Warriors...the time has come

Tin soldiers and Nixon's coming...all dead in Ohio. We are brain dead watching the vapid innocuous crap on the TV and following along on C-span watching the "men in charge" taking no action except more talk. Our court system starting at the top is corrupt. Not everyone of course - but certainly all the key individuals. We have become a nation that more easily turns it's head away regarding our core values, as long as the gas guzzling Navigator purrs in the driveway - and the coffers overflow with huge sums to supply our platinum cards.

We need a warrior!! We need men prepared to take to the streets again and take the nation back. We are clearly in the last days of Rome and I am old and not physically strong enough to endure what has become of this country, much less the people around me. With a week that included the news that one of my very favorite jazz artists and someone I consider as close as a SON, is now fighting cancer. And in the same precarious position I have been in most of my life - uninsured or under-insured!! Michael Moore's latest documentary SICKO definitely hits the high spots of this issue - meanwhile we play the usual games - the legislature promptly coming out with new "plans" to cover 'children at least'...

Lies - more lies. There basically is not one area of important government oversight in this country which has not gone to hades in a handbasket since this administration took over. We are a country run by the corporation, for the corporation, and even moreso for the military supplier corporations and the drug companies and hospital/nursing home providers. Our education system is in a state of complete collapse, graduating only about 50% of students especially in inner city areas. Our journalists and new media are all owned by a handful of big corporations, and journalism has been prepackaged vacant press releases - imbedded with pure bull, for so long that no facts reach the public by and large.

We need a warrior. We need warriors. We need change and we must put honesty and integrity back into government. We need the total dissolution of campaign financing and to have this made a public endeavor with each person given the same time and space in print or televised arenas. We need a leveling of the tax structure and the throwing out of the free-pass for corporations - no more 'inversions' - no more tax cuts and deductions for contract labor. America first. Isolationism you say? hmmm we have to put Americans back to work.

With no sense of good future prospects here, I feel lifeless and sad beyond description. My father took this photo in New Guinnea during WWII. The complexity and problems of those times seemed so clear cut compared to today's corrupt sleazy world. I am at a loss.