How desperate do you have to be to shoot a 14 year old girl?

It’s not about evil it’s about ignorance. It’s not about the have not’s, it’s about fanaticism. It’s not about power, it’s about freedom. The fight, it is the knock-down drag out fight for equality and for the basic rights of human beings. We need to share the burden of the world. We have a responsibility to protect one another’s rights on the ideology that we as humans are no better or worse than the human being we walk by on the street. Love your neighbor because you are he and she is you. We all must live here on earth together and we all have the right to be treated equally by each other.

There is no room for an oppressive regime be it political or economic. America is a country that oppresses the world through its selfish capitalist consumption. Money has become our vote. And we vote not only as a country in our own self-interest but as individuals as well. Yes, as basic biological systems we are consumption based and a consumption based economy is our nature. A system that is in balance is a system that is a true going concern. It is a system that runs for an eternity. There is no world for our children if we don’t put in what we take out. If we don’t realize that if we support a country that consumes and consumes beyond our healthy means, that we are sick. Our nation is sick because we’ve eaten too much. We should be taken to in front of the UN and questioned why we deem it right that we take from the rest of the world to satisfy not just our survival but our luxurious survival.

We might say, well they sell it to us. They being impoverished countries that need our trade relations to get foreign aid or medicine or technology. We are the rich land owners and we are propping up the subsistence farmers by buying their crop and leaving them just enough seed to plant next year, knowing that eventually the soil will lose its nutrients and crops will grow no more. We will have what we want and the farmers will get evicted from the land and consume on an even more basic level in squalor. We can reap just as cruelly with our economic power as a dictator can with his soldiers and propaganda.

Money is rights. If you have money you have rights, if you have US currency you have rights. I have earned the money; I deserve the right to spend it how I choose. We may have progressed with our technology; we may have progressed in our use of efficiency to produce more and to consume more. We have not progressed in our understanding of what we consume and when we consume what that takes away from someone else. What do I take away from who when I buy X, Y or Z? What company do I support with my money, which in effect takes resources from where and distributes it to whom? Do we not care what the effect of our behavior is? Out of sight and out of mind and ignorant, we need to remember that there are billions of us on this planet. Our impact is huge, how much do we consume every day and how much do we put back in the system? How do we balance the equation?