Animal Abuse
Animals are abused by people. Whether it be pets, circuses, the meat industry, fashion or by scientific research, people so lack compassion for animals. What the hell makes them think they can just hurt a defenseless creature for gain and profit? Animals have feelings. Animals suffer. It is truly one of the saddest things ever in my book.
Child Abuse
We live in a country where millions of children are abused. Why anyone thinks they can ever lay a hand on a child, who is learning life through a long process, is beyond me. Also, why do people have children only to bring them up around drugs, violence and in horrid poverty? Not only are children abused in their homes, but abused by the system that supposedly protects them. So many kids live in foster homes with no permanant place to go and often suffer the same abuses they suffered at home.
Alcohol
We live in a country where alcohol is abundant and perfectly legal – drunk drivers, addiction, aggressive, violent and depressive behaviors just don’t stop the State-run liquor stores that supply the problems that alcohol leaves on our society.
Psycho Drugs
We live in a country where drugs such as Prozac, Paxil and others will “fix” our problems rather than allow us our natural feeling and healing processes. Why fix it and learn and grow when you can just cover it up with a happy pill? Don’t call me naive on this one. I know exactly what the hell I’m talking about here.
Police
We live in a country where I live in greater fear of the police than I do of the criminals. I have personally faced abuses by them and been made aware, recently, of many of their practices around Spokane and in the country as a whole. Police are just awful and I’m too tired to go into the whole diatribe right now and I’m sure you’ve heard it. Maybe think about the Tazer or Otto Zehm and you’ll know what I’m talking about. This is why I will stand beside ASAP. You don’t have to agree 100% with a group, but you can sure find what matters to you on the human level.
Religion
Yes, I believe in God and Jesus and am a spiritual person. Would I go to church? HELL NO. Organized religion is one of the single most effed up things I have ever participated in. Never in my life have I seen people so judgemental and full of themselves and often just pain weird (speaking in tongues, Benny Hinn, etc.). The example in mind that gets me… why does Planned Parenthood down the road from me have to recently put up a stone and iron fence and have a security guy with a metal detector at the door? Because, those so-called religious protestors. Hypocrites.
Politics/War
Don’t even get me started here. This is not a government “of the people, by the people, for the people”. This is just another corporate whore. It is completely self-serving and the war… oh, gosh… that is just wrong. We’ve lost 3,793 Americans and can you imagine how many Iraqis have died? Does anyone know what this war is about? I think we need to bring home our troops and return them back to their human lives. I support and pray for them. THEM, my fellow human beings, not the war.
