Thursday, April 14, 2005
Why Innocent People Die
Washington. Almost every incident that costs lives in history has been caused by stupidity of our leaders.
Let's take wars...shall we? When the Nazi's were killing Jews by the thousands, we stood by and said to ourselves, "Hmmmm, sucks to be them." Then there was Korea, how many people died there until our government decided it wasn't politically poplular to be at war and the conflict still goes on. And, they have nuclear weapons now. Vietnam, how many of our boys died over there until the government decided it wasn't popular to be there. So we pulled out, leaving some of our men behind, not resolving that either. Somalia, hell the press knew more about what we were doing over there than the Marines did. We never took out the warlord oppressing the people there, and we pulled out as the election came near. The Gulf War, we went in to kick Saddam's arse and decided, since we freed Kuwait we could get out. Rowanda, another popularity contest, and yet unresolved. Afgahnistan. Iraq.
School shootings. How many of these kids could of been prevented from doing what they did. How many professionals in schools today are trained, educated and experienced at spotting warning signs of emotional troubles? How many did something about it? How many intervened? How many after the fact said, "Yeh, we knew he was depressed. And we knew he was picked on a lot. He was a loner." A "loner", and how many people in this world? And there's people out there that are loners.
9-11. Okay, how many warnings were there about that incident? If you owned a flight school and some foriegn student who is from a country that hates Americans asks you "I only want to learn how to fly a plane, not land it." What would you do? And we trained and armed the Taliban! Why are we giving favors to foreign students, when our own American-born students have to scrape to go to college?
What's going on recently? First of all, an Asian flu virus that killed millions, found it's way to over 2 dozen laboratories in America. They claim that it's highly communicable, and that they haven't found any signs of anyone getting it from their staff. They are now claiming to be destroying the virus.
Also, the U.S. Government is now banning cigarette lighters from all airline flights. Why? Because of the incident in 2002, yes 3 years ago, where a man tried to light an explosive on his shoe with a match. But still, you are allowed to carry on matches, 4 packs of matches (in case you can't get it lit the first time) just not lighters. Can you not light bombs with matches too??
The worse part about any of this. No matter what kind of catastrophe happens that wipes out a large percentage of innocent (if one conservative christian tells me that no one is innocent, we are all born sinful i'll smoke you) people. Stupid people will still be alive. In the aftermath, going "Hmm, maybe we were wrong." or "Hmm, I guess I shoulda seen that coming."
Let's take wars...shall we? When the Nazi's were killing Jews by the thousands, we stood by and said to ourselves, "Hmmmm, sucks to be them." Then there was Korea, how many people died there until our government decided it wasn't politically poplular to be at war and the conflict still goes on. And, they have nuclear weapons now. Vietnam, how many of our boys died over there until the government decided it wasn't popular to be there. So we pulled out, leaving some of our men behind, not resolving that either. Somalia, hell the press knew more about what we were doing over there than the Marines did. We never took out the warlord oppressing the people there, and we pulled out as the election came near. The Gulf War, we went in to kick Saddam's arse and decided, since we freed Kuwait we could get out. Rowanda, another popularity contest, and yet unresolved. Afgahnistan. Iraq.
School shootings. How many of these kids could of been prevented from doing what they did. How many professionals in schools today are trained, educated and experienced at spotting warning signs of emotional troubles? How many did something about it? How many intervened? How many after the fact said, "Yeh, we knew he was depressed. And we knew he was picked on a lot. He was a loner." A "loner", and how many people in this world? And there's people out there that are loners.
9-11. Okay, how many warnings were there about that incident? If you owned a flight school and some foriegn student who is from a country that hates Americans asks you "I only want to learn how to fly a plane, not land it." What would you do? And we trained and armed the Taliban! Why are we giving favors to foreign students, when our own American-born students have to scrape to go to college?
What's going on recently? First of all, an Asian flu virus that killed millions, found it's way to over 2 dozen laboratories in America. They claim that it's highly communicable, and that they haven't found any signs of anyone getting it from their staff. They are now claiming to be destroying the virus.
Also, the U.S. Government is now banning cigarette lighters from all airline flights. Why? Because of the incident in 2002, yes 3 years ago, where a man tried to light an explosive on his shoe with a match. But still, you are allowed to carry on matches, 4 packs of matches (in case you can't get it lit the first time) just not lighters. Can you not light bombs with matches too??
The worse part about any of this. No matter what kind of catastrophe happens that wipes out a large percentage of innocent (if one conservative christian tells me that no one is innocent, we are all born sinful i'll smoke you) people. Stupid people will still be alive. In the aftermath, going "Hmm, maybe we were wrong." or "Hmm, I guess I shoulda seen that coming."
