I hear the train a-coming...

[kentuck]

But there ain't a damn thing we can do about it. The war criminals are making all the rules. They will decide who is worthy of living and who is not. Indeed, war is peace. As the world pulls back into a paranoid and defensive position, the war criminals march on. Who will bring them to justice? They are stirring the fires of violence and the world will react negatively. If the war criminals do not change their way, there will be a dangerous and explosive reaction. The world will not sit idly by as tyranny raises its ugly head once again. And this time, the tyranny is not over there - it is over here. It is in our own backyard.

[madrchsod]

1. it dawned on me several months ago

that this country by never facing and feeling the effects of the total destruction of a war on our soil gives us a false sense that all things can be settled by war. after fighting two wars where over 150 million people died the europeans have decided that diplomacy not war is the measure of a free society.

i take heart in knowing that south american countries are prosecuting former dictators who used violence for political power. the south africans even in their darkest hour never gave up hope that someday they would be free. there are other examples of courage by ordinary people around the world to do what they must to ensure we all are free...

i`ll leave you with this

"It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it."

from this lady who stands taller than those who try enslave her

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi

[me b zola]

2. I hear that train coming too. n/t

[shance]

3. Of course there is something we can do about it. Either we are willing

to fight for what we've been given, or most of us don't deserve what has been given to us.

There are many more of us than there are of them who are calling for unlimited war, death and destruction.

What are we willing to do?

Are we willing to fight for what was so hard fought for by those who came before us, or are we essentially giving into what we now are seeing as an essentially worthless illusion of Capitalism and what it seductively attracts and allures, but does not, nor ever will, put out for anyone other than those selected few?

Are we ourselves devoid of worth when it comes to realizing that what we have been given is not free and that we have to defend what has been given to us and it is something that demands citizen participation?

Of course we have choices. The fates are not left to the gods, unless we allow that to be so by our own resignation.

We are only victims if we choose not to be courageous enough to educate and inform others of what is happening in our names and risk temporary rejection and contempt. People will come to understand in time.

It's not easy, but we could change the tide, if we were willing to talk to others, spread the word, to commit to change and to make it happen.