Times are changing
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Editor,
Iraq is coming apart. And why should we be surprised? Times have changed. People’s intolerance to blatant and outlandish military interventions and their own corrupt police brutality is now getting full exposure through the world’s increasingly open and uncontrolled communication network and systems.
Iraq’s newest “secret” prison facilities, where people are hung upside down, shocked and beaten, are being exposed as we speak. Human rights groups, among others, are reporting on these things. Times have changed and are continuing to change rapidly.
And the Iraqi situation is only one such case. We can look all over the world and see evidence of situations crying out for exposure, attention and action. We can expect only more and more of this.
Coming closer to home, just look at America, at “we the people” demanding changes from being ruled by large corporations, mega-banking institutions, Wall Street and outrageous lobby money. Our voices are beginning to be heard. They are often misunderstood, are often characterized as “the 60s hippie-type movement,” are often vilified and are often cast aside as just angry political party radicals.
Whether we are looking at Iraq or main-street America, the rising tide of public opinion made very public is having its effect.
The July 4, 1776, unanimous Declaration of the 13 United States of America really spoke to all the human race when it, in part, declared: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among them are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.”
So, considering just who our Creator is, and looking at the word “unalienable,” which is synonymous with “inalienable,” which means “that cannot be rightfully taken away,” it looks like we are in this for the long haul, folks.
And that is the good news.
Bob McClellan
Polson
