Something keeps a radical radical, I
haven't quite identified that certain
attribute or detriment to the radical
character yet. As I keep seeing more
and more injustice and abuse of power
starving , crippled, homeless misery
of billions of people around the planet,
I get a little angry and agitated and feel
the need to do something about all of it,
or at least some of it.
I have discovered that it is a whisper
from the soul that stirs me. That
silent surge of emotion that creates
a tear, or angers me enough to
swear at the television news commentator or video taped
sound bites by George W. or Tom Delay.
Bill Frist , John Kerry, Joe Leiberman
and virtually every American politician.
I think radicals are born not made. I think
a radical has always been a radical in
his world view. He or she can not
accept things that aren't just or are
hurtful to man or beast. But a radical
can be stupid or smart, organized or
disorganized, focused or unfocused. I
once thought that most radicals were
violent, but I later learned that very few
of the most effective radicals were
violent, they actually promoted non violence.
I believe that all people are born
radicals, men and women refusing to
bend to the will of nature, or suffer the
indignity of physical and mental torture.
A radical is anyone who will fight back
against anything that they deem is a wrong against them or others. I think as radically as everyone else does. Weighing my options, or interests and my willingness to become more radical. Will I go to the courts, will I write letters, will I storm the capital buildings? I am trying to decide just how radically radical I really am. So far I think I'm like everyone else who is just waiting
for their souls' whisper to turn into a
shout and a scream until we can no longer
sit still and the scale of weights is breaking under the weight of injustice, and the foul stench of corporate and government corruption and incompetence becomes too foul to tolerate any more.