Sick, Shallow America

Associated Press, 14 January 2019: The man who shot and killed a rookie California police officer left a letter on the bed in the home where he lived claiming police bombarded him with ultrasonic waves, officials said. Police in the college town of Davis near Sacramento on Saturday made public the one-paragraph letter they said was written by Kevin Douglas Limbaugh, 48. He killed himself Thursday after fatally shooting Officer Natalie Corona. Police spokesman Lt. Paul Doroshov said the paper was found face up on the gunman's bed. "The Davis Police department has been hitting me with ultra sonic (sic) waves meant to keep dogs from barking," the letter said. "I notified the press, internal affairs, and even the FBI about it. I am highly sensitive to its affect (sic) on my inner ear. I did my best to appease them, but they have continued for years and I can't live this way anymore." The handwritten note was signed "Citizen Kevin Limbaugh."

The shooting devastated the Davis Police Department, which has about 60 sworn officers and about 30 other employees. Flowers filled the entrance of the Davis Police Department on Friday morning. The American and California flags were at half-staff in front of the building at 2600 5th St. indicating it was a day of mourning for not just Davis, but all of California.

As the community tries to come to terms with the death of Officer Corona, a candlelight vigil will be held on Saturday at Central Park located at 401 C St. from 6 to 9 p.m. to remember her. Residents of Davis and Yolo County trickled in and out of the Police Department parking lot on Friday, leaving offerings and paying respects. They all had different reasons for stopping by. Krista DeZerega-Thomson of Davis couldn’t help but tear up talking about the incident. She was at a community meeting in the downtown area when the shooting occurred, and while she didn’t hear gunshots, she was still shaken.

“For us it’s heartbreaking that she lost her life and we want to help the police department,” she said of Corona. “I felt affected, I felt my family was affected and I want the department and her family to feel love and support.”

I can only shake my head. . .

This was a *Big Story* for sick, shallow America, America which fetishizes cops, soldiers, etc.  Hahaha!  Anybody who carries a weapon among largely defenseless people is considered *brave,* and a *hero!*  Absurd!  It's the exact opposite of bravery and heroism!

What we have here is ritual weeping for a totem police officer. . .

Prefabricated grief from a conditioned, boot-licking populace. . .

The Media branch of the the Military/Police Media Complex made sure the sheeple were made aware one of their *Finest* was attacked, and that wailing and gnashing of teeth for the fallen *First Responder* was the one and only correct response.  

Yes, it's too bad this cop was killed.  For those directly touched by the killing, family and friends, those with a real connection to the dead cop, it is a troubling moment, and we hope they find solace.  

But for the vast majority who reacted to the story, they, with their flowers at the memorial, their syrupy cliche comments on social media, their Pavlovian response to Media's *Thin Blue Line* iconography, they reflect America's sickness and shallowness, for they don't even see the story's other dead body, the misfit who killed the cop, then killed himself.  

It would never occur to the typical mindless idiot American who lays a flower at the cop's grave to also leave a flower for the lunatick cop killer.

America used to take care of her misfits, there were actual mental hospitals for the mentally ill. . .now there is the only the county jail, where misfits pass through when they make a disturbance to the selfish social order.

Among a sea of news articles sacralizing the dead cop, where are the stories lamenting the suicidal cop killer?  The poor mental defective left untreated, uncared for, neglected to the point of his final madness, when he felt compelled to murder the flesh-and-blood representative of the phantom plaguing his mind, and then turn the gun to himself, finalizing his outcast status? 

Amid all the rituals for the dead cop, the nauseating glorification of the uniformed, nobody seems to give a shit for the cop killer.  Well, that would require a little thought, an empathy that goes a little deeper than post-9/11 American *we are good, they are evil*-ism.  

Only a sick, shallow society celebrates a dead cop and ignores a dead lunatick.  That's the truth.  It cannot be denied.  It also cannot be denied that the vast majority of Americans are completely comfortable in their sickness and shallowness, and will never repent, will never be healthy enough to care for all, and not just those they have been conditioned to believe are worthy of their care.

Media, and the idiot Americans who consume it, pretend to puzzle over the root of American violence, mass-shootings, fast-food brawls, Black Friday riots, etc., etc.  It's simply the fruit of a sick, selfish, simple-minded people, a people who lost their way long ago, and now smilingly invest their treasure in war and corporate welfare, instead of their neighbors.

If America is an ugly country, it can only be because Americans are an ugly people.  As the Lord Jesus Christ observed:

For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit. For every tree is known by his own fruit.

The sick act of cop killing cannot be cut out from its cloth and run up idolatry's flagpole. . .sorry. . .it can only be the sign of a sick and shallow people.