Opinion/Editorial
WHEN LIGHTNING BOLTS STRIKE
Months back in this newspaper an Op/Ed was written called “Can. You Hear the Thunder?” That article was about being warned of coming storm threats by paying attention to the tremendous crack that results from the nearly instant collapse of a column of air in the atmosphere when a bolt of lightning occurs beneath a storm. The lightning creates a vacuum in the column of its travel, both up to the cloud layer and down to the ground. That kind of warning is important to pay attention to and was written into a screenplay for the television show named Deadwood years ago. The warning was so effectively given in the screenplay’s dialogue that it became then the show’s opening tagline for the next two years, as the seasonal series went on in production. But thunder does not kill or maim you unless one’s hearing might be impaired by being so close.
The same writer of this article was also struck by lightning in 1985. There was no pain. There still is no memory. This article is about the lightning that’s being forewarned by the thunder of the swirling storm about to ravage this country and the rest of the world. The distant but still quiet quaking thunder from Canada, from Ukraine, from Gaza, from Greenland, from the NATO countries, from the legal and illegal immigrants in our own country, from old people and disabled people on Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid. From veterans on disability or receiving much-needed medicine and money from the VA.
The disgustingly sold-out mass media does not print or state that there was no thunder before this current administration in the U.S. took over is not only astounding but it’s shameful. This publication is part of the mass media, and the shame felt by the publisher is almost beyond having a bottom. What seeps through to the general public only comes through the bitterly rotten republican party leadership is, however, there because (despite the selling of almost all the media outlets) the media needs outrage and attention to gain and keep advertisers. The billionaires bought the media but never forget that the billionaires don’t like to keep paying anything that does not pay them back a profit. What is seeping through the media ‘pipes and fissures’ is like raw sewage.
The smell of what’s happening out there and at home is there, although not bad enough for many people who were convinced the smell would be that of perfume to fully take notice of the point of action yet. The current leadership also works full-time to install its trusted military leaders, most with no credentials at all, so that the military can be used willingly to move against the public once things get so bad that the public begins to feel real pain. There is thunder. Can you hear it in the distance? When the lightning strikes and it will be striking soon, pay heed to the writer’s description covering the fact that the blast of its striking bolts will not announce itself upon striking. You will, if very lucky, awaken at some point in a hospital, or your home, with no memory of the event but the pain will be there, and you won’t be forgetting that…if you live. Now, if you can’t hear the thunder, your belief earmuffs so thickly deafening your ears, then at least attempt to see flashes of light in the distance. Those will not be announced but they will be there…and coming. None of the countries the U.S. is deliberately antagonizing are third-world countries (Gaza is not a country) so all have some sort of ability to produce lightning in many painful if not deadly ways. Inside the USA, the citizenry, appropriately armed by the republicans over the years, has more guns privately held guns of all kinds than the rest of the world’s population (including the military forces of the world), has in its possession. Guns are not capable of producing lightning. They do flash, however, and they do produce a form of thunder.
Can you hear the thunder? The GSR staff is dedicated to attempting to alert the reading public as to what is going on around it, no matter what the criticism or price. About this warning bit of an opinion piece…the staff wants to be so awfully wrong.
