December 6, 2004

• The following was inspired by Dosmangoes’ blog. I suggest you read his (if you have not already) before you read mine.

  
  

                                           

  
  

  I have often thought that the only way to achieve peace, a lasting peace, is to show in no uncertain terms that you want peace. The terrorists seem to think that to achieve peace, they must frighten everyone into submission. The governments have the same idea… laying stocks of world destroying bombs and biological weapons to frighten their competition…

  
  

  And we can protest until we’re blue in the face, but they can’t hear and we go home, and they don’t see us any more.  We buy the products that fund the war… gas and oil, medications that are based on oil, and things we don’t even know of which have connections to the war. We fund the war even when we don’t know we do.

  
  

  People who desire peace need to demonstrate in a way that cannot be ignored. If one person went to Washington and sat on the steps, without eating and without leaving, refusing to give in until s/he’s desire for peace was met, they might get a mention in a newspaper or on tv as a crackpot. If a whole group of people descended upon Washington, and stayed without eating or leaving, until peace was declared, they might be considered a homegrown movement… a mention in a national newspaper or on tv. If groups all over the world went to their countries’ governing centers, they might be considered a phenomena, and politicians might sit up and take notice, especially if they were mixed groups of many ethnic and religious constituents. They would make international news.

  
  

  If peace were still not met… something more extreme than fasting and obstruction of daily affairs would be needed… perhaps everyone, men and women, could shave off their hair. And though it sounds very extreme and even mentally unstable to say this… if still they would not give us peace, maybe a mass suicide in front of every governing center would make them sit up and notice. It’s not that I advocate suicide, but if my death served to help make the world a better place, it would be worth it to me. And unlike terrorists, I wouldn’t be taking anyone’s life but my own. Honestly, I am not afraid of death, having lived and died before… living scares me more if things continue as they are.

  
  

  And so many lives, given for peace rather than taken, might serve to change the way humanity acts for generations to come. Certainly so many giving their lives (1000s dying at once), sacrificing themselves for the idea of peace rather than war, could only supply positive energy for a change the old-school politicians (aka greedy, self-serving self-hating xenophobes  ) have been fighting in our race for the past 100 or so years.

  
  

  We are more than what our leaders tell us. Our lives are the currency upon which their regime is based. How our lives are spent also dictates the future of our race. Without our support, our leaders become paupers, but if we do not choose to oppose them, and instead give them free reign through our silence, they still control our future. Spend your life in service to the future of our race, not the present wellbeing of our politicians.

  
  

  We are all human…
  we are all living creatures…
  the boundaries our ancestors put in place…
  the borders of each country…
  will only remain boundaries as long as we recognize them.

  
  

  Celebrate your cultural and religious diversity, but don’t let it form a barrier between you and others.

  
  

  I am a citizen of the world. I do not recognize justice in war.

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