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Showing posts with label killing. Show all posts
Showing posts with label killing. Show all posts

Sunday, December 1, 2013

Deadly Inequaity

Japan and Norway have very low homicide rates and are among the rich countries with the lowest income equality.
Portugal and the U.S. have high homicide rates and high rates of income inequality.
Statistics show that notable among the richer countries that in general the greater the income inequality the higher the homicide rates.
Our United States the highest income inequality among the richer countries and by far the highest homicide rates.

Monday, August 13, 2012

Commandment One

How do you and I decide to kill that man?
How do we decide to spend our money to kill that man?
How do we decide to spend the blood of our youth to kill that man?
How do we decide to kill his duckling?
How do we decide to kill his puppy?
How do we decide to kill his daughter?
How do we decide to kill his daughter's baby?

How did we decide to kill that Korean baby?
How did we decide to kill that Panamanian duck?
How do we decide to kill that Iraqi puppy?
How did we decide to kill that Afghan man?
How did we decide ti kill that Laotian son?
How did we decide to kill the Cambodian wife?

How do we decide to to pay others to kill men in other places?
How do we handle our responsibility as citizens of  this republic?
How do we reconcile our words about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness with out decision to kill so much, to kill so many, to kill so often?

Who says that we kill without deciding1

Sunday, July 10, 2011

As Citizens .......

Most of us are concerned about the killing we do and pay for. We know that the killing we do causes suffering, fear, strife, confusion, and death. We see that our killing costs us blood and dollars.


It seems to me worth while to come to a better agreement about when, where, and under what circumstances we shall kill. It seems good that we have a killing policy that is more generally understood. Shouldn't we agree that our killing policy be subsumed under our war policy and perhaps our foreign policy? Can we agree on what our war policy is to be? Can we agree on what we want our national foreign policy to be? Are we capable of the necessary dialogue?


How many have already given up our law and our responsibility.?