Hey Diddlee-Dum, a Container Life for Some

That “Container Life” is not all it’s cracked up be. All those hipster YouTube videos, yearning to get “off grid” in a converted school bus, or better yet live out their “sustainable” years in a 8’ x 40’ four room micro mansions, where you feed your guests outside on the deck/living room.   Just ask the 50 immigrants, who were found dead last week in San Antonio, about container life.

Now, I don’t mean to be glib – this is a tragedy beyond reasonable comprehension.  But I do mean to be glib about NPR.  Their first story I heard this morning was, and I quote “Investigators are working to find out why at least fifty-one migrants died in the back of a tactor trailer in San Antonio, this week.”  I’ll tell you why, but first let’s look at who’s heading up the investigation – the Department of Homeland Security – that crack Gestapo Unit of unrestrained stormtroopers – formed after 9/11 as knee jerk reaction to fear, in a time when our government couldn’t be bothered with the rights of its citizens.  Why did this happen?  Find a mirror boys, you’re why this happened.  And short of dismantling your now unnecessary department, at least stop burying your heads in your own “self-importance” and take honest look at the problems you’ve added to.

But wait, that’s not fair the Department of Fatherland Insecurity is not totally to blame, there’s The U.S. Customs and Border Patrol – another unbridled division of Federal entrapment.  Two diametrically opposed offices, addressing the uncommon goals for both Taxation and immigration.  Mall cops with a delusion of grandeur, who watch too much reality television. At the border, you’re often et with “Cop-speak” entrapment questions and tac uniforms, straight out of an episode 1975’s S.W.A.T. This has nothing to do with the desired goals, other than instilling fear – or, insinuating yourselves in a school shooting (but that’s an entirely different rant).  Fear is as powerful a tool, to ill-perceived authority, as is a gun in the hands of a thug or a coward.

As fucked up as “Amerika” is – believe it or not folks – there are worse places.  And there are people, who want to escape those places, willing to face the strong-arm enforcers of the American SS, or risk even the possibility of death in 180-degree box.  Imagine their audacity of wanting to come to this shithole of prosperity, willing to do any job – you know, those that your kids are too good to take – for a piece of the American scheme – life, liberty, and the pursuit of living in a remodeled shipping container. They deserve better than to die in the back of a trailer – hoards of Karens, loose their shit if a dog is left in a car for two minutes – and they certainly deserve better than to have source of the problem looking into “why?”  You are all off to a better place, Good speed.

So, as we ALL strive for better, keep in mind the real NPR headline should be – Investigators are working to find out why we are focused on all the new weekly distractions, instead of focusing on issues that would make this a better country, a better world, or maybe just a better life for that one person willing to risk everything.  Come on, ya’ll, be better.