Sidetracked Charley

Wars depend upon the  monuments. The dead remembered by the survivors with cemeteries. Grave stones and statues to continue the myths. Plaques which declare victory real or false The survivors must label it a noble cause. The few who remain bury the dead. Declare the dead have not died in vain. What if there was no one left? Who then  would kneel before the monuments? Jacqui Binford-Bell August 2016

Where have all the flowers gone? Once again the world was shaken by an unspeakable act of violence and yet everyone wants to speak about it. The news media platforms are full of it with all the gory details. Social media is full of pundits with all the answers. Including, but not limited to their favorite cause, be it ISIL or guns or inadequate policing or the wrong religion or praying to the wrong god. And everyone has their favorite solution to the problem. In the US it is take away the guns. France took away the veil. The military want to take lives. The police all our freedoms. None of these have been the answer. Many of these solutions have been the root cause of more violence. And yet we ignore that. It was all about we didn't take it far enough. Guns ought to be harder to get, we need to drop more bombs, spy upon the populations with more, strip more people naked, ban the black hoodie, forbid the religious veils and habits, close all the borders, police all the neighb...