Here are the five best events going down in Charlotte and the surrounding area today, April 17, 2015 as selected by the folks at Creative Loafing.
• London Souls at Visulite Theatre
• 2nd Annual Bacon Fest at Whisky River
• Carmina Burana at Booth Playhouse
• Blackberry Smoke at The Fillmore
• Joe Turner’s Come and Gone at CPCC’s Pease Auditorium
This article appears in Apr 15-21, 2015.
I have question for the Governor, if a person was arrested but the arrest didn’t lead to anything, (dismissed, suspended, fulfillment of court obligations) why are the arrest left for public viewing disrupting peoples lives? I understand over 80,000,000 people have arrest records and I’m sure that a significant portion of these people can’t get decent housing, find a job, go to school, or get any kind of respect. Why is the system set up so that some lawyer gets $250.00 to remove something that is none existent? The court system looks at these records and predetermines punishment. A very unfair and in my opinion sinister tactic of suppression.
Homeless and low income persons are often low hanging fruit for law enforcement and quotas are made regularly. But a lot of these charges are thrown out and leave an individual with a bleak future. My proposal is simple, if a Judge disposes a case, that should cancel out an arrest, when that person leaves the courtroom, that arrest in the system disappears as well. I believe one push of a button should do the trick.
Like Ferguson MO., municipalities all over our country need significant overhauls to prevent the shutting down of human progress. It makes no sense for me to believe that I have equality in an idea but not on paper. If Rush and his crowd really wanted certain people to go to work and get off the dole, then this should be a no brain-er.
I’m sure there are those who will find this to be a stupid idea if only for the fact that minorities will benefit the most. But think about it, if there were ever an olive branch that could demonstrate that all lives matter, this would be it.
I wonder sometimes what’s going to be the ultimate demise of humanity.
I mean we humans are clearly on a path of self destruction. Any news
broadcast will prove this statement.
Common sense is one part of life that is essential to quality, standard of
living, social harmony, and just an all around feeling of a life worth living. I
say that our demise will in large part take place because common sense is
being thrown away at a spectacularly rapid rate. It has been said that
“common sense is wisdom with it’s work clothes on”. In the Bible, 234 times,
in 222 verses, wisdom is mentioned. I guess GOD thinks this is something
important for mankind to have. I agree, especially when it comes to how
smooth our society functions.
Case in point, here in Charlotte the grocery chain Publix sees potential
and has opened a new store in the section called the South End. A once
screwed up part of town that is now booming due to the addition of a cool
light rail system. With any growth in a city, adjustments have to be made so
that we folks can get the most out of the new experience, and sometimes
justify the change that was made. Common sense plays a major role in
these adjustments. Publix motto is “where shopping, is a pleasure”. And it
was for me until I started home.
The store is on South Blvd., a main drag that is traveled so much that
someone thought it was a good idea to run a city bus on it. Now maybe
before the store was built there was no need for a bus stop at that location
but now there is and one should be placed there. (the nearest stop is over
two blocks away.) I called the Charlotte Area Transit call center with what I
thought was a good idea and that’s when I found out that common sense is
at an all time low. When I hung up the phone I knew humanity was in deep
trouble.
The take away for me was that circumstances there didn’t warrant a bus
stop and “that” I was told was “reality”. There’s a stop across the street
that was there before the store was built sooooooo. But I wasn’t going north
I was going south so I guess I was s.o.l. Here’s the kicker, a bus did come,
turned on flashers as if to stop, pulled closer to the curb, the driver looked
me straight in the eye….. and kept right on going. I’m glad it wasn’t raining.
Will I go back to Publix? What would common sense have you do?