THE DOPING OF AMERICA - AIRPORT SECURITY SUPERVISOR ARRESTED...

Fox News Headlines - "Longtime Airport Security Supervisor Arrested At NJ Airport  For Using Dead Man's ID".

Whaat??? Yeah, 2 a's!

OK, so this guy, Bimbo Olumuyiwa Oyewole, aka Jerry Thomas had been working at the NJ airport for about 20 years ... an illegal immigrant from Nigeria, he worked his way up in the ranks of airport security - the Port Authority of NY and NJ, towering above all other people who may have striven for that title... Bimbo oversaw TSA agents in fact, although apparently, not directly, according to the new's article, which you can find here: ARTICLE.

According to it he was mostly responsible for a crew of non-TSA agents who did after hours security. After hours???

I didn't even know there was such a thing as "after-hours", at an airport like Newark's International, in NJ.

Really???

As for the ID he was using - that of a homicide victim in NYC -1992. A cold, unsolved case of murder. Investigators in NY have apparently not made a statement as to how Bimbo came to use the victim's ID, but what is known is Bimbo managed to pass multiple background checks over the years which included running his fingerprints through state of the art computer - well you know - terrorist grade threat detection software systems. And PASSED!!!

For 20 freaking years!!!

Wow, do I feel safe or what???

But here's the frosting on the cake: NJ State Police spokesperson, Stephen Jones (fake name maybe?) said in the article:

"A candidate is disqualified if he or she has a conviction for a fourth-degree offense or higher or a drug offense of any level, Jones said. Oyewole, as Thomas, was certified under SORA".

What's SORA? - actually I don't even want to know. Suffice it to say, having been busted with a marijuana pipe over 25 years ago, I can't get SORA approved, nor can I work for a school, hospital, gov't job or well, anything meaningful, yet Bimbo could. He was only getting away with using a homicide victim's ID.

Security? What security???

When people ask me why I don't strive for higher ideals, promotions or a better job... now I can admit that people like Bimbo are far more desirable than a pot-pipe busted loser like me. Then again, maybe I should get a new identity... like a homicide victim. Yeah... NOT!!!

America, you've been doped!!!

Drug offense of any level, my ass! Get real!!!

ABOUT TIME - BREAST FEEDING MADNESS EXPOSE

Wow... Time Magazine pulled a winner out of their hat with the latest magazine cover - "Are You Mom Enough"?

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Jamie Lynne Grumet and her son, 3 yo Aram, are bonding, in what's called Attachment Parenting. Jamie is standing in the cover photo, Aram standing also suckling from his mom's breast.

Source: "Behind the Cover: Are You Mom Enough?"

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The photo is purposely posed and focused to cause defiance, and challenge. That it has. While many support the cover-photo, many don't and some outraged. 

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One Fox News editorialist, Dr. Keith Ablow, asks, "...forget the breast, what about the boy?" ...she thought nothing of becoming far more famous than she ever was or ever would have been by getting naked on the cover of Time using her son as a prop—letting him, in fact, look right into the camera and be completely recognizable while sucking her nipple.  He may never be better-known for anything than for being a breastfeeding 3-year-old on the cover of a national magazine.

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What about the boy?

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Jamie Lynne Grumet and her son, 3 yo Aram, appeared on the Today Show, with Jamie defending her position. The cover photo may not have been the best choice, she admits... alternatives were taken, and of other moms. Perhaps if the alternate had been used the public reaction may have been different. The cover photo used shows a 3 year old boy standing up sucking on his mother's left breast looking into the camera. The alternate shows him sitting on her lap.

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Source: Alternative Time Magazine Cover Photo

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He's just a child, still a baby in many ways. When I think of myself at 3 I have scant memory of it. I do remember my mom giving me back-scratches on the couch at a very early age. I was never breast-fed, the government and social/politico climate frowned on it. We still do...

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As seen in this Today Show photo, Aram is just a little boy, and the parenting is nurturing, not abusive, controlling, or abnormal as some suggest.

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Source: Jamie Lynne Grumet defends her Time magazine breastfeeding Ad

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Well, although Dr. Ablow suggests the kid will be tormented and bullied the rest of his life, I don't know how he can come to those conclusions. What is it about breasts, breast-feeding, and lactating in general that has us so uncomfortable?

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I'm not uncomfortable... except with the politics behind breast-feeding. And I see nothing wrong with "Attachment Parenting", as long as it takes place as a child, not when the child turns 18. There are parents that never let go, and when the child becomes an adult, or in some countries, only has to reach puberty, they are subjected to extraordinary manipulations to become an established personification of an ideal, at that age. 

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In the United States of America I would hope for the best in parenting. I would hope we are provided with facts and not fiction. I would hope we have the right to chose, as long as the choice doesn't harm. And I would hope we understand what constitutes harm.

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I know if we were asked what constitutes acceptable breast-feeding imagery we'd prefer this photo:

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Source: "Milk's Favorite Cookie" - Huffington Post - Even this photo as part of a S. Korea advertisement for Kraft Foods caused controversy at the time.

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As would this one if Time Magazine had chosen it instead:

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Source: Time Magazine: Back-story

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The only thing Time Magazine did was shock America... a shock that hopefully will bring it to it's senses! They used the wrong photo perhaps. I personally would have chosen the one with Aram nestled on his mother's lap. But does it really matter? The point is, this is human nature, and I don't know where it's expressly stated, what laws protect the nurturing of children, or who encourages proper nurturing or what that is composed of, but I would hope a sane foundation of parenting alternatives exist for parents in America to chose from, use, and adopt.

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The time to raise and nurture children is most important in their early years, not when they become teenagers. By the time a child is in their teens, the best one can hope to be is a good role-model, and flexible.

THE DOPING OF AMERICA - JOSE GUERENO ORTIZ

Jose Guereno Ortiz was ex-Marine Corp, having served military duty in Iraq. He was back in the states in the mid-west working in a copper mine. He has a wife and child. (click photo for source).

Photos; Source: Dailymail.co.uk

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Jose Guereno Ortiz is dead. He was killed during a SWAT raid on his house while his wife and child cowered horrified in a corner. There was scant warning of the assault. Jose only awoke from a nap with his wife warning him people were outside, and it looked like they were a gang about to break in. Jose stood and grabbed his AK-47 (what ex-marine would be without one?).

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He had but seconds as the door to his house blew apart and he was gunned down on video by several law enforcement agents believing they were under attack. Jose took 22 rounds to his body, over 70 shots fired. His weapon was on safe. No officers were shot at.

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The reason for the attack was "suspected narcotics". It was thought he was in possession of marijuana. How much, what he supposedly did with it, any proof, there's no record that any facts ever existed to prove the raid justifiable on the Ortiz residence.

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Police based the operation on a traffic stop several months prior when a relative was pulled over, and according to the subsequent subpoena, "the vehicle smelled of marijuana..." though no marijuana was found. Jose was a passenger in the vehicle. The subpoena that ultimately led to Jose's death is rife with innuendo about seemingly everyone but Jose. All of it seems to suggest an obsession by local law enforcement with marijuana, a suggested link to cross-border trafficking, but little hard fact. A "fishing expedition", in my opinion!

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Click on this snippet of the subpoena, for the "probable cause" that led to Jose' death.:

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The Ortiz the subpoena refers to the most, isn't Jose, it was his brother!

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Jose at best from what I can tell from the subpoena simply enjoyed using marijuana, and enjoyed hanging out with his extended family. And for that he's dead, his own family minus a father and husband. And we in this country think that's okay. 

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Even in cases of child abuse, rape or murder we don't go busting down doors like this and shoot a man protecting his home (we assume and one is innocent until proven guilty). 

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This is clearly a case of abuse of power, of madness. Reefer madness, and it really needs to stop. 

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The local district attorney says police were justified in the killing. Jose was armed. That law enforcement gave notice of the intended search... 

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You tell me... was this death justified? Was the marijuana involved something so dangerous someone had to die? Is this event one that shows rational thought behind a life-changing action? Does it justify prohibition of a natural plant? A plant used casually and medicinally for millions of years? 

THE DOPING OF AMERICA - RALPH HUNTER

Thank-you to fellow blogger and friend, Slam Dunks, for revealing my true identity. I was caught quite by surprise. I'm in the midst of my "Doping of America" posts. I guess it was meant to be.

But, the questions escalate...

Are you heterosexual or homosexual?
Are you Republican or Democrat?
You're not a Libertarian, are you?

Do you support tax wavers to the wealthy and those politically connected? Do you believe America has a drug problem?

Wow... such questions for someone like me.

I'll take the fifth on this...

Credit; Slam Dunks for fingering me...

Credit: MugMe.Org

So, Yes, I'm Ralph Hunter, AKA BobKat...

The feds are following me, the DEA (Dream Enforcement Administration), the ONDCP, and Atom Ant...

I continue to evade them, esp. Atom Ant...

Seriously, all I ever wanted was a chance at a fair life. A chance to be me. To live my life. A life I learned growing up, and in college. I was led to believe that by age 25, I would make my own choices... that starting at 18 when leaving home your life is your own.

Someone forgot to impress upon me the trial of conformity and tradition. By age 25 I can say, I wasn't doing very well.

It was the mid-hippie culture had met it's mark, and people were in general, laid-back.It was a few years after the Shafer Commission's recommendation that cannabis be deregulated and legalized; a Blue Ribbon committee assembled by President Richard (Tricky Dick) Nixon in 1970, it's findings were largely ignored, and completely dismissed by Pres. Nixon who declared and got, the "War on Drugs"; the devil in the details,  marijuana. That was when Reefer Madness truly got a face.

We were cool back then, back-to-nature types then, frequented natural food stores known as a Food Coop. It's where I got the herbs for the Witch-Doctor concoctions I brewed up back then. The closest thing to a freedom I've ever experienced, nothing like today. It was the birthplace of organic foods. I brewing herbal teas long before Celestial seasonings came along.

There was a brief 4-5 years during which a totally sane - within reason - society existed. Life was reasonably good, other than the reported drug-busts in a college community. Yet we had a president, Jimmy Carter who seems to this day to have had a true eye on Democracy... best President ever. During his term he legalized home-brewed wine, beer and cannabis. The first two were overlooked when the 18th Amendment was overturned by the 21st. The latter, well the DEA cried foul, and struck down the law. Wow. Just like that.

Overall, all I feel I got was a .22 rifle aimed at me (figuratively speaking). And for many of the unfortunate ones of US, we rest in peace. Ironically, Peace is all we ever wanted.

So, yeah... I love cannabis seeds... yum yum...

So do I and millions of others like me.

I love freedom and the First Amendment... but would like my seeds too.

Ralph