America the Beautiful,In Violence Veritas

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There is no way to overstate the horror of gun violence in America.
Roughly 16,000 to 17,000 Americans are murdered every year, and more than 12,000 of them, on average, are shot to death. This is an insanely violent society, and the worst of that violence is made insanely easy by the widespread availability of guns.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/opinion/25herbert.html

NOTE:
I am always reading and questioning the roots of violence in America.
Violence....
It is a pervasive state of mind.
The guns are one of the mediums,but I believe the culprit is the mind.
I cannot help to remind whoever I can, that being the daughter of two remarkable individuals,my parents,who suffered so much,witnessed how Man is capable to descend beyond what Dante imagined in the Divine Comedy.
Both,one an Auschwitz survivor and the other in a Russian gulag,surfaced from the horror they endured ,with their beliefs and teachings they received from their ancestors and parents.
Their minds were not corrupted,their vision of life was to continue with the same consciousness,of their upbringing,and transfer to me their legacy.
To live on this Earth,wherever we find ourselves with a sense of Beauty and Joie de Vivre.
The Violence in America, comes from the distorted and emptiness in individuals who have no respect to Life.
Life is not about Money and Power.
The power is within us,to have empathy and realize that our existence is limited to a pass we receive at birth.
That is the challenge.the ticket we must honor.
To spend our time here with harmony,cherish every moment,watch the Sun,the Moon and the Stars.Observe the birds and flowers and live by how the Latins conjured ,Memento Mori.
Violence can and must be stopped. The way is to be in touch with your inner self,and think of the soul we carry within us. To nurture our feelings with tenderness.as Otis Redding sings,
look at the marvels of Nature,who herself will shake up anyway with earthquakes and thunder storms.
Where are in Nature's domain,where Humans have to learn and drink from.
We are entitled to get upset,distraught,but in no way do we have the right to hurt,injure or kill.
That is Death' job and we should never be her ally.
Marguerita


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A Cry for Peace: Please Listen

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“Yes! There are many different secret agendas,” he said. “We have to be aware of this.”
We spoke that day mainly about the hadith, the sayings of the Prophet Muhammad, that specifically concerned Jews and their diverse and apparently limitless character failings.
This sort of conversation, while illuminating, can become wearying over time, at least for the Jewish participant, and so I was happy to learn that Mr. Rayyan had his own sore points.
Another reality worth considering concerns theology. Hamas and Hezbollah emerged from very different streams of Islam: Hamas is the Palestinian branch of the Sunni Muslim Brotherhood; Hezbollah is an outright Iranian proxy that takes its inspiration from the radical Shiite politics of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. But the groups share a common belief that Jews are a cosmological evil, enemies of Islam since Muhammad sought refuge in Medina.
I once asked Abdel Aziz Rantisi where he learned what he called “the truth” of the Holocaust — that it didn’t happen — and he referred me to books published by Hezbollah. Hamas and Hezbollah also share the view that the solution for Palestine lies in Europe. A spokesman for Hezbollah, Hassan Izzedine, once told me that the Jews who survive the Muslim “liberation” of Palestine “can go back to Germany, or wherever they came from.”Op-Ed Contributor - Why Israel Can't Make Peace With Hamas - NYTimes.com

“We support our brothers in the resistance,” he said


Maybe to only way to achieve Peace, can only be through Enlightenment and knowledge of History and Geography. Never through weapons, armaments and violence, which has certainly been an everlasting loosing battle.
We cannot eat bullets and bloodshed only brings misery to all of the world.
Instead of tanks, firearms,bombs: FOOD and Love.