Hi guys. Today I'm going a little off course, because there are several life problems that have been bothering me. VIOLENCE. Just plain VIOLENCE
Violence in the home,violence in the workplace, violence in our children,violence in the streets, violence in the church, yes I said church and then there's violence in our government. To much of one thing does not make it a good thing.
I'm a kid born in the 1940's after the supposedly Great War. For the life of me I still can't figure what was so great about the loss of so many lives. I guess it was a purge some kind of a special world cleansing, Huh, with world war 2 having over 840,000 Japanese citizens killed.
Oh sure everyone says they had it coming for attacking Pearl Harbor, but let's take a look at that.

History and Government loudspeakers, (the governments boasting's), says, the Japanese pilots flew over the island and attacked the military of the United States there's never any mention of any civilian casualties. Then there's the matter of the A Bomb and 840,000 civilians killed maimed and scarred for generations, then we, (the United States Citizens), boast of our power and mighty justice.

From this scenario we teach our children world history in school. We tell them it is alright to kill. We stress to our children only "in moderation". So our children leave school and they practice soldering, get together in groups and go kick some unknowingly weak childs butt. We allow video games to be created that are an absolute path to violence and we say," it's the constitutional right to manufacture these games and we cannot take away free speech." We send our youngsters off to battle in lands that have no purpose use to us and we say, " hip hip hooray we guard the world". But our boys and girls die and never get the chance to find out that there was no success brought on by their deaths. These countries still reside in conflict and some parent will never see a grandchild from these young men and women, but of course the children of politicians are exempt.

We teach violence and we tell our citizens, "you can't use the violence we teach you in America." Then America kills our youth. We show movies and Television shows that get high ratings because of the violence and say they cannot be censored because of the country's first amendment rights.

Our politicians say "no one should have nuclear arms but the USA", and we, the people say, "damn right." Bullies in our schools and we shake our heads and say, "I wonder where that came from?" Don't spank your child, that begets violence, but the police can kill my child, maime my child and incarcerate my child while arresting me because I did not manage my child's behavior.

All my Presidents say war is not what we do, but I hear the call for thousands of young volunteers to train to be violent somewhere in the world. On the news April 20, 2010 politicians were saying," because of our children being obese our country's level of security could be compromised." Can you imagine what the people we elected are thinking? How are they going to put our children in harm's way now and what is the message and level of violence are they putting on our streets?

After the protests of the 1960s and 70's our Government quietly took a stand to incarcerate or terminate those who are considered agitators and speak to loudly against the moves of this country, and as you can see the only leaders we have are the politicians in Washington every one else is either afraid or has become the "fat cat" and afraid to lose their payday. Justice be hanged.
No more Abby Hoffman's and the Chicago 8. No more Kent State College students taking a stance, because if you do your scholarship is gone and so are you.

Where's the next Stokely Carmichael's or Huey P. Newton's? Where is the next Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X? We've gone soft exposed to too much economics, our debt, poverty, joblessness and fear of one another, to see anything but what we fear the most. Fear itself.

This violence has got to end, not be brought to a minimum but to a complete end. I understand that's a lot to ask of human beings, but because we are so intelligent it should be a given that we as a whole earthly race can make a change. We can show our children a more positive prospect on life and still spank that butt when they are out of bounds. (smile) It's us because when we are gone this generation of kids may be lost and conquered by invaders from who knows where if we don't help bring reality back to life.

Like Marvin says,"what's going on." "I tell you what's going on".

I'm sorry I'm off message today, but I had to say this it's been stuck in my craw for quite some time and I see no end in sight. Sometimes you know you can't change a thing but you figure with a little help from your friends you can get the ball started, although we'll be rolling up a steep hill we got to try and fix this problem before it's much to late.

Thank-you guys for listening and being a friend.