Live by the sword, die by the sword.

"We rush to save a brain damaged woman from dying a peaceful death, but do nothing when ten children are massacred by a gun-toting maniac " - BBC World News Reader

Once again our nation has accepted that "the right to bear arms' is a necessary right, one that if taken away, would be un-American. What a senseless tragedy. As a Minnesotan and American, I am so saddened and ashamed that once again the US makes the news for senseless gun violence. I am completely aware of social conditions on reservations; however, they are no excuse for a suicidal outcast to go on a killing spree. Whether one lives on a reservation or in Beverly Hills, we must realize that our gun laws are ludicrous and demand action to be taken. Do not blame poverty or social conditions! Blame our attitudes, lack of parenting, and right-wing politicians who cannot grasp the notion of a US without guns. We rush to save a brain damaged woman from dying a peaceful death, but do nothing when ten children are massacred by a gun-toting maniac. God bless America.
- Katie, Minneapolis, Minnesota USA

What a difference a day makes! 24 hours ago George Bush was breaking into his holiday to sign legislation to prevent a brain damaged woman from dying with dignity. Today the insane American firearms laws make it easy for mass murder to be carried out by a teenager in a school. No sign of rushing to ban the population from bearing arms though. Such are the twisted morals of American politicians.
- Andrew Taylor, Nottingham

Just last week, days prior to this tragedy, there was another high school shooting in my neighbourhood. This one involved a 16-year-old girl who was shot in the head and died in the hospital over the weekend. These are major signs of a society on a decline but the current administration is more worried about passing its social security proposals and allocating more money into a war with no end.
- Zendi, Los Angeles, USA

Until the US government denies the right of its citizens to bear arms against its own people then sadly this will not be the last incident where firearms are involved. You cannot shoot anyone if you do not have a gun - as simple as that!
- Kevin, England

The UK also has social problems and poverty, but you don't see kids going to school and shooting people - why? Because they don't have access to guns. OK, they might take out their anger or frustration in other ways, but at least they don't have the ability to kill a whole bunch of innocent people in a matter of minutes. For a country that claims to have the protection of its citizens as a top priority, the right to bear arms seems contradictory.
- Rich, Glasgow, UK

The US has become the most dysfunctional society in the western world because of the greed and corruption of its politicians and the corruption in its judicial/ legal system and law enforcement. These "acting-out" incidents are like the tip of an iceberg of "social-rot." Those afflicted with poverty suffer the most.
- Joe Moran, Boise ID USA

Is there a pattern here? What are these shootings telling us? As individuals and society, are we failing our youth? Seems to me we no longer see the signals or read the signs, we're blind to explosions waiting to happen and fail to identify and address the anger, fears, frustrations and hurts of youth traumatized by a social order no longer in order and a world in chaos. Many young people adapt, others find acceptable escapes, still others desensitize themselves to their hurts, and others blow a fuse. We are failing our youth - traumatized youth lacking all support. We ourselves are no longer sensitive enough, aware enough, perhaps concerned enough. Or perhaps we're simply too busy!
- A Cristina, Windsor, USA

Guns, pistols should be banned. Period.
- Jovlen, Richmond, CA

Sadly, America's politicians will ignore this and make no effort to control guns; they'll probably blame it on movies or games. More children will get shot and the NRA will claim "guns don't kill people, people kill people". Very sad but very true.
- Gareth, Amsterdam, NL

What on earth do we expect from our children when we cram violence down their throats on a regular basis? Video games, television, movies - come on, it's everywhere these kids look.
- Toni, Port St Lucie, Florida, USA

DITTO CANADA - As families and teachers we need to work together with students to form a caring school culture where violence is unacceptable and bringing guns to schools is unthinkable. The lack of moral imagination is not surprising in a society where television, movies and video games frequently depict violence as a first option for conflict resolution.
- Joseph Rapai, Ontario, Canada

It's not the guns, or the kid, it's our "kick 'em when they're down" society and laws. Let's stop handing out Prozac and fix our schools, our communities, and ourselves. The kids deserve better then this.
- Ozzy, Baltimore, MD

In a world where the president of the United States fights his battles with violence and weapons it is of no surprise, though much to my dismay, that impressionable minds follow suit.
- Michael Oliver, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A

It's utterly futile telling Americans that they should reconsider their gun laws. There's just too much money to be made selling guns and in using them for crime (drugs, robberies, etc). Americans WON'T listen. They value money, wealth and status more than their kids freedom and rights to go to school safely.
- J, Germany, ex UK

Stigmata - The Gospel Of Thomas

Easter, A Time Of Death, Wishful Requests, New Beginnings.

Two great men are dying. Two men that have forged the course of history and attempted to change it for the better. So much is changing in the world today and the loss of both of these men will be the end of an era.

The first:
Beloved Pope John Paul II appeared at his vatican window in Rome for 10 minutes and made a few simple requests.
He called for peace in the Middle East and Africa, and in a world "drenched in the blood of so many innocent victims of war".

He called on believers to show solidarity to those dying from poverty and hunger, and he prayed for Aids victims and those whose lives were swept away in the Indian Ocean tsunami.

Yet, who will really listen to this fragile and mystical man - a pope that stands out from all that have gone before him. Hypocritical christians will continue to hate and kill each other as well as murder strangers in far off lands. The pope has tactfully fought against the evil president of the USA, but he only too well understands that forces have been unleashed that must continue to unfold and play out, in order for the masses to learn and evolve.

The second:
Pope John Paul II (84 yrs old), sent a blessing offering "warm wishes" on Saturday to the very ill Prince Rainier (81 yrs old). The prince of Monaco is one of Europe's longest-reigning monarchs and became known to Americans when he married beautiful movie star Grace Kelly. Rainier, like the pope, is loved and respected and has built his tiny kingdom into a great and thriving community for both his subjects and the thousands of visitors that flock to the Gran Prix every year, the famous casino and the beautiful marina. The prince's famous children, Albert 47, Caroline 48 and Stephanie 40, will keep Monaco alive.

Easter this year more than ever, symbolizes death and new beginnings. Losing the goodness and love that the Pope and Prince Ranier have so freely given, will be a blow to the world.

Whereas death happens in the blink of an eye as experienced by the Boxing Day Tsunami, birth takes it's time. Death is inevitable for everything in creation but unfortunately being imposed rapidly and violently across the globe by a handful of evil men. Birth of the new era upon this planet will take time and will not happen until these men are stopped and the hypnotized masses wake up.

Too many have already been captured by the evilness that reigns over the world but millions have not and will continue the fight against it. Click on the title link above ' Stigmata - The Gospel Of Thomas' and discover the truth that the catholic church has tried to hide. Read the actual words of Jesus in the Gospel Of Thomas, that were written in Aramaic during his lifetime.

What better time for the religious masses than Easter, the symbol of death and re-birth, to wake up, LET GO and discover FREEDOM within and without. 'God' is NOT outside of you as the church would have you believe. Let go of imprisonment by the church and the government. Instead, embrace Springtime, the season of new life and new beginning.

We are ALL brothers and sisters. We ALL come from the same place and we will ALL return there. There is no judgement from a man sitting on a throne upon a cloud. There is no hell. Judgement is what we impose upon ourselves and each other. Hell is a state of mind.

Decide....Keep on giving to collection on Sunday morning as the preachers laugh in your face as they count the millions the Bush government is giving them to control your life, or set yourself free and enter the best springtime of your life.

Bush Evil Chokehold Tightens Around American Necks

WAKE THE FUCK UP AMERICA!!!
Bush continues to use all of you, especially the easily led born-again christians herds, the ignorant poor and the substance contolled minorities. Hmmm.....Was it not you people that voted for Bush? Karma is a bitch - AS YOU SOW, SO SHALL YOU REAP!!!!

Two articles that illustrate exactly what i said a few days ago:
Terri Schiavo and the Red Lake School Massacre - separate incidents that have intertwined.

Body Double By Chris Floyd

03/25/04 - Far from the hurly-burly in Florida, where the Bush brothers and their shameless minions have sought to milk maximum "political capital" from the ravaged body of a brain-dead woman, the true moral values of these gilded hypocrites were on stark display last week in a quiet corner of the Bushes' adopted homeland: Texas.

This week, U.S. President George W. Bush melodramatically cut short one of his innumerable vacations and flew back to Washington to intervene in the case of Terri Schiavo when a Florida court granted her husband's request to cut off her life support after she had spent 15 years in a vegetative state. But days before, even as the president was supporting his brother, Florida governor Jeb Bush, and congressional Republicans in "defending the culture of life" in the Schiavo case, doctors in Houston were pulling the breathing tube from the throat of an ailing infant. The boy suffocated within seconds, legally killed -- against the wishes of his anguished mother -- in accordance with a draconian law signed as a "cost-saving" measure by the state's former governor: George W. Bush.

There were no frenzied protests, no camera-friendly prayer vigils, no preening politicians at Texas Children's Hospital when 5-month-old Sun Hudson took his last breath. There was only his mother, Wanda, holding him in her arms as he died, the Houston Chronicle reported. Sun suffered from an extreme form of dwarfism, which is incurable and usually fatal. Early on, doctors recommended cutting off the breathing tube that kept his undersized lungs working. He was inert, they said, unresponsive -- essentially comatose. 

Wanda Hudson disagreed. "I talked to him," she said. "He was conscious." Moving, looking around, he responded to her. Although the odds were long, she wanted to give him more time to develop, not give up on him after just a few months. Wishful thinking, a despairing parent's denial? Perhaps. But the law signed by Bush in 1999 took the decision out of her hands and gave it to hospital bureaucrats, allowing them to shut down a patient's life support -- even against the wishes of the patient's family or guardian -- if the medical brass decide that treatment is "nonbeneficial," the Chronicle noted.

Indeed, why throw away good money pumping air down the gullet of some defective infant, just to mollify his nobody of a mother? For, unlike Schiavo -- a nice middle-class white woman, a political marketer's dream -- Wanda Hudson was just another worthless black woman living in poverty, unable to afford prenatal care. Who would waste a dime on trash like that? It's much more beneficial to funnel that cash into the coffers of your political patrons -- like George and Jeb, now wallowing happily in the swamp of campaign grease they get from giant medical corporations. In return, they push government policies designed to keep Big Medicine's profits sky-high while gutting public obligations to provide health care for the hoi polloi.

So the hospital invoked the Bush Law on Sun Hudson. Just as in Florida, a local judge ruled that life-support systems must be removed, and the patient allowed to die a natural death. But strangely enough, the Texas judge was not reviled in the halls of Congress as a would-be murderer, as was his counterpart in Florida -- even though the latter was carrying out the wishes of Terri Schiavo's husband, her legal guardian, while the Bush Law used state power to override a mother's choice. Nor was the Texas judge subjected to death threats like the ones the Florida judge received from Bush's "armies of compassion."

No, Sun's mother stood alone. Those compassionate armies and congressional kibitzers failed to materialize on her behalf. President Bush -- usually so eager to wade in a with a few scripted words of pursed-lipped piety about "family values" and "defending life" -- kept his big mouth shut. The hospital would not allow the media to see Sun or interview Wanda Jackson -- again, against her wishes. "I wanted y'all to see him for yourselves," she told the press after Sun's death. But so what? When nobodies die, nobody cares.

Why the stark contrast between the two cases? Simple: There was no political hay to be made from Sun Hudson's plight. Spotlighting his situation might reflect badly on the Dear Leader -- and on the religious extremists now banking millions in contributions from their slick campaign to "save" Schiavo. For it turns out that the spearhead of Bush's Christian army in Florida, the "Right to Life" organization, actually helped Bush craft the 1999 law that took Sun Hudson's life, the Chronicle reported. The family-bashing measure was drawn up in backroom sessions between the Right-to-Lifers, Bush staffers and Big Medicine. It seems the "culture of life" ends where power politics and corporate money begin.

Bush doesn't care if Schiavo lives or dies. Her body -- like the bodies of the 100,000 Iraqis he has killed, like the bodies of the American soldiers being chewed up every day in his Babylonian conquest, like the bodies of the poor and working people whom he is methodically and remorselessly cutting off from medical care, financial protection against catastrophic illness, and legal redress against corporate predators -- is just a means to an end, the only end Bush cares about: increasing the power and wealth of his own rapacious circle of privileged elites.

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, he will not do to serve this end. He'll wage war on false pretenses, he'll pervert the democratic process, he'll spit on the Constitution -- and he'll exploit the private suffering of families facing hideous dilemmas of life and death. There is no honor, no morality, no values in his "culture."

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article8359.htm

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Native Americans Criticize Bush's Silence By Ceci Connolly
Friday 25 March 2005

Response to school shooting is contrasted with president's intervention in Schiavo case.

Minneapolis - Native Americans across the country - including tribal leaders, academics and rank-and-file tribe members - voiced anger and frustration Thursday that President Bush has responded to the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history with silence.

Three days after 16-year-old Jeff Weise killed nine members of his Red Lake tribe before taking his own life, grief-stricken American Indians complained that the White House has offered little in the way of sympathy for the tribe situated in the uppermost region of Minnesota.

"From all over the world we are getting letters of condolence, the Red Cross has come, but the so-called Great White Father in Washington hasn't said or done a thing," said Clyde Bellecourt, a Chippewa Indian who is the founder and national director of the American Indian Movement here. "When people's children are murdered and others are in the hospital hanging on to life, he should be the first one to offer his condolences. . . . If this was a white community, I don't think he'd have any problem doing that."

Weise's victims included his grandfather and five teenagers; seven other students were wounded, and two of them remain in serious condition in a hospital in Fargo, N.D.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan, in an informal discussion with reporters Tuesday, said: "Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those who were killed."

"I hope that he would say something," said Victoria Graves, a cultural educator at Red Lake Elementary School on the reservation. "It's important that there's acknowledgment of the tragedy. It's important he sees the tribes are out here. We need help."

    The reaction to Bush's silence was particularly bitter given his high-profile, late-night intervention on behalf of Terri Schiavo, the brain-damaged Florida woman caught in a legal battle over whether her feeding tube should be reinserted.

"The fact that Bush preempted his vacation to say something about Ms. Schiavo and here you have 10 native people gunned down and he can't take time to speak is very telling," said David Wilkins, interim chairman of the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota and a member of the North Carolina-based Lumbee tribe.

"He has not been real visible in Indian country," said former senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (R-Colo.). "He's got a lot of irons in the fire, but this is important."

Even more alarming than Bush's silence, he said, is the president's proposal to cut $100 million from several Indian programs next year.

In the hours after the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado in 1999, President Bill Clinton publicly expressed his condolences and followed up a few days later with a radio address in which he proposed new gun control measures and school safety projects.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2005/032505B.shtml

Everyday is a new beginning

What a gorgeous spring day. Brilliant sunshine and a soft breeze. Perfect day for sailing.

Today there will be no long and angry blog against those who wish to control and impose their twisted beliefs on others - just a few comments.

Liars are cowards living from fear. Leaders that are cowards will meet their downfall in the timing of the universe soon enough. Life is about YOU the individual and the difference you can make for the highest good of all. Focusing on the evil that certain men do is not recommended on a daily basis because it wastes precious time that can be used to be of service, to learn and grow and share with friends and strangers alike.

This blog is admittedly an outlet to vent anger and frustration so that i may not carry it within me on my magical adventure through life with all its challenging moments as well as the extraordinary beautiful ones. Focus on where you want to go. If you walk forward looking backwards, you will be sure to fall down. Everything you need is within you right now. All that is, is this present moment. So LIVE LIFE TO THE MAX!

Soooooo.... im off to embrace the day and vent another time as events occur. Ciao!

Number One American Lie

America is the greatest country in the world? BULLSHIT. Of course you disagree. You have been brainwashed since birth.
So click on the 'Number One American Lie' and READ IT!

Wanna preview?
The United States is 49th in the world in literacy.

The World Health Organization "ranked the countries of the world in terms of overall health performance, and the U.S. [was]...37th." In the fairness of health care, we're 54th.

The U.S. and South Africa are the only two developed countries in the world that do not provide health care for all their citizens" (The European Dream, p.80).

U.S. childhood poverty now ranks 22nd, or second to last, among the developed nations. Only Mexico scores lower" (The European Dream, p.81). Been to Mexico lately? Does it look "developed" to you? Yet it's the only "developed" country to score lower in childhood poverty.

Twelve million American families - more than 10 percent of all U.S. households - "continue to struggle, and not always successfully, to feed themselves." Families that "had members who actually went hungry at some point last year" numbered 3.9 million.

The United States is 41st in the world in infant mortality. Cuba scores higher.

One-half of all U.S. children will live in a one-parent house. (So much for U.S. morality, born-again christian crap and familly values)

Fourteen of the 20 largest commercial banks in the world today are European.

Japan, China, Taiwan, and South Korea hold 40 percent of our government debt. (That's why we talk nice to them)

Sometime in the next 10 years Brazil will probably pass the U.S. as the world's largest agricultural producer. Brazil is now the world's largest exporter of chickens, orange juice, sugar, coffee, and tobacco. Last year, Brazil passed the U.S. as the world's largest beef producer. (Hear that, you poor deluded cowboys?) As a result, while we bear record trade deficits, Brazil boasts a $30 billion trade surplus.

As of last June, the U.S. imported more food than it exported. (So much for American farmland and produce!)

Bush: 62,027,582 votes. Kerry: 59,026,003 votes. Number of eligible voters who didn't show up: 79,279,000. That's more than a third. Way more. If more than a third of Iraqis don't show for their election, no country in the world will think that election legitimate. (The educated yanks already know BOTH elections were illegitimate and fixed)

Nearly one out of four Americans [believe] that using violence to get what they want is acceptable.

Oh and lets not forget...
1) The U.S. has the WORST transportation in the world - Expansive taxis, dirty overbooked Greyhounds, trains slower than snails, buses that run when they feel like it and American made cars about as reliable as plastic toy matchbox cars.

2) Licensed drug dealing medical doctors who cram expensive prescriptions into your hand or cut out of your body the offending health problem after the drugs have poisoned you. Then, leave hospital sicker than when you were admitted. Oh, and the EMERGENCY room? Expect a minimal 3 hour wait.

3) Toxic supermarket food filled with chemicals and poisons you cannot pronounce.

4) Disgusting polyester, out dated, ugly clothing and plastic shoes.

5) Dental care that insists on pulling your wisdom teeth regardless and running you up a tab that will take a lifetime to pay off.

6) A school system that is content a 16 year old can barely read let alone write five sentences for homework. Wanna go to college? Wanna get a degree in basket weaving? If you have not been saving since birth, forget it. Better yet, have your teenager take out some loans and open a few credit cards that will put them into debt for years to come.

7) A country that allows the government and media to lie and BELIEVES THEM!!!!!

8) TV that censors nudity, words such as ass and questions whether Nicolette Sheridan standing talking wrapped in a bathrobe is indecent.

9) A country where the vast majority of men, women and children are fat pigs - stand in a shoping mall, on a street corner or in a supermarket and count them as they walk by.

10) News broadcasts prefer to discuss local basketball results rather than the fact that 3 days before thousands of people died in an earthquake/tsunami. Public reaction? None of them were American so who cares! They were Iranian/Turkish/Thai/Indian? They deserved it, afterall it was Gods punishment on them for being non-christian and anti-American.

11) History books are packed with lies. Hollywood perpetuates the myths and happily spews out government war movie propaganda. Even Thanksgiving is a lie. It's really a celebration of the white man invading a foreign land and murdering the natives. Nothing has changed except Thanksgiving now includes the invasion and occupation of Iraq and Afghanistan and the daily torture and murder of their natives.

12) MTV and schools are currently trying to force kids into believing joining the military is the greatest thing an American will ever do. They have deleted the part that if they don't return in a body bag they will return with uranium poisoning, missing a limb or too and mentally fucked up for the rest of their life. And...they will not tell you WHY you are going to murder non-Americans... which is to protect Israel and steal oil.

The greatest country on earth? LIES, LIES, LIES.

Right To Life

So here we are in the United fucked up States of America. Terri Schiavo is brain damaged and should have passed on ages ago. Some of the public, including her parents and the bloody nazi government think she should continue to breath indefinetly. Yeah right! Keep her alive via tubes and machines because these selfish individuals refuse to let go? What the hell is wrong with people! If you love someone you do NOT deliberately allow them to suffer. Right to life? BULLSHIT. Terri has no life. Get a bloody grip and let Terri go.

Government intervention? Its none of their fucking business!!! How dare they preach 'right to life' propaganda when they continue to mass murder thousands of Afghan's and Iraqi's!!!!!!!!!!! HOW DARE THEY. Same goes for everyone that supports them in this sick and demented state of mind.

It's beyond disgusting and goes without saying that these same people that want Terri to stay breathing and brain damaged, are also pro-war, anti-abortion, anti-gay and pro-bush. EXCUSE ME but war KILLS. Bush embraces executions and mass murder of innocents. And in case you have forgoten since when did anti-abortionists have the RIGHT to tell a woman what to do with her body? Since WHEN could a SOUL be murdered?!!! THINK ABOUT IT!!!!

The general masses in the USA are beyond help. The Schiavo case is the latest example of fucked up U.S. morality, bullshit, lies, manipulation and control.

Right to life? What about the Native American boy recent school massacre? Why has the media played it down yet the white suburbia Columbine school massacre saturated the public for weeks. Could it be that minority kids don't count? Are redskinned children as still as unimportant in 2005 as they were when the white cowboys raped and slaghtered them, and locked them up in detention reservations and forced them into silence and degradation generations ago? Do non-white children and Muslim children not have a right to life... yet, a brain damaged white girl named Terri Schiavo must be kept alive at any cost?

Well guess what? If you believe Terri should be allowed to die and you are anti-war, pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, anti-vaccine, pro alternative healing, anti-draft, anti-bush, anti born-again christian, believe 911 was a government lie, hated 'The Passion' (DISGUSTING GRAPHIC BLOODBATH, OVER THE TOP PROLONGED TORTURE) - YOU ARE DOOMED. You are a sitting target. You will be labeled as an unpatriotic hippie and conspiracy nut. If you dare to speak out publicly you will be discredited and humiliated and everything you have ever said or done will be turned around and used against you. if you still refuse to shut up, or uncover and expose the lies, you will sudddenly have a horrible car accident, or your plane will crash or you will commit suicide and leave a note explaining why.

The USA today is an ugly land spewing lies, denial, deceit, murder, ignorance, hypnosis, racism, obesity, drugs, violence, aggression, corrporate greed, dictatorship and censorship wrapped in blood red robes of born again christian mental retardation and corruption.

Right to life? What ever happened to RIGHT TO FREEDOM!!!

In the beginning...

In the beginning....when was that? When exactly did the masses stop thinking for themselves, allow themselves to be brainwashed and blindly agree to mass murder? Better question...Why are the masses soooooo afraid and so happy to live with paralysis? WHAT are they afraid of? Losing their pathetic possessions and invisible crutches fills them with terror at the very thought. Enough. Screw the liars, the murderers of innocents and the sheeple being led to the slaughter in support. They deserve whatever comes next.

But wait....a light of truth, strength and honor shines in the darkness. The truth hurts. So shut your mouth and listen. For once REEEEEEALLY listen.