Ding Dong! Who's There?

Someone says the darkness is inside you. Another says its in your neighbor. But there is no darkness, only poverty and wanton ignorance. The latter can be seen in daylight: the crowing for death, vengeance fixated on ideology–violent demagogues, “Baby Hitlers” are all over the place. Ding Dong! “Who ‘s there?” “Ann Coulter” or “Michelle Bachmann” or “The Westboro Baptists”.

 

I think darkness takes care of itself and stands for nothing. Ignorance is the foe. You can always identify it by its zeal for violence. George W, Bush convinced Americans Iraq was involved in 9-11 and harbored weapons of mass destruction. For over a decade the cycle of American violence has run unabated and has gone largely unexamined.

 

The terrible violence in Boston gives us a chance to ask “what kind of nation do we want to be?” Stand or roll, wave your stick. But ask.