In November, while reviewing staff reports, Councilwoman Cela Burge commented that, while the monthly report from the Cape Charles Police Department was helpful, it could also provide more details, besides just a rundown of the numbers. As an example, below is this month’s report:
Calls for service in Cape Charles: 25
Calls for service outside of Cape Charles (assist): 5
Felony arrests: 0
Misdemeanor Arrests: 3
Traffic Summons: 8
Traffic Warnings: 5 (written& verbal):
Parking tickets: 1
Building Checks: 14
Assisted Northampton County Sheriff’s Office: 5
Assisted Virginia State Police: 0
Assisted Federal Agencies: 1
Assisted Fire& Rescue: 0
Foot Patrol Hours: 26
Bay
The following took place in November:
Officer Spencer, LT.
Officers Diaz, Lynch, Charlton completed Narcan training (opioid overdose).
I presented a class to the Christian school staff on “active shooter”.
Officers Charlton and Diaz graduated from
Arrests: Drunk in public
Protective order
Assault & batter family member
This is a good,
Simply, it would be good to at least get the time of infractions, as well as geographic locations. We understand this can be sensitive, but this data should not be withheld from public view unless their release would threaten ongoing investigations, endanger officers or others, or invade someone’s personal privacy.
Abe P. Knob says
I personally think the “chief” should get off his butt and do more patrolling himself. If he is just going to sit in the office all the time, he shouldn’t need a police vehicle. Should he? Maybe a bicycle perhaps. Would save alot of money. Also, why not just make the chief of police position and elected position? Maybe we will eventually find another one who can actually do the job, and right.
Ashley says
I think flat out you have no clue what you’re talking about. Your comment sure is one of pure ignorance and lack of knowledge.
Abe P. Knob says
I know exactly what im talking about. Also, you don’t get paid for “thinking”.
Ashley says
So you do get paid for thinking? If that’s the case, then someone needs to re-evaluate your position “Abe”
Ricky Pruitt says
he learned from his uncle at the bridge tunnel.
Abe P. Knob says
I take it his uncle must not have been too good a cop also? For a “chief” who supposedly looked up the late Chief Ricky Marshall, learned from him, and wanted to follow in his footsteps, he sure is no Ricky Marshall. Not even the least bit close. Other than being chief. Oh what corruption and kickbacks will get you in a small town. Chief Ricky would surely disapprove.
Lori Blackwell says
It was a real ‘Scene’ down there in that Admin Blding. Big Fish in a very tiny pond. They made the emergency crewman in the tunnels wave to the exec director and his girlfriend, Lore-Rain, as they drove through in the morning and afternoon. They always came and went together, every day one behind the other. I wonder if his wife or her husband ever found out? The CO they were forced to breathe everyday should be a crime, in fact, I am sure there are lawyers that would love to take a case. Many that worked there died younger than they should have.
Carbon-Monoxide-Head says
You could write your name on the wall today and not be able to read it the next day. It was a big deal to wave at that little man and his girlfriend twice a day… a big deal.
Sick place.
Julie Pruit says
I try not to read articles on the mirror often for the simple fact that the comments on here tend to disgust me and because I am the wife of the chief I do also tend to bite my tongue but when I see this kind of talk from two people who I question are even using their true names on here I am going to make sure the facts are straight. It’s a bold statement you make that the chief needs to “get off his butt” and patrol more because in fact 90% of his day is in fact patrolling or assisting his staff as well as any other department that might need it. Now unless you are following him and know his wearabouts all day everyday then maybe you can make an arguement but if you don’t then your just making an uneducated assumption. Just this past Friday when there was a god awful accident at the cape Charles light would you like to know who the FIRST officer on that scene was who not only got one victim out of their vehicle but also assisted the other two? Yea that was chief Pruitt. We have two very small children (2 and 5) and his radio stays on 24/7 so he can make sure his crew is always ok or anyone in the county. Neither of you are here when he’s going out at 2am to assist another officer or have had Christmas where he left (and he didn’t have to) to assist officers in a situation. Frankly I’m sure neither of you know a single thing about him or the hours and devotion he puts into the job which is why he is a very well liked chief and has been chief for a good while now. To judge him on an article where he’s not putting facts in a report where frankly it’s really no ones business And the CCPD has ALWAYS alerted residents if they feel there are things happening that could effect them is beyond shameful on your end. This is why finding people to wear a badge and to serve and protect is becoming harder by the day because people like you like to sit behind a computer and judge and disrespect when you truly have not a single clue what it’s like to walk in their shoes. Chief Pruitt is one of the few good officers we have left and as a wife I fear for him everyday but I know he’s doing what he loves and has done so for the last 21 years. And if you have these kinds of issues grow up and go speak to him about it be an adult and for the sake of making yourself look foolish know what your talking about before open your mouth.
Note: We hope the article did not come across as a criticism of the Chief, just a request to see more details in the monthly report.
Nioaka Marshall says
For the record, let me begin by saying I AM using my real legal name. As for the comment, ” it’s really no one’s business…”, I beg to differ. As a full time, tax paying resident of Cape Charles, it is very much my business what Chief Pruitt and the Cape Charles Police Department are doing. You say he is a very well liked chief. At one time, I would have agreed wholeheartedly with you. Today, not so much. It is very difficult to like someone, whom you have never disrespected in any way , embarass you in public for trying to ask him a question. Not once, but twice. Each time I see his vehicle, it is either parked at the town office or headed into Cheriton. I am not so sure what the chief or anyone else does, but they sure as heck do not show a strong presence in Cape Charles proper. If records are being kept properly, there should be no problem in giving a more detailed report. Now to the 90% of Chief Pruitt’s time, do you ride with him and sit in his office every day to be able to make that percentage a fact? Or do you blindly take his word for it? Baaaa baaa
Ashley Forbes says
To the arrogant man making a comment of the chief “needing to get off his butt”, sir you have NO clue what it is like to stand in his shoes and obviously that of the other local law enforcement officers. Chief Pruitt signs up everyday to protect the citizens of Cape Charles as well as the entire County of Northampton. Chief Pruitt everyday puts in a badge and agrees to put your life above his own. Your lack of education and understanding of what Chief Pruitt and his officers do everyday is absolutely sickening. Like Mrs. Pruitt was stating to you, you are not there to see what they do every hour of everyday, and it is your aggorance and the others like you they are making it harder every single day for our community along with all the others to recruit new officers to protect people like you and I. It is a shame you could even speak of someone who is obviously a heck of a lot braver, wiser, and worthy than you sir.
Abe P. Knob says
Do you wear a badge? Do you sign up every day to put your life on the line? I assume not. So please stop being a hypocrite. And to Julie “Pruitt”, how come your not using your real name?
Ashley Forbes says
For the record I would a badge for many years, not a blue badge but a yellow one. I was a dispatcher that protected the Eastern Shore, so yes I can say I know a lot of the day to day locations and duties of our officers. Also, I do not wear a blue badge but I am the wife of a local law enforcement officer, the daughter of one, sister of one, and a friend to many of them. Think it’s safe to say I’ve done my research and have a lot more knowledge than you do “Abe”
Abe P. Knob says
Okay so you wore a badge and your family wore badges also. Thank you for your service, but its still irrelevant to the fact your family did their job and the chief just gets paid for having a job. Oh and btw if Chris actually did his job than maybe Tara Mitchell would still be alive. Such a shame my friend had to die just so Chris wouldn’t have to do “paperwork”.
Ashley says
You have that all wrong sir and you know it.
A friend says
Hey Knob,
Tell us all about when you put your ass on the line for this nation in law enforcement or in the military…
Nioaka Marshall says
I seeno reason why it should be a problem to provide a more detailed report. Looking at the numbers provided here, exactly why would Bay Creek need 23 hours of patrol? They are a gated community with a security person at the gate. And 26 hours of foot patrol? Exactly where are they walking? All over town? A specified area of town? Or is this the time going to and from their vehicles getting in and out? A little clarity please.
Richard B Trouser says
Hey, Abe P. Knob! It’s me, your cousin!!!!
Madame X says
Who would have thought a request from a member of CC council would have unleashed such fury and vitriol? For shame!
Thank you all CCPD and CBBT officers and chiefs, past and present.
Jody Body says
The CCPD needs to learn community policing…. but other than that you don’t really see them unless called
Abe P. Knob says
I agree. Also they’ve been known to not come at all when called. And when they do come, they have an attitude with the person who did call. And if you call the departments phone number they never answer. Even when they are in the office.
Mike Kuzma, Jr. says
Even in little towns like CC, every. Single. Day. a cop puts on his uniform it could be his last. For that alone they get respect from me.
As for enlarging their presence in town, why? Isn’t it better for them to be there when needed and not an overwhelming presence in our lives?
Jody Body says
Mrs. Pruitt,
You say you husband is “one of the few good cops” ….are you putting down other law enforcement officers and agencies? Or comparing the relative crimes committed in the town of Cape Charles to the rest of the shore, where apparently not “good cops” do their job everyday and have arrests to show for it
A friend says
“Hey Knob,
Tell us all about when you put your ass on the line for this nation in law enforcement or in the military…”
No reply Knob?
I thought as much…
Abe P. Knob says
Civilians put their lives on the line everyday when you have dirty cops making false accusations, arrests, or provoking an incident, just to make a quota or make themselves look good. As for me not replying when you want me to, im not your bitch, nor will I ever be the ccpd’s bitch.
A friend says
Sounds like you spent some time as someone’s bitch. How about posting some “Cool” pictures of your prison tattoos!
By the way, happy Law Enforcement Appreciation Day!
Abe P. Knob says
Well we all know whose bitch you are!
Mike Kuzma, Jr. says
I bet you can paint your house in about 10 minutes, using that BROAD brush you use………..
Wow.
Slide Easy says
I was in the military and they sent me to Maritime Law Enforcement School, Boarding Officer School, Boarding Team Member School. I then used those skills in the War against Drugs, together with local, state and federal agents. They speak freely among their own.
Look at the example cops(all cops) set for the community. They speed, don’t use turn signals, text/use computer while driving, run stop signs…ect. all while Not involved in any pursuit of anything other than a paycheck. No one would stop for them if they did not carry guns. They are road pirates for the most part.
The saddest thing I have learned about them is that the Good Ones tend to cover for the Bad Ones, most of the time. So what is a Good Cop if they protect their ‘Brothers in Crime’…I mean ‘Thin Blue Line”??????
As for needing them to protect me??? I cannot fathom needing them to protect me or mine. I can do that perfectly well.
Abe P. Knob says
Exactly, Slide Easy. Thank you for your service.
Paul Plante says
Slide, dude, thank you for your service and welcome home!
Slide Easy says
Semper Paratus…and I do mean Semper.
Connie Hall says
I see the peanut gallery shut up when you laid down the truth.
RICK says
Lets start at the begging in the 20 years i lived in the Cape Charles Area .I have yet to see a Police Officer on Foot Patrol , On Mason ave chatting to store owners ,and Children on the street,Covering drinking establishments and the Shanty at night also checking alley ways behind stores checking out of date reg lic plates . A man Drowned in the Harbour because he was drunk if Bar tender had called the Police he would be alive to day. Thats providing the police were on duty?? the applies to the young woman raped in central Par k IF thugs and perpetrators now see officers on patrol this deters any law breaking . I read the Police report for the month its not worth the paper its printed on.
Abe P. Knob says
Ain’t that the truth. As for the rape in Cape Charles park, the Cape Charles officer investigating had changed the description of the suspect the victim had given. Saying the victim said the suspect had been wearing “this”, when in fact he was wearing “this”. Also this same officer had previously been the suspects juvenile probation officer, therefore creating a conflict of interest and should have been pulled from the case immediately. Yet she was not.
Mike Kuzma, Jr. says
Conflict of interest? Sorry, I don’t see how.
And witness reports are notoriously unreliable.
Guys, I well and truly hope you never find yourselves in the position of NEEDING a LEO.
Abe P. Knob says
Mike Kuzma Jr how about minding your own business and keeping everything about yourself, thoughts and all, over in Newport news.
Mike Kuzma, Jr. says
Hey Ape? Shut your mouth, or meet me in front of Kelly’s. You liberal jerk off.
Your mother should have used her freedom of choice on you, pal.
BTW? Wrong Kuzma. But you must be used to being wrong.
Paul Plante says
Ssssssssss’up, Mike.
And best of the new year’s to you.
Cold up here the way you like it, but not as cold as you would have it be.
Global warming, don’t you know.
Mike Kuzma, Jr. says
Paul, Happy New year to you as well!! I know your weather, I was up in Canada over the break between Christmas and NYE. Just like I like it!!!!
Buddy, I was thinking of you………..one cannot CANNOT get a medium rare burger up North. As I sat there looking at the saddest thing ever, I thought to myself……..”Maybe Paul is on to something with them bean burgers…….they can’t be worse than this!!”
Be well, enjoy the rest of the winter. Soon comes gardening time.
Kuz
Paul Plante says
A sad time in America, indeed, Mike, and it has to do with the inexactitude of words on the one hand, and the fact that more and more people have been reduced by TWITTER to speaking in gibberish.
Consider the conundrum (a confusing and difficult problem or question) you are handing these people, Mike, when you combine the words “medium” (about halfway between two extremes of size or another quality; average; synonyms: average, middling, medium-sized, middle-sized, moderate, fair, normal, standard, usual), and “rare” (seldom occurring or found; marked by unusual quality, merit, or appeal; superlative or extreme of its kind; marked by wide separation of component particles).
You see what I am saying here?
You need more precision, Mike – this ain’t Virginia, anymore, so you simply cannot expect the same degree of culinary sophistication that you are going to find in a fine-eating establishment like Kelly’s in Cape Charles where the scallops are said to be exquisite.
Pare it down, Mike.
On the one hand, you have a pile of raw meat
On the other, you have a lump of charcoal.
Waitresses and cooks up this way can readily grasp those two concepts without needing a linguistics degree from Wellsley Collitch where Hillary was a star pupil, so it is said, anyway.
So what you then have to do is start what we call up this way a “shading” process based on whether you still want a lot of blood pouring out as you eat it, or less blood, down to no blood at all, and finally, to plain inedible.
Kind of like the dialogue Jack Nicholson had with the waitress in that movie where all he wanted was toast in a restaurant that only served Reubens.
To get toast, all he had to do was eliminate the Russian dressing, the corned beef and the sauerkraut.
Applied psychology, Mike – works for me all the time up this way, but then I am a “BEEN HERE,” so I already speak the language.
Try it out and let me know how it works for you, and if you are across the border to the further north, be sure to add “Eh!”
Mike Kuzma, Jr. says
“Eh-vous”
I was in French Canada.
😉
Hope says
Let me start by saying that I have a serious issue with whoever you may be “Abe” running your mouth (or in this case your fingers) when you wont even say who you truly are!!!! If you know anything about this tiny little area, you would know that we all know each other here……therefore we know that you are using a fake name to hide behind a computer screen (or a phone) either way, it is seriously childish!!!
I seriously hope that you will never need assistance from a Police officer…….better yet I think you should go request a ride along with Chief Pruitt himself I doubt you wouldn’t last an hour!
I am a resident of Cape Charles for the last 4 years (lived on the shore for 8 years) and a business owner for the last year and every single time I have needed assistance, a police officer or Chief Pruitt himself have been there IMMEDIATELY to rectify the situation no questions asked. So if he were not “getting off his butt” then he wouldn’t have been there to assist! I have building check slips in my door when I get into work the next day, and I also have personally seen each one of the Cape Charles Police officers doing work, enforcing speed, etc. outside of my business (which is located when you first enter our little town)
So if you and RICK were out in public, in Cape Charles a little more, you would actually see the work that the CCPD does!!!!!!
Like the 4th of July when every single one of them was on duty keeping issues on bay ave at hand all day in the hot sun!!!
Or how about for the towns “Crab Pot drop” where the on duty police officers were asked by the mayor to block off the road and patrol mason ave…..and they did just that, IN THE RAIN.
Or how about all summer long when they walk up and down the beach with bullet proof vests on and long pants sweating in the hot sun to make sure that things are okay for residents and visitors.
I think that you don’t understand the work of a Police Chief and have nothing to stand on as to why you ASSUME what he does in his day!!!!!!
So keep your peanut gallery comments to yourself if you have NO idea as to what this police department actually does while you hide behind your false name!!!!!
See if you could EVER be in Law enforcment for a day…..I doubt it Mr. “I’m so big and bad behind a screen”
I CUT✂ MY OWN HAIR says
Maybe perhaps you feel so greatly about the ccpd because your ex “hubby” is a cape Charles officer. Must not have felt too great about him when you left him for another woman’s man. Hmm…building check slips in your door? Wonder which officer put those there. Oh so Chief Pruitt comes to your rescue whenever you call him? Well you are a young female afterall. Maybe instead perhaps someone should come do a little building inspection on your place. See if its really all up to code. Good to know your cosmetology license is up to date. At least until Halloween.
Mike Kuzma, Jr. says
Wow, such warmth and charm. You really are a piece of work. Why do I get the feeling that the reason you dislike the police so much is that you are frequently in their care?
A friend says
Hope,
Don’t believe Knob is anonymous; he’s easy to spot in town. He’s the one with the crude prison tattoo (“LOSER”) on his forehead that proclaims his status.
As for “I Cut My Own Hair”, she’s easy to spot too. When the wind blows, her tattoo of “Also a Loser” on her forehead is revealed under her self cut bangs.
Paul Plante says
You’re a hoot, dude!
Ray Otton says
This place has become a real cesspool.
Sadly, most of you won’t even see it.
Note: So far, probably the most accurate statement of 2019.
Blue Hoss says
Pls explain, don’t hold back. Please use no political correctness in doing so.
Mike Kuzma, Jr. says
Well as long as the town spends $$$ on bike paths, hiring out of state consultants etc…. then the sewer system will never get fixed………….is that what you meant?
Paul Plante says
The truth of the matter, however, is that regardless of what one sees or don’t see, or realizes, or don’t realize, that cesspool, which has existed for a long time now, it didn’t come in to existence just yesterday, is something none of us can do a thing about because of this thing in this country called freedom of speech and democracy.
You have made it abundantly clear in here many times that you do not like being screeched at by morons and idiots, while for their part, they don’t like being preached at by you.
Sounds like a stand-off to me, anyway.
And instead of telling us what we already know, why not give us a solution as to how to clean out the cesspool, which is past overflowing and has been doing so for some time now?
Any ideas?
Michael C. Jordan says
You are very important, as are all Americans, to the health and continuation of our form of Representative Government. You are part of “We the People…” who are the last line of defense to assure our American Liberty. In a word, VOTE, and let your “voice” be heard!
But, I am sure you already knew this Paul…
Paul Plante says
Michael C. Jordan, good morning to you, sir, and the best of the new year to you and yours, as well.
May it be a prosperous and propitious one for you.
With that said, Michael, if you come north and check the voting records up this way, you will find that I have been voting for more than fifty years now, each year, whether local elections, county elections, state elections or national elections.
In 1969, when I was helping to fight what was in reality the Democrat Party’s war of aggression on the people of Viet Nam, I voted by absentee ballot, which I would hope would serve as an indication to one so discerning as yourself as to the importance I attach to what has become in this country little more than a symbolic act, or perhaps an act of defiance on my part against the left-leaning Democrat party, and the Republican party, as well, since I would rather cut off my hand than have it mark a ballot on either of their lines.
So yes, Michael, in a word, I do VOTE, and as to letting my “voice” be heard, this is a quote from myself in a February 8, 2004 Albany, New York Times Union article by a writer named Michelle Morgan Bolton about people like myself who actually believed enough in that “We, the people” stuff you mention to leave our hearth and home to pick up the powerful weapon of the pen, which is supposed to be mightier than the sword, if you remember that trite saying coined by English author Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1839, indicating that communication, particularly written language, is a more effective tool than the direct violence used by the Democrat Party’s paramilitaries to stifle the voices of others they don’t want heard, and take these corrupt, scum-sucking, bottom-feeding politicians who have made this once great nation of ours (No, I am not a white supremicist) into the third-world ****hole and cesspit it has become to court in an effort, a vain one as it has turned out http://www.capecharlesmirror.com/news/o … ment-77384 to hold them accountable to “We, the people,” to wit:
“The law is far too precious a thing to be left in the hands of lawyers!”
That article detailed the cases I had won as a citizen, including at the Appellate level of state Supreme Court, using his right to petition for redress of grievance against corrupt local and state officials, including successfully defending myself against false criminal charges leveled at me by the corrupt Democrats to protect a hit-and-run driver after a failed vehicular assault that was intended to put an end to my “citizen activism.”
That article went on to say as follows:
Cognizant of the old adage that says those who represent themselves have a fool for a client, Plante confided: “I’d rather have a fool for a client than a fool for a lawyer.”
end quote
The article then when on the state as follows:
The 58-year old disabled Vietnam veteran also is a vocal activist, who is currently attempting to prove in federal court that county social services, veterans and Samaritan Hospital officials tried to forcibly commit him to a mental health facility in 2001.
end quotes
That was the “FINAL SOLUTION” to the “Paul Plante Problem” up here, Michael, where endemic public corruption in our “cesspit” government is protected by the U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of New York, federal District Court for the Northern District of New York, and the federal 2d Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City, which defensive barriers ultimately proved too high a wall for me to be able to surmount.
So tell me, Michael, about how it is that I am very important to the health and continuation of our form of Representative Government, and how it is that I am part of “We the People…” who are the last line of defense to assure our American Liberty.
It truly sounds a droll concept to me, given my actual experiences trying to do exactly that, stand on the last line of defense to assure somebody’s American liberty which has been denied to me, but I’d like to hear more about it, if you have more to add.
Hey, I’m not perfect here, maybe I’m missing something, but what on earth could it be?
Michael C. Jordan says
Paul,
“[T]he last line of defense to assure our American Liberty.” were those who voted to keep Hillary Clinton from the power of the presidency. As for the rest, if you don’t understand now you never will.
Happy New Year!
Paul Plante says
Let me take great pains to assure you, Michael C. Jordan, that I’m not stupid enough to vote for Hillary Clinton, for anything!
As for the un-named “rest” that if I don’t understand now, I never will, I truthfully do not have a clue as to what that might be, which is probably why I don’t understand it.
Happy New Year!
Paul Plante says
One thing I do understand quite well, Michael C. Jordan, is that here to the north of you, if you are on the wrong side of the political fence and you need an LEO, you’re going to find the guns pointed at yourself, and that starts with the craven cowards of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
That I understand very well from first hand experience.
And, oh, right, I almost forgot – one other thing I do understand as an AMERICAN citizen as opposed to a citizen of our sister states in solidarity and democracy like Somalia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Gabon or the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is that the words, “We, the people” come from the preamble to the now-defunct United States Constitution wherein is stated “We, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, etc., do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.”
I may not understand very much, Michael C. Jordan, as you take pains above to point out, but I do understand that the preamble to the constitution was intended to be declaratory of the purposes of our union, and I further understand that the assumption of any powers by the Democrats and Republicans not necessary to establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, will be unconstitutional, and endanger the existence of Congress.
Today that sounds quite silly, does it not, Michael C. Jordan, which is another thing I understand quite well.
As for the rest, well, if I don’t understand it now, and it seems I don’t, I guess I never will.
Paul Plante says
And while we are on this subject, Michael C. Jordan, of “we, the people,” and how I am very important, as are all Americans, to the health and continuation of our form of Representative Government, a message now-Supreme Court Justice and self-described Latina Sonia Sotomayor either did not get, or completely failed to understand or comprehend in 2005 when she was a circuit judge on the federal 2d Circuit Court of Appeals in New York City, and how I am part of “We the People…” who are the last line of defense to assure our American Liberty, another message Judge Sotomayor apparently did not understand, or chose to disregard, and all of the things I don’t understand, among them how someone so ignorant of our American values as is Sonia Sotomayor ever managed to become a United States judge in the first place, let alone a Supreme Court justice, another thing I personally do not understand as an older American citizen is that IF We the People of the United States did ordain (order or decree something officially; decree, rule, order, command) and establish (set up an organization, system, or set of rules on a firm or permanent basis) OUR Constitution for the United States of America in order to form a more perfect Union, then why are we, the people seeing our Republic, our Union, being torn asunder by these Democrats and Republicans who are splitting us up into RED states and BLUE states warring against each other much as was the case back in the Byzantine Empire when the Greens and Blues were two opposing chariot teams that divided the people of the Byzantine empire.
As you most assuredly remember from high school civics, where we learned what it once meant to be an American citizen, exactly what the Blues and the Greens stood for remains a matter of dispute among historians, just as what a BLUE state or RED state stand for today remains a mystery, at least to me.
Getting back to the Byzantines, who we greatly resemble today, to be truthful, for a long time it was thought that the two groups gradually evolved into what were essentially early political parties, the Blues representing the ruling classes and standing for religious orthodoxy, and the Greens being the party of the people.
The Greens were also depicted as proponents of the highly divisive theology of Monophysitism, an influential heresy which held that Christ was not simultaneously divine and human but had only a single nature, which in the fifth and sixth centuries A.D., threatened to tear the Byzantine Empire apart, just as the Democrats in this country today, our modern-day equivalent to the Greens of the Byzantine era, are threatening to tear this country apart with their belief in the divine nature of Hussein Obama and Hillary Clinton.
Speaking of the Democrats intentionally arousing violent passions in this country today, do you recall in 501 when the Greens ambushed the Blues in Constantinople’s amphitheater and massacred 3,000 of them?
Doesn’t it remind you of the Democrat paramilitaries in this country today called the “ANTI-FA’s?”
So if we are supposed to have a more perfect union, how come we don’t?
There’s one thing I don’t understand as an older American, and I’m hoping that maybe you can enlighten me some as to why that is.
And if We the People of the United States did ordain and establish OUR Constitution for the United States of America in order to establish Justice, then why is it that I have none?
There’s another thing I don’t understand, and perhaps never will?
Is it because I am a straight, white male?
Seems to be to me, anyway.
And what about insuring domestic Tranquility?
If Mr. Otton above here is calling either Cape Charles or the United States of America or both a “real cesspool,” then where oh where did domestic Tranquillity disappear to?
I’ll pass by “provide for the common defense,” because the Democrats are not going to allow that to happen, and “promote the general Welfare,” since that is not going to happen either, as we see in California and New York our tax dollars going to provide free healthcare and college for illegal aliens, who have become more important than people born here, and come to “secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity,” and I’ll ask you this question – why has that failed to be done?
For certain, Sonia Sotomayor, who is a Latina in her own words, whatever on earth that is supposed to mean, other than she does not share the same values as we do as American citizens, did not secure the blessings of liberty to me in 2005.
To the contrary, had I actually been physically present in her courtroom in 2005, instead of being there by video hook-up, I truly think she would have had the bailiffs throw me down on the floor so she could haul her bulk from behind the bench to come down and **** right in my face.
So what is up with that, Michael C. Jordan?
Can you shed some light here and clear up my obvious ignorance?
Or am I simply too old to be able to see the light of day?