Freedom From Fear

People come together to form a nation ,with a government put simply, to aid them in the right to be free from fear. People form a nation and a government because we acknowledge that right.

So what do we fear?

The inability to preserve our life or the lives of those in our care.
The inability to protect our life or the lives of those in our care.
The inability to provide for oneself.
The inability to provide for those in our care.
The inability to protect our property.
The inability of all people to be treated as equal.

So we form and support a nation and a government:

To protect our life and the lives of those in our care.
To preserve our life and the lives of those in our care.
To provide for oneself.
To provide for those in our care.
To protect and preserve our property.
That all people be treated equally.

We pool our money in support of our government to protect these rights.

Over the generations greed and special interests have whittled away our support for these rights within our government, and it has become an agency promoting those very things we fear.
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Think on this....

Our governments embroils us in the business of other nations and we the people have and will face injury and death as this continues.
Our government fails to support basic health care and fails to regulate the costs health care agencies charge we the people which will continue to lead to illness and/or death.
Our government allows foreign interest and local business to regulate our basic pay and health care which undermines our ability to provide for our self and promotes poverty and illness among we the people.
Our government allows special interests/business to pollute  our land, our water, our air, preventing we the people the right to protect our property and/or preserve our life.
Our government promotes fear of our individual differences rather than acknowledge our similarities and we the people have become afraid of, and for, each other.

Our government has failed on these basics rights. The rights this government was founded to promote, protect and serve.

We have the vote, we need to use it. We the people are the method of our own change. Bring our government back to we the people.

Lives Matter

I watched a video today. It caught my attention as I have been concerned over media hype on the "Black Lives Matter" demonstrations. As I watched, read and followed media reporting, what this one woman said had meaning to me. Why? Because she said what many of my friends, family, and co-workers all say.....How can anyone, defend criminal behavior? How can anyone respond to it with  criminal behavior and believe that is somehow acceptable?

The people who display criminal behavior are frightening and dangerous. Criminals are people who threaten each and every one of us: whether it is our lives, our property or the lives and property of others; they threaten our security. They act with criminal intent and cause intimidation, fear, suppression or violence. I don't think there is a person out there who has not felt or knew when they were being victimized by the unkind, unreasonable or unlawful actions of another.


Martin Luther King's message about the "content of the mind" rather than the "color of the skin" is what I believe in. Why is a person's skin color the issue here, not the actions of that person's mind?

 I feel and believe it is an attempt to divert attention away from the choices that person made that put them in harm's way, and to remove the responsibility away from that person... when harm came.

I view this attempt at an excuse for bad behavior the same way I view bad behavior excused because of religion, culture, environment, family, circumstances etc,etc. . Not happening, nope!

 I  am held accountable for my actions...and you are held accountable for yours.

Perfume - the essence of memory

I caught a scent the other day
and I was swept away.

Into the childhood memory
Of of fresh turned earth, and
new mown hay.

I caught a scent the other day, and
turned my face to the sun.

And smiled to think
a Memory
is just a scent away.

Ponderable

We need to remind our youth....

That when you adopt an idealology of violence to "change the world".
You fail to realize you are the inheritors of that world.

Influence- The Subtle Weapon

Influence leads to Credibility.
Credibility leads to Trust.
Trust leads to Belief.
Belief leads to Worship.
Worship leads to Power.
Power leads to Arrogance.
And People Can Die.
Remember This.

Choose Wisely.

Logo For Terrorism and War

Killing the future...one child at a time.

October: All Hallows' Eve

All Hallows' Eve sweeps across the sky
as Death follows the sun riding the moon.
And over a pale,pale land
it's shadow spreads and Magic blooms.

While All Soul's Night unfolds,takes hold;
Death's Shadow then beckons the dead
to cross the border from Memory
And a pause in life begins.

As the dead wander over the border
a chill whispers on the wind.
Myth and Legend come alive
and Halloween reigns in.

So beneath a Harvest Moon
watched over by the Shadow of Death
we share our food, wearing costumes
and celebrate life with our Dead.