Introduction

This site is a result of years of not being involved in the world or its issues Oh, I heard through the news our growing list of our societies ills had passionate conversations over coffee, about cures. But the truth of the matter was that they affected me about as much as water on a ducks back.

Even when I was a victim of violent crime, I went on with a tunnel vision that now frightens me as I look back. It is easy for us to be idealistic in our youth, but then life happens, and the experiences of life form layers sometimes that numb us to the realities about us, blind us to truths we no longer wish to address.

And that was where I found myself at 48 But a woman entered my life who, helped me remember. Her example opening doors inside me that had been closed for years. and I woke up. I understand now why I've watched so little news over the last 10 to 15 years of my life, it is a parade of murder, sexual crime and corruption in our high places. The newscasters can't help that we supply them so well with tragedy and a propfile of man's lesser side.,

That the stories of good will are so few and far between. But our greatest problem as a country, isn't any one particular kind of crime, or lack of humanity it's (Complacency). It's the ability to drive past a man lying in the street, to turn our heads to drug houses and drive by shootings in our neighborhoods, to sit idley by as our world becomes less and less safe for our children.

To know there is another society crawling along side ours, whose poeple squat like the pioneers, in our cities, some having not even a roof. And just believeing some one else will handle it.

The holiday season is here again, and our classics warm the tv screen, and our hearts, Jimmy Stewart, in its a wonderful life. I know this movie touches poeple, But what is it really to us?Just another Christmas babble taken out like our finery for the tree? Or do we try to pass on to our children any of the importance of those sort of examples,?

Clearly things werent all right for everyone then,. Equality was still unknown, among the races and the sexes, but there was among most poeple then a better understanding of who we were and where we had come from. And there were values of sorts that are a stranger to many of us now.

Can we act as a society that way ever again? As a more caring and involved group of poeple, not for the sake of any one person, but for the survival of us all, for the betterment and continued growth of us all. Parents need to be parents again, need to study the laws that now lessen their ability, so they can have the upper hand once more, in the game of chess their forced to play with the laws that now empower there children in a harmful way.

We need to not just move to help homeless people during the holiday out of guilt, or some periodic sense of benevolence. We need to press our law makers to find solutions. We need to be more supporting of our policemen, trying to build a more friendly relationship between them and the public, to carry our cameras with us, and when we see things needing attention record it.

Drug houses and the activity surrounding them, more, neighborhood watches, cleaning up our neighborhoods, without expecting pay. Please understand, I know there is little, reward sometimes , and true risk, in some of these things mentioned,(and the list goes on and on), but what are we going to do? No matter your religous beliefs , there is a downward spiral we're in, our childrens favorite music glorifies violence, and the lack of respect of men for women.

We have little authority in our homes, and the police departments and legal systems are being stretched to the point that it hinders there effectiveness. And worst of all our children are becoming cold as our world is. The rant above is just the tip of what you'll find here. What it comes down to is "Who are you"?

If you don't agree, you'll pass these pages by, But if your sick of the situation we're in, if you've known people lost to senseless violence, if you agonize over our children, if you remember a better America, contact me with your articles, thoughts, and stories, pics, at carterbushman@yahoo.com and together we'll not just talk about it, We'll ACT to see changes , hopefully in our lifetime. Sincerly Richard Carter,