Susan, you really get it.

Before I can ask others to see all the ways in which we are encouraged to VILLIFY THE VICTIM, I must see how I may be doing so my self.

In literature and the screen plays the anti hero victimizes people with applause and sympathy. Corperations victimize people with lawyers and more money than god. Some sad religious movements victimize people with a piety of greed. The legal system victimize the poor more often than the rich.

The first step to fight back was once captured in a movie phrase
"I sick and tired of it, and I'm not going to take it anymore!"

Susan, to be sick and tired of it, is not being mean. ITs being inlightened.


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The rich and war makers need victims for their fule and will never apologize. They will never stop without resistence.

The unrepentant want the world to forget.
Japan does not want their people to know of the mass produced chemical and germ warfare. Their children were never told about Iwo Jima. They want to forget the mass produced murder and rape and torture.

It is not just being unrepentant but a fear of personal guilt that drives Germans to hide the where abouts of German war criminals.

The fear of guilt will drive many Americans to ignore and hide from the Bush atrocities. They too will remain unrepentant. The flag is a common hiding place. Religion is another sanctuary that forgives and sanctifies killers.

Who among us would willingly enter into self destruction?
The war supporters on every side will always be guilty in the eyes of the victims and the dead.
The war supporters will always want to see themselves as innocent.

To prevent the eternal eye for an eye retribution we are asked to forgive. For those of us who after much soul searching can not forgive, we must never let them forget.

For that reason I believe it is fair and just to ask war supporters if they feel any personal respondisibility for even a single death that resulted from the war they promoted.

If I ask George Bush or John Public, "Have you ever killed a man woman or child by suporting this pre emptive invasion?",

I will never expect an honest answer. I will never expect their repentence.

I just want to plant the question deep in their minds where it may secretly grow.