What happened in the Russian schoolhouse was terrible. this morning i was speaking to a young, local kid about that mess in Chechnia. i mentioned that just last week two passenger planes in Russia were blown out of the sky by two Chechian women. These women were a part of a group called the black widows because their husbands and many times children have been killed in the war with the Russians and in many Muslim cultures when your husband dies...the wife's life also grinds to a halt. i tried to point out that when any part of a society has no stake in that society then they have no reason to promote the general well being of the society. i mentioned that i thought that we were so lucky that Martin Luther King and Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedys and so many others had moved the civil rights movement forward in the 50's and 60's because if they had not we would have people of dark skin color here today with no stake in this society...their children would not have the opportunity to succeed and many would be working actively to bring our society to a halt. as we were driving we passed several of those gas trucks that i never used to notice until they began being blown up all over Iraq by the people who have no stake in what we are doing in their country. In some upscale communities in Chicago there have been a rash of attacks by groups of young people on single, vulnerable men apparently just for the fun of beating the hell out of them. i believe that lack of hope and belief that they have no stake in the future of their society is the cause of all of these desperate acts. until we have leadership and a large number of citizens that understand and accept that we are all the same and work for the good of everyone then we will have the desperate, violent acts occurring all around us and i believe many are becoming more desperate(uninsured, unemployed) and we are going to be seeing more ridiculous violence from these desperate people. Ross o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0o0oo0o0o00o0o0o The difficult situation that the US is in can not be solved by waging more wars. The violence done in our name generates more violence and hatred against us. The solution arises from changing our attitudes about other people. We need to stop the theft of their resources and labor and begin to treat them with respect and dignity. RossCannon
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