A message to the Human Race!

A message not just to the Black Community but the Human Race!

Too many are so willing to take out a gun and shoot something or somebody, but won’t even pull out a book to learn something about some – body! I am tired of people walking around ignorant and listening to anything that someone tells them compared to doing their own research and finding out for themselves. It is not a day that goes bye where I read or meet someone in local government or a private citizen that is clueless because of their own laziness about the issues that are oppressing them to this day. If I believe everything that someone told me in this area than I am just another fool that they do not have to be concern about or even respect. When people read the words or the actions that I take, all races take notice in the academic, legislative, or civil community, because I know what I am talking about and have facts that can not be disputed from sources that are knowlegable about the issue. However, I can know and still look dumb or I can know and look like a intelligent human being. We all believe that race plays a vital role in have and have not community. It is only an excuse if you are only taking that approach for why you have problems and lack redress of your call for action. I am very proud of the individuals that are still going to school and learning about what it really takes to be successful and be a impact on their prospective fields. A college is nothing more than public library that we all can learn from and achieve any goal that we so desire. In the HBO Series The Wire character Brother Mouzone states, “The most dangerous man is the one with a library card!, laughs Mouzone. He laughs at the fool but recognizes and respect the rules! Try your best to know the answer before you open your mouth and ask a question and accept the first answer. Inn any negotiations, the dummy is always the ones that take the first offer. I think Andrekka J. Lanier would find the irony in that statement! 

Merle Rutledge

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Who taught you to hate yourself? (Message to all Americans that represent their own race in a disrespectful manner!)

When is the last time that you can remember a white person talking negative about their own race through overgeneralize statements of their own stereo types. When people focus on what is discrimination than reverse discrimination starts with your own race and not with others that have no clue about all the traditions carried in that particular race. White should focus on negative white stereotypes and put their views on front street, so they can feel the same discrimination when we have outsiders of another race trying to put ours on front street. The worse thing to any racial community is someone pouring negative of their uneducated like mind into others that have yet to be educated on what is feels, believes, and know is of a educated mind, your race is not the the bar raised to excuse ignorance, myths, prejudice, and stereotype. Who in the world taught you to hate yourself? We are a beautiful community of bright, rising, and successful stars that set the standards, each and everyday, of what it takes to be the best in what you do. No matter race, some of us are not meant to be doctors, some of us are not meant to be in the projects, some of us are not meant to be on the stage with bright lights with a audience that adores our every word and move, some of us are meant to be what it takes for the world to keep revolving. We all have a place in what it takes to be unique, American, beautiful, and worthy of freedom and equal protection/treatment of the law. Who in the world taught you to hate yourself? We teach ourselves to hate ourselves, because true love would have never brought you that far to the levels of hate that keeps you drown in its cemetery. It is time for us all to rise and be accountable to the society that knows our worth and not our race. We all represent and is a pilgrimage of what it takes to survive in a society that still has century old kings and peasants. We still have a responsibility as leaders to be merciful, as we as peasants to be the reason why you are still in a position of authority. Keep putting your shoe on the back of those peasants and what you get is a revolt that demotes you from a king to the dead. The peasants get from slaves to feeling true meaning of freedom. The choice is yours! When you are educated and not the ignorant part of a race than you have a urge to know more about other people from different cultures view and a need to be respectful of others culture. We all know someone in our own race that we dislike or even hate more than anyone that came from another race or background. It makes us all capable of our own discriminatory intent. It is the reason why some continue to learn and become empowered while others stew in their ignorance and become cowards that die a thousand deaths. The type of black man that is a coward is the one commiting real black on black crime. You killing us everytime you kill yourself, because you are the reason why some rather be weak than strong, i rather be strong and mighty, and fully capable of relieving everyone of those burdens. I refuse to be the coward I refuse to be a myth or some stereotype! You are worried about guns kiling our youth but the question that you should really be asking is why are you killing our youth and do not have to have a gun. You are more dangerous than the gun, because you represent the consequence of those that stand in front of it and not those that stop you from entering its path. 

Merle Rutledge

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“A man that is armed with a book that knows when and how to use a gun will always be tougher than a idiot that doesn’t know when it is time to pull the trigger!” Quote Merle T. Rutledge Jr response to NRA, “The only way to stop a bad man with a gun, is with a good guy with one is dumb!
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Gun laws need to be more liberal and not restricted

Gun laws need to be more liberal not restricted!

What happened it Connecticut, Arizona, and Colorado happens everyday
all across America.  It happen at another school, house, neighborhood,
and place imaginable in America.  The issue hits home when it hits home and this should not be the excuse use to promote personal and not public agenda.  I mourn for those lost, but I also mourn for those that took the actions of those that commend them in Congress by saying what if someone was armed to prevent the gunman from causing more harm.

Moreover,  The more you read this blog than you can see why that philosophy would not have helped, but left another American stranded that should be a hero.  I believe for the first time, Im ashamed that
President Obama would use this one issue to be a stepping platform for
gun control, when this issue has been relevant to many American
families all across America that so happen not be in movie theater,
political rally, or elementary school when a loved one has been taken.

However, in America, Im scared, just like so many other Americans, to
pick up my gun and use it because a prosecutor and grand jury will be
waiting for me with a second degree murder charge.   I can be morally
right and legally wrong for coming to the aid of others in Virginia
because of someone else intent to murder people for no reason.

In Virginia Beach, a security guard was found guilty for killing a patron
who had fired shots in a nearby parking lot.   Belmar testified, he
swiveled around to see Spencer leveling a shotgun over the hood of a
vehicle toward the parkway, over the heads of several of his guards,
who were lying on the ground or scurrying to hide behind street lamps
and gas pumps.  Belmar fired twice, with one bullet killing Spencer and going on to
wound his friend sitting in the driver’s seat.  Spencer, too, had
fired, damaging an uninvolved vehicle and injuring its driver, Bryant
said, commonwealth attorney.  The shooting occurred after Belmar and
his fellow security guards broke up several fights at the nightclub
Hangar 09 off Lynnhaven Parkway, according to court testimony. When
the brawls spilled over into a nearby 7-Eleven lot, they followed in
an attempt to cool tempers, testified several of the guards.  Martin
Bullock, Belmar’s attorney, said his client was trying to keep people
safe in an unruly situation and had only a few seconds to decide what
to do when he saw Spencer with a gun.  “He acted reasonably under
those circumstances,” Bullock said.

Ernest Roop, 38, created “a very dangerous situation” when he broke into the J&L Food Mart in Whaleyville dressed in camouflage and carrying a crowbar and a hunting knife, prosecutor Phil Ferguson wrote in a statement released Thursday. Roop did not have a gun and did not appear to be holding the knife or the crowbar when he was shot, he said. A store owner (white) who shot a burglar four times last month will not face criminal charges because he believed his life was in danger, the commonwealth’s attorney has decided.

Furthermore, the judge replied, During a two-day trial, the defense
for Lester Ray Belmar Jr., 29, argued he fired on Darrel Eugene
Spencer in a 7-Eleven parking lot the morning of May 21, 2011, because
he feared Spencer would injure others, including his fellow security
guards.  But Commonwealth’s Attorney Harvey Bryant argued no one was
in immediate enough danger to justify killing Spencer.  Judge A.
Bonwill Shockley agreed. “The victim’s actions hadn’t gone far
enough,” she said, before finding Belmar guilty. “… I just keep
thinking, ‘Why didn’t the defendant wait? Why didn’t the defendant
wait?’

Moreover, Im a firm believer in the castle doctrine and seeing more
liberal gun laws.  However, the laws should not be black and white but
equal and liberal to all those that protect people welfare.  The case
mention before sends me shocking chills to know that I could want to
save lives, but loss my own because of defending others.  The laws and
minds of judges have to change to be color blind.  The judge ask why
he didnt wait a couple of seconds and the last I checked in these mass
shootings, was all it took was a couple of seconds to take multiple
humans beings.

Lastly, Im all for gun rights, but babysitting by President Obama and
the rest of the anti gun supporters, need to stop politicizing a
tragic issue and start getting to work on making sure we have a right
to defend ourselves locally and nationally.   Republicans please stop
saying God sanction murder of our
children.  The last I check my god is good, all of the time!  There
are not enough mental hospitals to keep America safe and we need as
many competent and trained gun owners with laws that protect them
being added to the Virginia and U.S constitution.

Merle T. Rutledge JR
757-692-3571
Chatham, Va

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Stray Bullet by Merle T. Rutledge Jr (Frustrated response to Gun Violence Everywhere!)

The Isolated Stray Bullet by Mack
Stray Bullet by Merle T. Rutledge Jr aka Mack (Response to Arizona Tragedy)

Their is a 9 year old girl dead and gone over cowards that sit in their houses that hide, and utter out the very declaration of victory in which they based their souls on other people tragedies for years, decades, and centuries. There are many sons, daughters, husbands, wives, fathers and mothers that have followed in these footsteps of the innocent dead, over the very thing that so many pretend to stand against. We only feel sorry for those that impact us personally, but when it comes down to the problems, that it has always been a problems, but we pick and choose when it has become a relevant national problem. I’m sick of the political game playing, the rhetoric, the symbols of false leaders that follow in the direction of party and not in the direction of the people. We have a 9 year old girl that we have sacrifice for the love of bloodshed and ignorance behind the trigger of a gun.

     Her life is important, so that others can one day stand together and not apart in peace. It is little babies all across the world that want people integrated, but its this beating heart that has yet to die of segregation. Why has the stray bullet failed to reach those that repeat and act in such a manner of utter disregard for people welfare, but now that words have became action; are now pretending it has became a isolated problem in respect to their own. How long can we claim that incidents such as these are isolated, but when you put all the isolated incidents together, than it really tells the truth. See truth has been lost to the point that we give out ignorance each and everyday.

     There is a 9 year old girl laying in the grave today. She use to play. She use to sing. She use to believe in this thing that we all want is peace. She can no longer do the simple activities, and the cowards that put her there are acting as if this is a isolated incident. How many in your hometown? How many in your state? How many have you known directly that have died , but it has always been considered a isolated incident. The children who died in Alabama, Colorado, Newtown, and all across America, from the ghetto, to the projects, to the neighborhoods that do not get the same media attention, but the same thing happens each and everyday in the same beloved streets of America! Once again, it was all noted, as a isolated incident.

     A mad man with a gun. A mad man with a bomb. Its history repeating itself. Why does the stray bullet keep missing them and hitting the innocent children. It is the very strays that keep shooting the bullet. Do they have the right to seek out their revenge on those they believe have left them,  to be who they are, and who they are going to be, the death of little girls all across America. Stray bullet, there is a little girl not here anymore. There is a little girl that died for us. There are little girls, all over the nation, that is asking us all to stop saying isolated incident. They want the truth and deserve it all over the country. We all have played a part. We either did nothing. We either did something but know we didnt do nearly enough. We all did enough, but forgot to do something. No, No, No… We all know what we done. We do what we always do. We point the fingers at anyone but ourselves. Once again Isolated Incident Stray Bullet.

     I hope one goes through your head. A guy is someone son, who has a mother and a father is sitting in jail over the messages we repeated. Guess what? It is now a isolated incident. A mad man. No one is to blame but him. How many of you really and I do mean really believe that? I want you to look at the little girl in the grave. I want you to visit many more around the country. All written off as a isolated incident. Somewhere and some place there is a fight brewing right now. There are words being exchange. We are hoping for bad to happen in someone life to justify our opinion and not further the girls fact. Do we want to be the family at that funeral burying our little girl, burying our son, burying our father, burying our mother. The headlines of bloody murder, it was a isolated incident. Do you really believe that? When you look at television? You see the signs die this, hate this, and we claim they are only insults. Millions on Millions of signs supporting the little girl in the grave being dead and gone. Stray bullet, but those millions of cowards want to say it was a isolated incident, but the image that they scream from valley to valley, bridge to bridge, city to city, state to state. It was just a isolated fucking incident. There is a little girl in the grave. There are hundreds of little girls in the grave. There are millions of little girls in the grave. Once again we state its a isolated incident.

      Once again we are cowards, if we keep stating its a isolated incident. There is a stray bullet going through my head. The stray bullet is the sign of hate, the words of hate, the practice of hate. It is the stray bullets that has been hitting and striking people everyday. We have a little girl in the ground that is showing the results of what we support. So when is there going to be isolated incidents of forgiveness before the gun goes off, there is hundreds of isolated incidents of forgiveness, there are millions of isolated incidents of forgiveness from the murderer but not from the gun in which he held. There are millions still alive because of isolated incidents. Stray bullet. Another one through the head. It starts with us. Each and every one of us. Isolated incidents. The same passion we put into our differences, can we put the same passion into our civility. You are a third party of liability. Turn yourself in. There is a little girl in the ground and you keep saying its a conspiracy of a isolated incident, as a reason not to seek the truth further. Stray Bullet, there is little girls in the ground. We strive for education and this is coming from a educated mind. Ive been hit with a Stray bullet. The bullet that has hit me tells me to seek the truth beyond the limitations of what I think I can do. It is what I think I cant do, that I make can do, is going to measure should the Stray Bullet take life or give life. Give us understanding that there are no isolated incidents. We all must plead guilty to the part we played. Stray Bullet.

      There is a mass grave of little girls in the ground. There is a mass grave of our family in the ground. They had the knowledge but once again they are in the ground and we wish, we hope to hear their message, their story. What would they like to have done if they was still alive to this day. Stray Bullet , there is a little girls in the ground. If you think about what they would want to happen to change the events. Stop saying that a little girl in the ground is a isolated incident. The day we all turn ourselves in, We are judged by those in the grave. I want you as a individual to sit back and think. How would they judge our response to the defense of it being a isolated incident. Would they show you having prior and constructive knowledge. Stray bullet, there is little girls in the jury stand waiting to decide your future. There is a little girl being prosecuted by you. Stray bullet, there is little girls in a mass grave. A little girl asks you a question, “If I was to replay your whole life, than would you say my death was really a isolated incident.” Once again I repeat to the judge and jury, “There are little girls in a mass grave… Stray Bullet… We all been declared isolated incidents.” As the jury delivers your verdict… What would the little girls in the grave decide on the question, whether you are guilty or innocent!   Stray Bullet….

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Romney and Gingrich wrong on “military only” stance on Dream Act

Gingrich and Romney, who both support a military-only version of the Dream Act, also addressed the conference on Friday Jan 27, 2012. Gingrich said he supports a guest worker program, as well as letting communities decide if they want to provide legal status to some illegal immigrants who already have deep ties to the country.

Merle T. Rutledge Jr responds, “My problem in general with Gingrich and Romney stance on the dream act is that they would rather put a gun in a immigrants hand instead education and a book. Which of the two is more dangerous to our safety the uneducated immigrant with a gun, instead of the production of a much needed resource of a educated mind with a gun.”

I perfer the gun in the hand with someone that is educated to know how and when to use the gun instead of someone that will only learn how to kill with one. We have seen all races that have had uneducated individuals with guns use them for reasons that are not legal or even justified. If they probably had a mandate on being educated before being able to carry a gun than having them go to college and than go into the military would build stronger leaders, soldiers, and American citizens.

For example: The French had Afghanistan with citizens not educated in knowing that the French troops are there to help them, ended up firing and killing the French after joining the coalition. There only education was the Taliban 101 acourse. Maybe if they spent more time being educated than they would have learned the difference between a friend and a deadly enemy.

I do believe there should be a mandate on gun safety before the purchase of any gun. I believe it should cover open carry as well as conceal weapons permit. This would at least give Americans a better prospective on knowing that its citizens got proper training and did not just walk in to a gun shop for the purchase of robbery and murder. We all have a right to bear arms and have protection. However, The people deserve to have people that have this right fully knowleagable of the rules, regulations, and laws that govern its use.

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DOG LAWS PASS IN CHATHAM, VA

This article was published in the Chatham, Va Tribune Newspaper in regards to wild dogs running loose in the town. After numerous complaints from citizens and a very controversial article written by Merle Rutledge, the ordinance by the Town Council has passed to protect all people from wild animals that roam the streets without supervision. Also a high profile pit bull attack on a neighbor cat also applied pressure to a already tense situation between protecting the town or its citizens in regards to a huge lapse in judgment for a long time from the Town of Chatham, Va.

Chatham residents need protection from dogs

There is no point in making a law that no one is really going to be in charge of enforcing as it seems a policy in Chatham for dogs to run wild.

I’m not a dog owner, nor do I know the dogs that I encounter when taking a walk down the streets of Chatham.

I have encountered many dogs off the leash, and some have run towards me in my direction. I have no clue whether the dog is friendly or about to attack.

At night, there are also dogs running loose, and I also find it a very big concern.

Victims have no ability to determine whom the owner or responsible party may be if a dog does attack.

Unless there is some serious laws, ordinances, and rules that will be enforced by Chatham, in order to curb the dog problem, I will get a gun and have it registered by the great laws in the state of Virginia to carry for my protection.

I will definitely be applying my right to carry a gun openly in the town of Chatham. I dare the Chatham Police Department or Pittsylvania County Sheriff’s Department to arrest me, out of all people, for openly carrying a gun for my protection against wild animals that are allowed to roam the streets, especially after being confronted by its own citizens.

It is your call: either act serious and do your job in protecting the people or I will do your job for you in protecting myself against any threat to my person or my property legally through the laws of the commonwealth of Virginia.

So get ready for a black man walking with a open carry gun. Start training your officers and making sure they are up to date on the open carry law in Virginia.

Merle Rutledge

Chatham

The Chatham, Va Dog law passe

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