Oct 19 2008
How to Get the Frogs
Occasionally these days you will see a part of a movie in black and white. “Schindler’s List” comes to mind. If you remember the scene with the little girl in the red coat and all else in shades of gray, then you know how dramatic black and white video can be.
Even at the age of nine, I remember where I was and what I was doing when I heard of President Kennedy’s assassination, November 22, 1963. Almost everyone does. When we heard through the media that a man named Lee Harvey Oswald was the shooter we believed without resignation. And after a ten month investigation by the Warren Commission we believed what they told us, that Oswald acted on his own. It was a time when we still believed in the glory of our country. A time we still believed in our government officials to tell us the truth. Today few, if any, still believe Oswald was the lone shooter. In fact, there are many theories about what really happened, but none yet can be proven. If someone get’s too close to the truth and to loud of voice, do they just end up dead?
Of course, we never got to hear Oswald’s side because he was shot and killed by Jack Ruby just two days after his arrest. The Warren Commission told all of us this scenario - a bullet entered Kennedy’s upper back, penetrating his neck and going out his throat. The same bullet then penetrated Governor Connelly’s back, chest, right wrist and left thigh. It was only then that a second bullet is recognized as the one that blew half of President Kennedy’s head off. You make your own judgment. If this explanation doesn’t convince you that something wasn’t right, then “they” killed bobby. Camelot was lost forever and as from the words of Don McLean, it was “the day the music died.” At least it seemed to be for our country.
Why do I bring this all up today, when this is history so far behind us? Because I’m not convinced that it matters who win’s this election. And yes, if you wish you can call me crazy, but I just keep thinking back to Kennedy’s time and how you could only believe there wasn’t some sort of cover-up if you were completely blind. But, we Americans want to believe in our country as the home of the free and the brave. We want to believe it even after the Iraq war that we’ve been involved in since Bush’s term. It’s hard to admit you believe in “THEY” because people think your nuts or silly or what ever else? But, I think it’s just because to believe in “them” would totally turn our worlds upside down and the results are unbearable to hour minds and hearts. We need to believe in the facade anything else is unthinkable.
If the two men running for the presidential office don’t know what’s up now, they will shortly after they become president. Perhaps the power they believe they will have to make changes will only be thwarted by, by what - “Them.” Sounds pretty ridiculous doesn’t it? And, it really doesn’t matter what you believe. The best advise there is, is to be prepared for whatever may come. And at the moment we certainly live in perilous times in, what seems to be, an era in which we have no real power over what happens in the bigger picture. Did any of us think the “bail-out” was a good idea? I just ask you to be prepared and take your power back where ever you can. Look around and decide what you can do to be in charge of your life again.
Do it so “they” won’t notice. That means no loud protests, no threats or violet action. Just, day by day, moment by moment, make changes to become self-sufficient. Help your neighbor to do so, then your community. Need “them” less and less. Turn it around so they become the proverbial frog in the pot that becomes hotter and hotter without it’s noticing until it’s boiled to death.
