Prime's Worm Hole : My Open Letter To Lebron James.

Wednesday, April 28, 2021

My Open Letter To Lebron James.

My Open Letter to Lebron James.

I as many others have seen your commentaries of late. From your recent tweets and attempts to DOX a Columbus Ohio police officer, for defending a black life, from the violent and deadly assault of another black life.

While you and many others lament that black lives matter? You puposely neglect and overlook the thousands of black lives taken at the hands of other black lives in this country annually.

You like to assume and further the memes and fabrications that American police are hunting down and murdering American blacks, while at the same time ignoring the provable facts and statistics that refute your miscreant and racist assertions against the police.

I have also seen your assertions that you care not about white people. Specifically your quote:

"I don't want nothing to do with white people. I don't believe they want anything to do with me. I don't want no (white) friends. It's me and my boys." the quote reads.

Therefore, your feelings have been made crystal clear to me. To be clear? I don't want to have anything to do with you either. I am not one of those who either follows or admires your athletic abilities. I never have and I never will. And my feelings have nothing to do with your race. However, they have everything to do with your own racism, your ignorance and your arrogance.

While you may think of yourself as some exalted celebrity figure? You are no more than an over paid entertainer in my observations and opinion. Someone of seemingly great atheltic ability, yet someone severely lacking in both character and integrity.

Therefore, your feelings about the police and white people in general have no worth or value to me. You are what you demonstrate by your actions and your words. And in my observation and opinion? You have clearly demonstrated what by any other standard? Would be considered racist remarks and actions.

As a police officer of combined service of over 48 years, I and many others like myself know the truth. We have served this nation and its people, black and white, Asian and Latino. Many of us, for longer than you have been alive.

Your words and actions and your skills with a basketball, have little to no meaning to me or many others.

Your words and opinions are what they are. The musings and actions of a harlequin performer. And someone who believes that he has been instilled with some superior knowledge, by virtue of his celebrity status.

I and many other of my fellow brothers and sisters in law enforcement? Have not only served those who discredit and despise us, (of all colors and races), but we have bled and almost died in our efforts.

While many others have fallen, never to live again. Sacrificing their lives and all of their tomorrows, to protect those lives and tomorrows of others. Predominantly, of people we did not know. And many times involving people of color.

Lebron? When you have laid on the pavement? Shot multiple times by a convicted felon? For simply trying to protect others? And you have almost died from those injuries? Like I have?

Then you may sit at my table and pontificate on your experience and preach to me and others about your knowledge of police confrontations with confrontational, deadly and armed suspects.

However, absent that experience? And absent the experience of being spat upon and attacked and assaulted for trying to help and protect others? Absent trying to raise a family on a police officer's salary? Absent millions in salary and sponsorships?

You have no credibility with me.

Or with the hundred thousands of others, who wear and have worn a uniform, other than one made of satin with a number on it.

I am not one of those who will go on tictok or youtube to parody or mock you, as I personally believe your own actions speak directly to the unequal parallels of your life when compared to the lives of others. Especially police officers.

You are free to return to your world of wealth and privilege and the adoration of those who value your athletic skills.

But know this. Those who serve, those who wear the badge, those who place their lives on the line daily for the benefit and well being of strangers? Have no need of either your approval or your subjective opinions.

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Prime's Worm hole

This is a place for me to muse about the issues that affect our world. My world and my country and my life in particular. I can say what I want to here and those who may stumble across my musings, are welcome to comment,or not. America is under siege. Everything this nation has ever represented, is now being torn asunder and crushed by the onslaught of egalitarian socialism. All morals and social values have been devolved into the belief that systemic racism, is the only underlying cause or reason for any societal ills in America. And that representation, is nothing but a Trojan Horse argument. A means of getting the egalitarian camel's nose into the tent. And now that it has been inserted? There is mayhem and anarchy and burning and looting all across America. And the only questions that remains to be asked and answered? Are these. When is enough enough and when will the American people call full stop and take the law into their own hands, to repel this socialist based attack on the Constitution and our personal freedoms.

Thinking

It started out innocently enough. I began to think at parties now and then -- just to loosen up and be a part of the crowd.
Inevitably, though, one thought led to another and soon I was more than just a social thinker.

I began to think alone -- "to relax", I told myself -- but I knew it wasn't true.
Thinking became more and more important to me and finally I was thinking all the time.

I began to think on the job. I knew that thinking and employment don't mix, but I couldn't help myself.

I began to avoid friends at lunchtime so I could read Thoreau, Muir, Confucius and Kafka. I would return to the office dizzied and confused, asking, "What is it exactly we are doing here?"

One day the boss called me in. He said, "Listen, I like you and it hurts me to say this, but your thinking has become a real problem. If you don't stop thinking on the job, you'll have to find another job."

"Honey," I confessed, "I've been thinking..."

"I know you've been thinking," she said, "and I want a divorce!" "But Honey, surely it's not that serious." "It is serious," she said, lower lip aquiver.

"You think as much as college professors and college professors don't make that much money, so if you keep on thinking, we won't have any money!"
She exploded in tears of rage and frustration, but I was in no mood to deal with the emotional drama.

"I'm going to the library," I snarled
I headed for the library, in the mood for some John Locke. I roared into the parking lot with NPR on the radio and ran up to the big glass doors.

They didn't open. The library was closed.

To this day, I believe that a Higher Power was looking out for me that night.

Leaning on the unfeeling glass, whimpering for Emerson, a poster caught my eye, "Friend, is heavy thinking ruining your life?" it asked.

This is why I am what I am today: a recovering thinker.

I never miss a TA meeting. At each meeting we watch a non-educational video; last week it was "Porky's." Then we share experiences about how we avoided thinking since the last meeting.

I still have my job, and things are a lot better at home. Life just seemed easier, somehow, as soon as I stopped thinking. I think the road to recovery is nearly complete for me.

Today I took the final step...I joined the Democratic Party

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If you are able,
save them a place
inside of you
and save one backward glance
when you are leaving
for the places they can
no longer go.
Be not ashamed to say
you loved them,
though you may
or may not have always.
Take what they have left
and what they have taught you
with their dying
and keep it with your own.
And in that time
when men decide and feel safe
to call the war insane,
take one moment to embrace
those gentle heroes
you left behind.

Major Michael Davis O'Donnell
1 January 1970
Dak To, Vietnam

Captain Michael O'Donnell was lost in Cambodia on March 24 1970, while flying a UH1 rescue helicopter, trying to rescue an eight man LRRP team under attack in Cambodia. He was listed as MIA along with the eight he had attempted to rescue after his UH1 Huey was shot down by enemy fire. The official military report listed the eight as shot down 'non survivable' and 'non recoverable.'

Michael O'Donnell was submitted for the Congressional Medal of Honor for his actions that day. He was awarded the Distinguished flying cross, the Bronze Star, The Air Medal and The Purple Heart and he was promoted to the rank of Major (posthumously).

In 1978 he was officially listed as KIA by the Department of Defense.

A little about the philosophy of the author

The Borg Conspiracy is one man's purely pedestrian thoughts, independent musings and frequently cheeky commentaries...Mixed with an abundance of patriotism, love of God, and love of country.

My thoughts?

In my opinion........in another generation, all that will remain of our once great republic, may be little more than what is left to weather the passage of time in the form of a few obscure and forgotten monuments to the great American experiment.

If America should fail....let it be written as her epitaph.....died by her own hand. The greatest experiment in freedom ever undertaken, lost in the end to the pursuit of the illusion that egalitarian tolerance was more valuable than individual freedom.

Let us be warned.
Franklin, Payne, Jefferson. They all knew the consequences of the lack of vigilance and they tried to warn us. They gave us a document as our guide post. We were to guard it and revere it and use it to guide and govern our future and our posterity.

No one listened.