Changing History

[Griffin NoName]

....it actually just makes an audio recording that they listen to and giggle.

They don't just listen, they watch the treble and bass go up and down as well Chatty.

[Sibling Chatty]

I'm beginning to believe that we, the 'civilised world' don't change history more because we're too complacent, too lazy, too self-centered.

Disasters elsewhere, unless they're weather related or something explodes--who cares? Genocide?? OH, sorry, not interested.

For well over 100 years, the Congo has been a killing grounds.
http://www.religioustolerance.org/genocong.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Congo_War
http://www.ushmm.org/museum/exhibit/online/congojournal/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16650434

Rwanda, Darfur...all the 'trendy' names to bandy about...

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/11/24/5410/

What the hell are we waiting for? But...what can one person do?

[Griffin NoName]

Someone posted on that site:

First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.

Then they came for the trade unionists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.

Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller

I'm beginning to believe that we, the 'civilised world' don't change history more because we're too complacent, too lazy, too self-centered...................................

What the hell are we waiting for? But...what can one person do?

We can speak out.

I don't know how "we" can change it. But we can keep speaking out.

I don't I admit go out of my way to speak out, but I don't ever let it go past me when I fall over any of it without speaking out.