blowin' in

Yes, how many years can a mountain exist

Before it's washed to the sea ?

Yes, how many years can some people exist

Before they're allowed to be free ?

Yes, how many times can a man turn his head

Pretending he just doesn't see ?

The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind

The answer is blowin' in the wind.(“Blowin’in the Wind”, Bob Dylan)

And now we have met many of the victims of the Aurora massacre and listened to an experience in their lives that I pray to God never enters  my own world of reality. We are tuned in to the moments and minutes of pure hell, torture and pain. We are presented with the victims but never once touch upon the cause or even better the remedy.

And as we did with Columbine, Virginia Tech, Fort Hood we are astonished that anyone could have access to the amount of firepower and weaponry to end the lives of so many. We meet the pro gun control advocates and hear the reasons from the Save the Second Amendment patriots. The media wipes a tear from their eye as they speak about an incident no American ever wants to endure. Every possible ‘EXPERT’ is called to discus matters of psychology and legality all dour and dry.

And like Deepwater Horizon, or Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans or dozens of other catastrophic incidents causing havoc and hell to the Americans in this great nation of ours this too shall pass. And with its passing nothing to stem, to end to diminish the potential for a repeat will be engaged or will evolve.

We will shake our heads ring our hands, and slowly forget this tragedy until of course something as ugly and inhumane happens again.

When do we become wise enough to not permit history to repeat itself.

Are you now or have you ever been... in the years from 1950 to 1954 the end of that sentence read a member of the Communist Party? the author of that quote was Senator Joseph McCarthy. Senator McCarthy used the fear of the ignorant, the bogus of the bigot, and those who would rather find blame then solve problem to provide some of the most devastating paranoia this nation has ever seen.

Michelle Bachmann, along with four other members of Congress, sent a letter to the inspector generals of the Departments of State and Homeland Security saying Huma Abedin, a top aide to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has ties to an organization trying to destroy “the Western Civilization from within. (newsday.com).

Four years during the 50’s a bully was able to control the conversation in our political arena. No one wanted to stand up for civil rights or freedoms as written in our Constitution. Everyone either cow towed to McCarthy for fear that by not doing so some skeleton would be found their own closet; or tried to walk away from this confrontation only to be harangued until they admitted to something they were never a part of.

Finally one journalist, Edward R. Murrow was brave enough to stand tough and call McCarthy a bully stating fiction, strong armed techniques are UnAmerican, and never ever point to the truth.

And at the end of the anarchy reign imposed by McCarthy the American public swore on a stack of Bibles, no never give the power to the paranoid.

But better than solving a problem is creating a scapegoat and Michelle never one for answers or truth is at it again. Make the Muslim this time the monster under the bed.

And like McCarthy and his gang of goons Michelle is praying on the ignorant, angry and uneducated.

When do we become wise enough to not permit history to repeat itself.

It happened once again a gun with tons and tons of ammunition to kill tons and tons of innocents, and all we hear is “my sympathy to the victim but lets not talk about the ease at which they were killed. It happened once again a person of political power using the bully pulpit with nothing more than lies singling out citizens of this nation as the enemy. No proof just bull shit.

Yes, how many times must a man look up

Before he can see the sky ?

Yes, how many ears must one man have

Before he can hear people cry ?

Yes, how many deaths will it take till he knows

That too many people have died ?

The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind

The answer is blowin' in the wind. (“Blowin’ in the Wind”, Bob Dylan)