Act for Change
September 20th, 2006"You must be the change you wish to see in the world" – Gandhi
I saw this picture on the Act for Change website, and it really made me sad…sometimes, you have to take the moral high ground. If you do not, you are no better (or worse: no one likes a hypocrite) than the 'terrorists' you are 'trying' to defeat. Click on it if you feel the same way…"NOT IN MY NAME!!!"
Can you imagine what it was like under that hood? Innocent people are convicted every day HERE IN THE U.S. Hell, innocent people have been executed…what is the likelihood that the guy being 'questioned' above was thought of as innocent until proven guilty? More likely just seen as a potential source of information…
Check this link out: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0405/S00011.htm
Winning their hearts and minds indeed…God Bless America, err, excuse me while I hang my head in shame. "I'm proud to be an American" indeed…Is Lee Greenwood's song now an ironic mockery of reality? The Stars and Stripes stand for freedom? Equality? Dignity? That all men are created equal, unless they are not protestant, white, European, Caucasian…then you can stick some electrodes to their nutsack and torture them until they say whatever it is you were trying to get them to say, anything to make the pain and humiliation to stop?
Great…hearts and minds, indeed…
Gandhi’s quote is the bomb!!!! Everyone should live & breathe by it.
There are too may hypocrites in this world! And far too many who just take the back seat and complain about those in the front row!
Stand up for what you think is just, let your voice be heard! If not for yourself you must do it for the children of this world, your children.
They will have no future if the adults continue to fuck up. And modeling the adults behavior, they may continue to fuck it up for their children. And so on, and so on.
You may think “I am just one person, how can I possibly make a difference?” Well consider this…MLK Jr. was just one person, Gandhi, again just one person, Rosa Parks, Abe Lincoln, Nelson Mandela, Dalai Lama…you get the idea.
If you want your opinion to make a difference, if you want to see change in this world, if you want your children to have a better world to live in, you must act now. Stand up, go to the front row and let your voice be heard. Sign petitions, write letters, donate money, VOTE!!!!!
Electrodes to the nut sack? Yea, I’d spill the beans then that’s for sure.
K, I like the “Abe Lincoln”. Sounds like you two are tight!
I figure most of my life (when it comes to “real” matters) has been spent in the back few rows. Hell, being in the back of the bus was always where I wanted to be. However, more often than not I was up front. Then there, entered G.
I find that the more I think about that the more I should have realized sooner the front is where it’s at, not the back. It’s a good thing, it’s never too late.
I will see that my children are involved much sooner than I ever was. I want them interested. I want them to realize that they can make a difference. That there is a right way and a wrong way. I can only hope that when they are flipping through their history books that they will read about all these recent wrong ways facing justice.
Here’s a quote from Julie a couple of days ago. It’s based on her seeing something on the news about our president talking about Iran.
“Bush is going to get us all killed.” Now there’s a bumper sticker…
That is a hell of a bumper sticker!
Everyone should take at least a passing interest in the things going on around them, and realize no matter how great or small they feel they are, their voice CAN be heard and they CAN make a difference.
People don’t vote because they don’t believe it will make a difference…that is exactly what elected officals want: only old people voting, old people who are very easily manipulated by very easy to predict variables. If young people started caring and started voting, who knows what fancy would take them up from month to month, year to year…who knows what issues they would think important! Best that they think their vote wouldn’t count, best that they not vote at all, and the existing system can perpetuate itself safely, everyone gets re-elected year after year, and the big fat piggy bank can be safely dipped into by all parties involved.