KILLER NATION IN A KILLER WORLD

Girl in Afghanistan injured by US military attacks

As I write this I am listening to Pandora, an on-line music service that allows you to pick your favorite artists and they find their music and similar tunes....I've got it set on The Kinks, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, the O'Jays and have got it doing a mix of all their stuff. Earth, Wind, & Fire are singing "That's the Way of the World" ..........heavy emotion running through my heart.

I've been adding groups and individual names this morning from Japan and around the US to the petition supporting the South Korean reunification activists. Going to fax it tomorrow to the Korean United Nations mission. Then today I got an email from Syria about the arrest of civil society activists there....the repression of the people yearning for justice and peace is global and heart breaking.

Last night Mary Beth came running in the door and told me to turn on Maine Public Radio. As she was driving home from work she heard them promo an upcoming story about peace groups in Maine calling on our members of Congress to vote against the Iraq-Afghanistan-Pakistan war supplemental which is now up to $97 billion for the remainder of 2009. (Obama is requesting $130 billion in 2010 for war funding too.) I had sent around a news release the night before calling on our representatives to vote NO when it comes to the House floor on Thursday. Maine Public Radio called me in response to the release and did a nice story. See and listen to it here.

Maine Public Radio also interviewed our Congresswoman Chellie Pingree and she said she's not yet decided how she will vote on the war supplemental. She was elected in the last election, to a large extent on a peace and social spending platform.....she will most likely vote for the war funding. Since she has been in DC we've seen her work hard to bring billions of dollars more in military spending to Maine. Another liberal Democrat who says one thing and does another I'm sad to say.

What we get in return for this additional war money will be more civilian casualties like the young girl above for Afghanistan. We've become a killer nation without a conscience. As long as it creates "jobs" here at home its just fine with the liberals running the show in Washington. Out of site - out of mind they believe.