The early inhabitants of the the North American Southwest had a special healing ceremony for people in their tribe who felt greed.
I wonder if they could do that ceremony for those rulers of the oil companies, the government and some of us humans. I can see it as like a television evangelism type format. Something like the The old Billy Graham Shows. (No, I did not receive a blow to the head, nor am I hearing little voices). I am, however entertaining a Dark humor fantasy

So what happens to people who do evil? They aren't born that way..Where does it start? I heard or read somewhere Hitler liked dogs and was a vegetarian. He did monstrous evil..
How do people do evil?
Torture is evil. People who torture are evil. The Geneva Convention states torture, especially water boarding, is a war crime.
We signed the Geneva Convention.
Does that mean we are war criminals?
Does it mean we are Evil?
Whew! I never signed the Geneva Convention but I know what torture is and it isn't.
It is the question. Have your ever tortured someone or been tortured?
What is torture to you? and lastly ...Is torture ever OK?
(I think "does the ends justify the means?"

Back out of internet and cell phone range...
Nothing but a radio and clearing from the storms. Snow in the hills and the promise of more rain.
No word from the team in the Ukraine..
No help from world vision and a photographer is in the zone where you can be killed for a pair of glasses.
If you think Haiti is dangerous, and it is, Moldovia is more dangerous.
Meanwhile the oil companies have record profits and the market, the dollar have record losses...
Who is in charge of the planet?
That is easy....
The insane.
The ISS crew floats above us in a unforgiving environment on a quest of exploration or exploitation and far below, on a lively precious planet there is a rumble in the jungle.

Walking into the room, the electric dream machine was on. Actors posing as journalists were babbling about other actors.
Silent blank faces staring at the electronic dream. Empty faces bathed in the dancing electronic light of hypnotic induction.
Inducted and drafted into the make-believe.
As Pharaoh said, "As it is written so shall it be"
Our masters say "As it is televised, so shall you think"

A dream that echoes in our minds. Half asleep we move together.
At the coffee shop people are talking about the actors talking about actors. We are learning as a culture to redefine evil to make it acceptable. Torture is torture, killing is killing, and calling crimes against life something else does not diminish the depth of its depravity. It does not alter the evil and mortal shame of those who do it in our name.
Those architects are condemned as are those who follow them willingly with arms up raised in salute.
Meanwhile what goes on?
Walking with echoes of actors quoting other actors. Half truths and lies stacked pancake style dripping with the syrup of more actors confirming the half truths and lies of others actors. Arguing, name calling, spreading dissent.

Waking up, clearing the mind, looking past the actors portraying journalists.
Where do you go for truth?
Where do you go for information?
Where do we meet?

Something about a Sunset.
We watch them. Some drive out to a bluff, some walk to a shoreline, some sit in chairs or on a back porch swing. Some, during an evening barbecue, stop mid-conversation to watch the last rays of the day give way to brilliance.

Something so distant in our genetic history is echoed forward in a wordless, primordial response that it binds history to the moment.
The last light of the day. The last light gives way to splendor. Clouds left from a passing storm blends, bends, and offers itself as a canvas for the glorious event.
Our souls vibrate with the prehistoric memories of confused excitement, awe and momentary fear of light passing into darkness.

All those ancient cellular memories touch us in the moment and we rejoice for it heralds another day coming.

Amtrak announced it would be randomly checking luggage as a stepped up security measure. They are looking for nail clippers, excessive shampoo, cigarette lighters or any that could be used to hijack a train. (sarcasm, deadpan mode)

Security is big business. Politicans beat their chests like adolescent monkeys garnering attention from "the unseen threat"

What is dreadful is the waste of our tax dollars to employ poorly trained displaced construction workers, people who want to be police but failed the psych exam, to be given jobs molesting grandmothers, children or a cute teenage girl and sometimes the rest of us.

If police pull us over in our car, they must have "probable cause".
There is no "probable Cause" to go through luggage.
It is the criminalization of people who us public transportation.

Police receive extensive training and psych exams to weed out "potential problems".
This is not so with Transportation Security.

If you have never been in a police state or been in a county ruled by fear, dictatorship and threat, then it is beyond your recognition to know it here. If it is called "Security" instead of "oppression" then you will not recognize it. When it is too late, you will recognize threats, name calling, random searching of women and children for what it is.

We must follow and enforce the Constitution and the Bill of Rights or we are not a Free Society. There is no argument, no half measure, no renaming, no exceptions..That is why the founders conceived the Document.
If we stray as a people, it is because we have strayed from our core, or humanity. If it is not "We the People" then it is a dictatorship with a "Decider" making the decisions and not a representational government.

Vote this election, keep in contact with your State and Local representative, Congress person, know what they are doing and contact them by phone, snail mail, Email as a single person or as a group. Your hard earned money is supporting their jets and limos. Make them earn their keep, do their job.
It only takes less time then watching a TV program.

OK I am off my soap box.