For years, I've nauseously observed the political hackery of many 24 Hour News Station pundits. I have no interest in being involved in a controversy, but I can't sit blindly anymore while our education, environmental, and most of all, our economic policies behave without any disciplined auditing.
Every station is breaking news on the Eurasian topic of: "Ukraine" "It means this, Ukraine means that, Russia intends this, Russia intends that, In hindsight the USA ought to have reacted like this, like that ..etc. etc." I'm sitting in my Long Beach, NY Kitchen, 1 year and four months since my kitchen was ransacked by Hurricane Sandy.
In my opinion the psychotic pundits on TV are projecting an abstract capitalistic senselessness. Their perception focuses on either what trade resources are supplied, or demanded. I fail to see ANY humanity in it.
People of Long Beach, and Long Island have substance abuse problems, whether we're a bystander looking in, or someone with a problem looking out, not enough is being done to quell the loss of life and energy from this disease. The status quo isn't enough anymore. What is most valuable to our communities is being lost because of uncoordinated policies. As sensational as Hurricane Sandy's impact brought school closures, Heroin is killing our school's students. Without future generations, we'll have no future.
This blog wasn't intended to have a gotcha moment, but I'll just settle and ask the question out right. "Has the Ukrainian Uprising cost as many deaths as there have been murders related to the Mexican Drug Cartel?"
According to government figures, from 2006-2011 there have been 41,515 drug related killings in Mexico.
This is a situation that is beyond borders, this is a systemic infection with Mexico's government from their local to their national oversight processes. As not only allies, but neighbors we should commit to providing democratic lessons for social justice in their country by method of consultation. If we don't realize satisfactory results, continue to educating Mexicans, as well as Americans (with the money saved from cutting the Pentagon's useless needs for focusing on other continent's mobsters instead of our own).
I was indoctrinated from an early age to believe that we as Americans should be comfortable with two countries and two oceans bordering every side of us.
Ironically it was a few years earlier than that 2nd grade geography lesson that we (members of the human race) were in a similar conundrum that is reflected here today. The conundrum of exceptionalism. 30 years ago, America invaded Granada preemptively, and killed 18 hospital patients, while Russia was in Afghanistan. What followed afterwards was a condemnation by the U.N. Security council; only to be vetoed by the U.S. and presently we're left with our own crippled resources trying to neutralize Afghanistan which should have continued to be done 33 years ago instead of looking at politically charged invasions.
Russia is doing the same thing that we did 30 years ago, so I ask you, this time in a different manner, "What is more important to invest our focus on, fighting the organizations that are on our own continent who are responsible for our children overdosing (Mexican drug cartels, Corrupt Health care providers who abuse writing prescription drug slips), or a couple of far away countries who haven't committed to murdering even one other person on the other side of fight?"
I have faith that the European leaders (As they did in Libya, Turkey, and Egypt) are diplomatically skilled enough to mediate this conflict without any more dramatics.
The ideal would be if we had pragmatic leaders, and stakeholders, from the oligarchs, to the virtuous organic farmers in every nation (including Russia and Mexico) to assert that there are more problems worthy of being looked into before they start new problems of their own.
There's no right, there's no wrong, there's only the capability of being humbled by the energy we all possess, and connect with which strives for peace, and that's love for one another without any double standard.
Mexico doesn't seem anymore inviting than Russia, or Iraq. I'm sure people have gone into all of the countries and had safe experiences, but I don' wish to try for myself, not until I first feel safe living in Long Beach, NY.
