The Coming Storm

Disclaimer: I am about to make myself sound like the right-wing extremist Secretary Napolitano has tried to make all vets into.

It's funny how motherhood can shift your mentality. Two years ago, before I had gotten pregnant, if I had heard all the reports, seen the videos of people openly calling for revolution in the streets, if I had known what was in the air now, I would have said "Let them come." In my household, we own a rifle (scoped) a shotgun, 2 handguns, a machete and 2 swords. This is in addition to all the smaller hand to hand weapons we have such as saps and brass knuckles. My husband is capable with his weapons, and I can defend myself with the .22 handgun if necessary. I never thought it would be necessary for me to do more than shoot the intruder coming through my bedroom door. My father, though I didn't know it when I was growing up, is also capable with his weapons and owns his own arsenal. With all the guys I knew in the Navy, with all their combined weaponry, I thought they were getting a testosterone kick. I thought it was their hobby to collect weapons as some girls I know scrapbook. There were always jokes of the coming Zombie Apocalypse. Tactics discussed, plans formulated, games played... even if it was in jest, it was a mental excercise that I'm now glad has been in the works. Back then, I'd have taken up my handgun and made my way to safe haven with my husband, driving only 5 hours up the road to Vegas and my family, then down to Texas. The me of two years ago would know America would survive. Our way of life would continue once the storm had passed. And God save the idiot who got in our way.

Now, I read the stories. I watch the videos. I am preparing our house to move to San Diego. San Diego, within stone's throw of the Mexican border. San Diego, who is currently attempting a failing boycott against Arizona. Now San Diego seems to be the worst place in the world to be moving to. If something were to happen, not only are we right next to the border, but we're also completely surrounded by Aztlan. And now, it's not just me and my armed accomplice. Now I have this tiny person who is completely dependent on me for everything.

I'll admit it. I'm scared. I'm afraid that something really bad is just on the horizon. Something truly horrible that will have to happen to really get people to realize how serious this is. The worst part of it though... the worst part is that the government won't do anything to help. In San Diego, if anything were to happen, the local government is likely full of people who are on the other side of the revolution. Otherwise, why would they be boycotting a federal law made state law? Now I look at her and I wonder if she will have an America to grow up in.

My husband thinks I'm paranoid. He thinks I've been reading too much too fast. He says "If this were all real, and serious, it would be all over the news." Never mind the fact that he doesn't listen to the news. We don't watch the news. His whole perspective on the world is what is showed in thumbnails on Yahoo. I point this out and he says "Fine, let's turn on CNN and see if it's on there." I tell him CNN more or less works for the White House and can't be seen as an unbiased source of information... especially when our President is playing at race politics and is trying to push a socialist agenda and probably trying to push amnesty as well. Then he says, "Anything but FOX." You see... a few years back, a journalist at Fox condemned the video game Mass Effect for 'penetration shots' of human-alien sex... something that isn't true. Because of this, he thinks that Fox is the least trusted news source around.

Maybe I am reading too far into this. Maybe that's just another symptom of this mentality shift of motherhood. Either way, I am truly afraid for our country. We have La Raza in the southwest, trying to start a revolution. We have people sneaking into this country through our more-or-less open borders, not only from Mexico and Guatemala, but from Yemen, Afghanistan, Iran. We are under attack from radical Islam, from Al Qaeda, from sociopathic idiots who just want to make the headline news. And amidst all this, we have a President... a President who is slowly but surely trying to "nationalize" our economy. This is code-speak for becoming a socialist nation. At first this whole Kagan thing seemed like it wasn't so bad... but when he pushes a law through Congress (who has been trained to not read the documents in front of them) that, yet again, violates the Constitution, who is going to call him on it? His fellow socialist in the Supreme Court? The problem here is that it will take something extreme, like the rise of La Raza, to get everyman, like my husband, to realize there is something happening. By that time, it may be too late for many real Americans who live in places like LA, San Diego, and Arizona.