"A gentleman is simply a patient wolf."
Hello everyone!!! Some news items need my opinion because we all know they are waiting for it. Today has a lot of political unrest, turmoil and death. Let me take a big swig of my wine and get this blog going.
Crimea is voting if they want to stay with the Ukraine or go with Russia. We've been watching this for several weeks now. It began with civil unrest and elevated to Russia moving to the area in a military fashion. People in the US were wanting the President to step in to say something. Some Ukraine individuals were wanting the US to stop them. Then some individuals from the Ukraine are supposedly wanting the Crimea state to join back with Russia.
First is so sad that people have been injured and died over this issue. The loss of human life is never something to celebrate. It is even more sad when it is something that could have been easily settled by a vote.
Second, if this is what the majority of citizens want for their area, why is anyone trying to stop them? However the question is, are they doing it of their own free will or is it because the Russian military forcing it to happen? The supporters believe can it be any worse under Russian rule after they have spent two decades under a corrupt Ukrainian government.
My opinion is that I hope that the vote puts this unrest to bed. However, I really think the world should watch it. I believe that we are doomed to repeat history and it has been proven over and over again. This recent military movement and ideal from a leader that they are just reclaim what was lost from their country reminds me of how Hitler began. Didn't Putin say that all they wanted was to put Crimea back into the Russian fold where it belonged?
Hitler at first wanted reunite the areas he felt had been lost from the German Empire. He began by forcing Austria to join Germany as one country, then he annexed the Sudetenland districts of Czechoslovakia in 1938. This was to reunite the glory of the Empire that was thought that was lost. He then felt he needed to continue and grow his reunited Empire.
Is Russian President Putin beginning the same road? He's already began to discriminate certain citizens because they are different. His government is putting out propaganda against the LGBT community showing them different and ostracizing them. Is this also something Hitler started doing before it elevated to the death camps.
This issue raises a lot of question and continue to say the world really needs to watch this area with a very close eye.
This brings me to Venezuela. There is a culture clash in the embittered battle and again there is a corrupt government at the center. There is also a popular political prisoner and a large portion of the populace wanting a better life. The citizens want to be out of poverty and believe the politicians are lining their pockets while the regular guy struggles to make a living. The people wanting change believed their leader Leopoldo Lopez could do it, but now he is imprisoned. Again it is sad that this happening and anyone has lost their life over this conflict.
Now we have Latino/Latina American politicians and celebrities wanting US involvement in the conflict. Should US involvement happen? Would we only be involved because of the rich oil deposits that Venezuela has?
I'm not sure what the answer is. I do know that if the current government is harming their citizens by keeping them in poverty while the rich get richer there needs to be a change. Wait a minute isn't that what the US does as well....hmmm, maybe before we go around changing things we better make sure we aren't doing the same thing to our citizens. Our Middle Class keeps shrinking, the Rich gets Richer and the number of Poor and Struggling increases. Food for thought.
I just pray people stop dying over this political unrest.
I'm a little conflicted and confused this morning. The reason is I've been reading on some websites that Fred Phelps, the founder of the Westboro Baptist Church around the Topeka Kansas area, is knocking on death's door. He's on hospice and apparently waiting for the end.
This man and his church has hurt so many. They have protested the LGBT community every chance they have gotten. They got public notice when they protested the funeral of Matthew Shephard in Wyoming. I remember that time and had never heard of anyone protesting a funeral.
They protest with their hateful messages and signs. They protest businesses, but they are famous for protesting funerals and offended the majority of the United States by protesting military funerals. The church and family have blazed a trail into the modern culture of hate and bigotry hiding behind the right to assemble and freedom of speech.
What is odd about this piece of news is that the founder of the serpent of hate was put into hospice by one of his own children who was excommunicated from the church? I know I was shocked to learn this. The reason is because he has been excommunicated from the church he started and his family who still run the church have nothing to do with him and it was the children he shunned who is there at the end of his life.
My hope with this is that I know many people who have been hurt and offended by this man would he the reaction of picketing his funeral. I understand that reaction because while reading the articles I had the idea to do it. However, as I continued to read it, I realized that if I picketed his funeral, I would only be stooping to their level and I am better than that action. If you want to cause change, you must exemplify the actions of the change you want. In fact, I would hope that the whole group of the hurt and offended would attend the funeral and has hard it would be shower and overpower the family with love, hope and fellowship.
I am drained. I will end with a picture of a good looking man in celebration of his new show Resurrection. If you haven't seen the new show on ABC, you should take time to see it. Omar Epps and the rest of the cast do a great job. I think it will do very well. It has a great cast and so far the writing is fantastic.
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