Must Read Post by Enigma4Ever

Are We Losing Our Humanity?

Enigma has a way with words - and a great deal of compassion for others. This story - the story of Carol Ann Gotbaum is haunting, and terrifying. Please take the time to read it through carefully.

Here are a few articles and videos that I found to go along with Enigma's Post.

Think long and hard folks. Someone commented on Enigma's Post about a Police State - and I agree. Remember everybody, October 22nd is Protest Police Brutality Day - Stand up Ladies and Gentlemen, Stand Up and Stand Proud - to defend our rights not to die handcuffed in a detention room at the hands of excessive force and lack of common sense or decency.

CNN Video

Husband says kindness might have saved wife at airport

Autopsy Conducted in Carol Anne Gotbaum's Mysterious Death in Handcuffs

Daily News Video

Is Bush an Idiot?

I won't have much time online today - but for your viewing pleasure - this clip on YouTube;

Is Bush an idiot?

Larry King Live

Just surfing through YouTube I found this blip on CNN. Watch Pete Heckseth carefully (I don't think I spelled his name right). As the back and forth continues, he blinks faster and faster. This is usually a good indication of a lie, and/or an indication of prepared or memorized information. He never looks anywhere but straight ahead which is usually good, but also indicative of rehearsed speech. Every now and again his speech pattern and voice break (could be the recording in part) but it does wobble from time to time.

Adam Kokesh remains calm, for the most part - unrehearsed, does look at notes, but when he looks at the camera - you can tell its the truth. There is no rapid blinking, overly memorized responses etc...

I wasn't going to post all this, but I ran across it and I just couldn't resist.

To sleep with a clear conscience

Sometimes at night I sit up and wonder, I wonder about a lot of things really, but more and more often I wonder about the conscience of people. I wonder what people really think. I wonder what it would be like to be a fly on the wall in their house.

As a mother, I work everyday to ensure that my position of power, as small as it may be, is one that is maintained well. I try my best everyday to do the right thing. Sometimes that means I stay awake into the wee hours of the morning second guessing myself, or worrying about motherly worries. Even on good days, when at the end of the night I look back and think "Today was good" and all seems right with the world, I second guess myself.

On bad days I find it very hard to concentrate on much of anything. Anything but the mistakes I've made that day. Did I yell too much, or for the wrong reasons? Were the tantrums my fault? Could I have handled todays trials better?

On other days I wonder, if such a small role of power can cause such a large amount of worry and sleepless nights, how does a person feel when they hold the utmost of power? What of our president? Or other world leaders? I look at photos of Bush searching, searching for some glimmer of worry about the state of our country. All I see is smugness or confusion.

How can someone who has so much control not know or understand what the consequences are? Or worse yet, how can someone not care? I don't understand it one bit. But I still try. I try to figure out what he could be thinking. Sometimes I wonder abut history, about other leaders who have fallen on their own swords - I wonder what went through their minds right before it happened. I wonder if they saw it coming, or were completely surprised. Sometimes I tell myself that our president is just an idiot, he doesn't understand what he's doing. Other times I look at the news, I read the blogs, I see the pictures and I can't deny that he knows - and that he is careless and indifferent.

{The painting is The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David. It is one of my favorite paintings, the story behind it is so intriguing. I wrote an entire thesis style paper about it many years ago. Artistically, socially, this painting represents a great deal more than one would ever think.}