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For yellow and red onesLet’s stop all the fighting now”It is an expression of the all too human wish to stop the fighting, to stop the wars based on foolish, forlorn, and quickly forgotten motives. Mostly more power for the so-called leaders.To stop all war forever, and live in peace. To end the endless cycle of futile land grabs and the ever-present, always meaningless sacrifice of the innocent, the young, and the helpless.Old men quarrel and young men die, it’s an old truism.In today’s world, the bombing and the slaughter of the innocents who are not even soldiers, the civilians, and children, increase and continue unabated to satisfy the mindless violence of the leaders.In our brave new world, they are helpless, hopeless pawns in the crazy and powerful bloodlust of the leaders, the dictators, the mad ones, the power mongers and control freaks, the ones who decide who lives and who dies.And why? Because they can. Because nobody will stop them, nobody will contest them, nobody will dare challenge them.But confront them we must, and confront them we shall. What if they gave a war and nobody came? What if people just laid down their tanks and their bombs and their guns like in the Cranberries classic song?What if everybody refused to fight on every level? Just ignored the false importance and cries for more territory, more rearranging of the colored lines on a map of the globe to give the self-anointed leaders more power.What if the leaders were rendered impotent and powerless because nobod # Options y feared them any more?What if, instead of showing valor and courage on the battlefields, young men and women showed real bravery by defying their leaders, ignoring their validity, their power, and their tenuous grip on reality? Their reality.What if people just massed together in silent protests against the so-called leaders and their insane lust for power and domination? World wide.Just stood and protested in mute silence and refused to be dispersed, refused to be ordered around, refused to give in?If soldiers laid down their guns and refused to report for duty, if the police and bodyguards refused to protect the illicit leaders who are so in love with the power and the obedience of the masses, what would happen?There are so many more of us than them. The majority always rules. The sheer weight of numbers will always prevail.The will of the people is the only real source of true power in the world. It does not require violence, coercion, or force.Ordinary people don’t lust for the power the autocrats assume is their right, the dictators take for granted, and the kings and queens of the world assume, that they alone are all born naturally superior.Ordinary people just want to be left alone. Ordinary people don’t like wars and violence.Ordinary people want to live their lives in peace and serenity, in joy and elation, in ecstasy and exultation. To claim their birthright.What’s so wrong with that?Give peace a chance. What do we have to lose? We are all connected…</article></body>

So This Is Christmas

Old John Lennon song still hits all the right notes

In a way, it is hard to believe it’s really true. Christmas is over. I had a great one. How about you? We have all week to re-sort, hash out, and reconstruct the days, weeks, and year before. All the frantic preparations. the lists, the cards, the wrapping, and the openings of the festive presents.

The excitement and anticipation and the adrenaline rush all focused on a single day in the flurry of excitement, anticipation, and fulfillment of the height of the holiday season. It’s all over now for another year.

In his brilliant song “So This Is Christmas, “ perhaps John Lennon caught the angst, the agony, the glory, and the anticipation the best. To paraphrase Lennon slightly, this was a song about peace and love in the aftermath of the Vietnam War.

It is a spiritual look at Christmas.

“So this is Christmas

And what have you done?

Another year over

A new one just begun

And so Happy Christmas,

We hope you have fun

The near and the dear ones

The old and the young

And so Happy Christmas

For black and for white

For yellow and red ones

Let’s stop all the fighting now”

It is an expression of the all too human wish to stop the fighting, to stop the wars based on foolish, forlorn, and quickly forgotten motives. Mostly more power for the so-called leaders.

To stop all war forever, and live in peace. To end the endless cycle of futile land grabs and the ever-present, always meaningless sacrifice of the innocent, the young, and the helpless.

Old men quarrel and young men die, it’s an old truism.

In today’s world, the bombing and the slaughter of the innocents who are not even soldiers, the civilians, and children, increase and continue unabated to satisfy the mindless violence of the leaders.

In our brave new world, they are helpless, hopeless pawns in the crazy and powerful bloodlust of the leaders, the dictators, the mad ones, the power mongers and control freaks, the ones who decide who lives and who dies.

And why? Because they can. Because nobody will stop them, nobody will contest them, nobody will dare challenge them.

But confront them we must, and confront them we shall. What if they gave a war and nobody came? What if people just laid down their tanks and their bombs and their guns like in the Cranberries classic song?

What if everybody refused to fight on every level? Just ignored the false importance and cries for more territory, more rearranging of the colored lines on a map of the globe to give the self-anointed leaders more power.

What if the leaders were rendered impotent and powerless because nobody feared them any more?

What if, instead of showing valor and courage on the battlefields, young men and women showed real bravery by defying their leaders, ignoring their validity, their power, and their tenuous grip on reality? Their reality.

What if people just massed together in silent protests against the so-called leaders and their insane lust for power and domination? World wide.

Just stood and protested in mute silence and refused to be dispersed, refused to be ordered around, refused to give in?

If soldiers laid down their guns and refused to report for duty, if the police and bodyguards refused to protect the illicit leaders who are so in love with the power and the obedience of the masses, what would happen?

There are so many more of us than them. The majority always rules. The sheer weight of numbers will always prevail.

The will of the people is the only real source of true power in the world. It does not require violence, coercion, or force.

Ordinary people don’t lust for the power the autocrats assume is their right, the dictators take for granted, and the kings and queens of the world assume, that they alone are all born naturally superior.

Ordinary people just want to be left alone. Ordinary people don’t like wars and violence.

Ordinary people want to live their lives in peace and serenity, in joy and elation, in ecstasy and exultation. To claim their birthright.

What’s so wrong with that?

Give peace a chance. What do we have to lose? We are all connected…