The Only Effective Way To Keep People In Their Own Country

      Gangs, drug cartels, terrorist organizations continue to grow, fueled by the insatiable American demand for narcotics. The more they grow, the more neighborhoods, communities, cities and countries are destabilized.
      Recent news from Mexico included reports about a newspaper that had to shut down because it became too dangerous to continue publishing. Another news story concerned a young woman that was raped, finding her life is threatened by coming forward, while the well connected rapists are free.
       The more countries are destabilized by gangs, criminals, drug cartels, terrorist organizations, extremists, Islamist fanatics, the United States will find that there is no wall high enough that will keep desperate people out from escaping their hopeless situations. Desperate people escaping violence and poverty will not let obstacles stand in their way. They have nothing to lose.
        Reducing poverty (which includes allowing women access to safe family planning), reducing  fanaticism, intolerance and violence is the surest way to keep people in their own countries. Without opportunity, without hope, beset by violence, poverty or both, desperate people will be on the move.
     
       
       

The Lesson Of Syria For Israelis And Palestinian Arabs

     While there is still time, Israelis and Palestinian Arabs must look one country over to Syria and see where a conflict that spins out of control can lead. Hundreds of thousands of people are dead and maimed from the Syrian conflict. Terrible atrocities have been committed by all sides. About a third of the country's population are now refugees.
       Israelis and Palestinian Arabs share a small piece of land. The only way to avoid the tragedy that Syria has become is to learn to live with one another in peace.

Occupation; The Excuse Jew Haters Use For Jew Killing

     Interesting how many Jew hating hypocrites use occupation as their reason for supporting terrorist attacks against Jews, as they live comfortably in safe lands that were obtained by conquest and occupation.

      If the conflict was about land, it would have been resolved already. The deep, pathological hatred towards Jews continues, a reflection of the human inability to accept that which is different and practice tolerance. In places where there are no Jews, another minority group is most often oppressed.  The world continues to find its scapegoats, some group to despise and oppress, and so the killing does not stop.
        If sanity, decency and tolerance prevails, Jews and Arab Muslims and others will live in peace. Without tolerance, nothing is possible.

It Takes A Village To Raise A Violent Sociopath. The Minister Of Incitement

     A certain black minister that is quick to blame others, especially his most preferred scapegoat, spends his life inciting hatred and contempt, all of which has earned him a huge following and made him a multimillionaire. It is easy to cast a light elsewhere, and then the light is never cast on him. Had he spent his life teaching tolerance, individual responsibility, self restraint and compassion, he would not be the rich man he is today with his huge following. And if he had taught tolerance instead of incitement, the violence in some low income black communities would not be as pronounced as what it is. It takes a village to raise a violent sociopath.

It Takes A Village To Raise A Violent Sociopath. Cop Killing Song And Media Incitement

     A number of years ago, a rap singer wrote a song about cop killing. Now, years later, it is suggested the controversial song was a prophetic commentary about police brutality and racism and where it leads.
     The song was not prophetic. While gangs were killing each other in the early nineties, a time when crack cocaine was spreading like wildfire and homicide rates were much higher than they are now, rappers were glorifying the violence. The flimsy excuse was often given that their glorification of violence was merely a reflection of reality, when in fact what they were doing was helping shape reality. By glorifying violence and the reduction of women into nothing more than sex objects, they sent a clear message to young people that what should have been unacceptable was not.
     The more violent sociopaths there are, the more violence there will be (including the violence between police and violent sociopaths). Those that incite violence and hate (and most often blame others for the violent result), have blood on their hands.
      It takes a village to raise a child. It also takes a village to raise a violent sociopath.
     
     

A Governor Accused Of Blasphemy In Indonesia. Islamists And The 1965 Genocide

     A non Muslim governor in Indonesia is accused of blasphemy. He allegedly told voters they were being deceived if they believe a certain verse in the Quran prohibits Muslims from electing a non Muslim as leader. For saying that, he is now facing five years in prison for blasphemy.
      Islamists in that still democratic nation insist Muslims must not be ruled by a kafir ( i.e.,non believer in Islam, a generally derogatory term), and that the governor must be punished for blasphemy.
      The governor, a Christian man of Chinese descent, is up for re election. Many assert that his leadership has been transparent and not corrupt. His opponents have much to gain by playing the Islamist card. By making this about religion, evil politicians have an easy way to stir up people's hatreds and thereby gain political and economic control.
       Indonesia is one of the only Muslim majority states in the world that is a secular democracy. The Indonesia of today is far different than the Indonesia of the 1960's. In the mid 1960's, unleashed and egged on by politicians and military leaders, Islamists and others killed hundreds of thousands (some place the numbers slaughtered between one to three million people) of their fellow Indonesians. It started as a killing spree against alleged communists, and quickly spread to include the settling of personal and religious vendettas (Islamists declared Indonesia had to be purged of atheists, which opened the doors to further unrestrained mass killings of innocent people). Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of defenseless people were hacked to death. It was not the clean killing some associate with a murderous regime by a bullet to the head. It was unrestrained mobs and death squads hacking and chopping off their imagined enemies limbs, their penises, the breasts of women, and heads.
        The United States had a hand in this genocide. So did Sweden, which provide arms to the Indonesian military. (Source- Wikipedia, Indonesian Mass killings 1965 to 1966.) So eager was the United States to oppose communists, it did not recognize the genocidal nature of Islamists. (Decades later, in supporting the Islamists in Afghanistan against the former Soviet Union, the United States made a similar mistake.)
         The world better pray that Indonesia chooses the path of tolerance, religious freedom and democracy. If Indonesia goes the way of many Islamist regimes, it will mean genocide for its religious minorities. It will mean the murder of untold thousands of Muslims that are moderate, reasonable human beings. It will be the slaughter of 1965 all over again.

Standing for Freedom - Rejecting Religious Theocracies

     Religion should be a private matter that belongs in the home and place of worship. It does not belong in the political realm. Religious theocracies are poison. Nations that do not separate church/mosque from state almost all are failed states. The few exceptions are nations propped up by oil wealth. Even these nations tend to be unproductive places that export fanaticism, intolerance, oil and virtually nothing else. In the religious theocracies without the necessary oil wealth to keep their populations compliant and submissive, the true nature of religious theocracies can be seen in full force. Massive oppression and corruption, child marriage, the criminalization of thought, no religious freedom, the loss of creativity, imagination and initiative. The leaders of religious theocracies are often corrupt, decadent people that live in a way they would never tolerate from their subdued populations.