Coach Joe Kennedy on his return to football and faith on the field: ‘America is alive and well’

Coach Joe Kennedy returned to the high school football field on Friday, September 1, in Bremerton, Washington, after a years-long battle involving prayer, personal expression and the Constitution that went all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. In an on-camera interview with Fox News Digital on Saturday morning, he revealed among other things that since yesterday, he hasn’t stopped smiling about how things turned out. 

“It was so amazing. I haven’t processed all of it,” he said of his return to the game (and yes, his team won on Friday). VIEW HERE

 

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“We were under sail again to another beautiful cove on the Dalmatian Coast of Croatia. Anchored and Enjoyed a great lunch on board and then lots of sunning and swimming in the crystal blue water. Feel blessed. Enjoy!”

Why I Needed A Break from the USA

Ron Martinelli, Ph.D.

Copyright 09-02-23

I’m forensic criminologist by trade with a side hustle as an Amazon best-selling author and occasional political commentator. My work takes me all over the country investigating high-profile death cases often involving law enforcement officers. Several of my most high-profile cases have involved incidents at our southern border with Mexico. Shootings, drug and human smuggling and undocumented aliens (referred to as “UDA’s”) are all a part of my caseload.

To say the least, my job is stressful. As a seasoned professional and a retired police detective, I have learned to compartmentalize it and move on in my search for the forensic facts and truth. My company’s motto is “We speak for the dead and defends the innocent.” I am in no way a “false narratives” or “I need a safe space” kinda guy. I drive a pick-up truck, raise longhorns and bucking bulls in Texas, drink my whisky with a side of nothing and fly the American and Lone Star flags if that tells you something about me.

I’m an independent contractor retained by federal, state and municipal governments, the courts, nationally prominent private law firms, private corporations and giant law firms. I get to work my own hours. Therefore, I am blessed with the ability to take several mini-vacations each year. I am Italian, so every year I return to Europe and “The Old Country” for a respite. Currently, I am vacationing in beautiful Croatia and Italy. I am a cultures, languages, history and people person, who is always on the learning curve. For me, travel is about establishing, building and maintaining relationships. Whenever I travel abroad, I listen, learn and educate myself. I learned long ago that for all if its good qualities, the USA is far from the end all and be all of nations.

This year I really needed a break from the USA. I’ve never said that before. There is just far too much drama in what I used to refer to as “God’s Country” for an old dog like me to digest. Our government who’s sole purposes are to protect us and be good stewards of our national welfare has failed miserably at both responsibilities. Who would have thought that the people who would be steering our nation’s direction would be a bunch of Progressive leftist socialists and Marxists?

Now, we are truly a nation divided. Our dysfunctional politicians on both sides have enabled, empowered, fostered and in many cases even created deep chasms between our races, religions, genders, sexuality, ideologies and societal norms.

Right out of American communist Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” handbook, the architects of Marxism and racist, Marxist Black Nationalists like the fraudulent Black Lives Matter movement have created the false narratives that America is a society of intolerance and hate. I am enraged that our Progressive federal administration has completely bought into the flagrant race-baiting and anti-police lies of self-avowed Marxist activists like the BLM (Buying Large Mansions).

I’m tired constantly hearing about “White Supremacy” from a small, non-white demographic that statistically commits nearly 60% of all homicides and in some large cities over 85% of all shootings and homicides against people of color. Yet, their community is silent at the holocaust committed by a very small criminal element within their own community. You’ve got to be kidding me!

I’m angered when I hear the repetitious, blatant lie that law enforcement officers “murder a disproportionate number of people of color.” Last year in Chicago people of color murdered over 300 times more and wounded nearly 1,400 times more people of color than the police did. That’s a forensic fact.

We now have an informal “Open Borders” policy that in two years has allowed over seven million illegal aliens to freely enter and remain in the U.S. This population includes thousands of violent criminals, sexual predators, MS-13 gang members, drug dealers and hundreds of terrorists who prey on Americans and UDA’s. There are now close to 30 million UDA’s in the USA. Last year, over 1,000 UDA’s died or were murdered by Mexican transnational drug and human smuggling cartels while crossing the southern border. Yet, not a peep from our President or DHS Secretary. Last year over 110,000 Americans died from drug overdoses, 85% from synthetic opiates like Fentanyl and now “tranq.” The drug cartels have now established a solid foothold in most major urban cities. They have invaded us and brought war to our country. Again, not a peep from our compromised, corrupt “protectors” of our national security.

It’s beyond frustrating to watch as our Department of Justice and it’s FBI is systematically weaponized against parents, Christians and conservative politicians seeking a return to normalcy and American ethics and values.

As a patriotic American who served his county and community for twenty-five years and after fifty years continues to serve in private practice, I’m just sick of all the BS. I’m not alone. “Stop the madness!” we all want to scream out, but our federal and a number of our state governments are not listening.

Gone is common sense. Everyone is “offended” by something. The Internet and social media have created a “voice” for haters, the intolerant, the psychologically ill, and the politically aggressive. Their voices and complaints are completely disproportionate with their demographics.

Have you noticed the emergence of the term “My truth?” Well, as a forensic fact-based expert, I can tell you that “their truth” is often not “the truth.” For instance, the entire ridiculous argument that biological men can compete with biological women because “their truth” is that they identify with women. Are we nuts?

What is both sad and disgraceful is that finger in the wind politicians seeking to widen their base and some Progressive, activist judges are just fine with denying biological women the right to compete with their own gender. Corporations greedy for money have allowed themselves to be led by the ignorant and uninformed at the expenses of their client base. Ultimately, there is a price to pay for such hypocrisy (think the Bud Light billions dollars losses debacle).

We have a Veterans Day honoring nearly millions of brave men and women who either made the ultimate sacrifice, were permanently physically/mentally disabled, and/or managed to survive the honors of war for our freedom. Compared that national holiday against a Pride Month celebrating the nebulous accomplishments of an extreme minority of the population who for some reason “feel” that they need to be celebrated.

We tear down historic statutes of our Founding Fathers and leaders and remove the names of those like Lincoln who freed the slaves and call them “racists.” We erase the very foundations of our history instead of studying it and improving the future for our children. We have allowed ourselves to become a Ship of Fools led by a President and his ilk who pander to our global enemies and take their money to enrich themselves. Then they use the very law enforcement agencies designed to protect us and our nation to cover their tracks and obstruct real justice and accountability. As a former law enforcement officer, it sickens me, as well as my brothers and sisters.

Here in small, independent Croatia, we have visited a number of towns, remarking about how clean and safe they appear. We see no homeless or beggars harassing people. No one here is staggering around in a drug-induced stupor. There are no flash mobs looting stores, no carjackings and no officer-involved shootings nor any disrespect of law enforcement. There is virtually no litter or graffiti to be seen except in a large city. We asked our hosts why.

Here are the four takeaway reasons why Croatia is societally way ahead of the USA that I wish our political leaders and woke citizens would embrace.

First, Croatia has a zero tolerance policy on illegal immigration. They vet new immigrants to ensure they have education, employable job skills and personal income that will allow them to flourish and Croatia to benefit from. The country is small and places its citizens well-being first. They do not harm their economy by subsidizing those who can’t or won’t produce. No one gets “free stuff” here. Everyone works for what they have. If you are of age and have the ability to work, but don’t work, you don’t survive and eventually have to leave. The government does nothing to force you out; they just don’t do anything to support the freeloaders of society. Parasites, self-evict. An interesting concept that seems to work.

Second, Croatians honor and respect law enforcement and the Rule of Law. Being a law enforcement officer here is considered to be an honorable profession. No one but a fool disrespects the police here. Having once been an overly authoritative communist regime, the population and those who become officers respect the public. They never want to return to the Old Days of repressive communism.

Third, the term and concept of “judicial accountability” means something here. If you commit a crime here, you are going to do the time. There are no if’s and’s or but’s. There is no two-tiered system of “justice” that has become the norm in the USA. People have trust in their judicial system and respect it. Again, they learned how not to do it after having been a failed communist regime in the past. They shake their head and remark, “What are you guys thinking over there?” when we discuss our extreme crime rates.

Fourth, there is a great feeling of national pride in Croatia. They are a proud people who threw off the chains of oppressive communism. They are a free people and have greatly benefitted and flourished from watching how free nations govern. It’s “Croatia First,” all the way here. The government and its people work together to ensure that Croatia is a clean and safe environment to live and raise their children.

Sounds like it’s all common sense, right? Their attitude and family values reminds of the “Good Old Days” many of us experienced growing up. It kind of makes one wonder what ever happened to those days in the USA.

Remember that as Americans, we don’t “lose” our rights. Corrupt, self-serving politicians, the ignorant, uninformed and disengaged who vote for them, or don’t vote at all, and the minions of corrupt politicians take our rights from us every day as long as we let them.

Yes, I needed a mental health vacation from my own country. Who would have thunk it? Isn’t that a sad state of affairs.

Dr. Ron Martinelli, is a nationally renowned forensic criminologist and death investigator. He is an Amazon international best-selling author of the fiction, action adventure, mystery series, “Wade Justus Texas Ranger.” Visit:www.wadejustus.com and Ron Martinelli on Instagram.