Monday, 07 September 2009

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  The Great American Fall Guy (A Post on Socialism)

  Southern California has been all over the news during the past week for two reasons.  The first involved Michael  Jackson.  After two months of being dead, his family and friends finally planted him in the Forest Lawn Cemetery in Glendale, California.  Meanwhile, investigators ruled that Jackson’s death was a homicide and that his personal physician, Dr. Conrad Murray, is the primary suspect.  Apparently, Jackson was given an excessive amount of sleeping drugs, most notably the intravenously-administered  propofol, which Jacko, according to Dr. Murray, referred to as his “milk.” 

  Now, I don’t know exactly what happened in Michael Jackson’s home on June 25, 2009, and the only people who truly know what happened are Jackson and his doctor.  I suppose it is possible that Dr. Murray intentionally killed the King of Pop.  But, I’ve seen Dr. Murray’s YouTube video where he addressed the whole fiasco, and, being a doctor myself, I know that doctors sometimes make mistakes.  And, even though I’m not an expert at judging people I’ve never met, the mild-mannered Dr. Murray just doesn’t strike me to be a cold-blooded murderer. 

  However, I can understand why people would want him to be “brought to justice.”  After all, this is America, and in this country, somebody has to take the blame whenever something bad happens, whether that person has anything to do with it or not.  This was what happened to Saddam Hussein when the World Trade Center went down, and this is why Beatles fans perceive Yoko Ono to be the most despicable creature on this entire planet.  Yoko Ono had as much to do with the Beatles breaking up as Iraq had to do with Osama bin Laden.    Someone has to be the fall guy for Michael Jackson’s death.

  So, in all likelihood, Conrad Murray is going to be convicted.

  The other news story that came out of southern California was the gigantic Station wildfire that ignited in the Angeles National Forest a few miles north of Los Angeles.  As I am typing this, this fire is still burning and has been burning for over a week.  But why?  I mean, how hard is it to extinguish a fire?  From my understanding, all you have to do is pour water on it, and that hardly seems like a difficult task.  It seems as if firefighters are just sitting around on their asses and watching the fires burn.  Is this what my tax dollars are paying for?

  The fact that this fire has lasted this long has made me question the effectiveness (and morality) of publicly funded fire departments.  It doesn’t seem fair that my tax dollars are being used to save the houses of people who consciously choose to live in high-risk fire locations.  Shouldn’t those people be responsible for their communities if their communities catch fire?  I will probably never have to use the services of the fire department ever in my life, so why should I pay for it?

  Using tax dollars to fund fire departments is certainly a socialistic policy, and I, for one, am getting sick of socialistic programs like this that are undermining our great country.  The country might be in better shape if we disbanded all fire departments and left fire-fighting to private companies.  With this model, no one will have to pay extra taxes, private businesses would thrive, and firefighters would be paid better.  I’m not the only person who feels this way, as the people at www.angrytownhall.com share the same sentiment.

  Of course, I’m joking about this.  I love the fire department!  And, I can’t say enough good things about the brave men and women who are keeping the Station fire from incinerating Los Angeles.  But, the argument against a socialized fire department, which is similar to the argument against socialized health care, makes me wonder if socialism is really a bad thing?  If a public fire department didn’t exist, should people’s homes burn down because they couldn’t hire a firefighter immediately?  By that same line of thought, should a 20-year-old college student die because he developed bone cancer and couldn’t afford health insurance?  Both are socialist programs, but for some reason “socialism” in America connotes something bad.  And, in America, whenever there is something bad, someone always has to take the blame for it. 

  That settles it. Dr. Conrad Murray started the Station fire.

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