“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.”
Søren Kierkegaard
(the oddity of a tiki flaming pineapple in the heart of Atlanta, absurd or odd / Julie Cook / 2019)
According to Merriam Webster, the word asinine means:
asinine: adjective
as·i·nine | \ ˈa-sə-ˌnīn \
1 : extremely or utterly foolish or silly
Utterly foolish or silly…
I think I’ll opt for such words as utterly foolish, idiotic, absurd, ridiculous
and really really stupid.
My daughter-n-law and I were running a few errands yesterday when she asked if I
had heard the news story about the police officers, out in Arizona, who were visiting
a Starbucks and were asked to leave because another patron told management that the
presence of the police made them nervous.
I responded that yes, yes I had heard that story and it had to be just about the most
idiotic thing I’d ever heard…
Incensed all over again, I told her it was just one more tale in the endless sea of lunacy
in a long line of “the tales of the asinine”…
Her response was that we should start writing a series entitled “the asinine journals, or
perhaps chronicles, of our times…”
For you see, I’m the type of person who happens to feel safer whenever I’m out and about
and police, or any other first responders, happen to be patronizing the same establishment
I am.
As in…when I’m out, say, eating a hearty breakfast at a Cracker Barrell and
there happens to be a table full of firemen also enjoying breakfast–
all the while as the crackle of their radios with the latest breaking news
echos around their table, I feel safe in knowing that should I suddenly have a
heart attack or choke on my Sunrise Sampler or lest a fire breaks out in the kitchen,
it’s all good.
Cops getting coffee in a Starbucks says to me that no idiot is going to come busting in
hoping to pull off an armed robbery…and if they do, the trauma should be short-lived
as the cops would be on the idiot(s) like white of rice.
Just an added bit of peace of mind while venturing out into our ever-growing
crime-ridden world.
But no, instead we have to have some idiot who tells a coffee barista that they just don’t
feel safe ordering a coffee mocha latte while some police officers are doing the same.
And so the equally idiotic coffee barista tells the officers to leave.
And so now tell me something…
God forbid that later, the barista should have to call 911 due to some sort of robbery
or calamity, how would those same officers feel about having to respond?
My guess would be that because they are duty bound,
they would respond regardless of any slight or offense because that’s what cops do.
And for all those naysayers, snowflakes and Antifa folks out there…
yes, there are bad cops, bad soldiers, bad doctors, bad priests, bad lawyers, bad teachers…
as in there are simply bad people out there who do bad things to good people…
Just like there are good cops, good soldiers, good doctors, good priests, good lawyers,
good teachers…as in good people trying to do good things for other people.
Good people who try to do their utmost for those they serve or for those who they
simply interact with on a day to day basis.
We live in a balance of good vs evil.
Plain and simple.
Good people doing good things for and by other people.
So for some police officers to come into a Starbucks to get a cup of coffee or a
cup of tea or whatever, only to be asked to leave simply because they are cops who
happen to make one fellow patron uneasy, is in a word, asinine.
Yes, the Starbucks Corporation has since issued an apology.
The Corporation, not necessarily the individual store or community.
Yet does a corporate apology make this incident now better or okay?
These sorts of little incidences keep happening all over the country.
Police are being victimized and even ambushed and murdered simply because they are
police officers.
Just yesterday, a sheriff’s deputy from Hall County, a part of the city of Gainesville, Ga
was shot and killed by four teens as he stopped them for having stolen a car and for their
involvement in burglaries.
A 28-year-old young man, a deputy sheriff who was two years younger than my own son.
He was both a young husband and father.
From convenient stores to restaurants—when policemen, State Troopers or deputies come into
various businesses in order to buy something and are told to leave all because someone else feels
uncomfortable in their presence is, well, absolutely an absurdity.
Yet our culture has fallen into some sort of odd ‘guilty by association’ mentality.
A police officer is seen on camera hitting, kicking, shooting a suspect…in most cases
images that are publicized by our media of the suspect which is a black male.
And so we now have a tremendous backlash from the black community that they are being targeted.
This goes back to the fact that we do indeed have rotten apples, those known as the bad guys pretending
to be good guys.
But that does not ever mean that all officers are bad or monsters or aimed at targeting
any particular community of people…
Yet good luck convincing the progressive left and liberal media of anything other than.
And so we have a culture now screaming henny penny the sky is falling over
what should be common sense…as we find ourselves living in the time
of the asinine.
Shame on Starbucks and any other business that shuns our first responders.
Those same responders you pray will come to your aide when you’re trapped in an
overturned and burning car or should some crazed madman invade your home and
terrorize you and your family…you can only hope and pray the police will get there
as fast as they can…lest you lose your life.
The good becomes bad and the bad becomes good…
as a culture slowly loses her common sense.
Volume II of The Asinine will follow tomorrow…
For the Lord gives wisdom;
from his mouth come knowledge and understanding;
Proverbs 2:6
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