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http://patch.com/new-york/whiteplains/hudson-valley-breaking-bad-heroin-dealer-sentenced
Heorin epidemic in Upstate NY and greater New England on the rise. The bodies of our children and citizens are hitting the ground, and no one knows a damn thing!
The news reports come and go, providing the stats and body counts and the psychologists, treatment counselors, and politicians as usual go blah-blah-blah!
No one dares put on that "Say no to drugs" T-shirt anymore.
Sad and pathetic state of affairs.
A world in turmoil from every possible direction.
At least Geraldo Rivera added a percentage of truth when he said, that we have to go into the schools and talk to our youth. Yeah, well what about it??...What are we going to tell them that they haven't heard before??
But it's going to take a lot more than just saying "Say no to drugs" and printing out more of those T-shirts.
We have to focus on what attracts ANYONE to a life of chasing a high (any high). We have to attack the mentality, the influences, the impulses, etc.
Life is full of problems but the idea that we need to run towards getting high to cope or push a reset button in our lives to make our problems disapear has a lot to do with the problem.
People need to harden up on reality and truth in order to strenthen their personal coping mechnisms.
And it sure does not help when we're living in a culture that is politically correct on too many issues, and everything is so offensive to talk about.
The post-modern mentality of today works against strengthening people's coping mechinsms.
Families have to get involved in their communities and their children's schools. Social services need to be increased in the school districts where parents aren't as present in the home or involved in their children's schooling. We need to challenge any and every influence that propogates drugs and the "high" life as desirable. Young people themselves need to see how uncool it is to be getting high - because while the culture teaches the youth that it's cool to get high all the time in popular music and movies, being strung-out and destitute is seen as embarrassing, shameful and a stigmatized.
Hollywood doesn't present those that are close to death as cool if you've noticed but it sure does help influence the weak-minded to get its start in a life of getting high. The culture needs to change big time!
If we're not willing to take serious what our children are watching, listening to and doing outside our homes... If we're not willing to take
border security seriously and eradicate any "under the table" political corruption ... as well as illiminate overseas threats BEFORE they get to our shores, then we're not serious about protecting our families and communities. Period.
Taking Christianity and Godly influences out of the schools by a universal, govermental securlist religion being put in its place, was and always will be a bad idea.
These problems we see today are a direct result of taking God out of the books, out of the lechtures, and out of the influences of our young people.
All around us are the growing influences of the "progressive"- dismantling of a nation, and its implosion.
Young men and women have a desire and a God-given need to know who they are, what they are, and what their purpose is in this universe. And when their taught that they are just as random as a rock, that's gonna screw people up despite what your government grant funded celebrity "science" personalities say.
And those are the things that build the coping mechnisms we were devinely expected to have in order to take us through the course of our lives. That resolve in self is then passed on to the next generation of Americans.
America's infrustructure of the soul is crumbling down but it's not too late. In an election year, God aint done with us yet.
Lets look to Him, lets fear Him, and love Him, and dedicate our children and future to Him... so that in His mercy, He can grant us tomorrow for our children and grandchildren.
‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in steadfast love, forgiving iniquity and transgression, but he will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, to the third and the fourth generation.’
- Numbers 14:18
