What I’ve always wanted to do, is to make connections and be a part of some kind of change.
When I was young, it didn't matter how much I really understood about what was going on in the world,
in my naivety – the main thing was demonstrating!
Now I’m paying a bit more attention, and I want to try to highlight the things that I'm watching.
I'm American, but life led me here, to southern Germany. I'm so happy and I feel so blessed to not have
any worries, no medical bills, always clean water and relative freedom to do what I want.
We, the people, who really just want freedom and a good life for everyone, need to come together
and let all our streams flow into a tsunami that washes all the bull shit away. I want to ride that wave
and help to paddle our boat towards peace, freedom and awakening as much as I can.
But they ask, and rightly so, "what about Vietnam?". They ask if our own nation wasn’t
using massive dosses of violence to solve it’s problems; to bring about the changes it wanted.
Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence
of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence
in the world today: my own government! |