Yes a change is needed, but not his change, that change right there is just completely unrealistic in the first place.

Please remember that every election is important, not just the Presidential election, but both that one and the midterm elections. Which means that if you don't get out there and vote, then the rich will take the control that they want in the first place and run roughshod over all of our rights and not give one fuck when it comes to what they think.

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Felix Sanchez

Carrier for Martinez News-Gazette, Martinez, CA

Alhambra High School

Class of '97

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The most contested election of our current history

The election of 2014 is going to go down in history as the most contested election in our history, one can't say ever because there may be another that comes along that will either trump this one or be just as big as this one happens to be. However the biggest thing isn't on the state level, well in part it is, but for the most part, it's on a national level. What it happens to be is the fight for both the Senate and the House in Congress.

Now for the most part, The Republicans are wanting to not only keep the House, but at the same time they want to take control over the Senate and that's where the problem lies right now. Because once they take control over the Senate, that happens to mean that it gives them access to work on impeaching President Obama, and all on a pack of lies when in truth it means that they can fully give control over to the rich and the Republicans. After all, the only thing that they want is the power to do literally anything that they want. However the one thing that they seem to think that they can do if they have full control over both the House and the Senate is being able to shove through Constitutional Amendments, and they refuse to acknowledge that they need bipartisan support in order to pass something like that in the first place. After all, there are several things that the Republicans want to have forced through:

 

·         Banning Gay Marriage (Constitutional Amendment)

·         Banning Abortions On Any Level (including rape and incest)

·         Making sure that the rich keep their tax breaks

·         Making Christianity the national religion

·         Repealing the ACA (Affordable Care Act aka Obamacare)

 

Those above are just some of the many examples of what the Republicans want to do if they take over the Senate and keep the House. This is honestly something that can't be allowed to happen at all.

Now to be honest here, those Republicans that are currently in power have been so corrupted by the money that's flowing in right now from not only the Koch Bros., but also by all of the rich that happen to be out there as well. However it's not only that, but also the churches making sure that those that have corrupted the Bible and its teachings are coming center stage for everything. After all, Jesus taught us to love our brothers and sisters no matter what. Yet more often than one can imagine, Christians are being taught to hate instead of love, that fighting gets your point across and several other points as well. This is the world that is currently being taught to our children and that right there isn't right. To hate and fear those that are different, and all in this land of freedom and choice, and yet by those that are getting elected into office are leading people on a false pretense, and people don't realize it till after the election is over and the wrong person has been voted into office that had no intention of helping anyone but himself out.

The perfect example of this is Mitch McConnell; the only thing that he has EVER been interested in is the power that comes from being elected in. He willingly took money from not only the Koch's but others as well, all in an effort to make sure that he was elected into office so that he could do their bidding. No jobs, a constantly blocking of literally anything that could help out the American people. If it doesn't fit the rich's plan or the church's plan, they don't want anything to do with it at all. The rich want to rule the country through their money, and the churches want to rule as they had back during the dark ages. Both sides on this are completely nuts in more ways than anyone could even begin to think.

 

Now I know that I mostly talk about politics on a national level, but this time around I'm also going to be talking about my local hometown and what we're going through right now. This year's we not only have the mayor up for election, but also two council seats as well. This is one that is turning into a dragged out war. You see here in the small (just about unknown) city of Martinez California, we have the mayor's seat, and two council. Now the one that is running for re-election is Rob Shroder with the slogan of "Getting things done". Going up against him is one Gay Gerlack, and considering this year, she's one to go on top of everything. For the two council seats, we have Mike Menisini and Lara Delany, both are running for reelection. The ones that are gunning for their seats are Mark Thomson, Mike Alford, and Debbie (something, I forgot her last name sorry).

Now all things considered for the mayor's seat, Rob Shroder has been saying that he's been getting things done here in Martinez, however it doesn't look anywhere near what he said has been getting done. Our streets are in shambles, and businesses are leaving in droves, among the many things that are currently wrong here that he said that he was going to be fixing. Plus he's set so many deadlines and nothing has come about. There was a repaving of a parking lot that was supposed to be adding space for parking and that actually wasn't done at all. Shoot everything that has happened to Martinez that's been positive has been done by the one running against Rob and that's Gay Gerlack. She's gotten the parks renovated and cleaned up. Our community pool was even renovated to be better than ever before, and that's just the tip of the ice berg. Beyond that there's just been so much that Gay's been doing for the city of Martinez.

Now when it comes to the Council seats, you have Mike Menisini and Lara DeLaney running for reelection. However here is where the great divide comes in, and that's the fact that while Mike has been serving in Martinez City Hall since I was in the 5^th grade (yeah he's been in there that long, both as council and mayor), and Lara has only been in office for the past few years, this right here if she wins from what I understand (though I might be wrong so feel free to correct me on this one) will be her third term in office. However unlike Mike, Lara has actually been working for the people in trying to get things done that are to the benefit of the people of Martinez, though at times she has had to make tough decisions, and I fully understand that. The ones that are going up for the seat, Mike Thomson who I've noticed is fairly new to the arena, along with a forensic sheriff's office, and the wild card of Mike Alford. Now with the exception of Thomson, I understand what he's trying to do for Martinez, trying to help get things going here, however it honestly looks like the sheriffs officer is in same area as Mike Menisini and Rob Schroder and that's not good for this city.

Now like I said, the only one that's the wild card here is Mike Alford. The reason why he's the wild card is because he's mostly known for he's rants both in the Martinez News-Gazette and also now on Facebook as well. However he can't be faulted for that, considering that he is credited with pointing out the corruption that had taken hold in City Hall. However the one thing that he's been asked now several times is what his plans are for Martinez, and he actually has yet to say anything, other than to continue to rant about everything wrong with the city.

Come election day, that's when the dust storm will be hitting when it comes to all the voting, hell I can't even get to watch The Flash because of this. But this election will help decide if the country is going to either be lost or saved when it comes to the House and the Senate, and right now the Republicans are lying their asses off to make sure that they keep the House and take over the Senate. Once that happens, then the rich have a door wide open not only to impeach President Obama on lies, but at the same time put a puppet in office that they have control over. They had one at first with Bush, however once the people elected Obama into office, that's when they realized that they had screwed up and lost their power base. They're willing to do whatever it takes in order to get that control back, including changing the laws in order to make sure that the Republicans win no matter what, and yet those that have their eyes open are actually fighting all of this, and right now that's the important thing.

So go vote, and make sure that you help save this country.

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Felix Sanchez

Carrier for Martinez News-Gazette, Martinez, CA

Alhambra High School

Class of '97

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A Great War That Each Of Us Must Fight

There is so many ways that I wanted to start this off at, so many that it's actually taken a while just to start this off in the first place. I mean I could've started it off with the fact that I'm homeless and currently working a job were the owner of said job is refusing to pay min wage, despite being an independent contractor, so he think that he doesn't have to pay us but we have to pay him instead. I could've started it all off with the fact that the one party that's been saying that they want to help people has in fact been destroying everyone and the country that they happen to be in. Shoot I could've even gone the local route and talk about how my cities mayor is saying that he's getting things done, when in truth he's not getting anything done till it becomes an election year and suddenly he's doing everything that he needs to do, just to score the political points needed to try and win reelection.

In sad truth, all of that is a good start and in fact considering that it's all part of the first paragraph it is the start. I am in fact homeless and working for a news paper that I deliver where the owner of said paper (for which I'm leaving out at this current time) is not only not paying any of the carriers min wage, but at the same time is having us pay for the papers that we have to deliver. Now I've talked with a few people and only one of them thinks that that's a good idea (personally, and everyone else that I've talked to don't think it's a good idea, if we were getting paid min wage, then sure, but otherwise no). I've worked that paper for over a year now, delivering it three days a week to nearly 100 people, and all while also doing the entire route on my bike too.

Now when it comes to the one party that's been destroying our country, we all know that it's the Republican Party that's been destroying our country, hell the Republicans are honestly thinking that they can do whatever they want and never have to suffer for it. Like a war that they got the country into through a lie, just so that they could make sure that oil supplies stayed with the Dollar instead of going over to the Euro. I've been told by a lot of Republican people (those that honestly think that the Republicans are right and that it's the Democratic Party that's actually trying to hurt the country) that we need to stop harping on Bush and the illegal war that had been fought. Well guess what; we'll stop harping on that war, the day that the Republicans allow Bush Jr to get locked up for war crimes. That right there isn't going to be happening any time soon. We have to face facts as a nation; this country is right now suffering because of what a few people wanted to do to make sure that they stayed rich no matter what. Hell the Republicans think that they're apart of the military chain of command, they are in fact NOT a part of that chain. Hell the only civilian that happens to be in that chain and gets to give the orders is the President of the United States; he's the ONLY one that can do it. Yet here we see, Republican Senators and Congressmen constantly trying to order our military. That's actually currently happening, and the orders that are being given, they're actually being accepted; at least till someone remembers a little something called the Uniform Code of Military Justice (or UCMJ). That right there basically tells the military (doesn't matter what branch either), that the military can only follow orders given from military personnel only, and no one else. It also allows them to be able to refuse orders that they don't believe is right and just. However considering the untold number of years that the soldiers in the military have been getting told to do things by someone not in the chain of command, well let's just say that something should've been done a long time ago about it.

Right now, we're facing perhaps the GREATEST battle of this country, one that will change the very face of the nation in the end. Plus here's the hitch, we're all involved in this battle. I've already started calling this a purge; however I would like to believe that it's a purge of a party that has been doing great harm to this nation, a harm that needs to be stopped no matter the cost. In part right now, we're already winning slightly that battle considering that the people of this nation seem to be waking up to the fact that those that they originally elected to be in charge, are not only NOT working for the American people, they had no intention of even doing that in the first place. I was once told by someone that it doesn't matter if we vote or not because nothing changes, I was honestly half tempted to tell him that sure nothing changes with that attitude and the rich in the end win and get everything that they want in the first place.

From what I learned shortly after President Obama took office and all hell started coming down from the Republicans with their true intent, not only had promises been made, but there were certain parties that had wanted control over certain things that had been promised to them from the Reagan era that they had been cheated out of. During the eight year run that Bush Jr had been in office, everything that had been promised back then was being at long last fulfilled. From the Churches to the corporations, everything that they had wanted was at long last being given to them, and they knew that there was nothing that anyone could ever do to them. Back during the Reagan era, churches were preaching from the pulpit telling people who to vote for, same thing for when Bush was running for office. Now normally that right there would be an offence that would have the churches tax exempt status yanked because they're not allowed to do it, however that wasn't the case. Not only were they allowed to do it in the first place, after all it's against the 1^st Amendment of the United States Constitution. Of course that's just a piece of paper so why would anyone even bother to care about it, after all it seems that money is equal to or greater than that of something that helped keep this country running correctly for the past couple of centuries.

Hell not only were the churches granted immunity, but at the same time the corporations were promised deregulations for everything that they wanted. However the main difference between the corporations and the churches back during Reagan's time was that the corporations got everything that they had wanted, considering that Reagan was a business man and not so much church goer (mind you he went to church yes, but didn't care enough to actually do what they had wanted in the first place).

However once Bush Jr had been elected (OK in truth he stole the White House back when he started his first term in office, after all, everyone that had been (and partly still is) on the Supreme Court back then was placed in there by a conservative Republican that wanted to make sure that they could rig the system later on, and it worked back when Bush Jr ended up in office. So no he never won anything except for the second time around, he stole it the first time), everything that the churches and the corporations wanted, was being fulfilled and there was nothing that anyone could do about it in the least.

Jumping now to when our President takes office, suddenly the Republican Party knows that since their best shot for staying in the White House just took a dive bomb, then it's time to make sure that this President only last for one term, and that's to block EVERYTHING that he does. Little problem with this idea, and that is the fact that the people were actually waking up to what the Republican's were and are doing to this country. Considering the Bush Tax cuts that have killed our economy, and the war that was based on a lie that all started in retaliation originally because of the events that took place on 9/11. After all, Bush and company found that oil was about to go over to the Euro and that would tank the Dollar, so when they heard that there was an attack that was going to be taking place on US soil, they ignored it thinking that it would go away, sure did right after it took place and pissed off everyone in the country for it too. However they used that attack to attack a country that did nothing to ours, and that was only because they wanted to make sure that the Dollar stayed on the Euro. Now what this did was it made our country the most feared and hated country of all time, hell we're still recovering from that war and everything that Bush did to us. Believe me, that's not going to be something that anyone is going to get over any time soon at all.

Now let us jump to our current time, mind you I'm still homeless, the economy is picking up, unemployment is dropping. However the Republicans and their noise machine Fox News wants to make sure that everyone thinks otherwise, and for those that listen to Fox aren't going to be thinking otherwise, and you're not going to be able to change their minds. Nope the only way that this country is going to be fixed, is if we the voters do the one thing that is needed and that's vote each and every single Republican out of office, for the betterment of the nation. Hell I call it The Purge, where it doesn't matter what level of government that they happen to be, each of them gets voted out of office.

Hell even the mayor of my home town says that he used to be Republican till he changed parties, however if that had been the case, then this wonderful city that I live in, wouldn't look like a Republican dream world where nothing works and they're getting rich off of everything. That right there is one of the main reasons why I'm not reelecting him. His posters say "Getting things done" it's more like "Not Getting things done". At the only debate that they had so far, he stated that there was a huge rainy day fund that is not ever going to be touched. Hell at the rate that things are going right now, we're not only in the middle of rain right now, it's a bloody monsoon out there and will be getting flooded over. I believe that it's long past time for a change in leadership around my city, and I'm honestly determined to make sure that it happens.

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Felix Sanchez

Carrier for Martinez News-Gazette, Martinez, CA

Alhambra High School

Class of '97

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The stupidity of the Republican Party

What is the dumbest thing that someone can do these days that can actually get a person fired, and that's getting hired to do a job, and then making every excuse that you can think of not only to not do your job, but to also blame someone else for not doing your job in the first place.

That is exactly what the Republican Party has been doing since the day that President Obama got elected into office, they've excelled at being the party of "No" and have tried to do everything in their power to make sure that he was a one term President and even failed at that. However I've already talked about that before so that's nothing new.

However during the course of the time that President Obama has been in office, these people (both the men and the small amount of women that they've got) have repeatedly made clear that no matter how many ways that they've said it, that they don't intend on doing anything for the American people at all.

Now while all of this is all well and good, at the same time they've done some pretty stupid things over the course of the nearly 8 years that the President has been in office, the latest thing tends to take the cake right here. The Republican Party has not only refused to do anything, even to the point of risking another government shutdown. These morons have decided to go out on the campaign trail to make sure that this November they get reelected into office. They've cut off their session till a week after the elections are over; with them thinking that we're not going to remember a damned thing come November and reelect them back into office.

I'm sorry but when did the social media of the internet shut down, hell when did the net shut down. Last I knew that literally anything that the Republicans do is featured online for all to see with a simple and quick Google search will tell anyone what these morons have done, which is jack shit nothing. The only thing that they've been pushing has just been both rich and Church's agenda and that's it. The rich for their endless tax breaks that don't do a damned thing for the American people, and the church for pushing a religious agenda on the American people.

Now the rich have been spouting the idea of tickle down economics, or Reaganomics for years. Guess what, some people actually think that the bullshit actually works considering that Clinton had a surplus. Well I've gone over this before and Clinton only had a surplus of money when he left, because he actually knew how to do the one thing that the Republicans have NEVER figured out how to do, he could actually balance a budget. The only things that the Republicans can do is spend other people's money and that's it, they can't do a damned thing else. So while they take their vacation and spend it on the road trying to make sure that they get reelected into office, they don't realize that people aren't going to forget any time soon.

Now when it comes to the church, they've been pushing into politics for years, and they know that the best party to push their agenda in is the Republican Party. However the one main thing that they're trying to push right now is that this nation was founded as a Christian nation. Actually it wasn't. This nation was founded with religious freedom in mind. The reason why the Church doesn't want you to know this truth is because back in the day when we were first colonizing this country, back when England was still ruled by a nut case king that didn't know any better, because his mind was leaving him. The church then was trying to rule over their subjects sort of like how they do these days, and anyone that wasn't a part of the church still wasn't given a rough treatment, even with the many religions out there, the church was hard pressed to push theirs. Even the Church of England was hard pressed to do the same time. However when the forefathers came here, they were more interested in practicing their way instead of someone else's way, which is the way that it should be in the first place.

Now the Republican Party it seems has taken to bringing the Church into the one place that it shouldn't be in the first place and that's the political world. After all, the one main agenda that the church is pushing the Republicans are helping, and this honestly needs to stop in the worst way EVER. After all, if this doesn't stop or get stopped by us, then we're looking at a new version of the Dark Ages that will be worse than ever before.

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Felix Sanchez

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Class of '97

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Unions fighting against their own interests

You know this has been heard before, that we've got to make sure that the unions are helped and protected again those that are against the unions. That if we don't help them, then the rich and the Republicans are going to get rid of them for good.

Well that's all well and good, however there is a slightly problem too all of this and that is that unions tend to vote Republican against their own interests. Doesn't matter if it happens to be blue collar workers or those that are public servants, they vote against their own each time. From the police to the fire fighters they all tend to vote Republican, which in my mind makes no sense at all. After all, the rich and the Republicans want to get rid of the unions so that the people of this country can't rally up against the rich and demand more money for the work that they're doing in the first place.

This is something that seriously needs to be addressed in this country, the fact that the unions themselves are shooting themselves in the foot by voting for Republican interests goes beyond anything that I could even begin to think about in the first place.

The photo above is a prime example, I took that here in my home town where we're having elections for the mayor and two council members. Now the current mayor is supposed to be a former Republican, and yet everything that he does is Republican in nature, not doing anything till it's an election year to score those much needed voter points. After all, we recently had an Earthquake here in the Bay Area that originated up North near Napa Valley in American Canyon. After that quake hit, suddenly our mayor is asking building and home owners to make sure that their places are up to quake code. Well considering that this was brought up years ago and he did nothing to make sure that everyone was doing what was needed and is only just now doing it, just goes to show what he's really trying to do and that's make sure that he gets to keep his job. Well considering that he's doing such an extremely less than amazing job, that people are seriously starting to notice that things are extremely bad.

About 90% of the buildings in the city that I live in are not retro fitted for Earthquakes and it's something that's never been dealt with, and then there are the roads in town, something that's been an issue here for years, and both our current mayor and the former one that is now serving on the council have not done a damned thing about it. Both of  them happen to have this good 'ol boy club going on, and that's something that both Republicans and the rich happen to do to make sure that things go their way each and every single time. I know personally that something greatly needs to be done, and it's long past time that something was done and taken care of it yesterday. I know that I'm not going to be voting for our current mayor, and the one thing that I do know is that his slogan this year "Getting things done" yeah, that's a no right there, you're not getting anything done.

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Felix Sanchez

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Alhambra High School

Class of '97

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9/11 In Remembrance

We all know exactly where we were the moment that everything started going down in New York, something that had been completely unthinkable, that no one could ever be able to touch our country ever had been broken.

13 years ago on this day, our great nation was attacked, and while we now know more today than we did back then. The load of theories that came up, both factual and completely idiotic, became the near main stream with the Republicans calling all of them except for the ones that they released at the time crack pot ideas. They made sure that none of them were believed at all.

However as time passed and more and more things started to get proven over time, it meant that the correct truth was continuing to come out, what really happened with the attacks that took place. In all honesty this is the day that will go down as two things. 1)The day that other countries learned not to piss us off lest we retaliate (of course some still haven't learned that yet), and 2)A party's true face came to light that day. Now I'm not going to take that my eyes were opened right off the bat, but I'll tell you this right here and now that I used to be a blind Republican back then. However once I started learning the truth, I realized that I couldn't be with a party that kept telling lies to their own party and to the rest of the people of this country.

Now I've been trying to think of everything that I could write for this, but in truth, there's really not much that I can write considering that we all know that Bush and company allowed this to happen since they figured that if they ignored the warnings that it would go away. Sorry but that's not happening and didn't happen. Instead we were attacked, and now we know that not only did Bin Laden do it, but Bush and company allowed them to do it in the first place, to not only piss us off, but at the same time to get us into a war of their choosing. That's not even the correct way of running a country. Personally I'm thrilled that the Republicans aren't in the White House. However this November, we have to make sure that they don't continue to ruin our country. We must purge them out of office period.

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Felix Sanchez

Carrier for Martinez News-Gazette, Martinez, CA

Alhambra High School

Class of '97

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The end of Citizens United…Or is it?

The one thing that has been a thorn in the side of voters, dems, and those that are any other color other than red, has been Citizens United. In truth it really shouldn't be named that in the first place, after all the citizens aren't united in giving unlimited money to the rich and the Republican's, hell the worst words that were ever said by a Republican "Corporations are people too." Ye…no they're not. Corporations are run by people however they don't live think and breath like we do, and they sure as hell don't pay taxes like the rest of us do.

Nope, when that came down from the conservative idiots of the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS), that basically was the green light for the ultra rich to do whatever the hell they please. Well right now, in the Congressional Senate, an Amendment to the United States Constitution is passing right now to not only end Citizens United, but to make sure that money is completely kept out of politics forever.

Now what might this mean for you and I, well for one thing it means that the Kochs and their ilk can no longer buy the political world like they've been doing since Bush Jr. had been in office (and if you don't think that happens to be the case, then you've been watching Fox News for way too damned long), and where they've been making sure that those of minorities have been not only getting punished, but also making sure that they can't vote in the least. Trust me on this, even having a state issued ID card, doesn't cut it for some states. Nope in some of them, even if you've got that ID card, you actually need to have a full on driver's license. Here's the catch though, you can only get one of those if you're going to be driving a car. So if you're not driving, you don't get that card, and you don't get to vote either. Now this only seems to be happening in red Republican controlled states, in blue states you can have an ID card that government issued and still be able to vote.

This right here is actually good for us when it comes to Citizens United getting torn down; however there's a little wrinkle to the entire plan. That wrinkle is the Republicans in the Congressional House. They're the ones now that this now has to go through, and more than likely they're going to vote the way of their masters and end all of this making sure that Citizens United stays going, saying some stupid idiot thing like "this is what the citizens want in the first place, why would they end something that deals with them." Well it doesn't, the rich citizens yes, but the middle and lower classes, it has never dealt once with them and it never will either.

Now we just have to wait and find out what happens in the House, I for one am not going to be surprised if the House kills this, I honestly won't be surprised in the least.

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Social Media: The Real Fifth Estate

 

Now with that title one would honestly think of the movie The Fifth Estate, well no. I'm not talking about anything like that at all, and to be honest I don't either condemn what he did nor do I support it. However if you think about it, we're already doing that today with social media.

Now how might you ask are we doing that? Well with the better advents of Facebook, Google+ (G+ for short), Twitter, etc, they allow people to connect faster than ever before. So instead of having to wait for a newspaper to come out with the latest news, one just has to have access to one of the above to know what's going on. Plus with smart phones, we can take photos and video and share them over the internet for just about everyone to be able to see and have a video go viral in a matter of moments. This right there is the true and real fifth estate.

One of the things that social media can do these days that seem to be either escaping some people minds or they just want to ignore it and hope that it happens to go away, is to change the course of the way governments and politics run and take place. Now there are those out there that fully understand this and try to take full advantage of it, both good and bad. However for those that think that they can control social media and what is placed out there, that right there is a fools run. After all as it has been proven time and again, the net is protected under the first amendment as free speech, and that means over all that those that want to have a voice (doesn't matter if it's the truth or not) will get to have their say.

On that note right there, the goal I for one try to make sure of is that the truth gets out there about the Republican Party and everything that they're trying to do to make sure that they can not only take over the government, but to also at the same time correct the mistake that they made before which is to get rid of the US Constitution and invoke Marshal Law and make the Bible only the law of the land. At which point, both the military and the local citizens would go completely nuts over everything that was going on.

However enough of that, for one thing the Republicans favor too much that document that they keep trashing left and right and only wish to make sure that they can do whatever they can to make sure that people believe one thing and not the only and then flip it. It's one of these reasons that there are more people changing from being Republican than actually move towards it in the first place. However more often than not, their only media outlet Fox News actually does grab the attention of those that it seeks for and when they do, they try and make sure that they get their gospel word out to their faithful followers. It doesn't always stick, but when it does, we have stupidity coming from all corners of the country.

Look the only reason why I condemn the Republican Party as much as I do, is because while Bush had been in office (and yes I'm going back to him, and you'll see a lot of people going back to him because he really did screw this nation up, him and the rest of the people that were working with him, along with those that were lobbying for him in the first place, along with all of the churches and people that shouldn't've been doing it in the first place (however that list is so bloody long that you'll be still reading this straight for the next three days tops, if not longer depending on how fast you read in the first place).), I started to look at what was really going on, and I realized that there really was some messed up things. For one trying to give more and more power to the next President (though they had been hoping for a Republican President, but lost on that note), and to take power out of the hands of Congress, doesn't matter if it happens to be the Senate or the House. The debt ending up skyrocketing, not just because of the war that was taking place, but also because the people of this nation couldn't spend anything on crap that they didn't need in the first place. Plus no matter what they kept saying, everything that they didn't want us to see we saw anyway. Take for example the original theater operation name that they had for the Iraq war; it was originally called Operation Iraqi Liberation. Yeah they realized they screwed up, and when they hoped that no one noticed, they changed it from Liberation to Freedom. Here's the hitch of that, the reason why they changed it as fast as they tried to in the first place is because the original theater name was also spelling out the real reason they had invaded in the first place, the OIL. So when they realized they screwed up, they hoped that no one would notice and they changed it over to Freedom. Yeah people noticed and started letting others notice as well. So what do you do when that happens, you try and discredit them as conspiracy people never to be taken seriously. Only problem with that little idea was that the price for fuel here in the US started going up like crazy, and that's when people started to take notice.

Now all of this took place during the first set of four years that Bush was in office for in the first place, which means that there's still the other set of four years. Well that right there is all because of the tax breaks that were supposed to do the one thing that they never really did in the first place, and that was to create jobs. Come on, trickle down was a joke that Reagan came up with to make sure that the rich could not only get their money, but also keep it as well. So with everything that Bush was doing while in office, it was continuing to screw up the country to no end. Thing was, people actually believed that the trickle down actually worked considering that Clinton had a surplus while in office. The only reason why Clinton had a surplus was because he was able to do the one thing that Republicans can't seem to do EVER, and that's balance a budget. All they seem to do is spend like crazy and then blame someone else for not balancing what they spent in the first place.

Now there's a reason why I brought up Bush once again like I've done several times in the past, and that's because we can't forget what him and the rest of the Republicans have done to this nation and will do once again if they not only keep the House, but get a hold of the Senate as well. Not only will it be bad for this nation, but with all of the players in place, it sets the country up for the biggest fall in the history of the nation, one that even I'm doubting we'll ever be able to recover from. This is why we have a fifth estate that the Republicans can't control, after all if they could control social media, then they'd have this year's midterm election in the bag. Right now they've got the news (at least with Fox News), they've got the TEA Party (which even they're regretting right now too), they've got their rich masters, and they've got the money. However the one thing that they don't have right now is you and I, voters are the one wild card for each election, and if they fully take over, in both Congress and the White House then they can be able to strip away the Constitution and fully do everything that they've been wanting to do. This is honestly something that we can't allow them to do no matter what, so come November, make sure that you vote and get rid of the Republicans once and for all.

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Life Plan B getting changed to A

Question, when does Life Plan B become Life Plan A, Answer when the economy is not giving you a choice and your dream ends up getting put on hold for the rest of your life.

 

That right there is the main reason why a lot of people these days end up going to college and they get asked, what is it that you want to do, and the answer most often doesn’t fit what the college mainly offers when it comes to what your dream career happens to be in the first place. Personally I have zero desire to go into a field that happens to have zero openings in the least; yes certain new laws are opening the doors for those areas, but in truth, the area ends up becoming flooded with new applicants to the point that they’ll end up hiring very little of those that actually apply in the first place.

 

Yes the medical field and science field is a very high paying area to work in, but who in their right minds ever decides that their dream career is going to be that in the first place, usually that’s the secondary one that becomes the main stay for only a short time. However when certain factors prevent your dream from becoming the truth in the first place why is it that Life Plan B gets turned into A. Not only is that not right, it shouldn’t be happening in truth.

 

However all too often those dreams are getting destroyed and there isn’t anything that one can actually do to stop that. Personally I want to be a writer and get paid for that, I’ve even got a book out there right now in eBook format, however with no one ever buying the book, my back up plan is now becoming the main stay, and the end result is that I continue to stay in the current world that I happen to live in, which is being homeless. The one thing that I want most in the world is to have a place to live in, for not only me but also for my wife, and that’s the one thing that I honestly can’t provide right now because the level of pay that we’re forced to have right now is getting completely screwed over by those that are currently in charge right now. They not only refuse to raise the min wage, they honestly want EVERYONE to think that by having the min wage raised that it’ll end up killing jobs, actually in fact it not only won’t, it’ll jump not only the economy, but at the same time it’ll bring production to an to a high like never before.

 

Republicans on the other hand don’t want that at all, no they want to keep their money and make sure that this nation is kept only for their masters, those that would rather have the corporations in control over everything in the first place. Well for me, that’s not going to sit well at all. I’m sorry but I don’t want to get paid min wage for the rest of my life while the cost of everything around me goes right through the roof with no ending in site. Yes I’m a writer, but since my eBook (which is science fiction by the way) isn’t selling like I’d hoped it would, well then Life Plan B becomes A out of lack of choice, and right now my plan B is constantly looking for a job that I can’t get because of the things that I need and don’t have. Yes I’m going to be going back to school, but that’s not going to solve the current and first off problem because of the economy at the current state that it happens to be. And even though my book is extremely low cost, and the app is free to get for your phone (or tablet), not everyone is into science fiction, and I understand that, so I do my best each day to make sure that the book gets out there to sell, because I want my Life Plan A to stay my Life Plan A and not become B.

 

Question is, what do you want?

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