Safety First, Comrade

The communists who want to run our country and our lives have no regard for our well-being. Just look at a little history, plus the present day.

Joan Swirsky | August 29, 2026

When I was studying to become a nurse in the late 1960s, I learned that the most important value in patient care, for both nurses and doctors, is safety.  Not curing, which is hoped for but often impossible, and not even empathy, although a high priority.  That is because the patient who falls out of bed or is given the wrong dose of medicine or whose grievance is ignored or — yikes! this just happened in Nashville — may pay with nothing less than his life.

As a mother of three, I already knew this.  All the love and support and education in the world meant nothing in comparison to keeping my young children safe — away from unprotected electrical outlets, sharp table corners, a hot stove, automobile traffic, people with contagious diseases, and of course bad values.

I never forgot this lesson: safety first, a value that applies as well — first and foremost and above all others — to our country.

Among the most blatant of unsafe conditions is a home without locks on the doors and windows or, today, that lacks some kind of alarm or alert system.  Does even one person you know or have ever known in your entire life live in a home, apartment, condo, or co-op with no locks on its doors or windows?  An honest answer would be a thundering “no!”

That is because we live in a world where there are people who are seriously mentally disturbed and criminals too numerous to mention whose raison d’être is to rob you of your possessions and often rape you or torture you or kill you in the process.

Don’t believe me?  According to OpenCrime.us, over a million violent crimes were committed in America in 2025 alone!

We All Saw This with Our Own Eyes

Everyone in America, in fact everyone in the world, witnessed this in living color under the faux Biden regime, when 11 million unvetted illegal aliens — during the faux COVID pandemic, no less — were welcomed with open arms into our country.  While the powers that be, meaning the so-called medical experts, were keeping us six feet apart and masked and shutting down schools and businesses and even military units, they were opening their arms not only to sex-traffickers, drug-traffickers, communists, jihadists, and career criminals, et al., but also to the de facto implementation of the Cloward-Piven strategy from the 1960s, the leftist goal of which was and is “to facilitate a political crisis by overloading the system with crushing welfare costs, forcing the creation of a system of a guaranteed minimum income,” and........

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